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« on: August 08, 2022, 02:43:24 PM »
As Craig has said, Mach does not support kinematics so you could not use conventional CAD/CAM software to program a robotic arms movement – however, many robot arms used in industry are programmed by the ‘teach’ method where the arm is jogged to the positions required (one at a time) and each position is saved as a string of movements.
Mach does support a ‘teach’ feature where each position jogged (by X,Y,Z,A,B,C axes) is saved as Gcode which can then be run (as a Gcode file) to exactly reproduce the movement of all positions previously taught. Obviously some planning is required during the ‘teach’ process to avoid collisions etc. as the arm would take the shortest route to the next position in the sequence when running the Gcode file.
Could be fun.
Tweakie.