PC/CNC Communication

[CNCGUY]

What software is everybody using to transfer files to the control?

 

I want to have the operators get files at the control w/o sending them with a PC.

 

I am currently looking at ProNC. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

[crazy^millman]

I assume you are talking about doing this DNC. I looked around and well not very cehap trying to DNC to many machine from one terminal. If you have a couple Seat of Mastercam you can do what we are doing. I am using one port to send programs to the machien in Mastercam. I then use another posrt to use Cimco Editor to send programs to the machien no my computer. I then use the other seat to do the same thing. That covers my 4 machines that need that. I just got the ethernet for the 2 HAAS's and it rocks no more wating or fumbling around no matter the size I can FNC or Hard drive the prgoram to the controller I am only limmited to a hard dirve size of 70 gigs from now on.

 

Crazy Millman

[Toolfab]

I have Cimco DNCMax4, I think it works great. Great editing, great file storage and easily manages the mass amounts of files we have. Have you looked at Cimco?

 

[CNCGUY]

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I looked around and well not very cehap trying to DNC to many machine from one terminal.

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Money does not seem to be an obstical. We dont want a PC on the floor and dont want the operators to have to come to my PC to send files.

 

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Have you looked at Cimco?

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Not yet. I will now. Can the operator retrieve a file right at the control?

[Thad]

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Can the operator retrieve a file right at the control?

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It depends on the control. What do you have?

 

Thad

[cadcam]

There is the Predator DNC and I have set it up to exactly what you want wires and wireless.

 

you can find more info on my site.

[CNCGUY]

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It depends on the control. What do you have?

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6 Fanuc & 2 Haas

[Rekd™]

Are you talking about remote calls to grab the files? I think that might be machine dependant, no?

 

I have 5 machines, and 5 RS232 ports on my computer. So I can technically send to all 5 at once, though I don't generally DNC, so it's not an issue. BTW, I use a little program called SComm, which I made myself. It will DNC, but is not designed specifically for that.

 

 

'Rekd

[CNCGUY]

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you can find more info on my site

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I looked but didnt see anything about it.

 

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Are you talking about remote calls to grab the files?

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Thats exactly what I'm talking about!!

[Müřlıń®]

I am using cncedit that came with mill 7.....

 

Never found the need to use anything else since I'm only DNC'in to one machine....

 

 

Murlin

[pip]

We were running Quinx on our Deckel Mahos, Mazaks, and Eroders, without ever having a problem. It is expensive. Never any need for the workers to come into the programming room, to recover or send programs. All programs were called from the machine, and all stored in there own directories on the main computer. Mastercam would place the programs in the right folders according to what Post you used, then the machines could recall them directly from there.

[Jack K]

We use eLan 2000. Works the same way.. you save your files into a seperate directory (on the server) for each machine. All the operator needs to know is the file name. You can also drip feed to all machine at the same time. This software seems to work ok.

 

Merry Christmas

Jack

[CNCGUY]

Thanks all.

You gave some research to do.

Keep em commin if you have more.

 

What about RS 232 to ethernet adapters?

Ive seen them from $10 - $200 for single port.

[Roger Peterson]

Extreme DNC will do wired or wireless. And you can dripfeed wireless, which is unique. And the remote calls also work wired or wireless. Here is their website:

 

Extreme DNC

 

 

HTH

[pip]

"Quinx in the box" is RS232 to Ethernet, I think.

[mike_f]

we use cimco dnc max, no problem with the fanucs but we do have some issues with mazatrol as far as using remote request to retrieve files. we also looked at D-log but it seemed geared toward larger facilities the ours. good luck.

[Nominal]

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Extreme DNC will do wired or wireless. And you can dripfeed wireless, which is unique. And the remote calls also work wired or wireless.

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+1 on that....I've had xtreme wired to over 60 machines without any problem. Drip feed - remote request etc...etc. With that remote request you can even start the program drip feeding to the machine from any tool not just the beginning.

I've been trying to get the guy who pays for everything here at my new place to buy it for over a year. Money is the obstacle here. I'm finding it hard to live without it, thats how good it is. I hate this friggen switchbox setup we have here. I feel like barney rubble with this junk.

[Brendan P]

We use the predator software to "remote" the programs to and from the machine.

All done at the machine control.

 

I do believe that the cimco has a lot of great features though.

[jrykrl]

We had 5 haas mills, and 3 haas lathes with multi dnc

they kept track of run times n everything

Multi Dnc

Jer

[Rekd™]

Do you need macros on the HAAS to do remote sends/requests?

 

'Rekd teh Ignorant and Macro-Free

[cadcam]

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I looked but didnt see anything about it.

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Sorry try my main site of www.ppcadcam.com

[cadcam]

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Do you need macros on the HAAS to do remote sends/requests?

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Not with predtor you don't.

[Rekd™]

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Not with predtor you don't.

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That means you can send commands from the HAAS without macros?

 

How?

 

What?

 

 

'Rekd

[Stephen]

What are the pros and cons of DNC vs. RS232 communication when using just one machine. I am transmitting at 19200 (Max @ controller) baud rate on an RS232 cable. The DNC can't go any faster can it?

[Rekd™]

DNC is more for files that are too big to fit into the machine's memory. If you can fit the file in the machine, it's better to do it that way for several reasons.

 

'Rekd