Waterjet control

[TylerRobertson]

Is anyone aware of any software only control mechanisms that can work in conjuction with a cad/cam system to provide feed/pressure/timing control for waterjet on a robot? Omax for example has a lot of work done in waterjet control for 3-5 axis machines, but I'm looking for something that could interface with specifically RAPID, but any robot would be great

[Jim Tyrer]

I've never even heard of one.
Are you thinking in terms of doing it on the bot's controller?

[TygerDawg]

RobotWorks offline programming software can create path points from CAD.  You can edit your points to add an EVENT text string to the specific point in the output file.  The EVENT string can be whatever text you need it to be such as an I/O call.  This way you can on/off & set parms keyed to path points.

[TylerRobertson]

Jim:   the waterjet CNCs do a lot of work on the controller, but I was hoping there might be something available for them computer-side that I could take advantage of

with reference to Robotworx, I'm using Robotmaster OLP and can set my speeds and feeds at points on cad in that already but I appreciate the input
I want to automate the process, which can be done in the post with a fair amount of work,
basically looking at the geometry being used in Robotmaster, and then tailoring the code so everytime it sees things like tight angles, it drops the velocity/acc down to a spec'ed amount