I Mark Teach Function

Published by Drew Davis on

Q: After I create a layout and I attempt to mark my part it seems that the parameters are off. Is there a way to know exactly where I will be marking?

 

A: Yes! I -Mark has a teach function that will allow you to teach your marking location to an exact pin point on your part. Here is how,

Manually teach your marking head the location that you would like your Text starting point on your part to be.

•Click on the Entity tab in your ribbon, or click on your text box that you want to teach.
•Select the teach icon and choose the option Open Manual Controls.
•This will now put you in the manual teach mode.
Now jog the physical axis on the machine in order to teach the current position of the marking axis using the Fwd. and Rev. arrows.
Jog the X Axis until the marking pin is over top of the marking area. Then Jog the Y-Axis to bring the pin directly overtop of the part.
Once X and Y-Axis are in the position of the required marking location, Go back up the entity tab and click on the teach icon button.

Select “All positions”

After teaching “All Positions”, you’ll see that the text on the grid has moved to the relative position on the grid.

 

Now that have taught your marking location you can download your layout and start marking.

Select your machine in the navigation box to bring up your active marking window.

With your active marking window now open you can start marking.

•However your layout is not currently saved to your controller yet.

To save your layout to your controller  you will need to download and save.

Select download

  • Once you have selected the download button
  •  Prompts will ask you if you want to save all files before downloading.
  • Choose yes

Your marking window will change to not ready while your layout is downloaded and saved to the controller

You will notice green check marks in the navigation pane next to the layout and the machine indicating the layout has been downloaded properly and the machine is ready to mark.

 

The Machine status window will turn green when ready to mark

Locate the “Choose Layout to mark” menu.

This is the list of layouts that exist on the controller.

Select the layout you are required to mark and press the “ Start ‘’ or ‘’Trail’’ button the run the layout.

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