Loading from floppy in to controler.

[lazza]

Easy Peasy Floppy to Controller Pgm Loading Key Strokes:

Edit-F1-Left Arrow over to "I/O" menu-arrow down to "Disk Directory"-Write/Enter-arrow down to pgm-Write/Enter

Program naming tip: Name your program anything you want (my program.nc or whatever makes it easy for you to find on the floppy).....the first line in your program after the % will be Oxxxxx (example:O01001, O10000 etc.)

I went thru a lot of pain until someone showed me that little bit of info...lazza

[Geof]

On older Haas machines when you load from a floppy it will overwrite an existing program with the same Onnnnn. With several people using the same machine we standardize that every load uses O00000 and is then renumbered on the machine. If someone does not renumber their program and it gets overwritten that is their fault not the person doing the load.

Newer Haas machines prompt you and don't automatically overwrite

[Kmed]

Well one our 3 Haas Mills we dont use the O to load. If we number the program 1121.nc, the to load it is

list Prgm
1121.nc
F3

[RAMSSupport]

I didn't read ALL the replies so forgive me if this has already been said... The Haas controller looks at the first line inside the file for the file name. Look below... See the O95111.... Well, you can name the file Cat.cnc, Dog.ncd, Cow.txt.... The controller doesn't care. BUT...... make SURE the first line after the % is an "O", not zero... and that there are 5 digits after it. ... If not, the controller simply says... "Bad File Name". No matter what you name the file, the controller will bring it in as this number... I just spent about an hour learning this lesson a few days ago on a new Haas. Hope this helps! Jack.

%
O95111
T1 M06
( TOOL: Spherical H0.5 C0.0625 D0.125 )

[Ken_Shea]

On my Haas controller it will happily load the file O4004
but does auto insert a leading zero i.e O04004.

This difference may be how the controller is setup in the with in the CAD/CAM posting configuration.

Ken

[gar]

050917-1123 EST USA

On older HAAS machines a 5 digit O-number will not load. On these you must use 4 digit O-numbers.

As Ken said on newer machines either a 4 digit or 5 digit O-number will load.

But there is a problem. If you load a program with a 4 digit number into a newer machine, then it is converted to a 5 digit number. Now save this program to a file. Load that new file to an old machine and it won't load. You must first edit the program and change the 5 digit number to a 4 digit number. Also a file comparison will fail because HAAS modified the program.

Between Fanuc and HAAS there are little problems relating to the printing and non-printing characters that preceed and follow the first %. One has to structure this area precisely to load on both machines. The details I do not remember at the moment.

Also note that a % within a comment is not ignored by HAAS, as it should be, but terminates loading. Anything should be allowed in a comment except the trailing ) and there are ways to solve this problem. One way is a double ) meaning treat as a comment ). Possibly a better way is a look-ahead method to balance parens.

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