Newbie- How to split NC Files?

[citizen_insane]

Hi guys, complete newbie here. I'm working on a project for one of my Aerospace Engineering classes (I'm an ME major).

Here's my problem:

I'm making a mold for a carbon fiber guitar that's 16"x21" so the only machine we have at school that will be able to do it is our Milltronics MM18 with a floppy drive as the only working input. (Ethernet isn't working yet and I don't have a laptop w/ com port out).

Anyway, my code is 125k lines (very complex 3d shape) and about 3.8mb. This means that I'll have to split it up to fit it on floppy drives. However, what I'm wondering is how to do this.

Do I need to include some kind of header at the beginning of each file, or can I simply just split the files verbatim and load them onto separate floppy drives?

Thanks!

edit: BTW - there are 2 operations, 1 rough cut and 1 finishing cut. The finisher is the one that's so complex (3d collapse), the rough cut is only like 120kb.

[HuFlungDung]

If your program is cam generated, I'd suggest that you break it up into multiple operations within your cam program. For example, you could break it up according to Z level depth, or if that is not convenient, draw some boundaries (like quarter it up) and make new operations for each quarter and post them individually. That way, your post will add the start and end lines for you, as well as get the correct tool loaded and into/out of the part correctly and safely.

BTW, if you quarter the program, you'd need to give the boundaries enough overlap so that the tool centerlines overlap into adjacent boundaries, or you'd have small scallops to contend with.