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Southwestern Industries, Inc.
TRAK
EMX Knee Mill, Bed Mill & ProtoTRAK
EMX CNC Retrofit Safety, Programming, Operating & Care Manual
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On the DPMEX2 control, you will see a button called OPEN TEMP under the OPEN softkey.
This allows you to open the last program that was in memory prior to the control being shut
off assuming you saved this file as a SAVE TEMP file under SAVE. This allows the user to
save the Z offsets and Z modifiers from the tool table across a power down. Tool offsets are
not saved with programs.
12.4
File Transfer and Backup
A USB port is provided and an optional USB Thumb drive offered as a convenient way to transfer and
backup part programs.
If you buy the optional thumb drive from Southwestern Industries, it will already be configured
correctly.
If you get your own thumb drive, please read the following:
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Please refer to section 2 for the list of thumb drives we have verified will work. Other brands,
such as Sandisk, do not work at this time. This includes, unfortunately, Sandisk thumb drives
that worked in previous ProtoTRAK models.
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Before you can transfer programs from the thumb drive to the ProtoTRAK EMX, you must put
the files in a folder named “Programs”.
To move files from the ProtoTRAK EMX internal storage to a thumb drive, do the following:
1.
Plug the Thumb Drive into the ProtoTRAK EMX USB port.
2.
Go to the DRO Mode.
3.
Press Serv Codes.
4.
Under group A,
Software Service Codes, select code 340 “Copy Files from Control to USB
Drive.
5.
The ProtoTRAK EMX will place a folder on the thumb drive named “Programs” (if one doesn’t
exist already and write the programs saved in the internal storage of the ProtoTRAK EMX to
the USB Thumb Drive. The programs will now be saved in both places.
To move files from a thumb drive to the ProtoTRAK EMX internal storage, do the following:
1.
Plug the Thumb Drive into the ProtoTRAK EMX USB port.
2.
Go to the DRO Mode.
3.
Press Serv Codes.
4.
Under group A, Software Service Codes, select code 341 “Copy Files from USB Drive to
Control.
5.
All the programs saved in the folder “Programs” on the thumb drive will also be saved on
the ProtoTRAK EMX internal storage.
If there are programs with the same name in the destination location you will be asked by the
ProtoTRAK EMX if you want to overwrite the existing file.
Programs of different names on the destination location will not be affected.
In keeping with our philosophy to make the ProtoTRAK EMX as simple as possible, we have elected
the simplest possible program storage routines. File transfers between the ProtoTRAK EMX and
thumb drive will move all programs between the two. This eliminates the complexity of adding file
management to the ProtoTRAK EMX system. Files may be managed on the thumb drive with your
offline computer.