Hi Jose 👋🏾

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Hi @garciadelcastillo
I recently downloaded the latest release of machina and have been following your tutorial to get started on visual studio to send offline commands to robot components. Within Visual studio I have changed the .net framework to 4.6 for Machina (as per tutorial instructions). I've linked the Machina .dll and robot studio dependencies. However I'm running into some difficulty with the arm.Export function it doesn't seem to exist. I've alternatively tried arm.Compile but I am only allowed two inline targets. I cannot compile the program @"C:\testProgram.prg"
Is there a new work around with the updated release? I think machina is quite wonderful and using it in C# is a great way to familiarize myself with the language. Is love to continue working in this way. Could you help please. Thank you :)

[garciadelcastillo]

Try this:

var program = arm.Compile();
arm.SaveProgram(program, @"D:\temp");

[garciadelcastillo]

This this work @endfold ?

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Hi @garciadelcastillo I tried it a few days ago and yes it works amazingly! I haven't had time to move forward with the tutorial since but I'm going to be on Spring break from Friday so I'll have more time to tinker! I'm still very fascinated with machina. At school we are using robot components plug-in on grasshopper but to be honest I think it's more advantageous to learn the inner workings of coding in c# rather than relying on the plug-in but maybe I am wrong either way I'd prefer to learn through you intervention with machina. I have question slightly related: are you interested in building robots? I recently stumbled upon ROS are you familiar with it?

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Hi @garciadelcastillo Hope you're well.
I've since continued working on C# following along to your tutorial and have been able to save program using
var program = arm.Compile(true,true);
arm.SaveProgram(program, @"D:\temp");

However when i load program to robot studio I get a message "Errors in Rapid Code"
I'm a bit stuck at this point. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you :) sorry to be a bug

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@garciadelcastillo the code is saved as .pgf
Also when i open the code in Atom, I don't see any rapid code.

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Forgive me @garciadelcastillo for being such a nag...I realized after checking the folder where the program was saved to that two file types were save : the first is a .pgf and the second is a .mod I don't know why they saved to this however I can open the .mod in Atom and see the code and i changed the .mod to .prg and tried to open it in robot studio but robot studio doesnt load it with the 'main' and I get the error 'main' in T_ROB not found. I'm not sure at this point what to do. I really want to move forward start writing toolpaths but im very confused by the file format