[pablog]

Hello, how are you?
I have a question because I currently don’t have support anywhere and I have not been able to contact RoboDK either by phone or by email.
In my company we have four Shibaura Machine robots, specifically THL 400, and I saw that they appear in the list of compatible robots. However, when using the free trial, the program does not allow me to establish a connection with the robot.
One of our engineers, who is still a student, purchased a student license, but RoboDK told us that with the student version it is not possible to connect the robot drivers to the program.
I’m trying to understand the real scope of this software. It looks practical and intuitive, but I need to clearly understand its capabilities. Investing $4,000 just to find out whether I can minimally use it with our robots does not seem like a viable option.
I would like to know what exactly I can do with the software and receive some basic technical guidance so we can properly evaluate the purchase.
Could you please help me with this?

[Albert]

We can create a post processor for the Shibaura robot controllers. This will allow you to generate programs for the Shibaura robots offline.

Do you have a programming manual and program examples? We can take a better look.

[pablog]

Hello Albert, how are you? Thank you for your response. Regarding what you asked, I’m sending you the robot manual and a simple program from my robot. I’m at your disposal if you need anything else. Thank you very much.

I’m sharing the Drive link because the manual is too large to attach.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...sp=sharing

[Albert]

Thank you for sharing this information. We'll review and get back to you.

[Albert]

We took a look at the manuals and example you sent. Do you have more program examples you can share? The sample you shared mostly has logic in it.

By reading the manual we see that a typical program for Shibaura with movements looks like these:

Code:

PROGRAM BASESAMPLE
  MOVE A1
  MOVE A2
  BASE = BASE + TRANS (,, 200)
  MOVE A1
  MOVE A2
  BASE = TRANS ()
END

Where are the targets defined? Some examples in the manual suggest there should be a DATA section at the end of every program:

Code:

DATA
  POINT A1 = 203.346, 390.635, 94.252, 30.261, 0.000 / LEFTY
  ...
END

It would help if you can share more information. Including the details of the robot the programs were created for and some targets points with the same target set as joints and cartesian values (there is no specification about the Euler angle format used).

[Dhruti]

After exploring more about Shibaura, we noticed that their robot programs seem to be same as Toshiba's because of alleged rebranding. Hence, I would like to invite you to try using the Toshiba post processor which is already available in RoboDK's list of post processors. Let us know if this works or not.