A collaborative method between CAD and CAR software for robotic cells design

This paper presents a collaborative method to make full use of the advantages of CAD and CAR (Computer aided robot) software in industrial robotic application. CAR software is a necessary tool in robotic cell design with robot programming and robotic cell/line performance simulation with imported CAD model. However, due to the lack of efficient channel between CAD and CAR, the check-and-change design loop is always time consuming. This paper illustrates how to link these two types of software with an intermediate file, which records geometric data of CAD model and robot simulation information as well. With the implementation of this method, a high efficient design-simulation loop is set up and the productivity is highly improved on the engineering site. Finally this paper gives a concrete demonstration.

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