[Mapleston]

We have recently aquired our first VMC a 1989 Mori-seki VM40B VMC with an upgraded Fanuc O-M controller.
We would like to be able to upload g-code created in Mecsoft's Visual Mill to the machine via the Serial Port.
Can anyone tell us how this is done and what software/setup is needed?

Thanks in advance.

[stucapco]

Where to begin...

Nice machine! RS232 pin outs, cables (cheap enough), null modem's (cheap enough), baud rates, data bits, stop bits, handshaking, parity, Xon/off.
They must match, both the computer serial and the machine setup, your about to have some fun!
DB9, DB25 pin outs?

Readily available any search engine.
enjoy

[underthetire]

Yep, just a 9 to 25 null modem cable.

[stucapco]

https://www.google.com/search?q=rs23...inout+db9+db25

sorry i can't be more help, once you understand, its not so bad.

I have piles of this crap! Low speed switches, cables, null modems, I'm tripping over it!

much luck

I am kicking 5 gallon home depot buckets full of related things (can't say sh|t) just because of this thread, lol.

PUNT!

[Buchananesq]

Than you for the reply's every body. In the end we bought a little devise known as Shoplink. It uploads nicely. Still a little messy but much better than a laptop next to the machine. It just sucks that you cannot seem to drip feed a large program as we have no tape setting.

Buchanan

[underthetire]

I've worked on moris since the early 90s and have never seen one without tape mode.

[blkaplan]

You have an 88 with Fanuc 0? Details about the upgrade?

[Buchananesq]

blkaplan. Its an 89 modle with a Fanuc 0 , the previous owner did the upgrade here in Australia. it cost him a bit i think but it only ha 16Kb memory so very few cam generated g codes will be small enough so i still have to loop programs as much as possable.
What upgrade are you refering to?

[blkaplan]

blkaplan. Its an 89 modle with a Fanuc 0 , the previous owner did the upgrade here in Australia. it cost him a bit i think but it only ha 16Kb memory so very few cam generated g codes will be small enough so i still have to loop programs as much as possable.
What upgrade are you refering to?

I have an 89 mv-40 as well but it has Fanuc 10M. So the upgrade is going from 10M to O-M or did yours come with 0-M from the factory? Always wondered how my mine would machine with a newer control, perhaps a bit better with 3d milling ops.

[Buchananesq]

Yes it was a 10m I do not know wihch company did the upgrade. It can handle 3D milling but the file size is usually way more than16 Kb. I need about 2 MB of memory or a tape feed to make it really usefull. otherwise it is a beauty of a machine for its age.

[underthetire]

Om is not much of an upgrade from a 10m. Mori did make the MV40 from the 10 all the way up to 21i in one form or another. Very long production run on those.

[blkaplan]

Om is not much of an upgrade from a 10m. Mori did make the MV40 from the 10 all the way up to 21i in one form or another. Very long production run on those.

I would imagine its probably not feasible or worth the cost of trying to upgrade a 10M based machine to something much newer... Is that right?

[underthetire]

Not really on those. I sure wouldn't go from Fanuc to the mach 3 toy, and to go to a new 31i would cost more than the machines worth.