Back when I bought the super 40 with the at that time Accuset 1, I never was shown how to use the pattern mode, it was told to me the down set function was the most commonly used, well it only took a couple of logs to realize something at to give, always a dog board. So I kinda made up a cheat sheet and worked from the bed rails up board thickness,kerf, ect...now I was using the digital screen not the scale so it was quite easy. Just a few weeks ago while talking with member JB, I asked him how he used the scale stick,, if I understood him right, he said he did it the same way, bed rails up, board thickness plus kerf, and so on, the tricky part for me was get use to the scale and not the digital, It would require the head to come all the way back on my mill to see the scale, you guys that saw with the scales and crunch numbers in your head are way ahead of me, but I reckon as JB said, you get use to it pretty quick.
I had to add, I did get a handle on the pattern mode, and liked it, and most often used it in conjunction with the auto up function, this reduces heavy first cut slabs when sawing out 2" stock,
