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Introduction to SprutCAM
Brief and to the point
General information
Geometrical model preparation
Environment of 2D geometrical SprutCAM can be used to program industrial robots for cutting, milling,
constructions painting, welding and other applications. The programming process of an
Creating machining technology industrial robot is basically the same as one of a conventional milling
Feature based machining machine, except the robot usually has 6 degrees of freedom (versus 5
Mill machining degrees of freedom required to position a cutter relative to a workpiece)
Lathe machining plus optionally additional degrees of freedom of various types of
workpiece positioners (like rotary tables) and robot positioners (like rails).
Mill-turn Machining
Therefore, when used with a robot SprutCAM operations offer additional
Machining on cutting machines set of parameters to control those excessive degrees of freedom (DOFs).
Knife cutting
In addition to excessive degrees of freedom a robot can reach the desired
Wire EDM machining
position of the tool relative to the workpiece in several different states.
Machining on industrial robots The state to be used in the operation can be specified in the Operation
Setting the coordinate system of Setup with the <flip base>, <flip elbow>, <flip wrist> checkboxes as
the tool and the workpiece well.
Programming the robot's 6th
axis
Programming the rails position
Programming the rotary table
Robot axes map
Programming robot's transitions
Multi Task Machining
Welding
Additive manufacturing
Simulation
Tools library
Additional tool features
SprutCAM's modules
SprutCAM Addins
Scripts in SprutCAM
Appendix

In this chapter the following robot programming features are covered:

Robot scheme selection, tool and workpiece coordinate system setup;
Programming of the robot's 6th axis;
Programming of rails;
Programming the tilting rotary table;
Avoiding out-of-reach zones and singularities;
Programming robot's transitions.
The feature is available in the following SprutCAM configurations:

Robots
Master
Pro