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  1. #1
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    Mori Seiki MSX-711IV (PDF manuals)

    Anybody have the PDF manuals for Mori Seiki MSX-711IV control. We just got a new one and everyone is fighting over the manuals. I'd like to have a PDF version if it's available so I can read it online phone while learning the new machine.

    Anybody?

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    You can save the manuals to a thumb drive. You do know the manuals are in PDF in the control.

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    Quote Originally Posted by underthetire View Post
    You can save the manuals to a thumb drive. You do know the manuals are in PDF in the control.
    No I did not know that the PDF's are loaded into the control. Did find some help files but they are in HTML and are very limited.

    Could you point me to where I could find them exactly?

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    Depending on the panel size of the maps 4, usually on one of the side keys next to the screen. I can look Monday as I'm not in front of a maps 4 today.

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    I will be in front of ours today and I will try to see if I can find it.

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    Found the media viewer, no PDF files.

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    Need the PDF files for the following manuals.







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    Did someone do a software upgrade? If they don't back up the PDF manuals, when the software is loaded they won't be there. If the machine is new, I would contact the dealer and find out what happened. Mapps 4 panels should all have the manuals in them. We have 10 of them, they all do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by underthetire View Post
    Did someone do a software upgrade? If they don't back up the PDF manuals, when the software is loaded they won't be there. If the machine is new, I would contact the dealer and find out what happened. Mapps 4 panels should all have the manuals in them. We have 10 of them, they all do.
    It's a brand-new machine and as far as I know no one has upgraded anything.

    Is it possible that yours are networked and someone placed the files on the network so they're available on all your machines? Do not see my company networking the Mori Seiki.

    There is a help button that does display a list of G-codes, M-codes, & alarm messages. To me that would be the most logical place to put manuals if they were available? But nothing.

    Our engineering department is in charge of the machines and they are not very helpful to most of us out on the floor. So trying to find out if I can get a PDF file or even just access to the dead tree edition manuals is damn near impossible. Only way I was able to get my hands on the manuals this weekend was to borrow them from the office of the engineer that had them last.

    Did find a CD in the engineer's office but it was for the server software which they will never use. Did not appear to be any other CDs or software that came with the machine. But I did leave a little note requesting PDF files that I will probably never get.

    I find using the application "Evernote" on my phone makes it helpful for notes and for keeping things like PDF files for machines and controls handy when I have a question. Much easier having the PDF files on a stack of paper manuals.

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    Nope, not networked yet. I have even gone in to the windows side of Maps and installed my own manuals in the machine (fanuc CD), so i know they are supposed to be there. I'll go look today.

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    The PDF manuals are in the control. Access the left side keys then manual viewer. You can punch them to a USB via the system I/O screen.

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    Menu disappears after startup. How do I get back to it?



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    How do you access a file manager to be able to copy the PDF files ?

    Does not appear that the windows file manager is even available .

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    can anybody help me with a a mapps 3 pdf please. i need to learn!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gunrights View Post
    How do you access a file manager to be able to copy the PDF files ?

    Does not appear that the windows file manager is even available .

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    Mapps can punch the PDF's or you can temporarily crash MAPPS so you can get to windows, your choice.

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    Smile

    i thought it was only mapps 4 you can punch out?? im not sure how to crash maps to get to windows and how to extract the information.

    if you could go into a little bit more detail it would be much appreciated. thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by jakehignett View Post
    i thought it was only mapps 4 you can punch out?? im not sure how to crash maps to get to windows and how to extract the information.

    if you could go into a little bit more detail it would be much appreciated. thanks
    That is correct. Thats why I quoted the OP's post. No manuals in a MAPPS 3 that I know of.

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    Devo. I thought there would surely be some information out there somewhere. I'll have to ring up Mori seiki 2moro and see what they got to say. Thanks fir your help.

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