Plasmac for glue dispenser machine.

I tried teaching using pendant and logging the coordinates using teaching.py...very time consuming, before i start using Linuxcnc I imagined can teach like weld robot (weld robot is time consuming too but little more fast and smooth arc) I remembered i have scanner so now just take few minutes and send to Design X > NX > Sheetcam > Linuxcnc

Could you tell us more about your scanner please. Is it a 3d hand held unit? What kind of retail price does it cost?

The picture is one scan arm, Design Scan Arm from Faro, i have another one S70 (terrestrial) from Faro too.
the arm scan when i want move to scan the entire car for example i need laser tracker, for the terrestrial i use survey control (very tedious workflow need check everything twice).
if you dont use it a lot its better rent but when i brought it i used the government subsidy so was very cheap at time.
what you wanna scanning, the size?
Faro isnt the better but when i brought i didnt know nothing about it...handheld the best people say is Creaform.

The S70 mean 70 meters.

Thats a pretty awesome scanner. I wish the Australian government would subsidies a $30K scanner for me Lol.

I would like to be able to scan my robot work cell to easily create a model for offline simulation.

Very interesting. I want one too!

With regards teaching, it is possible to log positions using halstreamer but it needs some revisions I think to output in CSV format. I have used it to collect 16000 readings for statistical analysis from a 6" plasma cut. It took a bit to extract the data I wanted.

I'm not sure you you would convert the streamer coordinates back into motion commands.