Robot path generation from 3D CAD

[singh.vishwa98]

I am working on a Robotic Arm that can do simple tasks like Pick & Place.

How can Autodesk Inventor help me to generate a path for movement of Robotic Arms so that I can just draw the path in CAD software (Inventor) and it will generate the required code (.txt format) for the arm to move? Like done in this Video - See Video

Also, if Inventor cannot do that task then which software by Autodesk can help me?

** Please go through the video to get better insight

[philip1009 · Accepted solution]

Autodesk PowerMill might be your best bet, although Autodesk has a selection of other CAM software as well, FeatureCAM, Fusion Production, Inventor HSM, I'd recommend you contact an Autodesk Representative for the best solution for controlling robot arms via path tracking.  As for that functionality in Inventor in 2009 as shown in that video, that functionality looks either like an Inventor Add-In that someone made in code or some external software that uses Inventor Apprentice as a plug-in.

[singh.vishwa98]

Thank you Sir 🙂

[GeorgK]

Is it possible to create it with VB.Net and how?

[philip1009]

It certainly is possible in VB, it's basically translating the coordinates of inventor sketch lines into the code used to control an arm to make the same movements necessary to follow the path.  As for exactly how, I'm not sure, that's a level of code in terms of scale and complexity I haven't undertaken yet.

[GeorgK · Accepted solution]

http://www2.dem.uc.pt/pedro.neto/PUB/IC/IC_3.pdf

http://www2.dem.uc.pt/pedro.neto/PUB/IC/IC_11.pdf

https://estudogeral.sib.uc.pt/bitstream/10316/27383/1/Direct%20off-line%20robot%20programming%20via%...

Does someone has expirience with this or some code?