DATAKIT Offers ROBCAD for Robotic Workstation and Motion Cycles

By DE Editors

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DATAKIT (U.S. & France), announced that the latest release of its ROBCAD translators guarantees that the quality of the exchanged models is flawless, whatever their size.

Users are said to appreciate the speed of conversions; the stand-alone capability of the solutions, cutting out the need for source or target software licenses; the ability to control facet parameters ensures 100 percent successful file translation from .rf into Robcad’s .co or .ce formats; and batch processing enables the conversion of 1,000 files in one operation.

Robcad is part of the Tecnomatix Siemens PLM digital factory suite, and targets design offices working in automation and industrial IT whose mission is to create robotic workstations and motion cycles. It is used to perform detailed, reliable studies of a robotic workstation or a complete robotic line using powerful simulation tools, that reflect the exact behavior of the mechanism (speed, acceleration, kinematic laws, motion space, etc.) for the planned operations (painting, welding, drilling, riveting, cutting, etc.)

Full control of robot geometry, grippers, and the product concerned (hood, complete car) is indispensable for optimizing and simulating effector paths and detecting the risk of collisions. Most of the robots are available in vendor libraries. They are designed with CAD software and must be imported into Robcad. The grippers, often customized to address specific applications, are modeled by the design office using the CAD software or directly in Robcad. The vehicle part, complete automobile or other capital goods manufactured on robotic lines are defined with CAD software.

For more than 5 years, Datakit has been helping design offices with different solutions that facilitate the conversion of CAD files into Robcad’s .ce or .co formats. Car makers and automotive suppliers, and makers of special machines or automated production lines use these tools, principally for rereading native CAD models into Robcad from CATIA V4 and CATIA V5, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, NX, and the ACIS and Parasolid formats.

For more information on solutions for writing and reading Robcad files, contact DATAKIT.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.