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- Top QuestionsWhat is Teach & Playback ?Teach & Playback, a function of teaching robot a position (multiple positions actually) and then play it back. Teach means recoding the current XYZ coordinates of Dobot Magician and forming into the sequence of point-to-point. Playback indicates repeating action designed by users.
- Top QuestionsWhat is gray engraving?Dobot Magician can engrave not just lines, it can also sketch images with shades. For example, one can engrave a picture with gray scale variation of black-white on wood.The figure shown as below:
- Top QuestionsWhat's 3D printing? What's the material it support, the software it used & format it applied to?3D printing, a kind of rapid prototyping technology, which uses powder metal or plastic and other adhesive materials on the basis of digital model files, fabricates objects through layer-by-layer printing. Dobot Magician is compatible with mainstream open-source 3D printing software: Repetier Host, you can download the latest version from official website: https://www.repetier.com/ Users can build one’s own 3D model and transfer it into STL file, also, one can search free models to import them directly.
- Top QuestionsWhat is visual programming? What kind of visualized platform employed by Dobot Magician?Visual programing, a system using patterned procedure codes where users combine a set of executive programs as their wish, can be realize complicated operation by Dobot Magician. It is very easy to learn comparing with traditional program learning. Dobot Blockly is a visualized programming environment developed for Dobot Magician, based on Google’s open-source platform Google Blockly. On Dobot Blockly one can program by simply putting puzzles together, it is intuitive and highly readable. It also integrated exclusive API for Dobot Magician, one can use them right away.
- Top QuestionsWhat is second development?See Dobot Magician as a platform, do what you want it to do by offered SDK and called API using Python, Java, C++ and other main language to program. If what user used development language is outside the scope of SDK, or one want to expand it into other platforms like PC, PLC and any other control system to control Dobot, one can use the underlying communication protocol to communicate with Dobot Magician directly, achieving advanced and customized development of application function.
