About the tutorial videos:

• Left mouse-clicks are animated in red, right mouse clicks in green. As mnemonic device: we use the same color coding as in naval position lights.

• Videos are located in youtube. Depending on your browser settings: It can take 3 to 5 seconds untill youtube changes to the high resolution.

• It may be helpfull to simply watch the videos at reduced speed.

The video below introduces you to a unique concept of robot-programming: uncoupling process and robot motions. It shows the main portion of the robot offline programming and simulation task with AUTOMAPPPS software – after the cell is designed. The individual steps are shown in more detail in the following sections, documents and videos. Step by step and section by section / chapter by chapter.

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AUTOMAPPPS guides the task of robot offline programming in structured sequence starting with all that is needed to build up the robot cell (robots, axes, tools..). Then tool-paths are defined, simulated and checked if they are feasible. Then those tool-paths are assigned to robots and planned collision-free and singularity-free to establish an optimal workflow. Then you can export executeable robot programs. As user, you can follow one step after the other (from top down) in the project-browser. The browser includes the following “Editors”

• CAD model editor: importing, manipulating and enriching

• Work-piece editor: defining CAD models as part to be treated

• Tool editor: loading tool models, creating tool models, parametrizing process simulation

• Robot editor: loading new robots

• Obstacle editor: defining CAD models as obstacles

• Conveyor editor: defining rails, conveyors, auxiliary axes, rotation tables etc
• Scene editor: to construct the robot cells
• Setup editor: to define and simulate tool-paths
• Workflow Editor to simulate,collision-free plan different assigments of tool-paths to different robots / and or different timings – for an optimal robot job.

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The following video shows the interaction with the contents vs. changing the view. If you want to change the view, use the mouse buttons as described after the vidoe in the image in “C”. If you want to interact with the content of the view, e.g. modify a pose or orientation of a part, of a tool-path, of the control-point: do the same with pressed … to be in control.

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The following image show the GUI at start – before any project (.ap file) is loaded.

The individual GUI entities of the start screen are:

• a: general file-functions of windows/linux: “New Project” , “Open Project”, “Safe Project”….
• b: Edit functions for recent changes: “undo” and “redo”
• c: View functions to turn on/off the “sidebar” , “coordiante-system”, “grid-plane”, “rotation center” as well als “rendering modes” (foreground…), “visualization parameters” such as size of arrows, spheres, and transparency, show “path-names” on-off, or “path-visualization-mode” showing the control-points as coordinate systems or points.
• d: Options: So far language options: English, German, Chinese, Japanese
• e: License: Information for license update, especially remote or cloud license
• f: Help about mouse usage and AUTOMAPPPS revision, license detected, dongle detected etc.
• g-j: close project / open project / store project /store project as
• k: defines the view / camera navitation stile: object, camera or viewpoint-centered
• l: defines how the view rotates: 3D-rotation, spherical-rotation, Global X,Y,Z or Roll, Pitch, Yaw
• m: How the objects are rendered: solid, wire-frame or point-cloud
• n: select if you want to have 1,2,4 views of the area of interest
• A: Adding, editing, storing or deleting what has been selected in (B) the project browser
• B: Project browser – guides you through the steps of programming: From top down: ” CAD editor“, to load/import, edit, manipulate CAD Data, ” Work-piece Editor” to enrich a loaded CAD to become a workpiece to be treated, ” Tool-Editor” to model tools with processes (simulation.model), flanges TCPs, and models for visualization and collision avoidance with different stages (e.g. open and closed grippers), ” Robot -Editor” to import new robots and potentially limit the joints for all robots, ” Obstacle-editor” to enrich a loaded CAD to become an obstacle, ” Conveyor-Editor” to enrich a loaded CAD to become an 7 ^th-axis (or 8 th, 9 th), rotation-table, conveyor etc., ” Scene Editor” to assemble objects, obstacles, robots to robot-cells,” Cartesian-Path” for defining spacial approaching motions (very rately used by experts only), ” Setup-Editor” to define and simulate tool-paths and processes, ” Workflow-Editor” to assign tool-paths to robots and plan collision-free, singularity free etc… After a cell is designed, the real programming happens in “Setup-Editor” and “Workflow-Editor”
• C: Here you can select standard views, like from left, from top, stored preferences and you can zoom/fit to the object. Also the use of the mouse buttons for zooming etc. is explained.

X-Y-Z color coding:

in all windows and editors, the axes, coordinate systems, dialog fields to edit values, and preselected views you will find this consistent color-coding:

• red is X
• green is Y
• blue is Z

How to select and edit an entity – how to open an dialog of a entity:

You can select entities in the tree-view, such as meanders, paths, control-points of a path, but also graphical elements such as an “action” a “home-pose-configuration” etc. with the left mouse button. Once selected, use the right mouse button to open dialogs to deal with the entities (copy, move, rename, shift, etc…).

Several functions are also represented by explicit “buttons/logos” at the GUI. Here the dialog is opening already at the left click.

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