Manual
5-22 Programming
5.11 Editing Programs
You can make the following modifications to programs:
• Create new patterns or procedures.
• Create new instructions.
• Create New Mask Regions or modify Mask Region coordinates.
• Modify existing instructions by teaching new coordinates or altering values in instruction
property fields.
• Cut, copy, paste, delete, and move patterns, procedures, and instructions.
" NOTE You cannot delete the Main Pattern from a product program. Every Main Pattern must
have at least one instruction or the program will not run.
To edit a program:
1. Stop production and open the Edit Screen.
! The currently loaded product program is displayed. To view the currently loaded macro
program, click on
View > Macro Program.
2. To load a different program, click on the
Open button.
3. Select the program you want to load and click
OK.
4. Select the patterns or procedures you want to modify by clicking on them. See 5.11.1
Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete below.
5. After you have made the desired modifications, click on
Save .
5.11.1 Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete
When editing a program, instruction list, or property, you can cut, copy, paste, and delete a selection. You
can copy patterns, procedures, and instructions from one program or pattern and paste them in another. In
addition, right-clicking the mouse on a selection displays a menu with Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, and
Toggle Breakpoint commands. See 5.14.2 Toggle Breakpoint. Selecting a command from the menu
executes the command. Command descriptions are shown in Table 5-1.
Table 5-1 Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete
Command Toolbar Description Keyboard
Cut
Removes the instruction from the list and places it
on the clipboard.
CTRL+ X
Copy
Leaves the instruction on the list and places a copy
of the instruction on the clipboard.
CTRL+ C
Paste
Pastes the instruction on the clipboard into your
program. If no instruction in the list is selected
when you Paste, the pasted instruction is placed at
the bottom of the list. If an instruction in the list is
selected when you Paste, the pasted instruction is
placed above the selected instruction.
CTRL+ V
Delete Deletes an instruction or property value. Delete
CTRL Delete Deletes the selected pattern or procedure. CTRL+ Delete