• •Port Settings 

   

  • ◦Baud rate, Data bit's, Stop bit's, Parity, Flow control (handshake) must match exactly settings in your CNC control otherwise nothing or unreadable characters will be received.  

     

  • ◦XON/XOFF – Characters are used only in EdytorNC (they are not passed to serial port) and if set they work in all Flow control modes. 

     

  • ◦Auto close transmission dialogue – After sending or receiving dialogue will be closed automatically after this time. 

• •Options – receiving 

   

  • ◦Remove white space at end of line – Remove white space added by some CNC controls at end of line. 

     

  • ◦Remove empty lines – Remove empty lines. 

     

  • ◦Delete control chars – Remove ASCII control characters (usually not printable). 

• • ◦End of receiving – Receiving will be ended and received data become processed and/or auto close timer will be started when (which one first): 

    • ▪Time out – This timer is started after receiving first character and it is reset every next character received. If transmission stops for time longer than set receiving will be ended. 

    • ▪End of program characters – Regular expression used to detect end of program. 

      Example: 

      (M30|M02|M2|M99)[\n\r\s]{1,}% 

• •Options – sending 

• • ◦Start delay – Before sending program waits for (which one first): 

    • ▪Wait for CTS – Wait for hardware Clear To Send signal. 

    • ▪Wait for XON – Wait for XON character. 

    • ▪Start sending after  – Waiting for the time to expire. 

     

  • ◦Send at start – Add text at the beginning of the file. 

    You can write here: 

• •Plain text 

• •Hex codes of ASCII characters. 

 Example:

 % 0x0A 0x0D - % and new line characters

 0x20 0x0A 0x0D – space character and new line characters

 Space and control characters can only be written as hex numbers:

 0x20 (space), 0x13 (XOFF), 0x11 (XON)...

• •Special characters codes can be used: 

 LF – Line Feed also Carrige Return (replaced later by end of block characters)

 SP –  Space

 TAB – Tabulation

 FN –  File name without extension

 FE –  File name Extension (part after dot)

 FA –  File name extension Appended at end of file name (part after _ character and before dot)

• •  

  • ◦Send at end – Add text at the end of the file. 

     

  • ◦End of block characters – Select end of block (line) characters. 

     

  • ◦Delay before sending next block – Wait set time before sending next program block (line). Useful for slow CNC controls. 

     

  • ◦Send time out – After this time transmission will be cancelled. Timer starts after sending first character. 

     

  • ◦Remove characters before % – Remove characters from beginning of the file to percent sign. 

     

• •Auto save 

   

  This function is used to automatically save received program. 

   

  • ◦Save path – Set path to directory where received files will be saved. It is recommended to use different path than for files to send. 

     

  • ◦Default extension – Default file extension for saved files 

     

  • ◦Build-in name detection – Program name will be detected using build-in expressions and then used as file name. 

    Regular expressions used: 

    • ▪New SINUMERIK (like 840D)      

      %_N_[a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,31}_(MPF|SPF|TEA|COM|PLC|DEF|INI) 

    • ▪OKUMA OSP  

      \$[A-Z]{1,1}[A-Z0-9_-]{1,}\.(MIN|SSB|SDF|TOP|LIB|SUB|MSB)[%]{0,1} 

    • ▪Fanuc (colon character (:) is always replaced by letter 'O') 

      (?:\n|\r)(O|:)[0-9]{1,} 

    • ▪Old Sinumerik (like 810M)   

      %\b(MPF|SPF|TEA)[\s]{0,3}[0-9]{1,4}\b 

    • ▪HEIDENHAIN ISO 

      %[a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,30}(\s) 

    • ▪HEIDENHAIN 

      (BEGIN)(\sPGM\s)[a-zA-Z0-9_-+*]{1,}(\sMM|\sINCH) 

    • ▪Philips         

      %PM[\s]{1,}N[0-9]{4,4} 

       

  • ◦User expression –  User defined expression is used to find file name in program (e.g. written in comment (O1234.CNC)). 

    Examples: 

    • ▪Fanuc like program name (e.g. O1234 or :1234) four digits long with extension (e.g. .NC or .A or .B) written in parenthesis  

      \((O|:){0,1}[0-9]{4,4}\.(NC|A|B){1,1}\) 

    • ▪Only four digits program name in  parenthesis 

      \([0-9]{4,4}\) 

    • ▪to match parenthesis  

      \( some text \) 

    • ▪to match letters  

      [A-Z]{min amount, max amount} e.g. [A-Z]{1, 10} match minimum one letter and maximum 10 

    • ▪to match letters, digits and other characters 

      [A-Z0-9,;-]{min amount, max amount} e.g. [A-Z]{2, 5} match minimum two letters and/or digits and/or ,;- and maximum 5 

    • ▪to match some text 

      (ABC|DEF) matches text ABC or DEF 

    • ▪In EdytorNC you can test regular expression in menu Tools →function Clean up 

    • ▪More information about Qt5 regular expression 

    • ▪colon character (:) is always replaced by letter 'O' 

    • ▪( ) [ ] , * ;  characters are removed from detected file name 

     

  • ◦Use program name extension as file extension – If detected file name contains "extension" (e.g. MPF in %_N_PR25475002_MPF, MIN in $O0004.MIN% or MPF in %MPF456...) it will be used as extension of saved file. Setting "Default extension" will be ignored. 

     

  • ◦Remove letters from file name – Letters in detected file name will be removed (only digits will be left). If in result file name becomes empty, version with letters will be used. 

     

  • ◦Change file name to lower case – Letters in file name will be in lower case (useful for case sensitive file systems). 

     

  • ◦Append extension at end – If detected file name contains "extension" (e.g. MPF in %_N_PR25475002_MPF, MIN in $O0004.MIN% or MPF in  %MPF456...) it will be used as part of file name. At end of the file name after character '_'  (e.g. O0004_MIN.nc). Default file extension will be used. 

     

  • ◦Split programs – If received data will contain more than one CNC program they will be saved in independent files. Data loss can happened if detection of program name fails. 

     

  • ◦Create backup if file exists – If save path already contains saved file, old file will be renamed to *.bak  

     

  • ◦Create log file – Some debug information will be saved to file. File will be created in “Save path” with name “Settings name”_serial_log.txt 

     

  • ◦Write data to log file – Received data will be saved in log file. 

• •File server 

   

  With file server you can download CNC program to machine and/or save it into computer remotely. Auto save must be enabled to use File server function. 

  How this works: 

  • • • •In CNC control create small program “Caller”, for example (Fanuc) O5555 in parenthesis write program number that you want download to CNC 

        % 

        :5555 

        (O4568) 

        M30 

        %  

      • •Send (punch) this program to computer, in response computer will send you requested program. 

      • •As soon as possible, set CNC to receiving mode (Read), after few seconds (Receiving time out plus Start sending after) you should see incoming transmission with program O4568. 

      • •Any time you can also send CNC program to computer, it will be saved. 

   

  • ◦Caller file name – File name without extension of the program used to initiate transmission. Caller file name is always detected using build-in name detection. 

     

  • ◦Search for file name – Regular expression used to find file name which will be sent back to CNC 

    Examples: 

    • ▪Match, zero or one letter 'O' or colon four digits, zero or one dot and zero or one text NC or CNC  in parenthesis 

      \((O|:){0,1}[0-9]{4,4}(\.){0,1}(NC|CNC){0,1}\) e.g. O7582, O4589.NC, 8526, 1234.CNC 

    • ▪In EdytorNC you can test regular expression in menu Tools →function Clean up 

    • ▪colon character (:) is always replaced by letter 'O' 

    • ▪( ) [ ] , * ;  characters are removed from detected file name 

     

     

  • ◦Search path 1,2,3 – Folders to look for files to send. First is checked path 1 then 2 and last path 3. 

     

  • ◦Extension – If found file name will not contain extension this extension will be used. 

     

  • ◦Reconnect time – If serial port will not be open, try to open it after this time. 

     

“Caller” program for Fanuc CNC:

• %

  :5555

  (O4568)

  M30

  %

Some settings should be:

File server:

Caller file name: O5555

Search for file name: \((O|:){0,1}[0-9]{4,4}(\.){0,1}(NC|CNC){0,1}\)

Options – receiving:

Time out: 3-5s

Options – sending:

Start sending after: about 10s (time for operator to set CNC into receiving mode (Read))

or

Set Wait for CTC or XON

For more help:

https://plus.google.com/communities/117267107585407507443

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