
08-23-2006, 02:22 PM
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Hey guys, i'm in a bit of a bind, and am looking for some serious help. I'm not a machinist by any strech of the imagination, i'm a network engineer. The company i work for makes automated self pointing satelitte dishes, and we machine everything. We just hired a new engineer to start molding our plastics, as we cut away about 85 percent of the material for our plastic parts. The problem is our new engineer uses a CNC machine called a Bandit to make his molds, and a CAD program called MasterCam v9 (he;s learning v.10 currently) after a few problems with 9, we've finally gotten a post for the bandit, but we have no connector for the machine to interface with a computer, so all we have are posts, and are going to manually enter the program until we can at least get a pin out for the connector. My 2 problems are A>we have two post files for the bandit MPbandit.pst/txt and MPbandit-R1.pst/txt. they both put up similar posts, all the "meat" is the same, just not the very begninng and ending commands. Is there anyone familiar with these machines that i could display both posts, and you tell me wich is correct? And B>does anyone have a pinout and know the name of the interface on the bandit for a serial connection to a computer. Looks to be a circular connection with at least 12 pins, maybe 18-20, i didn't get a good look at it.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated, if my post is ambiguous and you need more info, please point me in the right direction as to the informantion you need and i shall provide it. this is the best i can do as a none machinist. thanks again. |