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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Controlling an Industrial Arm using MACH3
« on: January 02, 2011, 11:45:37 AM »
Hi there,
I was able to successfully drive this robotic arm using MACH3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7CKAv3Wm4
My question now is that since this is not the typical linear X-Y system, but more of a radial one, what would be the easiest way to tackle this coordinate system? Can it be done?
What I have as an input is a text file with X-Y-Rotation coordinates for electric components. I want to generate G Code from this text file and have the robot pick passive components (resistors and caps) from reels and then place them on the board according to the X-Y-Rot coordinates from the files. Of course, there must be some kind of transformation here which I wonder if I need to make in the TXT-GCode generator or is there a place inside of MACH3 to generate this transformation if certain robot parameters are known?
Thanks for your input! Best regards,
JIQ
I was able to successfully drive this robotic arm using MACH3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7CKAv3Wm4
My question now is that since this is not the typical linear X-Y system, but more of a radial one, what would be the easiest way to tackle this coordinate system? Can it be done?
What I have as an input is a text file with X-Y-Rotation coordinates for electric components. I want to generate G Code from this text file and have the robot pick passive components (resistors and caps) from reels and then place them on the board according to the X-Y-Rot coordinates from the files. Of course, there must be some kind of transformation here which I wonder if I need to make in the TXT-GCode generator or is there a place inside of MACH3 to generate this transformation if certain robot parameters are known?
Thanks for your input! Best regards,
JIQ