Hi guys,
I recently took a job working for a plastics machining shop, and I've been working with my boss to see if we can't bring our CNC router & controller outfit up to speed with modern technology.
The router itself is a 5'x10' Komo Innova Mach One that uses servo motors.
I was unable to get the version number off of the controller software earlier today, but as I understand it, it's an early version of FANUC.
With that said, we're facing a few problems that we'd like to see if we can do something about:
1) we're running the controller software on a tower that's using Windows95, and we'd like to know if it is possible to transplant the hard drive that the tower is running off of into a machine with a more modern OS and have everything work as it should, and if so, which OS(s) are likely to or will work?
2) The maximum file size that we can get the machine to run is 32kb: 64kb if we tell the controller software to pull from tape, which we don't have because we use a 3.5" floppy disk because it's a Windows 95 tower. We'd like to know what we need to do, preferably something that can be done without involving a tech, so that we can stream data to the router and run larger file sizes.
I've been told by a skilled IT tech that I know that windows 95 is different from any post 2000 version of Windows in that it allowed direct access to the CPU by the hardware components, something that might make the controller software incompatible with newer operating systems. But, I'm just not familiar enough with FANUC to know if this would be the case.
Can someone please tell us what can be done to help us increase the usable file size and if it's possible to run an older version of FANUC on any newer operating systems? Or, if need be, is there an alternate controller software that we could use that would work with our router? Thank you in advance for any help.
I recently took a job working for a plastics machining shop, and I've been working with my boss to see if we can't bring our CNC router & controller outfit up to speed with modern technology.
The router itself is a 5'x10' Komo Innova Mach One that uses servo motors.
I was unable to get the version number off of the controller software earlier today, but as I understand it, it's an early version of FANUC.
With that said, we're facing a few problems that we'd like to see if we can do something about:
1) we're running the controller software on a tower that's using Windows95, and we'd like to know if it is possible to transplant the hard drive that the tower is running off of into a machine with a more modern OS and have everything work as it should, and if so, which OS(s) are likely to or will work?
2) The maximum file size that we can get the machine to run is 32kb: 64kb if we tell the controller software to pull from tape, which we don't have because we use a 3.5" floppy disk because it's a Windows 95 tower. We'd like to know what we need to do, preferably something that can be done without involving a tech, so that we can stream data to the router and run larger file sizes.
I've been told by a skilled IT tech that I know that windows 95 is different from any post 2000 version of Windows in that it allowed direct access to the CPU by the hardware components, something that might make the controller software incompatible with newer operating systems. But, I'm just not familiar enough with FANUC to know if this would be the case.
Can someone please tell us what can be done to help us increase the usable file size and if it's possible to run an older version of FANUC on any newer operating systems? Or, if need be, is there an alternate controller software that we could use that would work with our router? Thank you in advance for any help.