Bridgeport Series 1 CNC w/ BOSS 5 serial cable needed

[SFA]

I think you have to send a K to kill the memory on this control and then load in the rest of the NC program. I have a name of a company that had written some software to DNC to the control but not sure if they are still around. I have it in the office.

I was also told some customer used Predator with File Block Feature that allowed a specific # of lines, send a control character, like "K" and then send the rest of the data. You are welcome to download a copy from our site and give it a try at no charge.

[machintek]

How do you generate a program? By hand or with a CAM system? This machine supports loops and macros (what they considered macros back then). I could take a 8 page program generated by EZCAM and shorten it to about a page and a half by eliminating unneeded lines and using loops. The exception is 3D programs. Those are just huge.
The concept of using "K"ill to erase the existing program, I have never tried but then you would have to switch to the edit mode and drop out of the run mode. So the operator would still be necessary.
Bridgeport did make a DNC loader which is a very rare item to find. Do a google search for "behind tape reader". There are a few companies that make these devices (parallel interface). This would be the way to use large programs with no intervention of an operator.

George

[Jim Estes]

Im I to understand that drip feeding to the Boss 5 is not possible? With rs-232 you can only upload programs completely and they can only be 800 lines or so? I have a friends who bought a Boss 5 and he is wanting me to help him get it going.

Thanks,

Jim

[machintek]

I believe this was answered in another heading. But, DNC is only possible on a BOSS 5 with the optional DNC loader or with a more modern device called a BTR (behind tape reader). William Timm has a post about this.

George

[harolda]

Heres what i do with the boss control SCRAP IT .... Put on stepper drivers
You probly did not want to here that .I ran a 38,000 line program to mill a picture i need more work on that part. Before i did that i blew out all the drive transsitors so i did the transformation to the drivers .