Mark,
Thanks for tip. Now be prepared to be inundated with requests for copies of
your Word macros : )
Christopher Kocourek
Tool & Die Designer
Flextronics Enclosure Systems
Mark
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Subject: [mfg-smartcam] Re: vmc to
hmc conversion
11/21/01 10:58 AM
I now this thread is now a little old.... but figured I would contribut
another proven conversion method.
The benifits are that this method can be performed on any of our shop PC's
and by most of the machinists in the shop.
What I did was a macro for MS Word, which basically search/replaces all the
X,Y,I,J values, and does a little 'start-up' formatting... the macro has
ran flawlessly for more than a year... and as I said, doesn't require any
assistance from programming. They just drag and drop the CNC program onto
the Word icon, and click the VMC2HMC button.
On a similar note, I have also done a macro that converts old obsolete JSF
files (Job Plans) to a nice clean generic text format. Just drag and drop
the JSF file onto Word, and click the smiley face... These setup sheets can
now be maintained by the shop floor personell, using any text editor.....
( Note that a separate macro is needed for each of the 2 versions of JSF
files. The version is easily identified to the operator on the first line
once displayed in Word)
Don't under-estimate Word macros as a generic source of all kinds of
conversion routines.
Mark
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