Announcements
Attention for Customers without Multi-Factor Authentication or Single Sign-On - OTP Verification rolls out April 2025. Read all about it here.
furloic0523
331 Views, 4 Replies

Post Processing to Tm-1

Good Morning All,

I should begin this plea for assistance with saying that almost everything I learned for CNC is self taught by Youtube videos, luck, many broken tools and on a ~2016 VF-6. My Tool Room department recently recieved at Haas TM-1 that seems to be from 2004 (if I read the information plate on the back correctly) and I am having and issue getting the old thing to accept any program I throw at it. I've read a couple forums and watched a handleful of videos on what could be the problem, but nothing is working. When I attempt to upload a program from my flash drive (ive tried multiple kinds) it gives me "963 UNABLE TO FNC FROM THIS DEVICE: This device may not function from FNC. Please change setting 134  connection type to an appropriate FNC device, from the operators manual." Weve also attempted uploads via ethernet. I've been using the Haas Pre NGC for posting and that works just fine for the production VF-6, is there another post that would work better or is there codes that need editing in the post itself? If so, what do I do? Would it be better to summon Haas to come look it over?

 

Also, sorry for the story but the president of my company is up my rear because its just been sitting for 3 weeks.

seth.madore
in reply to: furloic0523

Can you get even a simple program put into the machine? It sounds like something on the Haas side of things, imo. I don't think it's any particular G code that's tripping it out. To make sure of that, you could manually write a very simple program:

%

O0001

(TEST)

G0G90G54

M30

%

 

It doesn't get much simpler than that. Does the machine accept that?
Try different extensions; .nc, .txt, no extension at all?


Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing
furloic0523
in reply to: seth.madore

I Typed in that program you mentioned into Visual Studio Code and was able to find and save it as both .txt and no extension and neither of those had worked. Was unable to locate file type .nc to save and try that.  Thank you for the assistance, Ill ask my supervisor to get in touch with Haas.

seth.madore
in reply to: furloic0523

Yeah, it's certainly sounding like a Haas side issue


Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing

We had problems even with a later mini mill. The USB on the mill may have been an addon by someone else to replace a 1.44MB floppy disc. Part of it is that the usb had to be formatted as FAT32 I believe.