Manual
Table Of Contents
- Controls of the 3500i
- Manual Information
- Introduction
- Machining Fundamentals
- Manual Data Input
- Tool Management
- 4.1 Tool Table
- 4.2 Tool Data
- Program Management
- Conversational Editing
- Programming: Canned Cycles, sub-programs
- 7.1 Explaining Basic Cycles
- Round/Chamfer
- Rapid
- Line
- Arc
- Dwell:
- Plane Selection
- Reference Point Return:
- Fixture Offset (Work Coordinate System Select):
- Unit (Inch/MM)
- Dimension (Abs/Inc)
- Absolute Zero Set
- Block Form
- Temporary Path Tolerance
- System Data
- FeedRate
- FeedRate (4th-Axis)
- Spindle RPM
- M - Functions
- Tool Definition and Activation
- Repeat Blocks
- 7.2 Canned Cycles
- 7.3 Probing Cycles
- 7.4 Sub-programs
- 7.1 Explaining Basic Cycles
- Drawing Programs
- Running a Program on the Machine
- CAM: Programming
- 10.1 CAM Programming
- CAM Mode
- Recommended CAM Programming Sequence
- CAM Mode Mouse Operations
- CAM Mode Screen
- Activating CAM Mode
- Creating a New Program
- Tool Path Data Input
- Quick Coordinate Entry
- Job Setup: Basic tab
- Job Setup: Advanced tab
- Comment Tab
- Block Form: Basic tab
- Comment Tab
- Drilling Cycle:
- Drilling dialogue:
- Mill Cycle
- Pocket Cycle
- Pocket Finish Cycles
- Engraving Cycle
- Program Directive
- Modifying Toolbar
- Viewing Tools
- CAM Mode buttons
- CAM Setup
- Geometry
- DXF Import Feature
- Modifying Tools
- Shapes
- Tool Table
- Tool Paths
- CAM Example 1
- CAM Example 2
- 10.1 CAM Programming
- G-Code Edit, Help, & Advanced Features
- 11.1 G-Code Program Editing
- 11.2 G-Code and M-Code Definitions
- 11.3 Edit Help
- 11.4 Advanced Programming
- SPEED
- M - Functions
- Order of Execution
- Programming Non-modal Exact Stop:
- In-Position Mode (Exact Stop Check):
- Contouring Mode (Cutting Mode) :
- Setting Stroke Limit:
- Return from Reference Point:
- Move Reference from Machine Datum:
- Modifiers
- Block Separators
- Tool Offset Modification
- Expressions and Functions
- System Variables
- User Variables
- Variable Programming (Parametric Programming)
- Probe Move (G31)
- Conditional Statements
- Short Form Addressing
- Logical and Comparative Terms
- File Inclusion
- 11.5 Four Axis Programming
- Software Update
- Off-Line Software
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4.1 Tool Table
Simulation Tool and Offset Tables
The 3500i includes the advanced ability to utilize a second set of the
tool and offset tables, which apply only to Simulation mode. This
allows a user to create and simulate programs in the background while
running another program in the NC Program Run mode, without any
interference between the two modes.
The Simulation Tool Table and Offset Table are structured and behave
the same as the regular NC tables. When this feature is enabled,
additional soft key buttons are available for accessing and altering the
Simulation tables in Preview mode in the Editor and in Simulation
Draw. When this feature is disabled, the buttons are not available.
When this feature is enabled, programs being running in Simulation
mode will utilize these special Simulation tables, and thus will appear
to behave exactly the same as they would in Program Run mode.
Write operations within Tool Call blocks and Offset definition blocks
will be applied and saved to the Simulation tables, just as they would
normally do in Program Run mode with the NC tables. There are also
features available which allow the user to copy the data from the
Simulation tables to the NC tables, and vice versa.
When this feature is disabled, programs in Simulation mode will
instead retrieve the tool and offset data from the standard NC tables.
In order to eliminate the possibility of a simulated program altering the
NC tables, all write operations in Simulation mode are ignored, such
as the "H"/"UpdTable" parameter in the Tool Call block. In this context,
programs being simulated must have all tool and offset data defined
within the program, or all tool and offset data previously entered into
the NC tables prior to entering Simulation mode.
By default, this feature is disabled. The use of the Simulation tables
can be enabled/disabled in the configuration, via the entry
"useSimTables" under the section UserSetup -> CfgTooltableSettings.