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HNC-180xpT3. Operation Guide (V 2.0 2015.4) - page 1

Operation Modes and Display Screen

1 Operation Modes and Display Screen

1.1 Overall Layout

Century Star HNC turning system provides a standard and delicate operation panel, with compact

dimension: 420 x 260 x 100 mm (W x H x D). See the figure below:

Figure 1.1 Operation panel of HNC turning system

Based on functions, HNC turning system includes HNC-180xpT3 and HNC-808TEA numerical

controls.

1.1.1 Manual Data Input Keys

Key

Name

Description

Reset the system, stop feeding, clear

Rest

alarms, etc.

On-screen display

Modify the brightness of the screen.

keys (OSD+/OSD-)

Upper

Auxiliary function key.

Character input keys

Input a single character.

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Key

Name

Description

Directly input characters.

Press the Upper key, and then press

the keys to input the characters in the

upper left corner.

Directly input numbers. Press the

Numbers/Symbols

Upper key, and then press the keys to

keys

input the symbols in the upper right

corner.

Alt

None

Input percentage, decimal point, plus,

Symbol keys

minus, and equal symbols.

Insert, modify, and delete information

Editing keys

for editing programs and fields.

Move the cursor to the required

Direction keys

direction.

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Key

Name

Description

Page down and up

Under the same screen, move one

keys

page up or down as required.

After paging down or up, you can

press a soft key to display its

submenu and relevant information.

See the figure below:

Soft keys

Usage of soft keys:

1. Used to switch submenus on the

current screen

2. Used to perform operations on

the current submenu such as

editing and modifying data or

display information

1.1.2 Main Menus

Menu

Description

the program screen, which consists of eight submenus: OPEN, EDIT,

NEW, CUT START, GOTO, VERIFY, RESTART, and BRK.PT.

y

OPEN: to display, import, delete, open a program, or copy a

program from a USB or flash disk.

y

EDIT: to edit or save an opened program.

y

NEW: to create a new program.

y

CUT STAT: to view, edit processing information such as workpiece

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Menu

Description

count and processing duration.

y

GOTO: to perform operation instructed by a random row in the

current program.

y

VER: to verify a program with simulation running.

y

RESTART: to restart a program.

y

BRK.PT.: to resume and save the breakpoint in the program.

Enter the settings screen which consists of five submenus: COORD., CLR

RCS, MACRO, CLR ALM, and SKIN.

y

COORD: to define/view G54 to G59 coordinate information and

origin point offset.

y

CLR RCS: to clear axis values from the relative coordinate system.

y

MACRO: to display and predefine macro variables.

y

CLR ALM: to perform alarm settings.

y

SKIN: to set the background color displayed on the screen.

The MDI menu consists of one submenu (RETBP) that is used to edit

MDI programs and display coordinate information.

Enter the offset screen which consists of eight submenus: DIA, LEN,

XWEAR, ZWEAR, CLR X, CLR Z, X OFF, Z OFF.

y

DIA: to set X-axis offset for selected tools.

y

LEN: to set Z-axis offset for selected tools.

y

X/Z WEAR: to set wear values for selected tools.

y

CLR X/Z: to clear the defined compensation.

y

X/Z OFF: to set offset data for X/Y axis.

Enter the diagnosis screen which consists of ten submenus: I/O, REG,

ALARM, HISTORY, MEMORY, BACKUP, UPDATE, VERSION, REG,

and HELP.

y

I/O: to check Programmable Logic Circuits (PLC) status

information.

y

REG: to view the values of Register Y, R, F, G, B, and P.

y

ALARM/HISTORY: to check the current alarms and alarm history.

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Menu

Description

y

MEMORY: to check the system storage space, memory usage, etc.

y

BACKUP/UPDATE: to back up and update system software.

y

VERSION/REGISTER: to view system software version

information and perform registration for system software.

Enter the position screen which consist of six submenus: MCS, WCS,

UNION, TEXT, 2D and OTHER.

y

MCS: to check the position of the current program in the machine

coordinate system.

y

WCS: to check the position of the current program in the workpiece

coordinate system.

y

UNION: to check the position of the current program in the machine

coordinate, workpiece coordinate, relative coordinate systems, and

distance to go.

y

TEXT: to check the G code of the current program.

y

2D: to check the real-time processing route of the program in an

intuitive way.

y

OTHER: to check the position of the current program in the relative

coordinate system.

Enter the parameter screen where you can check and set various

parameter information.

1.1.3 Machine Operation Keys

The table below describes the machine operation keys on the operation panel of Century Star HNC

Turning System with standard PLC programs.

Key

Name

Function

Description

Automatically and continuously

Enter the automatic

process workpieces; Simulate

AUTO

operation mode

and verify the processing

program; Run command in the

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Key

Name

Function

Description

MDI mode

Manually change tools, control

machine axis, clamp/release

chucks, stretch and shrink

Enter the manual operation

Manual

tailstock, clockwise and counter

mode

clockwise rotate spindle, enable

and disable coolant, start and

stop lubrication, etc.

Step-feed or hand wheel

modes, step-feed by default.

You may press this key again

Enter the incremental

Incremental

to enter the hand wheel mode.

operation mode

This key is used to move

machine axis at a fixed

increment.

Press this key run a

Valid in the Auto and MDI

Single Block

program by block.

modes.

Valid in the Reference mode.

Reference

Enter the Reference mode.

Press this key to

Valid in the Auto mode, Single

Start

automatically process or

Block mode, and MDI mode.

simulate processing

Press this key to pause the

Valid in the Auto mode and

Feed-hold

feed operation, and press the

Single Block mode

Start key again to proceed

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Key

Name

Function

Description

with the ongoing feed

operation.

This key is used to

Valid in the manual mode, hand

clockwise rotate the spindle

Spindle jog

wheel mode, and incremental

at specified speed after

mode.

each press.

Press these keys to begin

spindle rotation in the

Valid in the manual mode, hand

Spindle

clockwise and

wheel mode, and incremental

control

counter-clockwise direction

mode.

or stop the spindle rotation.

Press this key to bypass

program blocks that start

Valid in the Auto mode, Single

Block Bypass

with a "/" symbol. Disable

Block mode, and MDI mode.

this key, and the bypass

function is invalid.

After pressing this key, the

Valid in the manual mode, hand

Turret rotate

turret rotates to the selected

wheel mode, and incremental

tool.

mode.

Hydraulic

Enable or disable

None

control

Hydromantic function

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Key

Name

Function

Description

Press this key to release the

Valid in the manual mode, hand

workpiece (clamped by

Clamp/release

wheel mode, and incremental

default) for workpiece

chuck

change. Press the key again

mode.

to clamp the workpiece.

Press this key to enable or

Valid in the manual mode, hand

Coolant

disable the coolant functions.

wheel mode, and incremental

switch

This function is disabled by

mode

default.

Press this way to enable the

lubrication, and press this

Valid in the manual mode, hand

Lubrication

key again to disable the

wheel mode, and incremental

control

lubrication function

mode

(disabled by default).

Press these keys to manually

X-axis feed

move tools or workstation at

Valid in the manual mode, hand

the speed specified by the

wheel mode, and incremental

maximum processing speed

mode

and feed speed adjustment

Z-axis feed

keys.

Press this key and axis

direction keys to speed up

Speed up

Valid in the manual mode,

tool motion at the specified

maximum motion speed.

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1.1.4 Operation Interface

The figure below shows the operation interface of Century Star HNC Turning System:

Figure 1.2 Operation interface of Century Star HNC Turning System

1.

Main interface: Display various information for users such as machine coordinates, graphs,

alarm information, register information, and version information.

2.

Display various information such as feed rate override, rapid traverse override, spindle

override, M command, T command, feed rate, spindle rotation speed, and Metric/Inch

programming mode.

3.

Display the actual position, distance to go, origin position of the workpiece in the coordinate

system. You may use the

key in the NCP keyboard to switch information.

Note: The "distance to go" indicates the distance between the current program end

position and the actual position.

4.

Display the G code of the current program.

5.

Display the current operation mode, system running status, and three indicators status.

y

Operation mode: Switch the operation mode among Auto, Single Block, Manual,

Hand Wheel, Reference, Emergency Stop, and Reset.

y

System running status: The message "ALARM" will be displayed if an alarm or error

occurs.

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keys, and detailed operation methods.

Century Star HNC turning system provides seven functional keys (

,

,

,

,

,

,and

). Each functional key corresponds a main screen

which consists of multiple submenus.

1.3.1 Program

Press the

key to enter the programming screen which consists of

,

,

,

, and

.. You may

press keys from F1 to F6 to enter corresponding submenus as required.

1.

OPEN

Press the

key and then the F1

key to enter the screen that displays

programs on each storage. See the figure below:

Figure 1.3 Select a program

The storage cards include:

y

SYSTEM: programs in system built-in disk

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y

CF: programs in the CF card

y

USB: programs in the USB

If no storage card is selected, the programs saved in the buffer space previously will be displayed.

Press

and

to switch the program storage card (can display only the programs

in the root directory) and program list screens. Press the

,

,

and

keys to select programs to be run, and press

or

to confirm and add

the selected programs. In the Auto or Single Block mode, press

to run the program. If an

error occurs, the message "ALARM" will be displayed and the indicator blinks continuously. You

may press

to check alarm information.

2.

EDIT

Press the

key, select a program to be edited, and then press the F2

key to enter the screen that displays programs on each storage card. See the figure below:

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Figure 1.4 Select a program to edit

The shortcut keys used for editing are as below:

: Delete the character behind the cursor and maintain the cursor position. The remaining

characters to the right of the cursor will move left with one-character space.

: Move the program to be edited one screen up to the program header and maintain the

cursor position. If it has reached the program header, the cursor will move to the first character in

the first row of the program.

: Move the program to be edited one screen down to the program end and maintain the

cursor position. If it has reached the program end, the cursor will move to the first character in the

last row of the program.

: Delete the character in front of the cursor and the cursor will move left with

one-character space. The remaining characters to the right of the cursor will move left with

one-character space.

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: The cursor moves left with one-character space.

: The cursor moves right with one-character space.

: The cursor moves one row upward.

: The cursor moves one row downward.

Note: The program block displayed in dark color tone cannot be directly edited. You need to press

F4

, and then press Y or

after the message "Exit the current running

Y/N? (Y)" is displayed. After that, you may edit the program.

3.

NEW

Press the

key, and then press the F3

key. The system will prompt

you to enter a new program name (a random G code name by default). After entering the program

name, you may press

to create a new program by pressing the character keys on the

NCP board. See the figure below:

Figure 1.5 Create the selected program

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4.

CUT STAT

Press the

key and then press F5

to enter the screen that displays

various running statistics information. This function is used to automatically perform statistics of

workpiece count and system running time, which is helpful for improving machine efficiency and

work time statistics. See the figure below:

Figure 1.6 Check system processing information

The information in the screen is described as below:

REQUIRED: The total count of workpiece (of the same type) required to be processed.

FINISHED: This indicates the workpieces that have been processed since the machine starts. The

processing period indicates that the program executed a M64 (or M30, depending on the machine

parameter 001021), and then the completed workpiece count will increase by one.

TOTAL FINISHED: The total count of workpiece that have been currently completed and

previously completed.

ACT CYCLE: The running duration since the machine starts.

TOTAL CYCLE: The current running duration together with previous running duration.

TOTAL CUTTING: The current cutting duration together with previous cutting duration.

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Under the

main menu, press F5

, and then press F3

or F4

to clear the workpiece count and time.

In the

menu, press F5

, press F6

, and enter the total

workpiece count required to be processed. Press the

key to confirm the settings.

1.3.2 Set

Press the

key to enter the settings screen which consists of

,

,

,

, and

submenus. You may

press keys from F1 to F6 to enter corresponding submenus as required. See the figure below:

1.

COORD.

This is used to set X and Z axis in the workpiece coordinate system when cutting a sample

workpiece.

a.

Press

under the

main menu.

b.

Press

and

to select the coordinate type to set. For example, G54-G59

and G92. Press

and

to select X or Z axis to set.

c.

Enter required coordinate information, and press

. If you press

or

in the current position as shown in the figure below, enter 20, and then press

, then the X axis value for G54 will be set to 20. Use the same method to set the

value for Z axis. The settings for other coordinates is similar like this.

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Figure 1.7 Set X/Y axis value

d.

Set floating origin of machine

Based on whether a Home Dog is installed, there are two methods to set the floating origin of

machine coordinate.

Method 1: If no Home Dog is defined to home the tools to the origin position (specified by

the PLC parameter 007017, default value: 0), you may set the floating origin based on the

instructions below:

•

In the manual mode, move the tool to a position where the tools will not conflict with

the workpiece or other parts, and that is appropriate to home to the origin.

•

Confirm that the position is the origin of the machine, that is, the actual coordinate

value of the point is 0.

•

Press the

key in the main menu, press the F1

submenu, and

press the

and

keys to switch to the floating origin.

•

After that, press the

and

keys to select X or Y axis, enter relative

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coordinates, and press the

key. See the figure below:

Figure 1.8 Set floating origin

Method 2: If the Home Dog is defined to home the tools to the origin position (The PLC

parameter 007017 is set to 1), the origin of the machine coordinate system depends on the

position of the Home Dog, which is near the maximum movement distance in the positive

directions of X axis and Y axis. The position of Home Dog is fixed and the origin of the

machine coordinate system is fixed. The tool can be homed to the same position every time

you press the home key if the Home Dog is normal.

Note: After the floating origin is defined, the machine coordinate system is set. For the CNC

system without Home Dog, you need to set the floating origin first when you power on the

machine. Normally, you need to set only once, and then the tool can be homed to the same

position every time you press the home key.

2.

CLR RCS

Follow the instructions to clear the axis values in the relative coordinate system:

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a.

Press the

menu, and then press F3

. See Figure 1.9.

b.

Press

, and then set the X axis value to 0 for the relative coordinate system.

c.

Press

, and then set the Z axis value to 0 for the relative coordinate system.

Figure 1.9 Clear axis value in the relative coordinate system

3.

MACRO

Press

, and then press

to enter the macro variables screen.

The macro variables screen consists of VAR 1, VAR 2, VAR 3, and other variables. VAR 1

includes 50 variables (#1250 to #1299). VAR 2 includes 50 macro variables (#1350 to #1399), and

VAR 3 includes 50 macro variables (#1200 to #1202). You may press

and

keys to display the subscreens as requried, and you may set macro variables either by macro code

or directly set on the keyboard. The figures below shows the variables:

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Figure 1.10 VAR 1

Figure 1.11 VAR 2

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Figure 1.12 VAR 3

Figure 1.13 Other variables

4.

CLR ALM

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Press

, and then press

to enter the alarm clearing screen. The system will

prompt you whether to clear alarm history. See the figure below:

Figure 1.14 Clear alarms

5.

SKIN

Press

, and then press

to change the system background color. The system

provides four background colors. See the figure below:

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Figure 1.15 Background colors

1.3.3 MDI

Press

to enter the MDI screen which includes only the

(F4) submenu.

See the figure below:

Figure 1.16 Figure MDI screen

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Follow the instructions below to perform manual data input:

1.

Input commands

Set the operation mode to Auto or Single Block mode:

Input command segment,

Start

MDI

ENTER

e.g

G91G01X-21Z-34 F400

The minimum unit for MDI is a valid command character. Therefore, there are two methods to

input an MDI command segment:

y

Input by once, that is, input multiple command characters once.

y

Input by several times, that is, input only one character every time.

While entering commands, you may see the entered content in the command line. Before pressing

the

key, you may press

,

,

, and

to edit as

required if a wrong command is input.

For example, if you need to input the "G00 X100 Z1000" command segments, you may:

y

Directly input "G00 X100 Z1000" and then press

. The values after G, X, Z on

the screen change to 00, 100, and 1000 respectively.

y

Input "G00" first, and then press

. The G code value displayed in the lower right

corner displays as G00. Input "X100", press

, and then input "Z1000" and press

, "X100" and "Z1000" will be displayed on the screen successively.

2.

Execute commands

After entering an MDI command segment, press the

key on the operation panel, and

then the system will run the entered MDI command.

If the MDI command is incomplete or has wrong syntax, the system will display related error

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messages, and the MDI command cannot be run.

3.

Modify commands

Before running MDI command, you may directly input corresponding command characters and

values in a command line if you need to modify the command character.

For example, after entering "X100" and pressing the

key, you may input "X109" in the

command line and press the

key if you need to change the X-axis value to 109.

4.

Clear the current command

After inputting MDI data, you may press F2

to clear all currently input data (other

commands are still valid), and all data after X, Z, I, K, R are cleared. You may enter new data as

required.

5.

Stop running commands

When the system running MDI commands, you may press F1

to stop running

commands.

1.3.4 Offset

Press

to enter its corresponding screen which consists of

,

,

,

,

,

,

, and

submenus.

1.

Offset

Press the

key for the first time to enter the offset settings screen.

There are two methods to set the tool offset: to manually input and to use sample cutting. The

system will automatically calculate the tool offset value based on the diameter and length. HNC

turning system supports sample cutting to set tool offset values.

Note: The offset value will be reflected in the corresponding workpiece coordinate system. The

X-axis origin point is in the centerline of the rotation axis.

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The content below describes the method to set offset for tools:

This method requires independent offset value for each tool, which will be reflected in the

workpiece coordinate system:

Figure 1.17 Edit tool offset

Follow the instructions below to set the tool offset:

a.

Use the

,

,

and

keys to move the cursor to the row

where you can select the required tool.

b.

Do a round face grinding on the sample workpiece, and then exit the tool along with the Z

axis (Do not move on X axis during this procedure).

c.

Measure the diameter of the sample workpiece, and then manually enter the value for the

measured diameter (DIA) as shown in Figure 1.17.

d.

Do an end face grinding with the tool on the sample workpiece, and then exit the tool along

with the X axis.

e.

Measure the distance from the tool's end face to the point of origin in the workpiece

coordinate system, and then manually enter the distance value for the Measured Length

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(LEN) column.

Repeat the steps above to set the offset for other tools.

Note:

• You need to home the machine to the machine origin point before setting offset.

• The directional distance from the end face of the sample workpiece to the origin point of the

workpiece coordinate system is the value on the Z axis in the workpiece coordinate system.

• Do not move the tool on the X axis after the round face grinding on the sample workpiece as

the X-axis origin offset of the workpiece coordinate system = X-axis value of the machine

coordinate system - measured diameter.

• Do not move the tool on the Z axis after the end face grinding on the sample workpiece as

the Z-axis origin offset of the workpiece coordinate system = Z-axis value of the machine

coordinate system - measured length.

2.

Tool Compensation

Press the

key to enter the screen as shown below:

Figure 1.18 Set tool compensation

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Use the

,

,

and

keys to select required tools, and press

the F5

and F6

to enter the compensation value, press the

key to confirm the value.

Definition of Direction:

The tools of the machine can be installed in multiple directions and there are multiple modes of

tool nose. To make the CNC system know the tool installation direction and make accurate tool

nose radius compensation, we have defined the tool nose position codes.

The direction of the imaginary tool nose can be selected from the eight specifications shown

below together with their corresponding codes.

Figure 1.19 Specification of the imaginary tool nose direction

Generally, most tool nose direction is specified as No.3 tool.

3.

Tool wear

Use the

,

,

and

keys to select required tools, press the F5

and F6

to enter the tool wear value, and press the

key to confirm the value.

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Figure 1.20 Set tool wear value

Note:You may specify the machine parameter 001020 to define whether to accumulate the tool

wear values.

4.

X/Z Offset

Press

, press F6

, select F5

or F6

, enter

the offset value in the input box, such as "16", and then press the

key to confirm the

value. The system will display a message "1: ALL 2: EXCEPT CUR_TOOL 3: ONLY

CUR_TOOL 4: CANCEL", where:

y

1 indicates to perform offset for all tools including the current tool.

y

2 indicates to perform offset for all other tools except for the current tool.

y

3 indicates to perform offset for only the current tool.

y

4 indicates to cancel the offset.

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Figure 1.21 Set X/Y offset

1.3.5 Tool Diagnosis

Press the

key to enter the diagnosis screen which consists of six submenus:

,

,

,

,

,

and

. You may press keys from

to

and enter corresponding

submenus as required.

1.

I/O

Press the

key and then press F1

to view the 128 groups of signals for

each X Input and Y Output.

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