FTP File Transfer

[mowens]

Is there any way to do this automatically after posting? We have to do this with a vender and it would be nice to not have to worry about forgetting.

Thanks

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

What file are you uploading ? (.mcx, .nc)

 

Can you set up a backup utility to automatically copy the entire folder to the FTP periodically ?

[mowens]

My post outputs 2 files, both .ANC files (same as .nc). One is the program and one is just a tool list. Our vendor's machine can't have them in one program. Most of the files are proven, but we still have engineering changes that affect the vendor parts. I'm not always the one doing the posting and I see a real danger of forgetting to upload them after posting.

 

Some of the folders have 120 files in them, so I would rather not upload all of them at one time, unless I have to.

 

I realize with my limited computing skills this may be a pipe dream, but I thought I would ask.

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

I have a cute little backup utility that copies only what's changed. Therefore the first time you ran it would take some time but after that it would quickly add whatever's changed.

[kkominiarek]

Just in case your not aware using FTP is the same as

as drag-n-drop in Windows Explorer.

 

Once you log onto the FTP site...just drag-n-drop your files there....the whole process takes less than a minute. (unless your files are huge)

 

hth

[Jody]

Matt what is the program that you use?

 

thank you

 

Jody

[mowens]

I know FTP is drag and drop, and is easy to do; my concern, and it's really not that big of one, is that someone will do their changes, post the file and forget the drag and drop. Kind of like setting the time on your alarm clock but forgetting to turn it on (I hope I'm not the only one who's done that). Matt, I would also be interested in your program.

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

It's called Second Copy.

 

I've never used it on an FTP but I imagine it would work. It backs up everything on my work PC to 3 other PC's every night. I am also using it to make incremental backups of my Mastercam autosave throughout the day every 10 minutes.

 

It's got a free trial too.

[cadcam]

I don't think it will work with an FTP. FTP is not a local network drive so it can not check every thing like it can on a local network.

 

unless this is your local FTP space on your local server and you are mapped to it.

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

[Bullines]

With some clever scripting (and assuming you don't post in a weird way and you're NOT using X), then you could easily write a Mastercam VBS script to:

 

[*]post your file

[*]grab the location of your G-Code file

[*]generate a cmdfile.txt file to that contains login and upload commands

[*]execute the command-line FTP client that's included with Windows and pass it the cmdfile.txt that the script generated

A cmdfile.txt generated by your script might look like this:

 

open 192.168.1.10

your_username

your_password

cd programs

put 1234.nc

 

And when you have the script run the FTP client, you'd shell it out with a command-line string like this:

 

code:

---

Dim strFTP

 

 

strFTP = "ftp -s: C:pathtoyourcmdfile.txt"

 

Call ShellAndWait(strFTP, True)

---

Otherwise, this can be done via a custom C-Hook or Nethook without needing the command-line FTP client.

[mowens]

Well, I don't think I'm posting in a wierd way, but I am using X. Thanks all for your input.