The lack of programming tools for industrial automation has always bothered me. The software development world has an astounding amount of resources mainly due to the open source nature of computer programming. On the other end of the spectrum, industrial controls are mostly proprietary. In the world of Fanuc, this means OLPCPro or RoboGuide. Both of those programs have some very nice capabilities, but they lack a great way to edit text, the heart of your program. Clicking through menus to select and edit code instructions drives me insane.

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Menu based programming is great for beginners because it makes it almost impossible to create syntax errors. When you become more advanced, programming by menu feels like trying to run in a potato sack. The Fanuc TP language can be modified in any text editor which allows for endless possibilities. (Jay at One Robotics even developed his own programming language that translates down to Fanuc TP, ).

What I have worked on is a way to give an IDE feel to offline programming. This is for people who want to be able to quickly craft their logic in a text environment, and sorry, notepad doesn’t count. Vim provides the perfect platform for this. I was first introduced to using Vim for offline programming by this and was soon hooked. Yes, Vim takes some getting used to, but when you can crank out code 5X faster than your peers you will wonder why you never used it before. Jay at One Robotics created a syntax highlighting plugin to allow Vim to recognize and color code the Fanuc TP language.

Reshebnik nekrasova po gidravlike. With this you have a tool to do offline programming and actually have visual clues about the code, but it’s still a far cry from a development environment. I took Jay’s syntax highlighter, expanded it, added features, and customized with 3rd party plugins to make this feel more like a polished system.

TpDev Features • code snippets – inserts chunks of common code with a keyboard shortcut • header templates – all the junk at the top of the program • tags – allows you to jump to called programs by clicking on their name • compile support – convert from LS to TP format *requires Fanuc software* • debug – fixes or identifies common errors • auto completion – based on snippets and used instructions • program navigation – an interactive tree view of called programs TpDev is fully functional as is, and I use it almost everyday on real projects. I will continue to polish it and welcome contributions. Coming soon is what I call “tpDev-in-a-box” which will wrap up dependent plugins and Vim settings to give users a simple drop in install. Tag:,,, Post navigation.