IGES Converting

[Nathan G. Baldwin]

Had a customer call in today having a problem converting an IGES and writing it to a floppy. I verified his converter by having him write one to desktop... Works fine.

 

My question is,

 

Is this a problem for other users still stuck with using a floppy? if so, a quick fix is to write to the hard drive, followed by manually moving the file to the floppy.

 

this customer's file did show up on the floppy when he used mastercam to write it, but the file contained no data. My estimation is the file was writing and the customer accidentally abandoned the task, thinking the file was already written.

If anyone else has had this problem pls let me know.

THX-

[Jimmy Wakeford from Barefoot CNC]

I think your prolly right about abandoning the task. I dread having to go back and use floppies with pc's that are not networked and cant use the thumb drives.

[George Bailey from Warvel Products]

i digitize with an older model faro arm, on a dos based pc using cadkey 7 and reveng. i convert all my files to iges and put them on a floppy to bring to my mastercam machine. i have never had any problems.the files are on the harddrive of the older computer after they are converted. i have to copy all my code to take out into the plant on floppies. still no problems in 10 years.

[cadist]

Personally I don't consider floppies as relible media storing device. PC's with no other no other temporary storage device then floppy or network are useless for me.

[Nathan G. Baldwin]

I agree. Relying on data buffers and magnetic film just doesn't do it for me. It's just too affordable these days to go with digital memory devices.

In Mastercam, I never work from a floppy. It's bad practice, in my opinion, to rely on data buffers and slow writing techniques when not necessary. Bear in mind though, the older, DOS based versions were designed to work from floppies. In newer versions, a great deal of users utilizing 3-D mill can't even fit their files on floppies. Even NC Files are getting too big.

 

Still though, I think it was probably an operator error.

 

ThX

[kinglouie V]

I highly recommend a jump drive