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Menu Edit Row: Using the text module you can set and edit labels on the graphic screen in a simple fashion. For this goto in the menu Edit Row. Inputs and processing take place as selected in blocks or rows. The texts and graphics become layers and with this allocated to the later processing tools. The labels can be saved for a later reuse, taken over in the vector graphic or exported in various formats. You can produce labels with up to 4000 rows, which each contain up to 100 characters. The functions in Edit Row.
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The functions in Operate Row.
Change row data
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Work specification for text and label input. Using the functions in text module one can place and edit labels on the graphics screen. The labels can be saved for a later reuse, adopted in the vector graphic or exported in various formats. You can generate labels with up to 4000 lines which respectively hold up to 100 characters.
Set program. Should there still be data of the last work in the program, then save this using File . save or Save under. After this, delete all data memory using File . New.
Work limits (label dimensions). Set your work limits in Layout . Limits to the desired label size.
Example: dimensions of X=150mm x Y=100mm.
The input of the limits is designed to be universal. I.e. the reference point of the processing (zero point) can be arranged anyway you like.
Set inputs for work limits installed.
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Use of layer and milling tools. The program processes layers, i.e. with various work limits. All layers are of equal value. An operation can be input in any one desired layer or in several layers.
Select Layer 0 using the l Selection takes place by clicking-on the desired layer. The numerical values, e.g. (0 412/1) indicate:
Layer selection. By clicking-on the marking element alongside the layer indicator, the graphic can be switched for this layer to co-mark 'inactive (=white) or 'active' (=layer colour). Initially, leave the layer active. For all engraving processes you require at least
one milling tool. For simple recessed engravings without milling offset
calculation you can work using layer tools. Layer tools are the first
50 tools of the tool library. These are allocated to the layers. I.e.
Tool #0 is used with layer #0, Tool #1 with layer #1 etc. The
management of the complete tool library takes place in the menu Extras
using Tool input.
Tool input. For a simple label an engraving tool is required
for the actLayer. Some typical tools are pre-defined. For this, select
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Label graphic. You access text input using Text . edit Line. The display screen incorporates the main area
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Check the data using the aid
Export your milling data using File . direct mill. The first export should always take place via direct mill. All further exports can also take place via the aid direct mill Auto (Auto Export). Auto Export always uses the export path last employed.
Export selection. As, currently, there is no other data in the layers, the unused layers must not be switched OFF for export. Therefore, acknowledge the window using Export. The program then opens the export menu. Here you can select an export filter. Now select DIN/ISO, the desired export filter and OK.
You can view the saved ISO data using the text editor. For this, switch back to CAD. Here, select Extras . TextEdit. Select the previously created file and open the file with OK or a double-click.
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Supplementary information for label input.
Control characters for the text input. Control characters can be employed in the test line (text effects). Text effects are always set for the current label only. If another label is loaded, then the text effects therein are also loaded. If the label is deleted using New or using Delete Text, the text effects are set to the initial status. Values for the drawing modifications can be set under Input parameter . TextEffect.
A serial number is introduced using <Alt Z> and ended. In each text line respectively only one serial number is permitted. With every export (direct mill or Export Graphic) the serial numbers are incremented or decremented by the amount given in the parameter Input parameter . TextEffect. Inc Serial Number +/-99999:.
The input of leading zeros in the serial number is allowed. An overrun of numbers (limiting value) is not checked.
Text input into the editor <Alt E>. Using the Windows Editor, both the external text files can be read-in and also texts can be adopted via the clipboard. If texts have been read-in via the file menu of the editor, then these must be saved for adoption in the file 'HS05.TMP'. The file 'HS05.TMP' can be found in the main directory of the milling/engraving program (e.g. eSIGN2D). The text input into the editor is dependent on the input setting Block / Line.
If ASCII/ANSI text is to be adopted from another Windows program, we recommend the following procedure:
Selection of special characters <F5>.
In text lines input you can open the character selection using <F5>. By simply clicking on a character with the cursor any listed character can be selected.
The width of the space character (Space) can be set using Input parameter . TextEffect . Word separation (Space). With 100%, the separations from the character set are used. Values > 100% increase the word separation.
Clicking-on a new text line using the cursor. During the text input into the Menu edit, existing text lines can be clicked-on or new text lines can be created in free positions. If, with clicking-on, no existing text line can be found, then the cursor is set on the clicked-on position and the program waits for the input of an absolute line reference position (as with the input of the 1st text line).
Only character sets, which are listed in the dialogue box, can be selected. To select the file click-on the file name. A double click or OK starts the loading process. By clicking only once a selection of characters is shown in the graphics window. The included sets are differentiated according to their first letter in the font name:
Only character sets which have been previously installed are listed in HZE format. The program installs the character set automatically with its first start, if the character sets have been loaded previously in the current directory (are in the program). With later modifications, such as importing a character set, deleting, status change etc., the installation has to be started by the user with Font Edit . Import Font . install HZE. The list of character lists can be installed using installed HZE optionally according to file name or the recorded font name.
The text input is normally activated via the menu in Text . edit line. If work is carried out in a graphic, which contains both vector graphics and also text lines in the ActLayer, one can change directly into the text lines input by simultaneously clicking-on the text line and pressing the key <Ctrl>
Using Text from file both external ASCII text files can be read-in and text can also be transferred via the clipboard. If texts have been read-in via the file menu of the editor, then these must be saved for adoption in the file 'HS05.TMP'. The file 'HS05.TMP' can be found in the program directory.
Functions in text from file. Delete text + param: Deletes all existing text lines (text + line parameters).
Delete text lines: Delete only the text but not the line parameters (text settings). The texts are replaced by a SPACE. With this, the text lines are retained and can again be filled with new text later.
Replace texts: The text lines are filled with the texts of an ASCII/ANSI file. The line parameter (i.e. the text arrangements) remain unchanged. Text line, for which no texts are available in the file, are filled using SPACE are thus retained.
Import texts: An ASCII/ANSI text file is loaded and bound to the existing texts.
Edit text: Available texts are shown in Windows Editor. These texts can be edited, texts can be read in, texts can be transferred from the clipboard etc. Before leaving the text editor, the texts must be saved in the file 'HS05.TMP'.
Texts from Word, Corel or other Windows programs can be adopted in ANSI/ASCII code. Text settings such as font, dimensions, appearance cannot be adopted. We recommend the following procedure for simple text adoption:
If a new label is to be produced:
If the texts in an existing label are to be replaced:
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