Adding requests from the panel shouldn't be hard, but who doesn't have a table or phone laying around?
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Erik Friesen <e...@aercon.net> wrote: > Are you comfortable coding? > > I just did something for myself that is similar to this for my haas vf2. > I set up a windows share using samba on a headless intel nuc running debian > and a ftdi rs232 adapter. Then a couple days later I have this web gui > that you can select the file to receive or send out of the shared folder. > I have been trying to decide where to go with it so far, whether to try to > take it commercial or open source it and sell pre ready hardware. Its > still pretty beta thought, and only supports xmodem. I think > embeddedarm.com has some nice hardware options. > > calmotion lancnc does sort of what you want, but you have to wire their > pendant on there. Plus, its an ftp server, not a real windows share. > > The state of cnc machines and dnc is pathetic. If you want something off > the shelf it was probably written years ago, or pay lots of money. > > Some people say they have run millions of lines without error checking on > rs232, but I don't trust it. All it takes is a glitch on a decimal point. > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Ralph Stirling < > ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu> 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. >> >> -- Ralph >> ________________________________________ >> From: Marius Alksnys [mar...@robotise.lt] >> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 2:24 PM >> To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> 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. 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