Using a rotary table with the PRC?

Started by neeboy, October 02, 2013, 06:18:13 AM

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neeboy

I have a question about the near future of the PRC: I am REALLY hot for doing rotary machining.  ;D 

I see that the newest release available to members has support for a linear track.  Any chance in the near future for support for rotary tables?  I see that the PRC has the option to import SprutCAM code....which leads to: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPovNSNUr60

I suspect that this video was produced by the creators of the PRC, since it says "Vienna Institute of Technology."  Am I right?  ;)
In that video, was the table dynamically controlled, or was it manually indexed?

Thanks for any info! 

Johannes @ Robots in Architecture

Hello,

At the moment, support for linear rails is in, but it needs some more work, i.e. automated algorithms for ideal placement. That is on our immediate to-do list. Rotary tables will be in as well, but that will take a bit longer.
Regarding the video: While we've worked with that robot before, this isn't one of our projects. To my knowledge the toolpaths were generated in SprutCAM and then postprocessed using KUKA CamRob - it gives you the choice of either having a fixed rotation for each file, or a dynamic adjustment of the rotation values. See http://www.ddg.tuwien.ac.at/index.php?idcatside=378 for some more information.

Best,
Johannes

happytriger2000


Johannes @ Robots in Architecture


happytriger2000

Quote from: Johannes @ Robots in Architecture on October 02, 2013, 10:06:33 PM
Hello,

At the moment, support for linear rails is in, but it needs some more work, i.e. automated algorithms for ideal placement. That is on our immediate to-do list. Rotary tables will be in as well, but that will take a bit longer.
Regarding the video: While we've worked with that robot before, this isn't one of our projects. To my knowledge the toolpaths were generated in SprutCAM and then postprocessed using KUKA CamRob - it gives you the choice of either having a fixed rotation for each file, or a dynamic adjustment of the rotation values. See http://www.ddg.tuwien.ac.at/index.php?idcatside=378 for some more information.

Best,
Johannes

Looking forward to this feature added in PRC.