Creating a disk image is a great way to backup the contents of a hard drive and save the current state of your PC’s operating system and files. To create an image a cloning program is needed. Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®. It helps you…
Use Diagnose Tools for a CNC Professional Machine Tool Integration How to use Diagnostic Windows The CNC Professional, CNC Lite/Plus, and Graphical Operator Interface diagnostic tools are available within each application. Simply use the default Diagnose Icon button to launch the tools. The tools can also be launched by the DIAGNOSE logic command.
Please raise your hand if you’ve ever been confronted by the cryptic IoLIB IoOpen message during a launch of CNC Professional software which left you pulling your hair out. This happens rarely but when it does, it usually happens during the initial installation of the software. This occurs when Windows does not install the IoLIB…
Have you ever been confronted by the cryptic IoLIB IoOpen message during a launch of CNC Professional software which left you pulling your hair out? This happens rarely but when it does, it usually happens during initial installation of the software. This occurs when Windows does not install the IoLIB drivers correctly or not at…
Camsoft’s USB dongle key security uses older RockUSB drivers. On occasion, the driver that the Camsoft installation installs, gets updated by windows automatically or by the user unintentionally. The newer RockeyUSB4 and Rockey4 drivers that windows installs, can cause problems for the software security feature. Sometimes, the new drivers do work with the software and…
%%wppa%% %%slideonly=4%% %%size=450%% %%align=center%% Recently, a customer in South Africa, with our PC Based CNC Professional retrofit conversion, was in dire straights. The Y axis on his Galil motion controller board went bad. The cause is unknown and unusual as Galil motion controllers are very reliable. The customer could have sent in the motion controller…
The main standardized version of G01 defines a cutting move with no automatic velocity change or deceleration based on a look ahead algorithm. However, many extensions and variations have been added independently by control manufacturers and machine tool manufacturers. The methods and algorithms implemented by other commercial organizations are often proprietary. Camsoft’s CNC Professional PC…
The question command can be used in logic to prompt the operator for information or confirmation. The command will display a dialog window centered on the operator screen with a user defined message, a text box for data entry, and an OK and CANCEL button. The question command has three parameters which must be separated…
