Fanuc 200iB constraint issue

[xchrisgrassx]

Good afternoon everybody,

I am working on a work cell for my company, we need to pitch this concept to our customer as an animation.

My problem is that in the center of the work cell we have a Fanuc F-200iB fixture. The assembly was sent parted out, leaving me to assemble it. This would normally be fine, but now I cant get the robot to operate the way it should.

I was hoping someone could help me diagnose the problem, I suspect it to be a constraint issue. I've reworked it over and over again, but come up empty. You will notice the Top Plate sits at a harsh angle, where I need it to be parallel to the surface.

 
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If someone could help, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

-Christopher

[xchrisgrassx]

Soo.. 

[harco]

I tried downloading your files but a lot were corrupt, maybe a bad download on my part.

Some of the files were imported so this could be a source of your errors.

I assume all the actuators are the same assembly so flexiblity will need to be used.

This can also cause a few problems as you sometimes need to drive other components to make the actuators move.

Try to simplify the assembly, save a copy, remove the actuators, work with only the base and top plate and drive the top plate using constraints only.

Once you have this working then reinsert the actuators and let the assembly drive them.

Hope this helps.

[xchrisgrassx]

Thanks for the reply.

I will give it a shot in a few, makes sense to do things that way,.

My only fear is that once I try and put the actuators back in place, the top plate will flip over or something like that.

Thanks for the input

-Chris

[JDMather]

Can you roll up the EOPs and attach the files here rather than some 3rd party site?

[mcgyvr]

I would have started by placing the base plate (should be the only grounded part in the whole sub) then the top plate and immediately used an angle constraint to make sure they stay parallel..  Then placed everything else.

[xchrisgrassx]

I tried packaging it up as tight as I could, but I cant reach autodesks 1,572,864 byte limit.

Thanks,

-Chris

[xchrisgrassx · Accepted solution]

Solved my own problem, thanks for the interest! My issue was with the constraint on the bottom pushers.

Thanks

-Chris