HEIDENHAIN ND 1400 - Manual (Page 42)

28 QC-300 Series User’s Guide
Start recording a program
To record the following activities
as a program:
1 Touch the Program tab to dis-
play the program screen and then
touch the Record icon. The text
entry screen will be displayed.
2 Enter a program title and
press the Finish key. The DRO
will be displayed. The measure
icons will also be displayed and
the Program tab will be shown in
red to indicate that programming
is in progress.
Establish a reference frame
Perform a level, skew and datum as described in Chapter 6: Measuring. In this example, the resting sur-
face for the part is leveled, the X-axis edge of the part is skewed, and a datum point is constructed from the
Y-axis edge of the part and the skew line.
To level:
Measure the desired part plane and zero the angle and Z values. This will be the projection plane for the
skew measurement and datum point construction. In this example, the X-Y plane is leveled.
To skew:
Measure a line on the X (skew) axis, in the X-Y projection plane, and zero the angle.
To construct a zero datum point:
Measure a line on the Y-axis, in the X-Y projection plane, and construct an intersection point.
These steps and the resulting screen images are shown on the facing page.