Downloading Programs

[chucker]

I have an 18i control I know how down one program at a time and I know how down all of them at once but they are in one file programall.dat if you do them all at once. My question is how can I download all of them separately with out calling up each one and downloading them 1 at a time I can do this on My HAAS controls surely you can do it on a Fanuc.

[stevo1]

In order to download all of the programs at on time from the CNC to the PC you should be able to hit soft key punch then type the letter O-9999 to ouput all the programs. If your 8000 and 9000 programs are locked they will not be sent. You have to change parameter 3202 bit 0 for unlocking the 8000's and bit 4 for the 9000 programs.

Stevo

[chucker]

Stevo1 you are correct using O-9999 will download all the programs at once but it will put them in one file called Program.All what I am wanting to do is download all of them at once but under seperate file names with out calling up each one and punching them one at a time you can even use
O0001,O1000 when punching out programs and get all programs with in the range of 1 to 1000 but here agian it puts them in 1 file called Program.all
then you would have to cut and paste each program in to the seperate file names O0001,O0002 ect I would like to get the control to punch the all to seperate file names all at once. Batch Download but seperate file names.

[dcoupar]

AFAIK there is no way to get the Fanuc to output each program to a separate file when you do an O-9999 PUNCH. Some DNC programs (Predator for example) have the ability to create separate files on the fly from the Fanuc "one big file" output.

[Dan Fritz]

Our PC-DNC Editor and PC-DNC Plus software have a feature called "Separate files by O-numbers", so that you can send a bunch of files in from the CNC and have them saved as separate files.

If your DNC software won't do this, then I can separate them for you here. Just email the big file with all your programs to subsoft@buckeyeweb.com and I'll send you back a ZIP file with all the O-numbers saved separately.

I wrote a utility program to do this, but it needs a bit of fine-tuning before I can distribute it.

[padobranac]

Any other software with "Separate files by O-numbers" function?

[stevo1]

I have Dostek DNC software and like Mr. Fritz I have the ability to create seperate file names using the same function "Separate files by O-numbers". This is not a Fanuc thing it is the capability of the DNC software that you use.

Stevo