You can actually choose your preferred setting here:
Tools-Options-Motion-Move time calculation
You can set it to “Strictest constrain” and all the speed constrains will be taken into account for each movement.

I am working on a Human-robot collaborative environment. As I see in ISO 15066, the constraint for max velocity of the TCP, is enough in order to ensure safety, at least for free transient contacts (figure A.4). In ROBODK, there is the option to set linear constraints for a joint motion.

Traditionally, a joint move is constrained by setting angular velocity and acceleration. In this way, it is most likely for the joint move to be faster than the linear one, and as I see, this is one of the reasons for someone to prefer joint to linear.

So, is it ok to program a joint move with linear constraints (and not the angular constraints)?

Thank you for your help!

Hi Giannis,
Yes, it is possible. You should use a “set speed” instruction. More information here:
https://robodk.com/doc/en/Robot-Programs.html#InsSpeed
RoboDK uses a constant acceleration until the desired speed is reached.
Albert

Thank you in advance.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the details of your project! We hope RoboDK fits the needs of your customer. For any specific questions please feel free to reach out to us at info@robodk.com.

Best regards,
Lauren

Good day. This a good explanation by you as i understand few of your technical words. Thanks for that

Let me introduce myself. I am a robot teach pendent programmer fanuc abb etc. Also robot simulator and olp programmer of process simulate robcad roboguide etc. Well i dont know much about python c++ etc.

Recently i came across a requirement of my customer where they need to program kuka robot for thermal spray coatings of turbine blades. If you look at the turbine blades its having a very complex geometry and tricky to generate offline program, as you know process simulate or robcad is difficult for complex geometry for olp.

My requirement is i need to generate kuka olp where as that software should be good enough to support complex geometries. Well i mean to say it should be very easy to generate robot paths using 3D cad native files. Hovc thermal spray is used in coatings for longetivity of materials.

I can suggest your software to the customer but at the end its all depends on customer and the software easiness.

Thanks for your explanation.

Hi Kuliah, You can also provide a joint matrix (6×1) and it will use the provided data as joint angles. You can also retrieve the current robot joint position using robot.Joints().

We are glad to hear you liked our posts. By using our Python SDK you can simulate and program any industrial robot arm from any robot manufacturer, including ABB, KUKA, Fanuc, Yaskawa Motoman, Universal Robots and more! A brief example is provided on our website:
https://www.robodk.com/offline-programming
If you have any questions we will be happy to help.

Please contact us at info@robodk.com and we will provide you with the steps.

I’ve been programming ABB robots for about 10 years now and it is by far the easiest language I have had to deal with. Fanuc is so clunky to work with, and you can’t edit it offline without a special program. Rapid feels very similar to Python. If memory serves I think Fortran was very similar.

Quaternions were ABB’s solution for a more compact method of solid body transformations as opposed to the more computationally intense homogeneous transform matrices. Maybe it’s because I’ve been using it so long, but I find it very easy to work with. 1,0,0,0 is when two coordinate systems are aligned in the XYZ axes. very compact and efficient. The ABB is a programmer’s and mathematicians robot as far as I can tell.

I stumbled upon your site because I am trying to find if anyone has figured out a way to run other manufacturers robots on different operating systems. I would love to see Rapid as the standard language.

I’m going to enjoy trying out your SDK!

You should rename the file to SRC file and make sure that the content was properly transferred.
What controller do you have?
How did you set up your FTP connection?
What location in the controller do you send it to?
Do not hesitate to contact us at info@robodk.com if you need technical assistance.

I use RoboDK create a KUKA *.src file , while when I send the file to KUKA Controller by FTP, it displays in *.txt file. Now I can’t run the program in KUKA Robot.