Formats For Saving And Importing Data - Siemens SINUMERIK 840D Operator's Manual

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Formats for saving and importing data

Path name
NC active data
Formats
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SINUMERIK 840D/840Di/810D Operator's Guide HMI Advanced (BAD) – 03.04 Edition
7.3 Formats for saving and importing data
The path name is automatically entered when files are saved
(archived).
The path is named in the first line of a file:
;$PATH=/_N_WKS_DIR/_N_SHAFT_WPD
When the file is re-imported into the control, it is stored in this path.
If no path name is specified, then files with identifier .SPF are stored
in SPF.DIR (subroutines), files with extension .INI in the working
memory and all other files in MPF.DIR (part programs).
Example of file with path name:
%_N_SHAFT_MPF
;$PATH=/_N_WKS_DIR/_N_SHAFT_WPD
N10 G0 X... Z...
...
M2
A backup of an entire directory of NC active data is saved in a single
file whose name starts with
COMPLETE....
All NC-active data, with the exception of compensation data, are
saved in file INITIAL.INI.
Using commands
· COMPLETE or
· INITIAL
you can set up an INI file:
INITIAL.INI that includes all areas (see also Section "Directory
structure").
/IAD/, Installation and Start-Up Guide
Files can be stored in two different formats in archive files:
a) Punched tape/ASCII format
b) PC/binary format
· With the "Data out" function, files are always stored in an archive
file with one of the formats named below.
· Files can be stored without format conversion only when the
"Manage/copy data" function is used.
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