Hello.
We haven't really even been able to try an upload yet. Where we're being stopped is in simply trying to get the control to go into the upload mode.
We've been able to do downloads from the controller to the PC with no problems.
None of us has ever worked with one of these 20T controls before. The machinist guys have been able to enter programs (manually) and run parts with the machine so they've obviously got a lot of it figured out. But we have not gotten it into the program upload mode yet.
There is a step-by-step sequence of operations for doing an upload in the book, but we can't interpret it correctly.
We get to a point where it simply says:
Key 3 = 1
And we're stumped.
We don't think that Key 3 refers to a soft key since the book otherwise refers to the softkeys by their "soft" names and there is no softkey called "3" showing at that point. We also don't see anything on the screen at that point which says "Key" at all.
I don't have the book with me now but I'll try to get it or get ahold of one of the guys and see if we can scan that page or just type it all into a message. Maybe if you can see the whole procedure that they've got in the book you'll be able to tell us what we're supposed to do at the point where it says "Key 3 = 1".
By the way, we do have the control set to ASCII, 7 data bits, 2 stop bits, odd parity, 4800 baud - and also have the PC (Procomm) set to those same settings. We also have DC1 and DC3 turned off (I guess this is Fanuc's way of implementing XON XOFF or software handshaking). Turning this off allowed for ungarbled reception of the programs when downloading to the PC. With a different DNC program, we may want to turn that back on in the future. I don't think they will ever need any "drip feed", they just need a way to save and restore programs so they don't have to type them in by hand. And of course, they'd rather be able to sit in the office and enter programs rather than punch them in on the control itself.
I appreciate your time on this. I'll try to get ahold of the book so I can show/tell you what it says to do.
Thanks again.  |