Patent ID: 8581145

Claim:
A welding system comprising: a housing forming an enclosure; a power supply arranged within the enclosure and configured to deliver welding-type power during a welding-type process; a user interface including at least one user interface device configured to select operational parameters of a welding process; a bezel integrated into the housing and forming a marking surface that extends about at least a portion of a periphery of the at least one user interface device to display user markings and allow the user markings to be selectively erased, wherein the marking surface includes: a touch-responsive display element configured to display a mark indicating a desired setting of the at least one user interface device in response to contact by a hand of a user along an area of the touch-responsive display corresponding to the desired setting, and a dial setting gradient; and wherein the at least one user interface device includes a dial comprising at least one pointer coupled with the dial and independently movable with respect to the dial to indicate a desired dial setting and the dial extends over a portion of the dial setting gradient.