DNCv4 Overview

Features

• Robust software engineering, mature code with glitches removed over 10-year period
• Specially designed for use with Haas controls
• Also supports Fadal, FANUC, Siemens, Yasnac, and many other controls
• Super easy to use and setup / Point and shoot design / Very minimal number of settings
• Remembers settings for each CNC machine, including default NC file folder
• Administrator can password protect settings and NC files
• File transfer window displays status and text transferred
• Start transfer from control, saves walking if PC is far from control
• Multithreaded, communicate with multiple machines simultaneously
• Supports XMODEM DNC (very important for Haas CNC)
• Automatic EOB translation prevents double spacing and diagonal lines
• Licensed with Activation Code, no hardware key required
• Personal expert tech support via phone included
• Optimized for use with notebook PC, cart PC, PC next to control, or central PC with switch box

Functions

DNC

• Drip-feed to CNC buffer while machine is running (multi-megabyte file size, no timeouts)
• Transfer files of to and from CNC memory
• Backup entire CNC program memory in one step

Integrated Text Editor

• Edit
• Find / Replace
• Multilevel (100) Undo / Redo
• Print
• Strip N-numbers / Re-sequence N-numbers
• Split at O-numbers into individual files

Other

• Mazak and Okuma machines are not fully supported
• Data Collection functions: Optional
• Backplotting: Not included
• CAD/CAM: Not included
• Remote File Request/Port Scanning: Not supported
• Auto scaling/axis modification: Not included
• Free phone help included

Specifications

Maximum Baud Rate

• 115200

COM Ports

• COM1 - COM99 (Many other DNC programs support only COM1-COM4.)
• USB adapter supported (Keyspan brand for notebook computers without built-in RS232 port)
• Ethernet to serial supported

Flow Control

• Xon/Xoff (Software)
• RTS/CTS (Hardware)
• XMODEM
• Drip-feed (DNC)

CPU

• 800 Mhz

Serial Port

• Native (built-in) 9 Pin Male or 25 Pin Male (or USB to DB9 Male Adapter / Keyspan brand is supported)

RAM

• 256 MB

Operating System

• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Windows XP 64-Bit
• Windows 2000
• Windows NT
• Windows 98

Unsupported Operating Systems

• MAC
• Palm
• PocketPC
• Linux
• Windows 95 and earlier
• MSDOS

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