BBRoadway
Plastic
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2006
- Location
- Russellville, Alabama
We have just had to replace the PC we use to create Gcode and send it to three CNC lathes.
the hard disk was fine (the power supply failed) and we have moved the hard disk to a "new" computer, as a slave.
we use GibbsCAM v4.22, and the computer is running Windows Me. the Gibbs software runs fine, creates the NCF file but we are having problems downloading some files tothe Yam CNC machine (Fanuc 6T controller).
we use a manual switch box to direct the PC to connect to each CNC as required.
the communication settings, for the YAM, are 9600/even/7 data/1.5 stop/xon-xoff/LF at end of block, BOF is blank, EOF is blank/line and chamber delay spec are both 0.
our problem is that NCF files under about 2000 bytes download successfully but larger files give a "086" alarm error.
as far as i know, the communication to the two other CNC lathes works fine (at least for the file sizes we use with them).
i have only recently joined the company and have no experience on making the settings so i would appreciate any advice on what i should do.
i think the problem must be an incompatablility between the PC communication settings and the Fanuc communication settings - but i don't know how to check the Fanuc settings.
do i need to ensure that the Windows COM port settings match the GibbsCAM communication settings or the GibbsCAM ones override the Windows ones?
many thanks.
Tony
the hard disk was fine (the power supply failed) and we have moved the hard disk to a "new" computer, as a slave.
we use GibbsCAM v4.22, and the computer is running Windows Me. the Gibbs software runs fine, creates the NCF file but we are having problems downloading some files tothe Yam CNC machine (Fanuc 6T controller).
we use a manual switch box to direct the PC to connect to each CNC as required.
the communication settings, for the YAM, are 9600/even/7 data/1.5 stop/xon-xoff/LF at end of block, BOF is blank, EOF is blank/line and chamber delay spec are both 0.
our problem is that NCF files under about 2000 bytes download successfully but larger files give a "086" alarm error.
as far as i know, the communication to the two other CNC lathes works fine (at least for the file sizes we use with them).
i have only recently joined the company and have no experience on making the settings so i would appreciate any advice on what i should do.
i think the problem must be an incompatablility between the PC communication settings and the Fanuc communication settings - but i don't know how to check the Fanuc settings.
do i need to ensure that the Windows COM port settings match the GibbsCAM communication settings or the GibbsCAM ones override the Windows ones?
many thanks.
Tony