OPENING AN MC9 FILE WITH MC8

[jenks]

Today I was trying to troubleshoot a V9 lathe program. I did not write the program and this is the first V9 program I have had to fix. The control is an Okuma OSP700. We have just upgraded from 8.1.1, and I was on a 3 week vacation when it was upgraded, so I didn't know what kind of problems we have been having. To make it harder, my opposite number left on vacation before I got back, so I am a bit in the dark.

 

The code for the linear moves in a canned finish pass was appearing after the program end (M2). The "housekeeping" coding was where it should be.

 

In graphics (backplot) everything looked correct, but every time I posted the code, it was in the wrong place.

 

I suspected a post problem. My first thought was to try to load the program into V8 and repost. That is where I have run into trouble. I can't read an MC9 file into MC8.

 

Can anyone tell me how to read an MC9 into MC8.

 

As a sidelight, it was a post problem. I recreated the geometry in MC8 and it posted correctly. So I will just copy the V8 post into V9.

[Mick]

OSP700 Control I like OSP's..I've used OSP2200L, OSP3000L, OSP5000, OSP5020, OSP500, OSP700 and OSP7000. We have an OSP7000L control on our LB25II lathe, and a U100M control on our MX55VB. You gotta love those LAP cycles, and User Task...I wouldn't be without them

[Ketil]

Hi!

You have to save the file as a mc8-file(in mc9), to get it back to mc8.

(File-convert-next menu-saveas mc8).

 

Have you run the c-hook "Updatepst9.dll" ?

[jenks]

Thanks for the replies.

 

The update post DLL was run.

 

After all of my troubleshooting, it seems it was not a post problem.

 

The post is working excactly as it should, as I have written several programs in V9 since. It seems to be something funky with that particular geometry file. It was imported from AutoCad 14.

 

I worked around the problem and the parts are run, so it is on to the next surprise.