OkiePC
Lifetime Supporting Member
To connect to the IMC-S Class motion controller, you likely need GML commander software, and a good serial converter. It has been a long long time since I worked with them but if my memory hasn't failed me, there are two RS232/422 serial ports configured with dipswitches and one of them was commonly used in "terminal mode" where you could connect to a generic terminal emulator as a crude HMI, so you might be able to do that without GML commander and see something appear in a terminal emulator. I might be mixing up memories with the 1394 series too though.
I got pretty good with GML back in the olden days having first learned Creonics scripting. A/B bought Creonics and did a fantastic job of creating a graphical interface for building the script files and put a nice physical wrapper around the old Creonics boards which became the S-Class (IMC).
If you have GML commander and a copy of the files you need, I expect you can reload the program into it. IIRC, you will also have setup data and gains that are saved separately from the script file. If you have GML Commander, the GML diagram and the setup files that go with it, that is ideal. GML commander can build a script file for download, but cannot take a script file out of a controller and turn it back into a diagram.
I have never tried to connect without a real serial port, but I suspect it should work. Last time I dealt with them we used Windows 2000 on a real PC on a roll-around cart.
I got pretty good with GML back in the olden days having first learned Creonics scripting. A/B bought Creonics and did a fantastic job of creating a graphical interface for building the script files and put a nice physical wrapper around the old Creonics boards which became the S-Class (IMC).
If you have GML commander and a copy of the files you need, I expect you can reload the program into it. IIRC, you will also have setup data and gains that are saved separately from the script file. If you have GML Commander, the GML diagram and the setup files that go with it, that is ideal. GML commander can build a script file for download, but cannot take a script file out of a controller and turn it back into a diagram.
I have never tried to connect without a real serial port, but I suspect it should work. Last time I dealt with them we used Windows 2000 on a real PC on a roll-around cart.
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