02-26-2022, 05:09 PM
Absolutely!
Jeremy,
I am using RoboDk as a platform for additive and subtractive manufacturing for architectural applications. One of the big issues with these applications found in most architectural settings, specifically in research, is that the projects use proprietary software or plugins for each robot such as the Kuka|PRC grasshopper plugin or the Taco or HAL plugin for ABB. My interest is using RoboDK as the platform to branch across multiple different robots and documenting a process and workflow for others to replicate. While publishing 2 articles and potentially a conference come October.
For my master’s thesis as well as my upcoming Ph.D. at the University of Florida, as stated previously I’m additively and subtractive manufacturing in-situ elements multi-axially to create and fabricate joints in architecture. I’m using 3d scanning and object detection to accurately map an “element” in space (for the current state of this project it is fixtured to the worksurface), import the scan in a cad program such at Rhino or Fusion360, modify the mesh and design interlocking features that will be subtractively modified using a cnc spindle tool and Fusion360 Manufacturing tool paths. Then swap the tool head to an additive manufacturing tool head and print the inverse of the subtraction and continue printing to other objects. I obtained a Academic Scholarship from Denso North America and they provided the Denso VS-087 at no cost to me for the remainder of my academic studies. This is one of the first instances that the Denso is being used outside of a manufacturing environment for pick and place but the Denso team supporting me is really interested in the work that I am doing. With all new systems there are a ton of bugs and small things to work out. Over the past 6 months I have dialed in the system fairly well between the workflow for RoboDK and Wincaps III the largest issue that I am currently running into is the exported programming speed/accel/decel and now that I’m using Fusion360 toolpaths my programs have became 30,000 lines or more and the Denso can only process about 8-9,000 lines before the file size becomes to big (max of 600kb per file). In the3 Axis Robot Machining - FeatureCAM - RoboDK Add-InVideo at 11:00 min mark you show the files breaking into parts and that is great and you have show me how to enable that feature and I will test it soon. As the split large programs states with robot machining files can be thousands of lines of code and that you can use the “split large robot programs” feature and that has not worked for me. I have no problem loading multiple programs on to the controller and running everything off the Denso. But I would like to not have to split the programs manually.
Hope this clears some things up. I love the software and for the majority of time it has worked great once if figured out some of the small issues lite the TCP flipped and so on. (reminds me, I want to create a post about a bug where selecting curves gets tricky when there are hundreds of them. I find that the mouse and the correlated highlighted line for selection is off and I’m not sure why) I appreciate all the help and thank you for everything.
Jeremy,
I am using RoboDk as a platform for additive and subtractive manufacturing for architectural applications. One of the big issues with these applications found in most architectural settings, specifically in research, is that the projects use proprietary software or plugins for each robot such as the Kuka|PRC grasshopper plugin or the Taco or HAL plugin for ABB. My interest is using RoboDK as the platform to branch across multiple different robots and documenting a process and workflow for others to replicate. While publishing 2 articles and potentially a conference come October.
For my master’s thesis as well as my upcoming Ph.D. at the University of Florida, as stated previously I’m additively and subtractive manufacturing in-situ elements multi-axially to create and fabricate joints in architecture. I’m using 3d scanning and object detection to accurately map an “element” in space (for the current state of this project it is fixtured to the worksurface), import the scan in a cad program such at Rhino or Fusion360, modify the mesh and design interlocking features that will be subtractively modified using a cnc spindle tool and Fusion360 Manufacturing tool paths. Then swap the tool head to an additive manufacturing tool head and print the inverse of the subtraction and continue printing to other objects. I obtained a Academic Scholarship from Denso North America and they provided the Denso VS-087 at no cost to me for the remainder of my academic studies. This is one of the first instances that the Denso is being used outside of a manufacturing environment for pick and place but the Denso team supporting me is really interested in the work that I am doing. With all new systems there are a ton of bugs and small things to work out. Over the past 6 months I have dialed in the system fairly well between the workflow for RoboDK and Wincaps III the largest issue that I am currently running into is the exported programming speed/accel/decel and now that I’m using Fusion360 toolpaths my programs have became 30,000 lines or more and the Denso can only process about 8-9,000 lines before the file size becomes to big (max of 600kb per file). In the3 Axis Robot Machining - FeatureCAM - RoboDK Add-InVideo at 11:00 min mark you show the files breaking into parts and that is great and you have show me how to enable that feature and I will test it soon. As the split large programs states with robot machining files can be thousands of lines of code and that you can use the “split large robot programs” feature and that has not worked for me. I have no problem loading multiple programs on to the controller and running everything off the Denso. But I would like to not have to split the programs manually.
Hope this clears some things up. I love the software and for the majority of time it has worked great once if figured out some of the small issues lite the TCP flipped and so on. (reminds me, I want to create a post about a bug where selecting curves gets tricky when there are hundreds of them. I find that the mouse and the correlated highlighted line for selection is off and I’m not sure why) I appreciate all the help and thank you for everything.