Post problem

[Robert Eichorn]

Our shop is believe it or not on board a navel ship out in the Mediterranean Sea. We have two CNC Lathes and Three CNC Mills We recently upgraded from V7 to V9 MC in May and have been doing wonders for the sixth fleet ever since. Our problem is an old one. Posting to our NASA Mill with an old xxxxor 8020 control. We have worked most of the posting bugs but stuck on one. After every NC program, I have to copy and paste a Square to the end of the program in order for it to load from my Greco box to the machine. I have made several changes to the post, like changing the Null Characters (ASCII code) from 0, 00 or 000, but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

[chris m]

Leveling those machines must've been a bitch

 

Semper Fi

[McRae]

Ying - Help this guy, sounds like a communications problem.

 

Can you use the communications package that came inside of Mastercam or is the greco minifile the only way to get code into it.

 

The xxxxor is PC based so it should be easy to get programs into or out of.

 

Sure hope your a registered user or you might just be branded as the only "Pirate" that actually has a ship!

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Were you able to at least get it to post out the ASCII character?

 

If not, you line needs to look similar to this;

 

pbld, 000, e

etc...

[Allan]

I think the char. is 028 or 027

 

HTH

Allan

[Robert Eichorn]

The character was 027. Thanks Allan

MRC/SW Robert Eichorn

United States Navy

[Robby GM]

wow must be wild milling and whole ship moving

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

Robert,

 

Good to hear things are working well for you !

 

You could determine the actual character hidden in that "square" by looking at the NC file in an editor capable of viewing in Hex mode.

 

If you do not have that Hex viewer capability, try the two (semi-educated guesses) shown below first...

 

Usually the control characters you would see at the end of a program for these older machines would be either: [ESC] or [ctrl-D]

 

To output a raw character value in an MP type post you enter the control character's decimal value on a line by itself.

 

In the PEOF (end of file) postblock try these ->>

 

code:

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peof # End of file for non-zero tool

n, "M30" # or "M02" here

27 # Outputs an [ESC] character

 

-or-

 

 

peof # End of file for non-zero tool

n, "M30" # or "M02" here

4 # Outputs a [ctrl-D] character

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