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The company that builds the machines
does have other options like eathernet cards
but that requires a new prosessor board.
big bucks.
its not worth the investment on a 7+ year old
machine.

I have seen something like that too
but I wasent shure it would work
because I cant install the driver in
the machine

I was just hoping that there was a way of
making a flash drive think it was a floppy

The more I think about it I dont know if the rs232 will work. With CNC machines rs232 connections talk to the computer especially when they are drip feeding G codes to the machine. We sometimes use this when the programs are to big for the memery for the cnc machine. but this slows the machine down ...

is there such a thing as a RS-232 to USB converter?
I have contacted Haas,
They do have a usb on there new machines

sorry there no pci slots

Its a Haas vf-2
Its 7 yrs old.
It uses
I/O commections to connect the floppy
to the processer board

yes it is connected to ths machines pc.
sorry I dont know what the operating system is
It just reads txt files (G codes)

Hi all,

I work in a tool and die shop,
We have cnc machines that use a floppy disk to
load programs into the machines.
I was wondering if there was a way to convert a floppy
drive to a usb port so instead of using floppys we could
use a flash card

Thanks,
Moldmaker

I have been messing around with it for almost two weeks now. I like it better than eagle. The library is not as big as Eagle, the autorouter is OK. To me it is a little easer to use than Eagle. as far as making your own parts. What I like the most is, if you have a question you can go on there Yahoo...

Has anybody tried this software?
http://www.diptrace.com

Try this website www.machinemanuals.net
I would E-mail them and ask them if they would
have schematics

Mike,<p>I think that is for long distances and not for speed

I would like to speed up my rs232 connection that goes from my computer to my CNC milling machine. Im at 38.8 right now. I would like to double that speed. From my computer to my machine is about 200 feet. I was thinking about using beefer cables. Im shure it will help but I dont know how much.<p>th...

Try the Wheaton Pulblic Library
in Wheaton IL. or ECC (Elgin Community College)
in Elgin Il.<p>When my son went to ECC. we got some schematics
from some old issues from Popular Electronics.