Brand Newbie

[HippyWarlock]

I'm totally new to CNC. Last week I was given the job of loading the 'Schirmer' saw at work. Now we load a cut disk off a networked PC and pop it into the PC controlling the saw, all straightforward.

Sometimes however, we need to delete some types of material from the cut disk, the PC software running the saw has a crude edit facility that involves pressing 3 keys for every length of material that we wish to delete, and right next to one of those keys is the 'delete table' key . . . so it's somewhat problematical, if not at least time consuming.

There are 2 files that I load onto the saw, (and apologies if my terminology is adrift but I've only been looking into this for a few hours, one file I'm assuming is the g/m-data 'csv' formatted instructions for the saw, the other appears to be a 'txt' file for the printer.

If I wish to delete say all 'XO1' material, then I know the word 'XO1' exists in the txt file and I can write a bit of DOS code to remove all occurances of that and it's associated label data. However I'm having serious problems with the associated g-data file. I'm fairly sure I can also remove the info from the 'csv' file using DOS (hey it's a shoestring company) but . . .I can't figure out where one bar starts and the next one ends in the g-data file. once I can make a connection between the print records in the 'txt' file and the barsin the 'csv' one, it's just a case of shut up and code.

Hope you can help and apologies if I've broken any forum protocols but it's my first post.

Oh the software that creates the 2 files is Windowmaker and the saw is a 3 axis with a linear feeder.
HTH.

[HippyWarlock]

Is it just me that thinks the g-data protocol is a nightmare?

[Shane123]

its u. if you dont have access to the pc that uploads directly to your machine, i feel sorry for ya. editing at the machine can be a pain in the rear when you have to change multiple occurances within the program. if you do, open in your favorite nc editor and get to changing!

[fordav11]

I have no idea what you're going on about, but you can open .CSV files in Microsoft Excel and view it in nice columns and edit it easily. CSV is just a comma delimited text file. i.e. several columns of data where each item per column is separated by a comma