Robot Workbench/cs

Introduction

You can do the following tasks:

• Set up a simulation environment with a robot and work pieces.
• Create and fill up movement trajectories.
• Decompose features of a CAD part to a trajectory.
• Simulate the robot movement and reaching distance.
• Export the trajectory to a robot program file.

To get started try the Robot tutorial, and see the programming interface in the RobotExample.py example file.

Tools

Here the principal commands you can use to create a robot set-up.

Robots

The tools to create and manage the 6-Axis robots

• Create a robot: Insert a new robot into the scene
• Simulate a trajectory: Opens the simulation dialog and lets you simulate
• Export a trajectory: Export a robot program file
• Set home position: Set the home position of a robot
• Restore home position: move the robot to its home position

Trajectories

Tools to create and manipulate trajectories. There are two kinds, the parametric and non parametric ones.

Non parametric trajectories

• Create a trajectory: Inserts a new empty trajectory-object into the scene
• Set the default orientation: Set the orientation way-points gets created by default
• Set the default speed parameter: Set the default values for way-point creation
• Insert a waypoint: Insert a way-point from the current robot position into a trajectory
• Insert a waypoint preselected: Insert a way-point from the current mouse position into a trajectory

Parametric trajectories

• Create a trajectory out of edges: Insert a new object which decompose edges to a trajectory
• Dress-up a trajectory: Lets you override one or more properties of a trajectory
• Trajectory compound: Create a compound out of some single trajectories

Scripting

See the Robot API example for a description of the functions used to model the robot displacements.