TAMBOY 3d CAM sfotware?

[DanielGingras]

32 minutes ago, chipman said:

Wow, I read it wrong, the extension is .goe not .geo.

Either way, I tried opening with Mastercam and Solidworks with no luck.

When I search online the only program I can find listed for .goe files is McIDAS, which is some sort of satellite imagery thingy. Must not be an extension encountered regularly.

[Newbeeee™]

NCplot will take an nc file and you can save back out as a dxf. Whether that will help in any small way?

[chipman]

10 minutes ago, Newbeeee™ said:

NCplot will take an nc file and you can save back out as a dxf. Whether that will help in any small way?

Thanks, I have NCPlot and use it all the time to reverse engineer all of the simpler 2D cuts, with the 3d toolpaths I would be in way over my head trying to recreate surfaces trying to match some of the complex shapes that I encounter.

I did find a manual on this TAMBOY software, ugh but I can't read Japanese?

 

I heard my old boss mention that a turnkey system of this was $250k back in the late 80's.

 

[Newbeeee™]

7 minutes ago, chipman said:

I heard my old boss mention that a turnkey system of this was $250k back in the late 80's.

 

15" monitors and dot matrix printers were bloody expensive back in the day!

[jlw™]

If you just need to crack a windows password that's about as easy as it gets if you know where to look.

[chipman]

25 minutes ago, Newbeeee™ said:

15" monitors and dot matrix printers were bloody expensive back in the day!

Actually 14" and we still have it sitting in a cabinet for some reason, also for the 250k we got a punch tape puncher and reader!!

At one point in time, we got an upgrade to a windows based version. The old original system is in boxes upstairs.

[gcode]

I tried Wikipedia to learn the history of the company, hoping someone had

bought them out and there was still a corporate entity with some relation to TAMBOY, but

Wiki has got nothing that I could find 

[gcode]

This in the link I found to the Japanese CNC forum

https://www.nc-net.or.jp/knowledge/morilog/detail/43563/

 

you get better results in google with

TAM BOY or TAM-BOY instead of TAMBOY

[chipman]

2 minutes ago, gcode said:

I tired Wikipedia to learn the history of the company, hoping someone had

bought them out and there was still a corporate entity with some relation to TAMBOY, but

Wiki has got nothing that I could find 

I dug into it, found a company that took over TAMBOY, I reached out to them and I am waiting to hear back.

 

https://www.cgsys.co.jp/en/co/history_CE.html

[gcode]

42 minutes ago, Newbeeee™ said:

15" monitors and dot matrix printers were bloody expensive back in the day!

yes ... I bought a used system for $300 in the late 80's

The computer had a 14" 4 color monitor 2 8" floppy drives and a keyboard

no mouse.. no hard drive  and a whopping 64K of ram  $12K out the door when it was new

[gcode]

3 minutes ago, chipman said:

I dug into it, found a company that took over TAMBOY, I reached out to them and I am waiting to hear back.

 

https://www.cgsys.co.jp/en/co/history_CE.html

that's a good find ... looks like they started selling Tam-Boy 3D in 1997 so the latest versions are not as

antique as we thought.

They may be able to help you

[jeff]

1 hour ago, chipman said:

but I can't read Japanese?

 

Get the google translate app for your phone. 

I use it all the time for Japanese, German and Italian prints that our customers keep giving us. 

[gcode]

24 minutes ago, chipman said:

I dug into it, found a company that took over TAMBOY, I reached out to them and I am waiting to hear back.

 

https://www.cgsys.co.jp/en/co/history_CE.html

Hopefully they won't hit you up for 20 years back maintenance 

[nickbe10]

I might be mistaken, but it looks like a Text driven system, APT being another example. If so the  files will be in text, try opening in a text editor........

That would make sense as the GUI interfaces didn't really start until the mid to late 80s.

[gcode]

18 minutes ago, nickbe10 said:

I might be mistaken, but it looks like a Text driven system, APT being another example. If so the  files will be in text, try opening in a text editor........

That would make sense as the GUI interfaces didn't really start until the mid to late 80s.

even today, you can still open a parasolid   x_t file in a text editor

[Mick]

4 minutes ago, gcode said:

even today, you can still open a parasolid   x_t file in a text editor

Same with STEP. We've progressed a long way, haven't we...

[nickbe10]

16 minutes ago, gcode said:

even today, you can still open a parasolid   x_t file in a text editor

 

11 minutes ago, Mick said:

Same with STEP. We've progressed a long way, haven't we...

I never made the jump fro APT to MC until they came out with the OPS Manager, that was it for me.

For what I was doing back then it just didn't make sense. And I could probably still edit an APT toolpath file faster than in MC, but boy the geometry files were just a time killer for anything remotely complex......and now with the advanced algorithm toolpaths in the GUIs and complex surfacing on so many parts, it just wouldn't make sense to go back.

My dream job is still a seat of NCL though.......

[chipman]

58 minutes ago, jeff said:

Get the google translate app for your phone. 

I use it all the time for Japanese, German and Italian prints that our customers keep giving us. 

Yeah that app is sweeeet!

Pretty mind blowing to see it translate in "live"

[chipman]

52 minutes ago, nickbe10 said:

I might be mistaken, but it looks like a Text driven system, APT being another example. If so the  files will be in text, try opening in a text editor........

That would make sense as the GUI interfaces didn't really start until the mid to late 80s.

I gave it a crack, not seeing it here on my end.

Up to a challenge? I attached one of the six files below.

 

j8571c6.goe

[gcode]

It will open in a text editor (CimcoEdit)

but the results are not legible (at least I can't read them)

[DanielGingras]

I tried opening it in notepad++ and just got: 

etc.

[nickbe10]

It certainly doesn't look anything like an APT geometry file, with all the "NUL" characters removed it might be different, but it doesn't look like that would leave any "useful format", but then is a .GOE file a Geometry (.GEO) file? Another possibility would be a .CL (Cutter Location) file, but I would expect to see more Real Numbers.......more like an .NCI file.....

Well this has turned fascinating hasn't it........

[Thad]

Here's what I get when opening it with Sublime Text (except it's 820 lines long).

0500 7651 411e 0e6b 0540 23db f97e 6abc
18c0 0f26 8d8b 06e0 2c40 0200 0784 0100
0004 8401 0000 0784 0100 0003 8401 0000
0484 0100 0006 8401 0000 0184 0100 0007
8401 0000 0784 0100 0007 8401 0000 0784
0100 0007 8401 0000 0784 0100 0007 8401
0000 0784 0100 0007 8401 0000 0784 0100
0007 8401 0000 0784 0100 0007 8401 0000
0784 0100 0007 8401 0000 0784 0100 0007
8401 0000 0784 0100 0007 8401 0000 0784
0100 0007 8401 0000 0784 0100 0007 8401
0000 0784 0100 0001 0001 0001 0001 0001
0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000b 0042
4f54 544c 4520 4745 4f00 1d00 1500 4030
ac0d 1300 4930 ad0d 1e00 5030 ae0d 1f00
5830 af0d 1b00 5930 b00d 1a00 4930 b10d
1900 4930 b20d 2200 5830 b30d 2900 5830
b40d 2800 5830 b50d 6300 5930 b60d 6200
5930 b70d 6400 5930 b80d 3d00 5830 b90d
2c00 4930 ba0d 3c00 4930 bb0d 6600 5930
bc0d 6500 5930 bd0d 2300 5930 be0d 2600
5830 bf0d 2700 5930 c00d 2100 5830 c10d
1900 5930 c20d 1800 4930 c30d 1b00 4930
c40d 1d00 5830 c50d 1c00 5930 c60d 1300
5130 c70d 1600 4930 c80d 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 15ae 47e1

[jlw™]

LMAO, hex file.

[nickbe10]

Machine Code?