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Language and units

Studio follows your system's language at the first start. You can change the language, the units and the way numbers, dates and money look at any time. Programs and files stay as they are.

Changing the language

Choose Tools > Language / 语言 and a language: English, 简体中文 (Chinese, Simplified), Français, Deutsch, 日本語 or Español. The menu's name is the same in every language, so you can find it in a language you do not read.

The window changes at once; you do not restart Studio. Lines already in the console stay in the language they were written in.

Tools > Settings… > General > Language has one more choice, As Windows: Studio then follows the system's language at each start. A language Studio has no pack for falls back to English.

Units: millimetres and inches

Tools > Units chooses As the region measures, Metric (mm) or Inch. The change applies at once.

In inches, Studio shows:

The spindle speed stays in rpm. Jog steps become 0.0005, 0.005, 0.05, 0.5 and 2 in, and jog speeds 4, 12, 60 and 120 in/min.

The units change what Studio shows and reads, not your files. A program runs as it is written, in G20 or G21. Programs Studio makes are written in millimetres (G21). The AI's tools and the logs work in millimetres.

Region: numbers, dates and money

Tools > Settings… > General > Region sets how numbers, money and dates look: As Windows (Settings > Time & language), As the language, or a region from the list. On the same page:

• Currency: an ISO 4217 code such as USD, EUR or CNY; empty means the region's;
• Currency symbol: empty means the currency's own;
• Machine-hour rate: your cost of an hour of machine time, for the cost estimates; 0 shows none.

The region decides the decimal mark and the thousands separator in Studio's numbers, the dates in the runs, versions and reports, and the paper size of reports (Letter in the United States and Canada, A4 elsewhere). Numbers that belong to the machine, such as positions and the numbers in a program, always use a point and no thousands separator.

Typing numbers

Studio reads a typed number strictly in the fields where a mistake would cost a part: the CAM fields, the sizes and places in Setup, the probe's lengths and the spindle speed.

• Use one decimal mark: a point or a comma (13.3 or 13,3).
• Do not write a thousands separator.
• You may write the field's unit after the number: 13 mm, 0.5 in, 30°.
• Digits typed with an input method (full-width digits) are read too.

1,000 is a question when your region writes the decimal mark as a point: did you mean one or one thousand? Studio does not guess; it asks you to write the one you mean. Where the region writes a comma, 1,000 is one.

What "reads as" means

When what you typed is not written the way Studio writes numbers, the field shows what Studio read: type 13,3 and it shows reads as 13.3. In inches it shows four decimals: reads as 0.3750. Check it before you go on.

When Studio cannot read what you typed, the field turns red and a line under it says why, for example "“1,2,3” is not a length". Studio does not take the value: the field keeps the last one it took until you correct it.

Inch fractions

In inches, length fields also take fractions:

• 3/8, 5/4
• 1 1/2 or 1-1/2
• 2 3/8", 1/2 in (the inch mark may be ", ″ or in)

The field shows the decimal and the fraction it read: reads as 0.3750 (3/8"). Studio does not take a decimal point with a fraction (1.5/2), an improper fraction after a whole number (1 5/4) or spaces around the slash.

Studio shows inch sizes as fractions too, down to 1/64 in: tool diameters and lengths, the blank's sizes, hole diameters and depths read 1/4" or 1 1/2". A size that is not a 1/64 shows four decimals, 0.2010 in. Coordinates, feeds, speeds and measurements are always decimals.

In millimetres, a fraction is not read: "Millimetre fields take no fractions: write 4.7625 or switch to inch".

Tool descriptions read inch sizes in either system, for example flat 1/4in n2.

Spindle speed

You can type the spindle speed instead of stepping it by 1000 rpm:

1. In Run, open Manual in the right column.
2. Double-click the Spindle speed reading, or press Enter on it.
3. Type the speed and press Enter. Esc, or clicking elsewhere, keeps the old speed.

When the spindle is turning by hand (no program running), the new speed goes to the spindle at once. When it stands, Studio keeps the speed for the next Spindle CW or Spindle CCW. While a program runs, the program sets the speed and the field does not open.

A speed outside the spindle's range turns the field red and is not taken. The MC-1's range is 1000–24000 rpm.

What stays in English

• G-code, and the files Studio writes and reads (jobs, setups, recordings, licence files);
• the AI's tools and what goes to and from AI clients;
• the reference chapters made from the program itself: MCP tools, Command line and Machine profile schema;
• each audit record's message for programs (the log also keeps it in your language);
• in German, French, Japanese and Spanish in 1.0: the controller's error and alarm descriptions, the controller settings' help and some licence messages.

An inspection report's PDF is in your language when its fonts have your language's letters, and in English otherwise; its CSV file is always in your language.