Hardware Configuration

You can create your own Hardware configuration, enabling you to simulate possible solutions for your project. Creating multiple hardware configurations enables you to compare different solutions to find the one that works best for your project.

The picture will update with your choices and you can both change camera angle and zoom in and out to get a better view of your hardware of choice.

By pressing show dimensions you will be able to see relevant dimensions while creating the hardware configuration.

First you give your robot configuration a name that makes sense for your configuration.

Robot type

Choose between UR8Long, UR1e0, UR15, UR20 and UR30.

Frame type

Choose the frame you want to use for the simulation. The frames visible are the ones that are globally available in addition to the frames you have added to your organization.

Lifting column type

Choose the lifting column you want to use in your simulation. If you want to use a pedestal instead of a lifting column, you choose “None”.

Robot mounting bracket

Here you can set the height of a pedestal where the robot is mounted. The bracket height is from the floor of the frame, so the totalt mounting height from the factory floor will be slightly more. Notice the two different heights in the picture.

Gripper type

Choose the gripper you want to use for the simulation. The grippers visible are the ones that are globally available in addition to any gripper you have added to your organization.

Custom gripper

You can choose a custom gripper.

This opens up a new window where you can design your own gripper, to test out dimensions, offsets etc.

The gripper will be visualized as a grey box, but will behave as a normal pneumatic gripper. You can also edit the dimensions.

Offsetbracket type

Here you can add a 50mm, 100mm or 150mm offset bracket in the direction of the tool connector (Y-direction)

Primary Conveyor

Choose the conveyor you want to use for the simulation. The visible conveyors are the ones that are globally available in addition to any conveyor you have added to your organization.

Conveyor guide position

Here you can choose if the fixed guide on the conveyor is on the left or the right side

Conveyor direction

Here you can choose if the conveyor comes from the front, left or right.

Conveyor guide width

Here you can set the width of the conveyor guide. For a simuation it will be the same as the distance from the edge of the conveyor.

If you set this to a value below 20 mm you will create crashes with the conveyor mock while simulating, so this is not recommended because it will look like the box crashes with the conveyor in the simulation.

Robot - Conveyor distance

Set the distance between the center of the robot and the edge of the conveyor

Conveyor side offset

Here you can move the conveyor to the left og the right of the conveyor. Positive is to the left and negative is to the right

Conveyor height

Set the transportation height of the conveyor

Secondary conveyor

Enable this if you want to simulate a dual pickup or dual product installation. You will have the same options as for primary conveyor to place it correctly.

Advanced

Lifting column max stroke

Set the maximum stroke used by the lifting column if you do not want to utilize the complete stroke or your chosen lifting column.

Robot - Pallet side offset

Here you can set the distance between the center of the robot to each pallet edge.

Robot - Pallet end offset

Here you can move the pallets towards the conveyor or away from the conveyor. Positive value moves the pallet towards the conveyor, while negative value moves the pallets away from the conveyor

Robot - Pallet vertical offset

Here you can move the pallets vertically to be able to simulate whether the pallets are placed higher than the factory floor.