topic Robot path generation from 3D CAD in Inventor Forum

Robot path generation from 3D CAD

singh.vishwa98 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:35:44 GMT

Can Autodesk Inventor help in generating a path for robotic arm movement? Like it is done in this video -Video

Re: Robot path generation from 3D CAD

JDMather — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:42:15 GMT

Environments>Dynamic Simulation and use the Input Grapher.

Re: Robot path generation from 3D CAD

singh.vishwa98 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:45:00 GMT

So will it generate path and give output file (.txt format) for Robot? Also
can I use this output file to directly feed the Robotic Arm software?

Re: Robot path generation from 3D CAD

JDMather — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 16:56:57 GMT

I was thinking more of going the other way - driving an Inventor assembly robot with Excel to simulate the robot motion in Inventor and calculate forces, velocities and so on...

I have never worked with programming a robot. Generating a path (Trace) in Inventor is pretty easy, but I don't know how to convert it to code that is appropriate for a robot control software.

I took a look at the output code from Inventor *.iaa and it is not ASCII text, so I don't know if it is useable in any way.

It appears from the YouTube video that it is certainly doable, but not OOTB Inventor functionality. Would require some coding.

Might post your question over here https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/bd-p/120 and be sure to include a complete description of your goal.

Re: Robot path generation from 3D CAD

singh.vishwa98 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 17:05:06 GMT

Thank You, sir, for the details and helpful advice 🙂