Coms between Cimco and Fanuc 10 T

[Zoeper]

Hi All,

Trying to establish coms between pc and controll.

Managed to get the receiving from control working flawlessly. When i try to send program from pc to controll Cimco shows that it is moving quite a bit of data, but then after about 2 seconds the controll gives an error "Data set ready down (rs232c_1)"

My reasoning is that if the controll can send to pc, then pc should be able to send to controll!

 

Settings that work for transmit:

4800baud, 7 data, 2 stop, odd parity and hardware handshaking

 

The old dos pgm they used with it is set up for :

4800baud, 8 Data, 1 stop, odd parity and i think HW handshake. [when i enter this into Cimco i get framing error on controll]

 

Anyone who knows this setup?? Please....

[within a thou]

I have a fanuc 18i-M controller and I use cimcodnc here are my settings

[Zoeper]

What???

sorry maybe it's me but this rings no bells!

[within a thou]

well I guess I should have previewed that I don't know how to add a screen dump to this.

[Guest]

You need to have a site that hosts you pic's, photoshop.com is one place to use.

 

The you link the address the way you did.

[within a thou]

Stop bits 2 Even 19200 Data bits 7 Flow software

17 Xon

19 Xoff

CRLF Auto

Remove all caracters below Asc11 32

recieve timeout 5

and no check mark at send Xon

[within a thou]

jm where do I upload them?

[within a thou]

Zoeper if ya like I could email them toya

[Zoeper]

Thanx for that, the 19200 look a tad fast for this baby!( but i will try ) Is there any way of checking in the controll what it is set up for / or even change them controll side??

 

The settings for the dos programs ("serin" and "serout" are not the same, could it be that you can set up different parameters in the controll for sending and receiving?

[Qmp]

Can someone show me how to put the bipmap to this forum, so I can upload some bipmaps.

 

Thanks

[Zoeper]

Typing speed sucks!

let me try them first, if i do'nt succeed i will shout.

If you want, use the e-mail button

Thanx

p

[Guest]

You can goto www.photoshop.com and set up an account, they are free.

 

Upload your pic/images there. Then use the http link to the photo, that is provided by them and use the image button on the full reply form

 

HTH

[Qmp]

Thanks jmparis, I will try.

[Zoeper]

No, thats not it, i get a framing error and i think the baud is too fast. Will do some trial and error for a while longer and then i must go (or run the risk of being locked in here!)

Thanx

p

[Zoeper]

No, thats not it, i get a framing error and i think the baud is too fast. Will do some trial and error for a while longer and then i must go (or run the risk of being locked in here!)

Thanx

p

[?Mark]

Zoeper,

boud rate in a control must match the one in cimco...

[Zoeper]

Mark, how's that for a nice round figure 888

I think i've got my baud rate pinned to 4800(at least that work for receiving from the controll.) it does however seem that settings for transmit and receiving is not the same.. puzzling to say the least!

[Guest]

Could the machine have previously been setup to punch a tape? If so you might need to change one of the parameters to get the output to use the RS-232 port.

[within a thou]

in cimco you only haveone baud rate option is this in the control?

[within a thou]

zoeper using the email button won;t allow me to add any files to it either sorry I couldn;t be more help

[?Mark]

shot in the dark, but % or O sign at the front of a program could make a differance...

[Zoeper]

John, no i think they were using the rs232 for input and output.

 

I have got the dos programs they used and the "serin" program works fine. The "serout"(used for sending to the machine works to some degree. Sometimes it would load my program completely. Sometimes it chops off the first few lines of code, sometimes it gives the "Data set ready down" error and chops off the end of the program.

 

That is the reason i'm trying to set up Cimco - to sort out the inconsistency problem.

 

Now with cimco i have got the receive from machine to work flawlessly. It is just the send to machine that is hassling me. Maybe i'm not following the correct procedure. I'm green with this stuff so the possibility is not to be overlooked!

What is more puzling is that the settings for receiving differ from Cimco to the Dos program - yet they both work

 

Mark: yes i am suspecting that you can have diferent settings in the controll for send and recieve, or maybe i have gone off my rocker

[Zoeper]

OK, Maybe it would be sensible to sort procedure out first. Does anyone know the procedure (button for button ) for copying programs to a Fanuc 10T

[?Mark]

sent/receive at the machine should be similar...

another thing to try is maybe machine sends a ready signal to pc. In this case you need to check wait for xon in cimco, then you start the procedure at a pc and press send, go back to machine and press input...

 

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[Zoeper]

Mark, done that, it does trigger the pc to start sending. I still get the SR820 Data set ready down - and no program on the machine