NC Information for ZEMAN® Robotics Machines
ZEMAN® is a machine manufacturer for structural steel. They
have separate XML format for creation of assemblies specially welded
assemblies. The ZEMAN® XML utility added to NC-DSTV engine provides user of
having Zeman Steel Beam Assembler with high-precision welding robots to automat
manufacturing process. It is used to generate xml files and set of NC files for
ZEMAN® robotic assembler. It gives any group data consisting various subparts
from the
OpenBridge Modeler in form of XML format. This
XML describes simple Information such as Length, Weight, Position number of
groups etc. as well as it provides location and rotation of subparts attached
with reference to main part.
Attention: This XML created for Beam/Column
Group is used as Input for Steel Beam Assembler(SBA) machine from ZEMAN®
Bauelemente Company.
This utility provides combined result of NC+XML for Beam
Group or Column Group from
OpenBridge Modeler at single place, from where
it can be read by the SBA (Steel Beam Assembler) and perform operation of
attaching sub parts of Beam/Column to the main part of the groups.
The following output files can be expected from utility:
- XML file (for the selected groups)
- NC file (All NC file required and correspondent to
XML file)
Prerequisite: The only prerequisites
required to generate Output for ZEMAN® i.e. NC and XML is that a valid
Column/Beam group must have Group Position Number and their sub parts must
have Part Position Number.
Note: When a group
contains only main part and no sub parts attached to, then the Group is
eliminated when generating an XML file.
In absence of group or part position number to the selected
members,
OpenBridge Modeler prompts appropriate message
of "No position numbers".
For ZEMAN® SBA NC generation file name is hardcoded with
%Position Number%. It is expected to work only for
Zeman SBA option.
The XML generated for ZEMAN® SBA consists of two parts:
- Group Related Information,
e.g. Length, Name, Material etc.
- Written in the HEAD
tags.
- Part Related Information,
e.g. Location, Rotation & relation with respect to Main part of group. The
part information is grouped in four sections:
- Part description
- Part location, and
- Part rotation with
reference to global co-ordinate system of Zeman SBA.
- NC file reference of the
part.
Note: When configuration
variable"
PS_ZEMANASSEMBLER_SHOWSUBPARTAXIS" is
set, the output draws UCS.
The generated Zeman robotic assembler output is also monitored into
our log file.
