The PathPilot robot control can connect to multiple PathPilot CNC controllers, which allows you to create robot programs that interact with CNC machines. When properly set up, the CNC machine model is brought into the robot control, providing collision avoidance. This section demonstrates connecting to a PathPilot CNC machine and setting up the machine offsets that will ensure collision-free programming. We’ll use an 1100M as an example, but the connection works with all Tormach mills, the 24R router, 1300PL plasma, and the 15L and 8L lathes.
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For the robot’s PathPilot controller to talk to the mill’s PathPilot controller, you must connect both to a local area network (LAN). While this could be done over Wi-Fi, we recommend a wired network connection. Both the robot and the mill controller use the native Ethernet port for machine control, so connecting to a LAN over Ethernet requires a USB-Ethernet adapter. You can use USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter (PN 39133) or similar.
Connecting both controllers to a LAN with internet access gives you additional functionality, like the ability to receive automatic network updates, to use Dropbox for file transfer, or to use robot programs to connect with the outside world with, for example, text messaging (Send SMS messages from a robot program).When both controllers have been network connected, verify internet access by using a web browser (or a similar method).
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