Table of Contents

Running a Simulation

Everything that happens after the equipment is set up: writing the list of commands a run executes, playing it, watching it, and reading what it did.

The Execution page at /execution is where all of it happens — it is also where the application opens.

Ordered as a run goes: build the list, play it, watch it, read it, and diagnose it.

Pages

  • Building a Mission — The command list a run executes, and the checkbox on each command that decides whether it runs
  • Playing a Program — The two commands that put NC code into a run, and which to use when
  • The Other Commands — The settings, optimizer and output kinds, and the script command: what each is for and where in the list it belongs
  • Starting and Stepping — The transport controls, the F5–F8 keys, and why one line is not one step
  • Watching the Run — The canvas, and the three charts that show the whole mission at once
  • Inspecting a Step — The Step Info column: the sentence, the step, the engagement and the per-revolution charts
  • The Program Branch — The files a run read, the passes it made over each and what every line produced
  • When Something Goes Wrong — Which of the four message lists answers which question, why a row is not an occurrence, and three things that look like faults and are not

See Also

  • Setup — the equipment a run needs before any of this
  • Basics — the window, the project and the messages every screen shares