Script to creat JBI files

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All,

Thanks to all those members of this forum who have helped me over the past years. I'm sorry that I'm not as smart with robots as I'd like to be and after owning a HP165 NX100 from over 3 years I'm still very much a newbie! I do want top try and contribute to the forum as much as possible.

Here is my story and some examples;

I use my robot for the CNC milling of foam and wood for fibreglass moulds, specifically for aerospace and transport applications, leading edge airfoils, wing tips, nose cones, truck hoods, buses body parts etc. I also use the robot as a CNC plasma cutter for steel components.

I have a copy of Sheetcam for which we use an in house post processor. It generates a .TAP file (attached in the .zip). I then run this through a script I wrote and out pops Motoman jbi files. Attached are both the files in sample.zip; coke.tap (the output of sheetcam and my post processor) and points.exe the script I wrote to gererate the jbi's. Download the .zip (I checked no viruses!) and unzip the two files in the same directory. Run points.exe and answer the questions. A few moments later and out comes 4 jbi files ready to load into your robot.

As it's used for plasma cutting it only uses x,y co-ords.

I'm sorry I can't give away the sheetcam post processor and a banner free version of points.exe as they did take me many months of work and did cost me some money for programmers. I also have to feed myself and family and most importantly pasy off my robot which the bank currently owns!.

Take a look and see what you think. I believe it’s a great example of what can be achieved these days with a home PC and these really amazing Motoman robots.

Cheers,

Adrian