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title: Overview – Introduction to robot offline programming
description: "Wellcome to the AUTOMAPPPS tutorial for faster robot programming / robot offline programming. About the tutorial videos: - Left highlight left mouse clicks in red, right mouse clicks in green. As mnemonic device: use the same color coding as in…"
url: "https://convergent-it.com/tutorial/robot-offline-programming-overview/overview-introduction-to-robot-programming/"
updated: "2025-12-16"
category: "Overview - Robot Offline Programming"
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# Overview – Introduction to robot offline programming

Wellcome to the AUTOMAPPPS tutorial for faster robot programming / robot offline programming.

About the tutorial videos:

- Left highlight left mouse clicks in red, right mouse clicks in green. As mnemonic device: 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. You will see the main portion of the robot offline programming and simulation task with AUTOMAPPPS software - after the cell is designed. We will show the individual steps 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 a 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. Next, you assign tool-paths to robots and plan them collision-free and singularity-free to establish an optimal workflow. Finally, you export executeable robot programs. As user, you can follow one step after the other (from top down) in the project-browser.

**"Editors" of the robot project-browser**

- CAD model editor: import, manipulat and enrich CAD

- Work-piece editor: define CAD models as part you want to treat

- Tool editor: load tool models, creating tool models, parametrizing process simulation

- Robot editor: load new robots

- Obstacle editor: define CAD models as obstacles

- Conveyor editor: define 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.