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Mechanical engineers and designers in search of a tool to integrate their robotic simulation and programming into their CAD workflows
About RobotWorks
RobotWorks is a CNC-style program for off-line programming of industrial robots. It is an add-in to SOLIDWORKS, acting upon CAD objects (faces, edges, etc.) within an assembly. Creation parts, tools, fixtures, work-cell parts, and a robot path inside one interactive environment. Automatic path generation along CAD features (faces, curves, and more) Simulating robot and tool motion, collision detection, external axes, robot joint limits, and more. Handles offsets, user frames, and motion in several coordinate systems. Imports points from CNC programs and other formats and make them robot programs. Translates and writes robot programs in most industrial robots formats Affordable PC solution for the end user, simple and intuitive, and has a very short learning curve Among its many features, RobotWorks can generate without effort a path for "Carry Part," in which the part is manipulated against a fixed tool.
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SOLIDWORKS
Founded: 1993
United States
www.solidworks.com/partner-product/robotworks
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