Manual

Chapter
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Using This Manual
This chapter describes how to use this manual. Major topics include:
Topic On page:
Manual organization 1-1
Reading this manual 1-3
Terms andconventions 1-4
Related publications 1-5
We intend the audience for this manual to be people who program and/or
operate an Allen-Bradley 9/Series CNC. This family includes the 9/230,
9/240, 9/260, and 9/290 CNCs. We assume that the reader has some
familiarity with the basic operation and programming of a CNC.
We divided the manual this way:
For information about: Refer to:
how tolocate controlfeatures chapters 2
how tooperate thecontrol chapters 3 -- 9
how toprogram the control chapters 10 -- 29
how touse dualprocessing chapter 30
softkeys appendix A
error andoperator messages inalphabetical order appendix B
standard G-codes used toprogram thecontrol appendix C
the Allen-Bradley 7300 SeriesCNC tapereader appendix D
Table 1.A provides a summary of each chapter.
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Chapter Overview
1.1
Audience
1.2
Manual Design