Keyboard and accessibility

The machine, the menus, the panels' keys and the editor all work from the keyboard. Turning and zooming the 3D view, picking a point in it and resizing panels need a mouse. On Windows, a screen reader reads the panels' keys and readings.

Help > Keyboard shortcuts (or ?) lists every key in Studio.

The keys for the machine

Jogging and the handwheel:

Overrides:

Each press of a jog key moves one step. A held jog stops when you let go of the key or when the window loses the focus. In inches the steps are 0.0005–2 in and the speeds 4–120 in/min.

The F keys work wherever you are. The other machine keys do not work while you type in a text box, a list or the editor: click the 3D view to hand them back to the machine.

The digit keys and the , and . keys work by their place on the keyboard, so they work with any keyboard layout.

Emergency stop

Press F1, or click the round red key at the right end of the machine bar. In the twin this opens the E-stop circuit as the machine's button does: the drives and the spindle drive lose power, and the controller raises ALARM:10. Press F1 again to release it, then follow the steps back to work: Power on, Reset, Home.

The keys for the window

The editor in the Program workspace has its own keys:

The manual's window: Ctrl+F searches, Alt+← and Alt+→ go back and forward, Esc closes it.

While you arrange a workpiece in Setup: the arrow keys move it (with Shift finer, with Ctrl coarser), Q and E turn it, Enter places it, Esc puts it back.

The full list

Help > Keyboard shortcuts shows every key above in one list. These commands have no key; use their menus:

• Single block and Next block (the Program menu and the machine bar);
• Check program;
• zeroing the axes and going to the zero (Machine > Work zero);
• the tool setter and the probe moves (Machine > Tool setter and probe);
• the spindle speed in steps of 1000 rpm, and the rapid override (Machine);
• pausing the simulation and its speed (Simulation).

Using a screen reader

On Windows, Studio works with screen readers through the system's accessibility interface. In each of Studio's panels the reader gets:

• each key's name, what kind of key it is, whether it is on, open or unavailable, its shortcut and its tip;
• the readings as text: the machine bar (state, program, progress, the next step, the clock), the top bar (machine, state, AI, level, edition) and the right column (position, spindle, gauges, the modal line);
• each move of the focus with Tab;
• the menus: each item's words, its shortcut, whether it is unavailable or ticked, and which one you are on.

Two things are told as they happen, wherever the focus is: an alarm (with the next step) and an AI's request to change the machine.

The manual's window gives the reader the page's text, with its headings and links.

In 1.0:

• other changes of the machine's state are not told: move the focus to the machine bar to hear them;
• the listing, the console, the messages, the editor and the tool table are read by the reader's own rules; the curves are not read;
• on Linux, screen readers are not supported.

What it reads in the 3D view

The 3D view itself gives the reader nothing. The numbers it shows are in the right column and the machine bar, which the reader reads. When you click a point of the workpiece, the sentence under the view (the program line and the position) is read.

Large text and shop mode

Studio follows the display scale you set in Windows, screen by screen. It has no text size setting of its own.

View > Appearance > Shop mode (large) makes the machine bar, its keys, the E-stop, the text, the listing and the position larger, and gives the Run workspace a layout for reading at arm's length (see Light, dark and shop mode).

When the system's animations are turned off, the 3D view jumps to a new view instead of gliding there.