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08 Sep 2009 06:23 #795 by marcel
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Hi All
My name is Marcel.
I am building a pick&place machine for placing SM electronic components. The problem I have with P/P is you need many different locations for picking the components, much like a tool change location. You also need to have different heights settings for all the components and switch the vacuum on to lift a component. What's the easiest way of doing this?

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08 Sep 2009 12:39 #800 by BigJohnT
Replied by BigJohnT on topic Re:pick & place machine
Just program all the moves in your G Code. You can use M100 to turn on and off your vacuum.

www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//gcode_main.html#sec:M100-to-M199:

John

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12 Sep 2009 02:40 #816 by BMG
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Like John said, its pretty trivial to program the moves from point A to point B using simple G-code moves.

Rather than turning the vaccum pump on and off, have an M100 command to open and close a vaccum valve. The holding pipe might meed to be "leaky" where it holds to component so your not waiting for the grabbing tool to lose suction on the component.

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