CNC machines are becoming more capable paving the way for fewer operations as well as more efficient machining methods. This is often exacerbated by the difficulty producing a quality post processor for these machines. As a result there has become a growing need to perform more validation to ensure that the moving parts are not colliding and causing costly downtime and damage. … [Read more...]
Getting Started With CIMCO Editor V8
Thank you for taking the first step on your route to using the world's best CNC Editor. You're probably several weeks into your trial version or possibly working off a temporary file provided when you initiated the purchasing process. Odds are at this point you already know what you're planning to use the Editor for be it backplotting your files, editing, reviewing or even … [Read more...]
Getting Started with CIMCO Software Manager
CIMCO Software manager currently only contains the CIMCO License Manager, during the complete re-work of the licensing system in CIMCO V8 it was plugged in to this new interface. In the future the Software Manager will expand to provide more enterprise management for your CIMCO Software. Before we get started, you will want to make sure that you have a valid V8 key file with … [Read more...]
CIMCO is Not Just a Great Editor
We have a problem, many of our customers know the CIMCO product because of it's prolific Editor. Don't get me wrong, it's great to be a re-seller of the top NC Editor on the market. The product sells itself and many people who contact us are ready to hand over some of their hard earned cash without asking a single question. They already know that the backplot feature will help … [Read more...]
Upgrading CIMCO MDM
If you landed on this article on your own, you may want to confirm the instructions are valid for your MDM installation, some newer versions have new features that require a little configuration such as Client Sets (see Changes in CIMCO MDM 9 for an example). We often generate content for our customers and share it for informational purposes on the website. If you did not land … [Read more...]
Moxa Nport Settings for DNC Max
CIMCO DNC-Max works with Moxa devices right out of the box. In most cases you only need to assign an IP address and assign that to the port in DNC-Max. There are occasions where some settings need to be tweaked and this article is for those occasions where we call on our customers to change these settings. Optional Moxa Nport Data Packing Settings If we have called upon … [Read more...]