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- Oct 12, 2013
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- San Francisco, CA
I apologize if this is off-topic, but I think it's relevant.
Here's what I've got:
1) A fancy computer I want to keep in the office (my personal property);
2) A cheap computer I want to keep in the shop (company property);
3) Solidworks & HSM Works on #1 & HSM Edit/Cimco DNC on #2;
4) USB/Serial adapter;
5) Mitsubishi Meldas 64s controlling a VMC.
How would you upload NC files using the above?
I use Solidworks to model and HSMWorks for CAM (a Solidworks add-in) on a Dell Precision Mobile Workstation computer. This week I found an old laptop at the company that I have adopted for use as a dripfeed source that I can keep connected to the CNC machine without worrying about my good computer.
I'd like to be able to use this second computer solely for upload/DNC, so I factory reset it and it now it has HSM Edit/Cimco DNC and nothing else. I was able to map it to a Z drive (network share), and it populates fast because g-code is very small.
HERE'S THE PROBLEM:
I don't want to change the default save location for HSMWorks NC files, but... I can't figure out how to automatically get the NC files over to the share drive without manually dragging and dropping or setting a scheduler to do it once a day or whatnot. I want to post the code in the office, then walk over the machine and press cycle start.
I spent half the day today trying to figure out how to force Windows to do something that should be so easy, but totally isn't supported out of the box. So instead of trying to bend Microsoft to what I want to do, I thought I'd ask here what you guys already do.
P.S.
I'm a Mac person.
Here's what I've got:
1) A fancy computer I want to keep in the office (my personal property);
2) A cheap computer I want to keep in the shop (company property);
3) Solidworks & HSM Works on #1 & HSM Edit/Cimco DNC on #2;
4) USB/Serial adapter;
5) Mitsubishi Meldas 64s controlling a VMC.
How would you upload NC files using the above?
I use Solidworks to model and HSMWorks for CAM (a Solidworks add-in) on a Dell Precision Mobile Workstation computer. This week I found an old laptop at the company that I have adopted for use as a dripfeed source that I can keep connected to the CNC machine without worrying about my good computer.
I'd like to be able to use this second computer solely for upload/DNC, so I factory reset it and it now it has HSM Edit/Cimco DNC and nothing else. I was able to map it to a Z drive (network share), and it populates fast because g-code is very small.
HERE'S THE PROBLEM:
I don't want to change the default save location for HSMWorks NC files, but... I can't figure out how to automatically get the NC files over to the share drive without manually dragging and dropping or setting a scheduler to do it once a day or whatnot. I want to post the code in the office, then walk over the machine and press cycle start.
I spent half the day today trying to figure out how to force Windows to do something that should be so easy, but totally isn't supported out of the box. So instead of trying to bend Microsoft to what I want to do, I thought I'd ask here what you guys already do.
P.S.
I'm a Mac person.