We're trying to get started with a KR60-L30-3-KS with KRC2 and KSS 5.4.14 as a CNC milling machine with an external 7th axis kinematic system. Our spindle is not currently setup to be run through KRC2; we switch it on and off independently. I'm currently trying to evaluate SprutCAM as a possible solution, but am running into problems with the post processing. The code that sprutcam produces throws many compilation errors and will obviously require quite a lot of post-processor work.
I need to know whether I should abandon sprutcam for mastercam/robodk or try another cam/processor package altogether. To do this I need to know if anyone out there is willing to lay out some successful routes to getting error free code out of sprutcam for our Kuka setup? The guy at sprutcamamerica doesn't seem to be very useful in this regard. At this point, I'll settle for the easiest possible anything at all. I just need to know if sprutcam is capable of producing anything useful out of the box.
I've been trying to get the people at sprutcam to produce a good robot model for us using the datasheet for our model as well as our rotary table. But it's clear I need to be able to get data from the robot about the TCP as well as the xyzabc location of the table. I haven't yet seen how to do this. Is anyone willing to share their experiences with this? What else am I missing?
At this point, I've produced a little square path program using a calibrated tool and base in the KCP. I then produced a similar 2D Contour path in sprutcam using roughly the same dimensions as the square path I made in the KCP. The problem is that I don't know how to get sprutcam to use our robot's calibrated tool and base inside the robot model. My goal here was to simply compare src and dat files to see what the differences were. It turns out the sprutcam files won't compile as you can see in the pic.
I can't tell at this point if my problem is that I need to learn how to write a post processor or if there are far superior packages than this out there that I won't have spend so much time effectively earning a phd in robotics to use.
I can post the code if anyone cares to see it. The code I created in the KCP is short, but the one from sprutcam is significantly longer. I really don't know what to do at this point. I'm ready to abandon sprutcam, but don't have a great place to turn to after that.
If you only intend to respond with RTFM, please don't. I have read the manuals. I'm looking for specific parts of the manuals that I've missed. If you know what those parts are, please specify manual and page number. If you know of a useful tutorial, please show it to me. If there's a post somewhere that I've missed, please direct me to it.
Thank you.