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cnc languange?

cnc languange?

cnc languange?

(OP)
Hi
Recently i started working on ESAB Combirex oxy-fuel machine and it reads strange programs. Instead standard M and G codes, those programs consist only numbers. Is this earlier version of cnc languange? or some other? Machine was assembled in 1984 and we(im living in Estonia) bought it from Finland.

RE: cnc languange?

It is most likely Macro programming.

RE: cnc languange?

The machine could be a tab sequential, full field, or delimited field tape format. You will have to get the manual for the control and verify what it uses. Or you could just try different format until you understand what the machine is reading.
Good Luck if the manual is not available.

RE: cnc languange?

By 1984, normal CNC controls were well past tab sequential and all other forms of delimited input.  In fact, this system died out before the "C" (for computer) was added to the front of the acronym in the early 70's.

You apparently have a specialised machine and therefore a specialised control.  The only ways you're likely understand programming of this control is with a manual, by contacting the builder, or to find another programmer who has worked on this particular machine.

RE: cnc languange?

(OP)
well while standard cnc program looks like this:
G01 x0 y40
x40 y40
x40 y0
x0 y0
this language looks like:
++40
+40
+-40
-40
(probably some errors in it)

RE: cnc languange?

That looks like a proprietry code of some kind - you need to track down the builders.


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