View Menu

The amount and types of information traced to the Input, Output, Console and Macro windows can be set using the Tools»Preferences»Trace menu function as well as from the launch panel Output dialog (see here).

View»Input

This toggle activates or disables the input MCD file trace window. When active, MCD blocks will be listed in the Input window as they are read. Right-mouse in the Input window and select Options to bring up the following Tools»Preferences»Trace settings that affect Input tracing:

MDI and EXEC commands: traces blocks of MCD as they are processed via the MDI input. It also traces the content of macro EXEC commands.

External subprograms: traces blocks of MCD read from subprograms.

Internal ICAMFS subprograms: also traces blocks of MCD read from subprograms stored in the internal //icamfs file storage area.

The last 20,000 input trace lines are remembered unless changed via the Tools»Preferences»Trace settings. The Output, Console and Macro trace windows (described below) are similarly limited.

View»Output

This toggle activates or disables the control emulator processing trace window. When active, control emulator processing data will be listed in the Output window as it is written. Right-mouse in the Output window and select Options to bring up the following Tools»Preferences»Trace settings that affect Output tracing:

Input blocks: traces input MCD blocks with a “Block:” prefix aligned so that you can better see the effect of any Edited blocks tracing (see next).

Edited blocks: traces changes to the input block due to tape editor string substitution (identified by a TapEdt header), OPSKIP processing (DelOn and DelOff headers), pre- processor substitution (PrePrc header), embedded macro substitution (EmbMac header) and block startup macro processing (BlkMac header).

Word addresses: traces the recognized words (i.e., registers) on the block and their values, one per line in the order they are recognized left-to-right on the block, using the format “register:data”.

CODE and DATA identifiers: traces the recognized CODE and DATA identifiers as they are processed, in the form code_name and reg_name. The order of code processing is dependent on the code’s Order property and not the position of the code the block. The order of data processing is a built-in function.

Actions: traces lines prefixed with a | character showing the data sent to the machine simulation process to emulate the actions of the CNC.

View»Console

This toggle activates or disables the console trace window. When active, operator messages, diagnostic messages and macro processor I/O will be listed in the Console window. Right-mouse in the Console window and select Options to bring up the following Tools»Preferences»Trace settings that affect Console tracing:

Operator and other message: traces operator messages.

Macro IO commands: traces macro processor file I/O (OPEN, READ, WRITE and CLOSE commands).

Diagnostics: traces diagnostic messages with the specified and higher severity.

View»Macro

This toggle activates or disables the Macro trace window. When active, macro commands will be listed in the Macro window as they are processed. The Macro trace window also identifies when macros are activated and completed. Right-mouse in the Macro window and select Options to bring up the following Tools»Preferences»Trace settings that affect Macro tracing:

CODE and DATA macros: traces lines of macro code from CODE and DATA macros as they are processed.

Other macros: traces lines of macro code from startup, shutdown and event macros as they are processed.

View»Diagnostic

This toggle shows or hides the Diagnostic window. This window records all diagnostic messages output since the start of processing, regardless of whether or not the window was visible or not.

The diagnostic window provides “filter” toggle buttons that can be used to hide/show errors, warnings and informational messages. A right-mouse pop-up window provides access to additional functionality, as follows:

Synchronize simulation, trace and source windows to the selected diagnostic.

Mark as reviewed marks individual diagnostics as reviewed, as an aid to a systematic review of the program. Various options permit marking of similar diagnostics. Diagnostics can also be marked reviewed by selecting them and checking the Reviewed box.

Hide reviewed toggle shows or hides all diagnostics marked as reviewed.

Clear reviewed clears the “reviewed” state of all diagnostics. The reviewed state of diagnostics can also be cleared by selecting them and clearing the Reviewed box.

Clear sorting causes diagnostics to be listed in the order they were originally output. Clicking on a diagnostic column header causes diagnostics to be sorted in increasing or decreasing order by that column’s information.

Column settings indicate the type of information to be listed.

Copy selection to the paste buffer.

Diagnostic window settings are remembered with other user preferences in the Windows Registry.

View»Loading Sequence

This brings back the Loading dialog that normally appears while the software is initializing and that then disappears once processing is ready to start. This dialog lists the various initialization actions and the elapsed time taken for each. Indentation is used to break down multiple steps of an initialization process. The Loading dialog must be closed before continuing processing. The appearance of the Loading dialog at the start of processing can be controlled from the “Loading/Processing Detail” selection in the Tools»Preferences»General settings.

View»Increase X Margin

View»Increase X Margin (Ctrl Left)

View»Decrease X Margin

View»Decrease X Margin (Ctrl Right)

These change the width of the left hand field that lists axes names in the Controller»Axes tab.

View»Status bar

This toggle enables the display of the status bar. The status bar lists various information about the progress of the control emulator, including: count of diagnostics, sequence and tool numbers, machining time and a progress bar.