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dray
01-27-2016, 06:44 PM
I moved my shop and am re-setting up my software. I have not touched my shopbot in over a year due to auto accident, but right after the accident I fiddled with firmware. Everything seems to be working but I do not like the latest software for my shopbot, the graphics on the preview kinda uck, I personally like the old style.

I bought my bot in the very last month of the PRT alphas, before the prs alphas came out.

Few questions..
1. Whats the best firmware for the last PRT alphas (late 2006)
2. What would it cost me to upgrade to alpha board and is there anything other than the board that is different? I assumed it was an alpha until I looked at the control board. It was the very last month before the Alphas came in so I believe everything is Alpha except for the board.
3. If anyone has a link to the OG software that shows the machine as well as firmware please send me a link.
4. Since moving my cnc I have had to change the orientation of my cnc. If I look out of my office window I am looking at the very front of the cnc, so all of my keypad arrows are upside down and backwards. is there a way to simply reverse the graphics on the "keypad"

Thx you guys, always been helpful. I have literally built close to 900 cabinets on my Shopbot and it has never let me down. It has been quite a while since I have used it for cabinetry and the Cabinet parts pro guy completely left me hanging. It was not expensive software only couple hundred, but my old version was lost on a hard drive crash and the CPP pro guy told me to kick rocks rather than sending a copy of the old software or sending me the new software.

Just a heads up for all of you that want to use CPP.

I was on the main shopbot website and saw alot of cute little things that your bot can make and it did not show the potential of the cnc. Anyways hello again to all of ya. and thx in advance for replies

Danny Ray
BTW these are all shopbot cabinets
http://drayconstruction.com/html/gallery.html

steve_g
01-27-2016, 09:19 PM
Danny
I thought I got the last PRT… I believe yours is a little after mine!
If you replace the Little daughter board on the main circuit board, you can run the latest and greatest control software! Seems like it was less than $200.00 but that was several years ago… call SB and talk to the guys who know…
SG

dray
01-27-2016, 09:53 PM
Cool! where do I go for that? shopbot has grown too much too fast

steve_g
01-28-2016, 01:43 AM
Danny
Here’s a couple of photos that might help you…
The first is from the original user manual. The red arrow points to the card in question…
The second is a close up of my card. The arrow points to the version number. You want a 200 series version number.
Just call the SB number and tell them you want to buy an updated controller card… they’ll put you in touch with someone who will know exactly what you need!
SG