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Hi Richard,

Didn't notice your message until now...


When starting up, MFI tries to open COM ports 1 to 8. Only the COM ports that don't return an error code will be listed in the settings...

Hi Golem,

thanks for the Spanish translation of MFI.
I noticed the program to be downloaded very often from Spanish speaking countries, so you did a lot of people around the world a big favor.
...

Hi Torsten,

WS.Reputation.1 reporting seems to be a known issue. According to their community site...

I checked at a computer running Norton and MFI downloaded with no warning at all.
I am sorry I can't help you here.
rgds,
Henk

Could it be a standard warning when downloading exe files?

Hi Torsten,

I tried but I couldn't replicate the error you reported.
Then again, I am running AVG virus scanner, not Norton.
I will see if I can find somebody who does. Will let you know.

Henk

Grâce a Gérard Manel MFI existe en Français.

Le logiciel est téléchargeable a www.mikesfreeinterface.com

Un peut d'information en Anglais:

If you are just as stubborn as me you didn't...

If you are just as stubborn as me you didn't retrofit your Emco, because you like the machine for what it is: a charming little CNC with obsolete electronics, obsolete software and high quality...

Hi Golem,

I am not sure the email address is working, did you receive the files?
Just let me know.

Regards,

Henk

Hi Golem,

thanks for contributing your help.
I will send you a Personal Message.

regards,
Henk

to all Spanish speaking machinists,

I manage a free editor for the Emco Compact 5 CNC, "Mikes Free Interface". Some vollunteers translated the program so now we have language modules for Dutch,...

I have to correct myself, a CADCAM for Compact5 CNC does exist.
If has been uploaded to the Yahoo group http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Emco_cnc_users/ just a few week after my last post.
...

As far as I know, there are no CAD programs available for Emco's Compact 5 CNC.
Nevertheless you could check www.mikesfreeinterface.com
MFI won't load AutoCad files, but it will take care of...

www.mikesfreeinterface.com V1.2.5 has now French, Dutch and English user interfaces.
Users may add new languages as they like.

Henk

Now MFI has MK2/MK4 option.
When creating a new file, you can choose in the settings for MK2 or MK4. When opening an existing file, MFI will recognize the format itself.
MFI can be downloaded from...

Help. Please send me a MK2 file.

I need a little help now.
Up till now MFI only works with MK4 lathes. Now I want to make a MK2 option in next version, but I don't know how a MK2 file looks like...

Now V1.2.3 is ready. It has automatic M99 calculation, at the moment for just one quadrant at a time . Next step would be to have it calculating more than one quadrant and to allow the desired angle...

Just to let you know, update 1.2.2 is on the site for downloading.

Thanks to some input of users, V1.2.3 is getting close to finish now.
If you wish, you also may put any feedback or requests on...

Hello to all,

well all, just the owners of non retrofitted Emco C5CNC machines.

If you are like me still using the original Emco controller,you could either be clever or download the newest...

I am working on the next updates.

You can dowload the latest version from the Mike's Free Interface pages:
www.mikesfreeinterface.com

Henk

Mike's Free Interface for EMCO C5CNC has been updated by Maniso.
He added/fixed the Toolpath Preview:

G02/G03/M99 (partial) Arcs
G24 Radius programming in absolute mode
G25 Jump to SUBroutine...

Hi Maniso,

thanks for the files.
I will let you know.

Hi Maniso,

please send me all files.

I would like to see if I can finish your work.

I have sent you my email address through the personal-message system.
Please let me know if you received...

Hi Maniso,

if you can't upload your update version of Mike's interface, is it possible to send it by email?
I am really interested in your work.