GE Fanuc Automation
Computer Numerical Control Products
InfoLink for CNC
Product Information Library
User's Guide
GFK - 1427A September 1997
Contents
InfoLink for CNC Product Information Library ............................................................................1
About InfoLink ..................................................................................................................... 1
About this Guide................................................................................................................... 1
Read the License Agreement.................................................................................................. 1
System Requirements ............................................................................................................ 1
Installation............................................................................................................................ 2
Search .................................................................................................................................. 3
View..................................................................................................................................... 6
Additional Search Information............................................................................................... 8
Help at Your Fingertips....................................................................................................... 14
GFK-1427 v
InfoLink for CNC Product Information Library
User's Guide
About InfoLink
Welcome to GE Fanuc’s InfoLink for CNC – an electronic source for GE Fanuc Automation’s
product information on Computer Numerical Control and PowerMotion products. InfoLink for
CNC contains electronic replicas of printed documentation.
On the CD-ROM, you will also find software which will enable you to search, annotate, and print
from this database. The Adobe Acrobat™ software was written and developed by Adobe Systems,
Inc.
About this Guide
This guide provides information on installing the software and quick tips on the features of
InfoLink for CNC. For more information on using the Adobe Acrobat software after it is
installed, launch InfoLink for CNC and click the Help menu to use online help.
Read the License Agreement
Before continuing, make sure you have read the License Agreement that accompanies this
product. It is located on the back of your CD-ROM package.
System Requirements
• 386, 486, or Pentium processor-based computer.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT 3.5 or later.
• 4 MB of RAM.
• CD-ROM drive.
Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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Installation
1. Read the License Agreement on the back of the CD-ROM box.
2. Start up Windows.
3. Insert the InfoLink for CNC CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
4. From the Windows File menu, select Run.
5. Select [Link] from your CD-ROM drive.
6. When the installation is complete, launch InfoLink for CNC from your Start menu or
Program Group.
Note
If you want to automatically return to the Graphical Main menu after
closing a manual, you must change the Adobe Acrobat "Open Cross-
Document Links in Same Window" setting.
To change this setting from the Graphical Main menu or from within a
manual:
1. Select File → Preferences → General to view the General
Preferences Window.
2. Note that the "Open Cross-Document Links in Same Window" box is
checked.
3. Click on the box to remove the check for this entry, and then click OK.
4. Close the General Preferences Window.
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Search
There are two ways to search for documents contained on InfoLink for CNC. You can:
1. Use the Graphical Main menu provided when you start up InfoLink for CNC, or
2. Use the Search menu.
Using the Graphical Main Menu
When you first open InfoLink for CNC, you will see this Graphical Main menu.
Use the buttons on the left side of the Graphical Main menu to select a product line.
To view the Contents listing, click the Contents of the Library button. A complete list of the
user manuals in the collection will be displayed. To open and view a particular manual, click on
the publication number or title of that manual.
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Using the Search Menu
1. To initiate a search across the entire collection of manuals, select Tools → Search →
Query or click on the Adobe Acrobat Search icon on the toolbar. You can search for a
specific word, for parts of words, or for groups of words.
2. Enter your search criteria, and click Search. After the search is completed, the results of the
search will be displayed in this window:
Note
In order to use the complete screen shown here, before doing your search, select
Preference → Search from the Edit menu, and then select Show Fields.
Guidelines
To Search By: Enter: Example:
Words or Phrases the words or phrases. battery
Boolean Operators:
AND AND battery AND replacing
OR OR password OR security
NOT NOT
Wild Card:
Single character ? for one character. ?ight (right, light)
Multiple characters * at the end of a word only. replac*
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Document Information
The "With Document Info" portion of the Search menu contains a Title box and a Subject box.
The information displayed in each box will be the title and publication number. The title is
displayed first in the Title box, followed by the publication number. In the Subject box, the
publication number is displayed first, followed by the title.
The Keywords box identifies the applicable product type(s) for each publication.
Options
To narrow your search, you can choose any or all of these options:
Option Description
Word Stemming Finds words that share a stem with the search item.
Thesaurus Finds words that have the same meaning.
Sounds Like Finds words that share a phonetic resemblance.
Match Case Finds only words that are capitalized exactly.
Proximity Changes and searches so that words must be within three or four pages of one
another.
For more information on searching, select Help → Plug-In Help → Using Acrobat Search from
the toolbar.
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View
After your search is completed, the results are displayed in the Search Results window.
1. Click on any of the titles listed in the Search Results window to view the document.
2. Move the Search Results box to one side to view the text. The criteria of your search will be
highlighted.
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Navigating Within and Across Documents
Use the buttons listed below to navigate through the documents in InfoLink for CNC. These
buttons appear on your toolbar.
Shortcut to the Find box. Press this button to search within a document.
Shortcut back to the Adobe Acrobat Search box. Press this button to
search across a collection or index of documents.
Press this button to return to the Query Results list.
Press this button to return to the previous occurrence.
Press this button to go to the next page of occurrences. If this is the last
page in a document, the next document on the Query Results list will
open at its first occurrence.
Bookmarks button: Move to the page view specified by a bookmark.
Click the bookmark text (the pointer changes to a pointing finger), or
double-click the page icon to the left of the bookmark name (the pointer
changes to an arrow).
Thumbnails button: These are miniature page views that can be
displayed in the overview area. Click on the miniature page to move
around in the document.
Zoom
To enlarge or zoom in on a document page, select Zoom from the View menu. Enter a scale
factor, and click OK. You may use any factor between 50% and 200%. A factor of 200% doubles
the image; a factor of 50% halves it.
To return to the original page size, select Zoom from the View menu, if the Zoom box is not
already open, and click on 100%.
You can also click this button at the bottom of your
window to enlarge the percentage factor.
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Adjusting the Page View
1. To enlarge selected areas of text or graphics, click the thumbnail button, use the hand tool to
drag the Page View box (light-gray box) on the thumbnail around the current page.
2. Drag the lower right corner of the Page View box to reduce or expand the view of the current
page.
3. Position the pointer anywhere outside the current Page View box, and click to draw a new
box.
4. To return the selected area to its original size, using the hand tool, move the gray box to the
far upper left corner, and then drag the bottom right corner as far as it will go. The
magnification will determine how much of the page you will see. To see the entire page,
click View → Fit Page.
Additional Search Information
Search Preferences
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You can use the Acrobat Search Preferences box to:
• Control whether the Search window closes when you perform a search.
• Control the size and contents of the Search window. You can show or hide the Document
Info fields, the Document Date fields, and the search options.
• Control whether the Search Results window closes when you view the document returned
from a search.
• Control the number of found documents listed in the Search Results window and the order in
which they are listed.
• Control whether the search terms on the page are all highlighted, highlighted one at a time,
or not highlighted.
Starting a Search
When you begin using the Search command, you may encounter two problems:
• The search finds too many documents. A search for a single word, for example, can return
hundreds of documents – far too many to open and view.
• A search finds too few or no documents.
To search a document:
1. Choose Search → Query from the Tools menu, or click on the Adobe Acrobat Search icon.
2. Select one or more indexes.
3. Enter a search term, phrase, or Boolean expression. You do not have to enter search text.
You can perform a search with just Document Info field values.
4. View the search results; they are ranked in order of relevance. Double-click a document title
to display the first page that contains a search item in that document.
Searching with Wild-Card Characters
You can use wild-card characters to find all the words that contain a word fragment or all the
words and terms that match an arbitrary character pattern. The wild-card characters include:
• The asterisk ( * ), which matches zero, one, or more characters.
• The question mark ( ? ), which matches any one character.
Here are some examples of how the wild-card characters can be used:
• geo* matches words such as geography, geometry, George, and geothermal.
• *nym matches words such as synonym, antonym, and homonym.
• 555-???? matches all seven-digit phone numbers with the 555 prefix.
• pr?m* matches words such as premature, premeditate, primate, and promise.
You can use wild-card characters in a term that is part of a Boolean expression. You can also use
wild-card characters to specify Document Info field values.
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Searching with Document Info Fields
You can use Document Info field values to limit the results of your searches to just those
documents that contain specific field values. To add the Document Info fields to the Search
window, choose Preferences → Search from the Edit menu, and select Show Fields in the
Preferences dialog box.
When you enter a Document Info field value or expression, only documents with fields that
contain the value and that meet the search criteria are returned.
When you enter one or more Document Info field values or expressions in the Find text box, you
do not have to enter a search term. You can use fields to find all the documents that contain a
specified field value.
Entering values for two or more fields specifies an AND condition. Documents must contain all
the field values you specify. For example, if you enter "programming" in the Author or Subject
field and "15-B" in the Keywords field, only documents that contain these values in these fields
are returned.
Using Search Options
The search options expand and restrict the results of searches with single terms, phrases, and
Boolean expressions. The search options do not apply to Document Info field values. To add the
search options to the Acrobat Search window, choose Preferences → Search from the Edit
menu, and select Show Options.
Option Description
Word Stemming Finds words that share a stem with the search term.
Thesaurus Finds words that have the same meaning as the search term.
Sounds Like Finds words that share a phonetic resemblance to a search term.
Match Case Finds only words that are capitalized exactly like the search term.
Proximity Changes and searches so that words must be within three or four pages of one
another.
You can use the Word Assistant to see the effects of using the Word Stemming, Thesaurus, and
Sounds Like search options before performing a search. Choose Search → Word Assist from
the Tools menu to display the Word Assistant dialog box.
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Using Word Assist
The Word Assistant dialog box shows how the Sounds Like, Word Stemming, and Thesaurus
search options affect a search query.
Use the Word Assistant to see which terms, in addition to the search term, will be found with a
search option selected.
To see the effects of a search option on a search term:
1. Choose Search →Word Assist from the Tools menu. The Word Assistant dialog box
appears.
2. Select the Search option from the Assist menu.
3. If you do not want to use your current indexes, click Indexes to display the Index Selection
dialog box and select the indexes you want to use.
4. Enter the search term in the Word text box.
5. Click Lookup. All the words that are found are listed in the scrolling list.
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Match Case and Proximity Search Options
Match Case limits the results of the search to find only those documents that contain words with
the same capitalization as the search term or terms you entered in the Find box. With Match
Case selected searching for "He" finds all occurrences of He, the symbol for Helium, but not
occurrences of he, the common pronoun.
Proximity changes the way AND searches work. With Proximity selected, words in an AND
search must be within two or three pages of each other to be found. Without the Proximity option,
two words may appear anywhere in a document and still be found by an AND search.
The closer the words are in the document, the higher the relevance ranking of the document in
which they appear.
Search Indexes
The Search command searches for words and character sequences in documents that have been
indexed.
By selecting a single index, you can find words and terms in any document in the collection of
indexed documents. By selecting two or more indexes, you can search for words in two or more
collections at the same time.
To use an Index, you must add it to the list of available indexes.
1. Click the Indexes button in the Acrobat Search window. Alternatively, choose Search →
Indexes from the Tools menu. The Index Selection dialog box appears.
2. Click the name of the index you want to select.
3. Click Info. The Index Information dialog box, shown above, is displayed.
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Refine Search Feature
The Refine Search feature restricts the next search to only those documents found by the previous
search. Only documents currently listed in the Search Results window are searched.
To use the Refine Search feature:
1. Use any combination of search terms, Document Info field values, Data Info field values, and
search options to perform a search. The found documents are listed in the Search Results
window.
2. With one or more documents in the Search Results window, click the Search Query button in
the toolbar to open the Acrobat Search window.
3. Enter any new combination of search terms, Document Info field values, Date Info field
values, and search options.
4. Press Ctrl and click the Refine button. (Pressing Ctrl with documents in the Search Results
list changes the Search button to the Refine button.) The Search Results window lists
documents that were previously in the Search Results list and that meet the new search
criteria.
Searching with AND, OR, and NOT
You can use AND, OR, and NOT operators to build a Boolean expression that specifies
combinations of words that a document must have to be returned by a search.
You can also use Boolean expressions in Document Info field text boxes to specify a combination
of field values that documents must contain to be returned from a search.
Combining Boolean Operators
When you combine AND and OR in the same expression, AND is evaluated before OR. For
example, darwin OR origin AND species finds all documents that contain darwin or contain both
origin and species.
When NOT is used with either or both AND and OR, NOT is evaluated before either AND or
OR. For example, evolution AND not darwin finds all documents that contain the word evolution
but not darwin.
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Relevance Ranking
Acrobat Exchange assigns a relevance ranking to every document returned from a search. A
document's relevance ranking indicates how likely it is that the document contains the
information for which you are searching.
The method used to determine a document's relevance ranking depends on the kind of search
performed:
• With a single search term, the relevance ranking indicates how frequently the term appears in
the document.
• When two search terms are separated by an OR operator, documents that contain both terms
have a relevance ranking higher than documents that contain just one of the terms.
• When the Proximity search option is used, the closer the search terms are within a document,
the higher the relevance ranking for the document.
• The density of search terms relative to other terms in the document also contributes to a
document's relevance ranking. The higher the proportion of search terms in a document, the
higher the document is ranked.
Help at Your Fingertips
For additional help, pull down the Help menu in InfoLink for CNC and select Contents to access
a complete set of InfoLink instructions.
For more information, call GE Fanuc Automation at (800) GE FANUC or your nearest GE Fanuc
Automation representative.
GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia
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