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Machining with R2000iA?

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  • February 14, 2020 at 7:14 PM
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    • February 14, 2020 at 7:14 PM
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    I have an R2000iA/165F with a 12HP spindle that I currently use in production for trimming and drilling fiberglass. I'm wondering about giving it a secondary use machining shapes out of foam for our mold shop. Right now the mold shop guys use a completely manual process involving gallons of bondo and lots of sanding so any sort of automation will be an improvement in accuracy as well as tremendous labor savings. I know there is CAM software for machining with robots (roboDK, Octopuz, etc) out there - any advice and/or recommendations would be appreciated.

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    • February 14, 2020 at 7:15 PM
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    What are your accuracy requirements?

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    • February 14, 2020 at 8:19 PM
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    +/-1/8"

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    • February 17, 2020 at 6:26 PM
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    Can this be accomplished with 3axis machining or does it need to be 5?

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    • February 17, 2020 at 6:54 PM
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    It would have to be 5 if I were to use a CNC

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    • April 4, 2023 at 11:51 PM
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    Hi TitusLepic,

    I am in the same boat. The other day I was wondering what could be the secondary uses of the robot. Being able to carve foam out for the mold shop would be very cool. Did you ever find the appropriate Cam program for it?

    Best,

    Frank

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    • April 5, 2023 at 12:19 AM
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    Sadly, this project fell off the radar about 2 years ago and I haven't thought about it since. Sorry.

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    • April 6, 2023 at 7:25 AM
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    TitusLepic Thank you for the reply. I completely understand. It is one of those nice to have but non-urgent projects.

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    • April 6, 2023 at 6:24 PM
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    I've used fusion 360 for robot plasma cutting, albeit in a 3 axis manner. Had to write a custom post processor, but I don't think it would be too difficult to expand it to 6 axis.

    Downside is that the post doesn't know where the robot is, so reachablity checks were not done.

    Check out the Fanuc position converter I wrote here! Now open source!

    Check out my example Fanuc Ethernet/IP Explicit Messaging program here!

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    • April 18, 2023 at 2:06 AM
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    Nation Thank you for the reply. You are such a wizard with the post processor. I am not sure if my linear algebra is still up to the task of programming a CAM routing profile.

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