USEZI22651@@ST.S5D "Please Help!!"

praneet · Mar 23, 2006

Dear Members,

I have purchased a CNC machine with the Siemens S8 System, however in transit all data was erazed; the only backup was in an 8.25" floppy that is also damaged.

I am completely lost but know the name of the file "USEZI22651@@ST.S5D" I do not know where to even start. All I know is that I cannot run the machine without the PLC program.

I am completly ignorant and would apreciate any help.

Thanks,

Praneet Khanna

seppoalanen · Mar 23, 2006

If it is S5 (not S8) file so there is "USE" too much letters in file name, only 6 is allowed and "ST.S5D".

PLucas · Mar 23, 2006

praneet said:
I have purchased a CNC machine with the Siemens S8 System, however in transit all data was erazed; the only backup was in an 8.25" floppy that is also damaged.

To put it bluntly......

You're stuffed matey!!!

You will have to rewrite the program, does S8 stand for SINUMERIK 8? But as seppo states ST.S5D indicates a Step 5 file

Paul

504bloke · Mar 23, 2006

PLucas said:
You're stuffed matey!!!

Oh dear, tears before bedtime!

parky · Mar 23, 2006

The 8" floppy (i think you mean 5")probably means it's a cpm file, all siemens was once on cpm so dos will not read it, however the dos version came with some conversion utils to copy the file onto a dos disk or hard disk this was with version 3.2, but again unless you have a machine with a 5" floppy you are stuffed.

But not all is lost I bet someone here has an old pg750 with 5" drives & the conversion software, there are 2 conversions s5konv that converts the very old (pg675)to the later version then a converter to dos (all it does is copy the files onto the dos system as the 3.2 is actually a CPM running in a dos shell.

I could probably help with the files for the copy I think I may still have them but you would need the other if 675 format & of course the drive?

TimWilborne · Mar 23, 2006

Actually the old CNCs had an 8" disk

TimWilborne · Mar 23, 2006

Jstolaruk posted a picture of an 8" reader in THIS thread at MrPLC

parky · Mar 23, 2006

Ahh I thought he meant the plc file? this would have been done on a pg that had a 5" disk, the 8" would be for some programming of the cnc not the plc code.

TimWilborne · Mar 23, 2006

More I think about it I'm not sure either. I know some of the 8" disk would hold the operating parameters of the controller but most just held G Code programs. Never seen one hold the core machine code.

But I am thinking about the reader that would be on the machine. Might just be a disk that was laying in the bottom of the cabinet

TimWilborne · Mar 23, 2006

Still, don't think file names could be more than 8 charactors and no "@" symbols I believe

parky · Mar 23, 2006

Youre right but if they used less than 8 it puts the @ in so it could be mis-typed

Ken M · Mar 24, 2006

All I can say is, I hope the machine was cheap.

Ken

seppoalanen · Mar 24, 2006

parky,

Step5 have "PIP command or something like that" conversion property for CPM- to DOS-file, even version 7.23 my S5 computer is not open so I'm not sure.

Br. Seppo

praneet · Mar 24, 2006

The correct name of the of the file is [email protected]. Would Siemens the controls supplier or Scharman the machine tool supplier possibly have the PLC program?

Please advise.

Thanks once again for all your reponses.

Sincerely,

Praneet Khanna

TimWilborne · Mar 24, 2006

Your best bet would be to call Scharman. What year was the machine built?

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