Messages from the NC program

This functionality permits messages from the NC program to be output to any system device. The functionality corresponds to the 'printf' function in the operating systems.

Messages in the NC program can be programmed, e.g. to notify the operator of the current state of the process or the controller. Therefore, the message display may be optionally synchronised with the current processing state. This means that the message is only displayed when the interpolator reaches the point in the NC program.

A message may consist

of ASCII characters,
parameters and
variables.

A message may not be programmed together with other NC commands in the same NC block (exception: #ADD).

The message is sent in ASCII format.

Additional information

Programming a message (#MSG)
Programming message information #MSG INFO)
Including the ‘Macro’ functionality
Writing messages to a file (#MSG SAVE)
Programming a message to the Event Logger
Outputting additional informations at block end (#ADD)