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ProEZNC is an RS232 DNC communication software program designed
specifically for sending and receiving NC Gcode files between
your PC and your CNC machine tools. It has been thoroughly tested
on Win95, Win98, WinNT4, Win2000 WinXP, Vista & Win7. It allows
you to easily send or receive NC programs between up to 64 CNC
machines and your computer. Its also designed to be easy to
use - it has a clear user interface, with only a few buttons
to press and large fonts so its really easy to see. Operators
not used to computers will love this. |
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you have setup all the RS232 CNC parameters it really could
not be easier. All you have to do is click either the green
"SEND" or red "RECEIVE" buttons! |
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Receive Properties |
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Strip
Everything Before Character When you get your CNC to send
a file back to ProEZNC, it may also send out a series of control-codes
before it sends the main body of the program. In many case you
could safely leave these in the file. Then if you need to send
the file back to your CNC these control code would be sent back
as well. However, in just as many cases these control-codes
will error out the CNC control. For example, on older Fanucs,
they send out a sequence of garbage containing &HE: You send
this back and the CNC may alarm. You are therefore better off
stripping these control codes out of the file totally. All you
need to do is enter the ASCII value of the last character in
the sequence you want to discard. Everything up to and including
this character will be ignored by ProEZNC and not saved to disk.
Strip Everything After Character In much the same way
as a CNC may send out control-codes before the main body of
the program, it can also send a series of codes after the file.
We would recommend that you discard these characters and dont
save them to disk. All you need to do is enter the ASCII value
of the first character in the sequence you want to discard.
Everything after and including this character will be ignored
by ProEZNC and not saved to disk.
Discard Characters As an alternative to the two methods
described above, you could choose to discard characters automatically.
You have 3 options for this setting All Nulls - This
options automatically strips out all null characters from your
received file Characters 0 to 31 - This option automatically
strips out all non-printables between 0 (null) and 31, excluding
CR and LF {None} - The file is left alone
End Of Block The text files that you have stored on your
computer have each line ending in a pair of invisible control-codes
called carriage-return (CR) and line-feed (LF). In general Fanucs
use either LF/CR/CR or LF, Haas use CR/LF and Fadal use CR.
ProEZNC can autodetect these end-of-blocks, but if you like
you can specify it yourself, should you encounter any difficulty.
In general, you would use the same EOB to send as that to receive.
Wait For After Receiving File This is the time that ProEZNC
gives the CNC between sending any of its data. If its longer
than this ProEZNC assumes that transfer has stopped because
it has not received any data within this time. The minimum value
is 5 seconds. This also gives you time to cancel the file and
so the file is not saved away.
Show Data Being Received With Best EOB CNC machines
can send out their data with different EOB or End Of Block character
sequences. Because computers always use CR/LF then the data
received sometimes looks strange because the CNC may use CR
or LF or LF/CR/CR. You would see this as either one long string
or double spaced. If you check this option then the data stream
is changed on the fly by ProEZNC so that it looks correct. This
is purely visual as ProEZNC always SAVES the file away with
CR/LF. These changes on the fly will take extra processing,
so if you get missing characters on your display you should
turn this option off. |
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CNC Save-all Properties |
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CNC
Save-All You can setup the CNC Save-All parameters so that
it is possible to just dump out all your programs from your
CNC and automatically save each of these files with the CNC
program number or comment. A couple of parameters are necessary...
Before Program # Type Fanucs use either the : or the
O before a program number, Haas use : You can choose these from
the list.
After Program # Type There are usually 2 scenarios for
the Fanuc program number line. It can contain just the program
number or it can also contain a comment. Choose from the list
either {Nothing}, when there is no comment on the line, or {Bracket
Comment}. ProEZNC will extract the program numbers from the
data stream off the CNC and store them in the proper 4 digit
numbered file.
Examples. If the program number line is just like this
>> O1234 Choose "O" and {Nothing}. This will simply extract
the program number inside the code and store it away. Here it
is the program 1234.
If the program number line is just like this >> O1234(BIG WIDGET)
Choose "O" and {Bracket Comment}. This will simply extract the
program number inside the code and store it away. Here it is
the program 1234. However, in this case you can tick "Use Comment
As Program Number" and the file will be saved away as BIG WIDGET
Strip Out % Symbols On some Fanucs there are just % at
the top and bottom of the data stream, on some there are % at
the top and bottom of each of the programs in the data stream
off the CNC. It's up to you how you play it, but we recommend
that you delete all the %'s and send them back later as headers
and trailers for each individual file.
Strip Out Blank Lines It's possible for blank lines at
the top of each file which is OK, but we recommend you strip
out blank lines from the received files. It usually makes no
difference either way, Fanuc's dont care about blank lines.
After Receiving Files After receiving all the files off
your Fanuc, you can show a confirmation message showing the
files that have been stored away. |
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