JPH0527826A - Setting method for valid/invalid control function of nc device control panel - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability of a control panel of an NC device and to prevent the malfunctions of the control panel by deleting the labels which are not required permanently or temporarily by the users out of the screen of the control panel or changing the label colors among the control function and switch function labels prepared on the control panel. CONSTITUTION:An input means 20 inputs a valid command for the visible display and an invalid command for the masking in regard of many control, function and switch function labels (L1-L8, etc.) of an NC device 10. Then the input of the valid or invalid command is decided by an arithmetic control means 12 when each of control function and switch function labels is called out on a screen 18a of a visible display means 18. When the input of the invalid command is discriminated the undesired function labels are deleted out of the screen 18a or the displayed in different colors. Thus an operator can operate a control panel for only the items of the desired control and switch function labels.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for enabling / disabling a control function on a control panel of a numerical control device (hereinafter referred to as an NC device) equipped in a numerically controlled machine tool, and more particularly to operating the NC device. A control function that is permanently or temporarily unnecessary for the user as desired from a number of control function labels and switch function labels that are prepared in advance so that a label can be displayed in a predetermined area on the panel screen (CRT screen). For the label and switch function label, the label display is deleted from the screen by inputting a predetermined invalid identification command or the label color is changed, and only the necessary control function label and switch function label are set in a predetermined color (hereinafter, default). It is related to the method of enabling effective setting so that it can be visually displayed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, an NC device provided in an NC machine tool is designed such that a user directly responds to and inputs a control function label or a switch function label visually displayed on a screen of an operation panel. , NC devices are being provided which are capable of operating the NC devices to perform NC program creation and data correction in the NC processing.

In order to improve the versatility of such an NC device or to apply it to a special NC machining application, the manufacturer of the NC device tends to expand its functions. Therefore, the screen of the operation panel of the NC device is made to have a large number of pages, and a plurality of control function labels and switch function labels for dialogue can be displayed on the screens of each page. The switch function label is configured to be visible. Further, a predetermined number of keys known as soft keys or function keys are prepared as operation button means on the operation panel of the NC device, and these operation button means correspond to the label display on the screen of each page, and the same operation is performed. The control function or the switch function corresponding to the control function label and the switch function label is activated in response to the pressing of the button means.

[0004]

However, it is extremely rare for the user of the NC device to use the above-mentioned prepared control function label and switch function label for 100%, which is extremely rare for a normal user. There is a problem in that displaying all of these many control function labels and switch function labels on the screen of the operation panel is rather troublesome from the viewpoint of the operability of the NC device. In other words, only the control function label and switch function label required for each user are visually displayed in the default color on the operation panel screen, which is an essential condition for the user to create the NC program and improve other operability. Therefore, it is desired that unnecessary control function labels and switch function labels are masked in advance so that they do not permanently appear as a visible display on the operation panel.

On the other hand, when a specific operator of a specific user interacts with the operation panel of the NC device to execute an NC program creation operation for a specific NC processed product, for example, when the operation is interrupted. It often happens that another operator does not want to operate the control function and the switch function on the control function label and the switch function label which are visually displayed by approaching the operation panel. In such a case, it is also desired to be able to temporarily disable the control function and the switch function so that the intervention of other workers is not permitted. Therefore, the present invention is an improved NC that can meet both of the above-mentioned needs.
It is intended to provide a device.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a control function label and a switch function label which are not required permanently or temporarily by each user from the control function label and the switch function label prepared in advance on the operation panel of the NC device. It is intended to provide a method for enabling / disabling the control function of the NC device operation panel that enables the function to be disabled by deleting or changing the label color from the screen.

[0007]

According to the present invention, an effective command for instructing visual display and an invalid command for instructing masking are input in advance for a control function label and a switch function label prepared in an NC device. Discrimination of valid command and invalid command input is performed when each control function label and each switch function label is called on the operation panel screen, and deleted from the screen when it is determined that there is an invalid command input. Alternatively, the label color is changed and displayed so that the operator can operate the NC device operation panel interactively with respect to the necessary items of the control function label and the switch function label.

That is, according to the present invention, a large number of control function labels and switch functions prepared in advance so that they can be visually displayed in response to the pressing of a predetermined number of operation button means on the operation panel of the NC device of the numerically controlled machine tool. Enables / disables the control function in the NC device operation panel that enables only the desired control function label and switch function label selected from the labels and temporarily disables other control function labels and switch function labels. In the setting method, a large number of control function labels and switch function labels prepared for visible display on the operation panel can be visually displayed in advance on a screen of a page designated by a predetermined number of predetermined number of parameters. Corresponding to each function of control function label and switch function label, command to enable or disable the function as required. When another command is input to the storage means in advance and a predetermined number of control function labels and switch function labels are called on the screen of the page specified by the parameter number, the valid and invalid of each control function label and switch function label A feature is that it is determined whether or not an identification command is input, and the control function label and the switch function label for which an invalid identification command is not input are displayed in a predetermined color on the operation panel screen. A method for enabling / disabling a control function in an NC device operation panel is provided.

[0009]

According to the above construction, when the operation button means is pushed, the presence / absence of the invalid command input is automatically discriminated inside the NC device, and the necessary control function label and switch function label are provided on the operation panel. Since it is visually displayed in the default color, the operator of the NC device pays attention to only the limited number of control function labels and switch function labels visually required to be displayed in the default color. be able to. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

[0010]

1 shows an NC to which the method according to the invention is applied.
2 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of the apparatus, FIG.
FIG. 4 is an external view showing a visible display screen and input means of the operation panel of the apparatus, FIG. 3 is a view showing the configuration of the screen section of the operation panel of the NC apparatus and the arrangement of soft keys provided as operation buttons, FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a process of determining whether each control function label and each switch function label are valid or invalid, and FIG. 5 is a determination flowchart executed when the operation button is pressed on the screen of each page.

First, referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a configuration of an NC machine tool and an NC device provided for the NC machine tool. The NC device 10 carries out a method of setting whether a control function is valid or invalid according to the present invention. A basic program for automatically creating an NC program is stored with the arithmetic control means 12 consisting of a well-known CPU that controls an effective / invalid determination execution process and automatically creates an NC program for NC machining. And when the contents of a large number of control function labels and switch function labels prepared in advance on the screen menus of each page of the visual display means, control function labels and switch function labels that have been set to invalid are activated by the operation buttons. Program storage means 14 for directly storing a message or the like indicating invalid setting displayed on the display, control function label and switch according to the present invention Data storage means 16 for storing the capability label effective, invalid command is initialized with an invalid setting step,
A visual display means 18 having a display screen composed of a CRT, an input means 20 for an operator to input a command or data,
Among NC programs created automatically, NC machine tool axis feed information and other information such as tool change command (ATC
Command), a coolant command related to the machining fluid, a spindle rotation command, etc. and information such as machining conditions, etc., a translation means (interpreter) 22, an interpolation calculation means 24, an NC machine tool 3
It is configured by including servo means 26 and the like connected to 0 axis feed driving means, and information other than the above-mentioned axis feed is NC.
Machine controller (MTC) 28 provided separately from the device 10
Is supplied to the NC machine tool 30 to control operations other than the axis feed control in the NC machining of the NC machine tool 30.

The operation panel in the above-mentioned NC device 10 comprises a visual display means 18 composed of a CRT and an input means 20, and as shown in the external view of the operation panel of FIG. The visual display means 18 is provided in the upper part, and various input keys and switches of the input means 20 are provided below and to the side of the visual display means 18, which are not directly related to the present invention.
It has a configuration in which keys related to the C function, a cursor, switches, an emergency stop button switch, and the like are arranged.

Here, in the input means 20 shown in FIG. 2, except for the ten-key pad and the operation button related to the present invention, blank symbols indicating the existence of keys and switches are shown. The function keys (or soft keys) forming the operation button means most directly related to the present invention are indicated by F1 to F8, and the page feed key for turning the page of the screen is indicated by FC.

According to the present invention, the prepared control function or switch function is stored in the program storage means 14 of FIG. 1 so as to be visually displayed as a label on each screen page in response to the pressing of the page feed key FC. In this case, each screen page is stored so as to be functionally associated with a preset parameter number, and the parameter number is input to the input means 2.
When the numeric keypad of 0 is input, the screen associated with the NC control operation corresponding to the parameter number can be called up, and the screen of multiple pages may be functionally associated with the same parameter number. When the same parameter number has a screen with a plurality of pages, by pressing the page feed key FC, the screen can be turned.

As described above, the control function label and the switch function label related to each control operation are prepared in consideration of the case where the manufacturer of the NC device 10 has a special purpose, so that there are an extremely large number of them. There are hundreds of control function labels and hundreds of switch function labels.

FIG. 3 shows one screen page, and a label display area for visually displaying the control function label and the switch function label is provided at the lower edge of the screen 18a, and the control function label is shown in the same area as an example. Alternatively, the case where there are eight switch function labels (L1 to L8) is shown. Of course, only the control function label may be displayed in the same display area, or only the switch function label may be displayed, or the control function label may be mixedly displayed. Also, the number of eight is merely an example.

Such control function labels and switch function labels L1 to L8 are control functions or switches related to label display when well-known function keys F1 to F8 as operation buttons prepared under the screen are pressed. The function is activated. Further, when the control functions and switch functions related to the control operation related to one parameter number cannot be displayed on a single page screen, it naturally covers a plurality of pages. L9 shown in two rows below
Control function labels and switch function labels such as L16 to L17 to L24 are sequentially displayed.

The screen 18 of the visual display means 18 as described above
Regarding a number of control function labels and switch function labels visually displayed in a, when the user of the NC device deletes one of them and edits it for his own use, first, the input means 20 is used in advance. Input each command of display valid and invalid. That is, for example, when instructing display validity for each control function label and each switch function label, a control operation is called on the screen of the visual display means 18 with a parameter number, and the control function label and the switch related to the control operation are called. Each time a functional label appears on the screen 18a of each page, a command is input with the numeric keypad of the input means 20 for each label, for example, "0" for display valid and "1" for display invalid. These command inputs are
It is registered in the data storage means 16 of FIG. If the eight labels have a bit structure, this command input
Array of "0" and "1" is changed from binary number of 0 to 7 bits to 10
It is also possible to input the numeric keypad as a numerical value converted into a base number, or to input 0 or 1 for each bit.

Now, in order to delete the control function label and the switch function label that the user permanently does not need regarding the control function label and the switch function label prepared and provided by the NC device 10, the display valid is set to "0" and the display invalid. Will be described as being selected and set as "1". In such a state, if the user's worker is
When performing the setup for C processing, the visual display means 18
When interactively inputting various data with the input means 20, regarding the control function label and the switch function label of each screen 18a, L1 to L8 are valid each time the page is switched,
The determination process of invalidity determination is performed by the arithmetic control unit 12 (FIG. 1).

This determination process follows the flow chart shown in FIG.
1 to L8, the valid and invalid command inputs "0" and "1" are sequentially called from the data storage means 16 and executed. As is apparent from the flowchart, the labels "L1" to "L8" for which effective "0" is instructed are visually displayed as they are on the screen 18a of the visible display means 18 in the predetermined color. On the other hand, when an invalid "1" is input as a command, it is further determined whether to delete the label display or change the label color to display the label visually. At this time, when changing the label color, the invalid command “1” is set in advance.
At the time of inputting, "1" may be input after the command "1". Alternatively, the number of label colors can be expanded by setting this number to "1" to "7" or the like. Therefore, when completely erasing, the invalid command should be "1" and "0" consecutively. Such an instruction to change the label color can be used even if the user cannot immediately decide whether or not to use it in the future, even if it is set to enable or disable to permanently delete it. When it is determined that the label is a control function label or a switch function label having a certain property, it is used as a measure for changing the label color so that it can be reproduced and used as needed.

In this way, by validating / invalidating each screen 18a, unnecessary control function labels and switch function labels are deleted, and the control visually displayed in the default color required by the user. Regarding the function label and switch function label, the corresponding operation button F1
When ~ F8 is pressed, the control function or switch function is activated, so that the interactive operability can be simplified and the operability can be improved.

In the above example, the visual display or deletion of the display and the change of the label color are made by making a decision whether to permanently enable or disable the visual display of the control function label and the switch function label. As described above, regarding the preset control function label and switch function label of visible display effective, the user of a specific NC device is
In the setup process for C machining, when it is desired to temporarily take invalidation measures, the invalidation command input "1" is input by the input means 20 in the same manner as described above, so that the label display is temporarily erased and the label color is changed. Can be changed.

In FIG. 5, each screen 18a is called after the valid / invalid setting process is completed, and the corresponding operation buttons F1 to F8 are pressed for the control function label and the switch function label. As a result, when the operation for activating the control function or the switch function is performed, the processing steps executed in response to the pressing of the operation button are shown.

That is, when an invalid command is already input to the label display corresponding to the operation button, for example, "This control function label is invalid. ] Or "This switch function label is invalid. Message such as “” is displayed. At this time, with regard to the control function and the switch function for which the label color change processing has been performed, even if it is mistakenly operated, "it is visually displayed, but this function is invalid. Message such as “” is displayed. Therefore, the operator can immediately recognize that the useless operation button has been pushed.

On the other hand, when the valid command "0" is input, the control function or switch function is activated, and operation processing such as predetermined data input can be performed.

[0026]

As described above, the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments. According to the method of the present invention, an invalid command for instructing masking of a visible display for a control function label and a switch function label prepared in advance in an NC device, Or, input a valid command to instruct that it should be displayed, and discriminate between such valid command and invalid command input each time each control function label and each switch function label is called on the screen of the operation panel and invalid. When it is judged that there is a command input, it is deleted from the screen or displayed by changing the label color, so only for items of control function label and switch function label necessary for the operator, Interactively NC
It becomes possible to operate the device operation panel. Therefore, improvement in operability and simplification can be obtained. Further, even if the operator pushes an unnecessary operation button by mistake, the control function and the switch function are not activated by pushing the button, so that an erroneous operation can be prevented in advance. It is also possible to improve the operation accuracy and efficiency of the device.

Further, in the method of the present invention, the control function label and the switch function label can be temporarily erased and the label color can be changed temporarily. It is possible to perform masking manually and release the masking when the setup is determined to resume the control function and the switch function, thus improving usability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an NC device to which a method according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is an external view showing a visible display screen and an input means of an operation panel of the NC device.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a screen portion of an operation panel of the NC device and an arrangement of soft keys provided as operation buttons.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a process of determining whether each control function label and each switch function label is valid or invalid.

FIG. 5 is a determination flowchart executed when an operation button is pressed on the screen of each page.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... NC device 12 ... Arithmetic control means 14 ... Program storage means 16 ... Data storage means 18 ... Visible display means 20 ... Input means F1 to F8 ... Function keys FC ... Page feed key

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A desired selection from a large number of control function labels and switch function labels prepared in advance so that they can be visually displayed according to the operation of a predetermined number of operation button means on an operation panel of an NC device of a numerically controlled machine tool. A method for setting valid / invalid of a control function in an NC device operation panel for temporarily and permanently disabling other control function labels and switch function labels while enabling only the control function label and the switch function label. A large number of control function labels and switch function labels prepared so that they can be visually displayed on the panel can be visually displayed in advance on a screen of a page designated by a predetermined number of predetermined number of control function labels and switch functions. Pre-store a valid / invalid identification command to instruct the function enable / disable as required for each label function. When a predetermined number of control function labels and switch function labels are called on the screen of the page specified by the parameter number, the valid / invalid identification command is input for each control function label and switch function label. Whether the control function label or switch function label for which an invalid identification command has not been input is displayed in a predetermined color on the operation panel screen, control in the NC device operation panel How to enable / disable the function. 2. In the process of determining the valid / invalid discrimination command,
The control function label and the switch function label for which the invalid identification command has been input are deleted from the screen of the operation panel of the NC device as necessary, or the label color is changed and displayed. 1. A method for enabling / disabling a control function of the NC device operation panel according to 1.