CNC Bender can now learn from you during setup. Teach the bender any motion for difficult transitions between bends

• This is an overview of how to use teach-mode:
  
  
  • Enable Teach Mode inside the options list for bend 1. (See image 1 on the right)
    
    
  • Power on and Cycle Start the bender
    
    
  • Press AUTO mode.
    
    
  • Activate the Teach button in the Control Mode bar.
    
    
  • Load and bend the part
    
    
  • After bend 1 is finished, the dies will open, and CNC Bender will enter STEP mode, and display the Teach Mode menu. (STEP mode allows the bender to pause operation and never time-out.)
    
    
  • Teach the bender up to 10 Custom Commands - each command can contain any number of simultaneous jog motions. (You can teach the bender to move all the axes plus any of the actuators x 10 times after each bend.)
    
    
  • Exit the Teach Mode window and finish bending the part.
    
    

• Other things to know:
  • Teach in PreBend immediately after you chuck the part and press the run buttons.
    
    
  • Control extra moves in PostBend using the final bend's Custom Commands.
    
    
  • The learned moves are held in objects called Custom Commands (see below).
    
    

• Custom Commands store the moves learned during Teach Mode
  
  
• A single Custom Command can contain any number of simultaneous Jog Motions. In a SINGLE Custom Command, you could teach the bender how to move the...
  • FEED (carriage)
  • while ROTATING
  • while shifting the VERTICAL RADIUS
  • while shifting the HORIZONTAL RADIUS
  • while returning the BEND ARM
  • while pulling the MANDREL
  • while activating the KICKER
  • while doing anything else you can make move on the bender
    
    

• The PreBend section, the BEND section, and the PostBend section store Custom Commands. Every BEND stores up to 10 custom commands. A 10 bend part could have up to 120 custom commands.

• Each Bend's Custom Command changes how the bender works after that bend when transitioning to the next bend.
  
  

• Custom Commands can be MANUALLY entered and edited without the bender running in Teach Mode.
  
  

• Or Custom Commands can be edited even after they were built using Teach Mode.
  
  

• All Custom Commands are stored in the part file that contains the part data.

• Custom Commands are available in the FRB menu after every bend.