Colon Key locked and Colon Symbol disappears when saving

[48rich350]

This is an odd one. On my Fanuc 160i-MA, if I am in DNC and have subprograms at the end of the main program, the controller will acknowledge the colon symbol ( along with the sub number and proceed along just fine. However, if I load this into NC memory and save it to the controller directory, the colon disappears leaving only the number thus raising an alarm when running. What gives with this difference? Also I cannot add the colon into the program in edit mode. Any thoughts??? It would be nice to get the DNC and NC settings to jive.

[Watcher]

Colon is by default not available on Fanuc.

 

set param 3205#0 (COL) to 1, to see a colon as a colon.

 

Make sure your DNC system is also configured to replace characters when sending the program back from the control to the company network or whatever you use.

 

Which DNC system you use?