Hello all,
I am a newbie and over whelmed by the terminology of the CNC World.
Does anyone have a Weber and Sons CNC/Crafter or info?
A friend bought a used one and we are trying to get it going.
I know computers and he knows model making and between us we are getting nowhere.
Software came installed and it worked 2 years ago when he bought it. It was a deal he could not pass up but he had no place to use it until now.
It uses Ability Systems Indexer LPT ver.4.06 year 1999
and CNC-LPT ver. 2.4b year 2000 and was supplied by Machine Techs.
Weber and Sons and Machine Techs both seem to be out of business.
Started the diagnostic program ixdiag.exe and got an error that drivers not installed.
I don’t know what drivers it wants.
Windows reports the 3 printer ports are installed and working correctly one on mother board and 2 added ones.
The CNC-LPT instructions instruct me to disable the printer in setup that did not help.
I got a section of ixdiag.exe to work and found that the program is seeing the four limit switches when they are toggled. So I am pretty sure equipment is connected correctly.
Any bit of help would be appreciated.