oooohhh... yucky.
I will assume you've built your cable per mazak's specs, or are at least using a null modem adapter, so I won't go into that (mazak has a 6-page fax of drawings and instructions if you say 'please')
I tried to get mine to go for quite a while, and never could get it to work.
Apparently, the mazatrol datacom routine is a little "fussy". The mazak tech guy that came out could make it work with mazak's own cad/cam package, which included a file transfer program, (which verified my cable) but nothing else would. He claimed ignorance, but another source (former mazak tech) told me that there's a little bit of proprietary 'stuff' that gets transferred before the actual code will go.
You have two options (or at least, I was told that there were two!):
Buy an upgrade to the control that allows saving to floppy (it looks like a little blue toaster... mazak knows what they are if you ask for a toaster), about $1000
Buy mazak's cad/cam package (toaster times ten minimum)
That being said, we also had 2 mazatrol "fusion" turn mills... one was only mazatrol, and would only work with the toaster/cadcam options. The second had the "g-code" upgrade, and would transfer everything to just about any file transfer package I could find.
Good luck!  |