One of the significant problems with this machine has been the 900 lines limitation of program length. In the mid 1980's this was not a problem. There was a facility for running Blocks of 900 lines of code, but with the advent of Pentiums and Windows, this facility no longer worked, and there never was a plausible explanation. Personally I suspected it was to do with "handshaking" in the software, but others thought it was a hardware issue.
Recently I made contact with a new user in Finland, and it turns out that he is a very clever programmer, and he has been able to solve the problem, and it was a handshaking issue. I have incorporated his code snippet into a more general Visual Basic V6 program, and with his kind permission, I am offering this program for free to any DM2400 users.
It maybe downloaded from my server as a self installing program. It has been tested on Win 98, Win Me, Win 2000 Pro, XP and Vista.. I am very confidence it will run on Win7. Using a USB to serial adapter on a laptop is at best hit or miss. See the User Guide.
When you download it you should execute it and it will install itself. Most things go into a folder - C:\CNC. You should browse this folder and read the short User Guide.
There is also a sample test program with three short blocks, as well as the User Guide
In addition to this, if you use SheetCam as I recommended, I have written a post processor which includes the Block command and will break long programs into blocks. While this is in the final stage of testing, I have included it in this package. Copy it to your SheetCam Posts folder.
The installation file is available from my server at: http://rexswensen.dyndns.org:81/ Note that the server is not always up.
Setup-DM2400 Windows Downloader Program V2.12.exe Execute this file to do the installation.
Good luck with this and let me know how it turned out.
Best regards .................. Rex Swensen, Sydney
Recently I made contact with a new user in Finland, and it turns out that he is a very clever programmer, and he has been able to solve the problem, and it was a handshaking issue. I have incorporated his code snippet into a more general Visual Basic V6 program, and with his kind permission, I am offering this program for free to any DM2400 users.
It maybe downloaded from my server as a self installing program. It has been tested on Win 98, Win Me, Win 2000 Pro, XP and Vista.. I am very confidence it will run on Win7. Using a USB to serial adapter on a laptop is at best hit or miss. See the User Guide.
When you download it you should execute it and it will install itself. Most things go into a folder - C:\CNC. You should browse this folder and read the short User Guide.
There is also a sample test program with three short blocks, as well as the User Guide
In addition to this, if you use SheetCam as I recommended, I have written a post processor which includes the Block command and will break long programs into blocks. While this is in the final stage of testing, I have included it in this package. Copy it to your SheetCam Posts folder.
The installation file is available from my server at: http://rexswensen.dyndns.org:81/ Note that the server is not always up.
Setup-DM2400 Windows Downloader Program V2.12.exe Execute this file to do the installation.
Good luck with this and let me know how it turned out.
Best regards .................. Rex Swensen, Sydney