Abstract
Additive manufacturing is an alternative method to traditional subtractive manufacturing, where the material is added layer by layer instead of being sequentially removed from the workpiece. 3D printing enables the manufacturing of parts with complex geometric shapes made from expensive metals with higher productivity and economic efficiency. However, there is currently no specialized software that would provide the utilization of additive technologies in the industrial scale. This article describes a case study of programming industrial robots for 3D printing of metal products. Once the desired objects were made in the CAD system, they were uploaded into the slicer where they were split into the layer structures. Special software for offline programming of industrial robots was used to translate the program into the robot language and perform 3D printing using the experimental robotic complex. As a result, the objects of cylindrical and square geometric shapes made of steel were printed using a welding machine and metal wire.
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Kulikov, A.A., Sidorova, A.V., Balanovskii, A.E. (2021). Programming Industrial Robots for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing. In: Radionov, A.A., Gasiyarov, V.R. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICIE 2020). ICIE 2021. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54817-9_66
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