Pick and place movements - cool robot clip

[xchrisgrassx]

Hello all,

If you're interested take a look at the attached video clip.

What you will see is one robot tending two tool changers.

I know the quality was rushed, but you should see that one of the two stands actually has the end effector tooling on it.

My question is how do i define a grip from the robot to that tool, so I can move it to the other riser (as you can tell from the animation).

I am not working in Inventor Studio, otherwise this would be somewhat simple. I am doing this in Dynamic Simulation.

My thought was to create a spacial joint between the robot and the tool. But then how would I control through the timing where its location is?

Thanks in advance.

[xchrisgrassx]

Is the solution to just splice multiple renders together? 

For example, do the first 3.5 animation without tooling.

Then animate another with tooling.

Then a last animation dropping the tooling. I would then go try and add them to form one?

I don't like the thought of that, but I don't see any other option..