I have a pair of Mazak lathes with the Fusion Control. I have been using a network card in them and using the cut and past way of uploading and downloading programs from the pc to them.
Due to networking problems popping up here and there, I am looking for alternate ways to send and recieve the programs. We use the RS232 ports on the rest of our machines. How does the rest of the world out there upload and download to thier Fusion controled Mazaks? We have BobCAD that I can use to transfer the programs.
The concern I have with using the Mazak send recieve is the few times I tried it over the network you lose programs. When I send a program from the Mazak to the pc, if I send a program to a file that had a few programs in it, all the programs that were in the file on the pc are deleted, and the only one left is the last program I sent over. I questioned Mazak on this, and they said this left over from the days when the programs were punched on tape rolls.
Before I go to the problem of running new cables to my Mazaks, can anyone give me a little feedback on if this is a good way to go? And will it upload the setup and layout pages also?
Thanks