I think I will go a little geek on this. I will install Windows XP mode on my 64-bit win 7 just to install 32-bit MCX for this purpose. Win XP mode has no performance to it but for opening and writing files it should be fine.
And that's what I don't understand. A 64-bit OS should be able to install a 32-bit piece of software without any problem. The opposite isn't true, but running a 32-bit program is very rarely a problem as far as I know. I don't know why they wrote it so they can't both be used on the 64-bit systems, especially with the limitation of backwards compatibility between X6 64-bit and X5.
Yeah IT people are screaming because of some 32 and 64 mismatches in their companies. Will be interesting phone calls till everyone finally gets to 64 bit land. Problem is the 128 bits will be on line by then.
Sorry about misleading everyone. I forgot that the installs can only be done on the OS that you have. I was just thinking that X5 was a 32 bit application and it installs fine on a 64 bit computer but its a different program all together.
Just downloaded the 32 bit version and installed inside Win XP Mode on my Win 7 64-bit machine. Make sure to set your memory settings to atleast 2048 (I have 8 gig of RAM). MCAM runs slow but enough to load a file and save as a previous version (for geometry only). Don't even think about trying to do anything other than saving the file - it gets the job done! Best of all - it's FREE!
You can say the same about VMWare. It added an addition 7 processes in the background as well. Looked like $heet. No decent video drivers available for it yet. Setting it up on a separate drive supposedly increases performance some. I couldn't take it no more and un installed it. On the plus side, it was simple to install and easy to set-up. You could also window out of it smoothly, back into the native OS with out rebooting.
I Cannot find where to set up an RS232 connection.This is where you would set baud rate,delay,parity...etc I have been putting my posted programs on a thumb drive then loading them onto another pc which has Matercam and using that to send to the Haas or Fadal cncs.This works fine but we sold an old Compumill to a friend and are trying to get him rolling with Fusion360.Is it possible to set up RS232 with Fusion360? If not is there any free software out there?It was great to see a post processor for Dynapath.We posted a program and the gcode looked good.
There is no communications in Fusion. There are several free programs out there but the one I keep using is Hyperterminal. It is pretty basic but that is part of why I like it. The only downsides are you can only upload from the cnc to your computer a maximum of 500 lines, with the free version, or dnc. It works fine on my Win7 Pro 64 bit computer and is supposed to work fine with Win8.1 too. You will need to find it, possibly Hilgreave,s website, or if you have an XP computer handy, and load it. If you wish to go this route let me know and I can give you more details.
I have both HyperTerminal and AGG,s free dnc software installed and working on my computer. HyperTerminal is just so much easier to use for simple file transferes than any other free program I have tried. I also find it much easier to set up with a new machine. AGG's program is much more involved and does't like something about my cabling to one of my mills, it loads real slow to the control.
I have a FTDI USB adapter and it works fine. Here is the one I got -serial-adapter-xs880 . Just make sure you download the right driver. Best option, for a desktop, is a serial port card. Even though motherboards no longer have serial ports they still have a header to plug one into. They are only $5-$10 for a single port card.
Getting your computer to communicate with your cnc control involves getting the standard settings correct, including for the cable you are using, such as how many wires you have hooked up. Also you have to make sure your control is set correctly for how you have your cable wired. Typically you have three options on the wiring, lot's of fun! Add to that all the options in your communication software and you really start to go crazy. One thing wrong and no worky.
That's our main problem. before we are using Mastercam to generate Gcodes, then we use NClink to send Gcodes to the machines using RS232 cable. We are using Windows 7 32-bit. Now the problem, Nclink will not work on Windows 7 64-bit. How can you recommend Fusion 320 to end-user if there's no solution how to send Gcode to the Machine. Our machine is very old. we need Rs232 cable to send Gcodes. And Fusion 360 will work only in a 64-bit environment.
thanks to you. On the Side of Autodesk. They didn't know this. no recommendations. they only know the basic used for fusion 360. but in actual they didn't know how to used. even their resellers don't know how to used it
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