This part is being deburred by a robot carrying a rotary tool. We created three chamfers on the part itself, to represent the sharp edges we want to break. We clicked once on each chamfer, and RobotWorks calculated 427 points along the path, giving each face its appropriate point spacing. This could have taken three days using a teach pendant and a real moving robot. Instead it took about 15 seconds on our desktop.
Robots don t just move from here to there, but activate hardware and tools at points along the way.
This activity or event is attached to a point, and the robot takes care of it when it reaches that point during motion. While the path itself may be entirely geometry driven, events require the knowledge of the robotic process itself. Sometimes the design engineer may do it himself. Usually the robot operator, engineer or supervisor will need to add their touch to the final outcome by supplying the missing events. Once the path is made and visualized from beginning to end, you can scroll slowly along the path one point at a time, with the tool shown at each point.