Animation, was (Re: Next step..)

Rab,
Actually you may have touched on something here. I have Visual
Nastran 4D at work which is a very powerful kinematic modeler. That
may actually be able to work out the 4,or 5 axis robot movements.
You should be able to specify a path for the head and have the
computer work out the motion in the joints.
Good call!

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., rab@r... wrote:
> Not that this will help much, but I think a 3D animation program,
> such as 3D Studio Max should be able to work out the motor movements
> via scripting to control the arm moves as it's set up to handle
> complex animations and linked joint movements. It will also take
> input from a digitising arm (Microscribe). Maybe there's an
> alternative animation package that you might be able to take a look
> at ? Thing is finding a package that you can expand and modify via
> simple scripting, without learning advanced programing. Maybe
> something open source under Linux ? Does anyone know of one ?
>
> Rab