Structuring of NC programs

Application

You can use structure items to make long and complex NC programs more clear and legible, and also to navigate more quickly through an NC program.

Description of function

You can use structure items to arrange your NC programs. Structure items are texts that you can use as comments or headlines for the subsequent program lines.

A structure item may contain up to 255 characters.

The control displays the structuring items in the Structure column.

The Structure column in the Program workspace

Adding a structure item

To insert a structure item:

  1. Select the NC block after which you want to add the structure item

  1. Select *
  2. After the selected NC block, the control adds a structure item as a new NC block.
  3. Define the structure text