Owner`s manual
MaxMotion for Machines Chapter 9-153
CONSTANT field:
The text defined here remains unchanged throughout serialization.
NUMERIC field:
Contains integer value. The left of the number can be padded with
LETTERS field:
Made up of letters, either capital A through Z or lower case a through z
and back to A or a.
ALPHANUMERIC field:
Made up of numbers and letters, zero through 9, continues with A
through Z, and then back to zero.
Letters and Alphanumeric fields follow the same rules while
incrementing, in a similar fashion like decimal values. Only when the
last character changes from Z to A or 0, the character before increments
and so on. If any character, not recognized by these fields, is included,
it will be treated as a constant part and incrementing will be passed on
to the next legal character. This will allow you to have space, comma,
brackets and other such characters as constant part of these fields.
Numeric, Letters and Alphanumeric, all incrementing fields, let you set
initial as well as increment value. You can also specify how often to
increment, in other words, once incremented, the value remains same
for next so many output frames. You can define one of these fields
determining termination and supply terminal value. Serialization will
terminate when the value of this field moves beyond the terminal value.
You can have at the most one terminating field, defining second one
automatically undefines first one.
DATE field:
Reads system date at the time of output and places it in specified
format. You can have more than one date fields having different
formats in a single line.
Date Format can be one of the following:
DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, MM/YYYY, DD/MM/YY,
MM/DD/YY, MM/YY, DD/MM/Y, MM/DD/Y, MM/Y.