This Tech Tip explains how to keep uploads and requests from stepping on each other using CIMCO DNC-Max. When Auto Receive and Remote Request are both active on the same serial port, DNC-Max is receiving programs from two directions for two different reasons. Without a way to tell them apart, a request program sent by the operator to trigger a file transfer looks … [Read more...]
Extending CIMCO Edit with DNC-Max
CIMCO Edit includes a built-in DNC module for sending and receiving NC programs over RS-232 serial and FTP connections. For a single machine or a small setup where one programmer handles transfers from one PC, that built-in capability handles the job well. Configure the port, name the machine, and sending a program is a dropdown selection and one click. As the shop grows, … [Read more...]
Extending CIMCO Edit with NC-Base
CIMCO Edit opens, edits, simulates, and sends NC programs. What it does not do is manage them. There is no version history, no access control, no searchable database, no record of which revision went to the floor or when. Programs live wherever the programmer saved them last, usually a shared drive with a folder structure that made sense when the shop had twelve programs … [Read more...]
Tech Tip: How to Restore Files in CIMCO NC-Base
This Tech Tip explains how to restore files in CIMCO NC-Base with a fast, non-destructive rollback when a program save goes wrong. A programmer saves a file and immediately knows it was wrong. In CIMCO NC-Base, the fastest recovery is Restore Latest. Click the "Restore" button dropdown or right-click the file and the option is available in the restore menu. One click, no … [Read more...]
Extending CIMCO Edit with CNC-Calc
CIMCO Edit edits, simulates, and sends NC programs. What it does not do is generate them from geometry. If a programmer needs to hand-code a pocket, a contour, or a drilling pattern, they are typing coordinates, calculating offsets, and hoping the math is right. If the shop has a CAM seat, it is likely tied to a specific workstation, shared across more people than it has … [Read more...]
Tech Tip: Map Monitoring Data in CIMCO MDC-Max
This Tech Tip explains how to map monitoring data in CIMCO MDC-Max. A status screen tells you which machine is down. The Shop Floor screen tells you where it is. The factory floor plan is loaded as an SVG background, machines are placed to match their physical positions, and machine status becomes spatial. Instead of scanning a list of machine names, you are looking at … [Read more...]
Extending CIMCO Edit with the Mazatrol Viewer
CIMCO Edit handles NC programs written in G-code natively. It understands the syntax, colorizes the code, backplots the toolpath, and lets a programmer edit and verify a program without any additional configuration. What it cannot do out of the box is make sense of a Mazatrol file. Mazatrol is Mazak's proprietary conversational programming language, and programs written … [Read more...]
Tech Tip: How to Scale Feedrates in CIMCO Edit – Without CAM
This Tech Tip explains how to scale feedrates in CIMCO Edit without going back to CAM. Adjust Feedrate in CIMCO Edit handles rate changes in seconds. Find it under NC Functions / Transform. Set your percentage, apply minimum and maximum clamps to keep any value from going out of range, and optionally restrict the adjustment to feedrates within a specified range so you are … [Read more...]
Tech Tip: CIMCO MDM Locked Files and Remote Request
This Tech Tip explains CIMCO MDM locked files and Remote Request. If an operator submits a Remote Request for a program that is locked in MDM, they will not get the program. What they get instead is configurable. In most cases, we send back a file that loads on the control and tells the operator the requested program is locked and to contact the programming … [Read more...]
Tech Tip: Test Your CIMCO DNC-Max Auto Receive Trigger
This Tech Tip explains how to test your CIMCO DNC-Max Auto Receive trigger before it costs you a transfer. The most common Auto Receive failure is a trigger mismatch. DNC-Max is listening, the machine sends the program name, and nothing happens because the trigger format does not match what the control actually transmitted. By the time someone figures out why the transfer … [Read more...]