mapping points on helical path

[davide80]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem to ask you. I have to deal with a metal coating problem performed by a robot along a helical path.
I would need to know whether it was possible or not to map the points where the end effector of the robot is in a perfectly orthogonal position to the piece (for cylindrical hypothesis) so that the path and control of the robot can be properly programmed.

thanks to all in advance.

davide

 

[meccanicamg]

you can define it in various ways. I suggest you try the command and verify directly what you can do and how you need it. propellers can be defined by points directly by the user. But I don't think you can always get a series of coordinates if you don't quote them, so you lose automatism.

 

[re_solidworks]

Frankly I did not understand what you should get from solidworks, it seems to me a problem to solve with a cam, not with a cad.

 

[davide80]

This is a question that they have proposed to me by a company that deals with metal coating and asked me whether or not to map the path of a kuka robot that performs this operation so as to verify that the end effector is always perpendicular to the object to be "spruzzare" in order to have a uniform homogeneity.
not being my field I thought well to turn the question here to the forum where there are so many experts in different ectors who might have helped me.

I'd work with a cam, too.

Thank you all.

 

[xxfast]

This is a question that they have proposed to me by a company that deals with metal coating and asked me whether or not to map the path of a kuka robot that performs this operation so as to verify that the end effector is always perpendicular to the object to be "spruzzare" in order to have a uniform homogeneity.
not being my field I thought well to turn the question here to the forum where there are so many experts in different ectors who might have helped me.

I'd work with a cam, too.

Thank you all.

If you do the program on the kuka robot, I think there's no problem doing what you say. you just need to insert the right x-y-z coordinates.
if to map you intend to report the path of the robot on solidworks, I don't know.

 

[meccanicamg]

create a propeller/spiral path, create the appropriate geometry on the robot wrist with your clamp, then bind the end effector to the path. if you have placed the minimum and maximum constraints on the robot so that it can not take strange configurations you can even read the rotation of the encoder axes or simply the xyz coordinates of the wrist. just put some geometry and constraints together and some guided share to read in points of interest.

 

[SolidUser]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem to ask you. I have to deal with a metal coating problem performed by a robot along a helical path.
I would need to know whether it was possible or not to map the points where the end effector of the robot is in a perfectly orthogonal position to the piece (for cylindrical hypothesis) so that the path and control of the robot can be properly programmed.

thanks to all in advance.

davide

try to generate a propeller and put on the points you want, as from attached image and then use the macro that I attach to you.
I tried it on 2011, if it doesn't work, it's because it points to the 2011 library.
to solve the problem, read qui.