This Tech Tip explains how to configure CIMCO MDM Remote Request to identify the correct file and let DNC-Max handle reliable delivery to the CNC machine. CIMCO MDM's Remote Request can work two ways. It can identify the file and deliver it directly, or it can identify the file and hand delivery off to a DNC-Max port. That second option is configured in the Machine field … [Read more...]
Tech Tip: Use CIMCO DNC-Max to Prevent Upload and Remote Request Conflicts
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...]
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...]
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...]