Good luck. I waited about three years before I did it, and I didn't know what I was missing. It's nice to have a network drive. Also, I don't think you need to do anything fancy like setting up a small network hub like I did. Unless you want to. It's a worthy project unto itself. You can likely, connect your XP laptop to your internet modem via an Ethernet cable and be good to go. Having a Subject Matter Expert to help you is a good idea. I have a buddy that rescues me from time to time.
@@PowerForgeWorkshop that’s great to know, I’ll ask my ‘computer friend’ lol to take a look. So I should be able to take a G-Code from Fusion, save it in my W10 pc, then be able to access that via my XP laptop and send it to the Syil?
@@MrRctintin My bad, I don't think I explained this in the video. On the XP, Vista, or Windows 7 laptop (or server for that matter), you have to create a shared network folder that the Syil can connect with. Then you must plug this laptop with the network drive into your switch or modem via an Ethernet cable. On your Windows 10 computer you need to map to that shared folder. Once that is done, it will look like another hard drive (like your C: or D: directory). Do the same on the Syil like I showed in the video. Now both your computer and the Syil will have read/write access to the shared network folder on your laptop. The Siemens 808D requires a username and password to connect to the laptop as well as the computer name. Lastly, on Fusion 360, change your g-code output folder to the new network folder on your XP laptop. When you post your code, it will be saved on the laptop instead of your computer or USB drive. All you have to do at this point is power on the Syil and navigate to the directory that you set up on the laptop.
