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I have a question how to simplify file transfer from, let's say, USB flash drive to a CNC machine with specifically Fanuc 18t controller. Now this machine has its own old laptop with old MS Win and some DNC software. It takes several clicks on the PC and several non trivial Fanuc panel button presses including correct sequence of them. And to my surprise operators are used to this. As I was used to DNC, there was a PC with shared NC folder(s) on a network, connected through serial port (and adapter if needed) to the CNC machine(s).

There was no need to come to this PC. From the machine side (with old Heidenhain controller) I had to press EXT, enter file number, press Enter and that's all - I had any file I wanted of any size in the machine in drip-feed mode! And this was reallly old machine.

Now I see this not so old (about 2006) Fanuc and I am surprised how complicated life is for the operators. Do you have an idea how to use BeagleBone or similar micro device glued to the side of the panel of the machine to work as a USB adapter or even + LAN file server? I wrote a small program that I ran on an old Linux PC to transfer files to a Mori Seiki lathe with Fanuc 0-iTC and to a Haas TM-1.

It waited on the handshake signal from the machine serial port, and would then fetch a single file from a network file system drive (either moricode.txt or haascode.txt according to the machine). Users of the machines would copy their G-code file to the network drive as moricode.txt or haascode.txt, then walk over to the machine and punch the button sequence to read a file over the serial port. Everything else was handled by the programs on the PC (which was headless). I'll likely set this up on a BBB or RPi at some point.

I can dig up program source for anybody that wants it as a starting point. -- Ralph ________________________________________ From: Marius Alksnys [marius@.] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 2:24 PM To: emc-users@. Subject: [Emc-users] A bit OT: DNC - NC file server from microcomputer? I have a question how to simplify file transfer from, let's say, USB flash drive to a CNC machine with specifically Fanuc 18t controller. Now this machine has its own old laptop with old MS Win and some DNC software. It takes several clicks on the PC and several non trivial Fanuc panel button presses including correct sequence of them. And to my surprise operators are used to this.

As I was used to DNC, there was a PC with shared NC folder(s) on a network, connected through serial port (and adapter if needed) to the CNC machine(s). There was no need to come to this PC. From the machine side (with old Heidenhain controller) I had to press EXT, enter file number, press Enter and that's all - I had any file I wanted of any size in the machine in drip-feed mode! And this was reallly old machine.

Now I see this not so old (about 2006) Fanuc and I am surprised how complicated life is for the operators. Do you have an idea how to use BeagleBone or similar micro device glued to the side of the panel of the machine to work as a USB adapter or even + LAN file server? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications.

It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@. On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 21:45 +0000, Ralph Stirling wrote: > I wrote a small program that I ran on an old Linux > PC to transfer files to a Mori Seiki lathe with Fanuc 0-iTC > and to a Haas TM-1. It waited on the handshake > signal from the machine serial port, and would then > fetch a single file from a network file system drive > (either moricode.txt or haascode.txt according to the > machine).

Users of the machines would copy their > G-code file to the network drive as moricode.txt or > haascode.txt, then walk over to the machine and > punch the button sequence to read a file over the > serial port. Everything else was handled by the programs > on the PC (which was headless). I'll likely set this > up on a BBB or RPi at some point. > > I can dig up program source for anybody that wants > it as a starting point. > I'd be interested in that code, I did a small microcontroller board that sits between a PC running DNC and a Fanuc 0-M controller. The controller is failing and no longer retains macros so the tool changer stopped working, my circuit swallows the T command and does the tool change but otherwise passes the commands onto the Fanuc. I'd like to understand whats going on with DNC.

Are you comfortable coding? I just did something for myself that is similar to this for my haas vf2.

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