Hello everyone,
We have two Trumpf welding cells in our company. Each is equipped with a UR10e.
Since programming with in-cell teaching is very time-consuming and results in long downtimes, we are looking for a way to program the robots offline on the PC.
We envision the whole thing as follows: the welding cell is displayed in 3D in the program, and we place the 3D model of the component to be welded into it.
In the program, we now have the option of defining the travel paths and the start and end points of the weld seams.
Once you’re done with that, you can simulate and optimize the program.
The welding parameters don’t necessarily have to be defined on the PC; this can be done on the robot itself, but it would be a huge help for us if all the travel paths were programmed.
Then you copy the program to the USB stick and load it onto the robot.
Does something like that already exist?
There are several offline program softwares that are compatible with UR. RoboDK and Cenit are the 2 that come to mind. They generate workable URScript that you can send straight to the robot. Not sure what you’re using to perform the actual welding, but if it’s a UR CAP then it’s unlikely that the offline programming will be able to insert those nodes into the program. But as you said, it should at least get the paths created and you can go back and add weld params later.