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Nice work, Tess.

Welcome Dan!

fantastic resource!

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Nice work

Might be time for an updated tutorial, its been over 3 years. KUKA|prc has come a long way.

In this tutorial I teach you how to program your KUKA robotic arm to do 3D printing and extrusion for additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping. Detailing how to use Rhino3d, Grasshopper and KUKA|prc to generate parametric tool paths to print or extrude any shape with a KUKA robot.

https://youtu.be/AlXiKd1U5es

If things go well, I'll be back at KUKA next week to try and solve my issue with mxA. Can't promise anything, but I'd be keen to get an introductory tutorial out.

We did, but with another laptop. Its more than likely my laptop..

Unfortunately, no change. KUKA suggested it may be a library issue, the KUKA has mxA 3 installed.

When attempting to connect via mxA the robot doesn't initialise, could it be a library error?

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Progress:
Robot Online: True
Robot Initialized: False
mxA Program Active: False
mxA Buffer: 0 | previous 0 at 12:41
mxA Heartbeat: 254
mxA Average Response: 4 (Submit) / 3 (ProConOS)
Error Robot Interpreter: 0 | (0)
Error Submit Interpreter: 0 | (414 at 12:38)
Error PLC: 0 | (503 at 12:26)
Error KUKA: 83 | (83 at 12:41)
Error PCOS: 783 | (783 at 12:41)

ERROR: No statements can be executed, as the connection has not been initialized.
ERROR: Error messages of the robot controller are active. The $STOPMESS signal of the Automatic External interface is active.
ERROR: The robot program is not active. The $PRO_ACT signal of the Automatic External interface is not active..
mxA Submit Interpreter Error 0 -

Axis Position: A1 0, A2 0, A3 0, A4 0, A5 0, A6 0, E1 0, E2 0, E3 0, E4 0


Am I missing something? The OV updates with a slider..

While setting up a script that is using multiple digital outputs and I need to switch between two within 2 lines of KRL, the output src swaps the order of the $OUT variables. Doesn't happen if there's a line of KRL in between them, is there a purpose for this or a workaround?

Hi Andreas,

If you're getting serious about robotics, especially utilising parametric and computational control, I'd suggest you do significant amount of research prior to spending the money on mac Rhino. I, personally, made the switch back to PC due to the sheer amount of libraries and that parametric, at the moment, is mostly PC. Keep in mind Python in Rhino is Iron Python 2.7 also, which is built on Microsoft's .NET.

Just something to consider, good luck!

Karl

Latest tutorial is live now: how to change the user privileges and methods on a KUKA teaching pendant..

How to change user privileges on a KUKA KRC4 Tutorial

Hey Guys!

I was fortunate enough to have the chance to visit Johannes at his Creative Robotics lab late last year and filmed a couple tutorial videos and have finally found the time to record and upload the first one - an introduction to setting up 5 axis milling with KUKA prc. You can find it here:

https://youtu.be/BvgKW-CPLTg

Hope some of you find it helpful!