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PCMDIS/NC Expereinces?

Danny
Hi all,

Have been given the task of getting PCDMIS NC going on one of our machining centres for an demonstration here in Australia.

Would love to hear from anyone with prior experience using this software, and more importantly the NC server application.

Have been trying in vain to set up comms between the PC and M/C, followed the instructions and succesfully verified comms using HyperTerminal, but upon opening NC Server and defining a machine and specifying the serial type interface, I get the error message "Cannot Open Serial Port".

As far as I can tell, I have followed instructions to the letter, but to no avail.

Would appreciate anyones comments on the possible solution to this problem.

Cheers, and have a lovely weekend.

Danny
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  • What I found was that Inspection+ (or similar applications; I am not familiar with MAZAK but I know Mitsui has them) is quite adequate for part setup. PC-DMIS NC can do the same but the problem is that I want my program to automatically update my specific work offsets (no chances for operator typos etc). If you run PC-DMIS NC over RS232, you will have to do this manually. And that introduces many other challenges if you do that in production (a solution is to run the communication over Ethernet with the FANUC FOCAS option; I will upgrade all my machines later this year to this).

    If a customer is ONLY interested in setup routines, PC-DMIS NC (where it stands today) seems like a huge gun to hit a small target.

    What I use it for - and found there to be few real competitors - is to measure a completed part (or finished setup) and then generate a true measuring report that can be submitted for quality review. In our processes (we're in aerospace), this eliminates very costly quality steps.


    Jan.
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  • What I found was that Inspection+ (or similar applications; I am not familiar with MAZAK but I know Mitsui has them) is quite adequate for part setup. PC-DMIS NC can do the same but the problem is that I want my program to automatically update my specific work offsets (no chances for operator typos etc). If you run PC-DMIS NC over RS232, you will have to do this manually. And that introduces many other challenges if you do that in production (a solution is to run the communication over Ethernet with the FANUC FOCAS option; I will upgrade all my machines later this year to this).

    If a customer is ONLY interested in setup routines, PC-DMIS NC (where it stands today) seems like a huge gun to hit a small target.

    What I use it for - and found there to be few real competitors - is to measure a completed part (or finished setup) and then generate a true measuring report that can be submitted for quality review. In our processes (we're in aerospace), this eliminates very costly quality steps.


    Jan.
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