Hello guys,
I have a Mazak VQC15/40 with Mazatrol CAM-M2 controler, and I`m having big troubble trying to run it in DNC. I tried a lot of softwares with this machine (PC-DNC Editor,CAMWARE, Cadem Ncnet, DNC Precision, and others ) but no one seems to work with my machine… The only thing I could do was to transmit a program to the PC and back to the machine in CMT mode. But the Tape I/O and the DNC functions just won't do anything.
I`m using for the comunication a serial cable with this connections:
Mazak 25 pin connector PC 9 pin connector
1 Cable shield
2 2
3 3
4 8
5 7
7 5
6 and 8 4
The comunication parameters are both the same on the machine and on the PC : 4800 baud rate, 2 stop bits, 7 data bits (or 8 I tried both), even parity (or none parity tried also), and I suppose they are just right becouse I could transfer the programs.
I realised that I don`t have the DNC module on one of the boards in the Controller, and I have sent that bord (and another one) to Mazak and they have installed some more memory modules on that board, so now the machine should work in DNC also. I have activated the DNC from the machine parameters and it was ok (it doesn`t get any check sum error as it did before this upgrade), so it should work now.
Another thing is tahat I have only a RS232 port on the machine, and that`s for CMT. Should I have separate ports for Tape I/O and DNC or they are running all three on the same one?
Now, first of all I want to be shure that the machine has all the hardware it takes for saving ISO programs to/from machine and DNC drip feeding of ISO(G-code) programs, and the procedure for this (becouse I caudn`t find any one in the Mazak manuals that I have).
Thank you very much. I`ll hghly appreciate any help or any sugestions,
ddanutz1