I have a Cincinatti Arrow 1000 with the A2100 control, also, a 2000 model, and it has a ethernet card installed, and it is networked with our company wide network. I transfer files from my CAM computer over the ethernet to a partition of the harddrive that is assigned a drive letter in the Arrow, then at the control move them from the that partition to the main partition so that the CNC software can see it.
With the A2100 being a Windows NT based platform, the first step is to exit the CNC application and then to create the partition drive. You have to do this because you don't want the main portion of the hardrive visible to the network to accidentaly get tampered with. After that is done, install a normal ethernet card that has a driver for NT4.0, restart the machine and install drivers, assign a IP address in the settings page, and you should be fine.
This all hinges on your being fairly proficient with MS Windows, hopefully NT, but if your not especially familiar with NT, but can get around Windows 98 or XP you can still manage to get this done. If your not really familiar with this, it would be best to enroll a friend that is!
I don't have written directions for this, but I think MAG Maintenance tech does, and they are pretty good about sharing this type of instruction for older machines. Talk to Bill Hubbard, he's a pretty helpful guy.
HTH,
John B  |