large sub programs

[Bob W.]

I have a family of parts I would like to machine using a main program that calls sub programs based on macro variable inputs. There will be several sub programs and each is fairly large because of surfacing operations.

 

I am guessing that the total size of the program set will be greater than 20Mb, which is larger than the machine's memory will allow. Is it possible to run programs that call sub programs using DNC? If not, how is this generally handled? My machine is a Haas VF2.

 

Thanks,

Bob

[Steve Arteman]

Bob,

There is a chook called sectionNCI.dll. from the help file here is the description: "C-Hook to breaks a single NCI file into a number of smaller files. This is useful when your machine tool control has a limited amount of memory".

I don't know if it will work with what you are doing with sub's.

Steve Arteman

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