Programming with Focas library

[SRogers]

Hey guys, I'm new to the forum and I'm an ME student interning at a manufacturing company. We use mostly 4 axis machines with Fanuc controllers. The project I was just given was to use the Focas1/2 libraries and create a program that will display simple actions (spindle on/off, etc.) of the machines at any time. I have been researching and reading through the Focas documentation but I cannot figure out how to even start this project. I have done a little VBA and C++ and plan on using VB.NET for this project, but I am no programmer. Any help that you guys can provide or even just pointing me towards some tutorials would be amazing.

Thanks!

[5axes]

First Code in VB6 for Focas; Just in ordre to test the connection between your PC and the NControler

'---------------------
' Ethernet connection
'---------------------
' allocate library handle 3
Declare Function cnc_allclibhndl3 Lib "fwlib32.dll" (ByVal sIPaddr As String, ByVal nPort As Integer, ByVal nTimeout As Long, FlibHndl As Integer) As Integer

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim LibHndl As Integer
Dim Ret As Integer

Ret = cnc_allclibhndl3("192.0.0.1", "8193", 10, LibHndl)

End Sub