So after a better part of a week and a weekend dealing with that piece of garbage Siemens system i'm fed up.
That crap has to go, its prob. the most non-userfriendly shiet i have ever seen in a computer and should be dragged out in the backyard and shot.
I have tried to everything from just programming it through MDI, from some ancient coding standard defined in the PDF.. only you get from that is "program error", and you need to enter the twilight zone of the machine and clear user memories and then reset.. that means all your settings for workarea, spindle speeds, sensors, options for serial ports everything is gone.. and you need to start over again..
Well then into automatic mode, the craptastic piece of garbage has a Dialog programmer.. manual says enter % programnummer and press edit.. Sure enough i have a program.. Well then choose dialog, start punching buttons, setting plane, measurement system etc etc.. then commit it to the program.. oooh noo the gods of siemens denies with this cryptic message "Locked input"..say what now.. im in edit mode.. how the holy #¤%! can that be locked.. i should be able to type in whatever shiet i want.. nope nothing can be entered into the program.
Why anyone would wanna keep something this outdated and inconsistently buggy and ilogical is beyond my imagination...

Conversion here we go.. then i shall bring this piece of **** to a hydraulic press and make a dinner plate out of it.