ISEL CNC/IMC4 programming language

Hello:
We do have a custom application running our ISEL 3 axis CNC machine that is 18 years old running small stepper motors in open loop.
Having control problems, and wish to use the application and change out the control to LinuxCNC with Gecko Drives.
Have a copy of the program available, just won't be able to email it as a .exe file.
Maybe someone has written a app to merge the two together.
Thank you, david

Could you give more detail of your application?
Does it create Gcode and thus just must be converted to linuxcnc Gcode?

Chris M

Hi Chris:
Thank You for your prompt reply!
Have not used the forum before, first time.
No, it does not appear to output gcode. I really don't know. I don't have a way to test it, nor to "snoop" the output of the program application.
However, there is a gcode interface, and with help from the OEM, was able to use the interface, able to communicate with the control board, but not able to make it move.
It is called Techno CPM GCODE Interface (version 2.53 and is copyrighted 2003).
It was on the Win XP computer with the program.
I do have the ISEL programming guide for our machine which is called a CPM machine.
It looks like a proprietary programming language. Some of the other machines in this group use pascal and DOS.
I do have the application program which is relatively small at 1.5megs, and can email it to you as a .txt file.
My email is: lensmanufacturing@gmail.com
Also, I could mail you a copy of the application program, if you like.
Been working on it since January 2018, and my repairs for changing capacitors, voltage regulators, now integrated circuits is last on the list. More.

This machine is a machine that drills optical lenses.
That is all it does.
It does it relatively quickly at about two minutes, and very accurately.
Essentially a three axis router with spindle.
Drills holes with a one mm router bit that drills holes and makes notches in lenses from 1.0mm-3.00mm.
Uses a proxxon multi tool similar to a Dremel, only better made.
Thank you,

david

How do you program it?

If you can store programs, what do they look like?

CPM? Could be: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M which is an old competitor to DOS. But that was abandoned in 1983 so is unlikely to have been used on your machine. (I am just old enough to have used it at school)

I found the programming manual:

www.isel.com/en/downloads/dl/file/id/429...ramming_englisch.pdf

Looks like a lot of fun