Specifications

01.99 6 Programming

6-34 SINUMERIK 840C, OEM Version for Windows (BA)

6.2.7 Description of the WEdit editor

WEdit is a convenient text editor which can be used to create and edit

MPFxxxx, SPFxxxx and TOA files, etc..

• In WEdit, commands are selected from menus and information and settings

entered in dialog boxes.

• You can select and reposition, copy or delete blocks of text. You can use

the Windows Clipboard to exchange information with other applications.

• Sections of text can be searched and replaced with others.

• You can print files or selected areas of files.

• The status line of WEdit displays the mode (overwrite or insert mode) and

the number of the line in which the cursor is located.

• Block numbers can be automatically generated in the part program.

• Part programs in the NCK memory can be edited as well as files on the hard

disk or other network drives of the MMC.

• The modification of files can be disabled individually using the keyswitch.

Files can only be edited if the write access is enabled.

• Cycles in the NC program memory can only be edited when the cycle

disable is deactivated.

• The maximum length of a line in a file is 255 characters (= the maximum

length of an NC block). Lines exceeding this length are cut off when the file

is read in.

• WEdit is capable of editing files up to a length of 32,000 lines.

• WEdit can be loaded twice for the editing of two files in parallel.

Overview

General functions

NC-specific

functions

Other features