Possible to create laser instrument?

Daedalus

Hi, first time user here.

I wonder if it's possible to create a laser measuring instrument for RobotStudio? It should simply be able to measure the distance to the closest object in the path of the beam.

So far I have created a "safety scanner" by which I mean I created a polygon that was configured as the lasers programmed safety field and I then added a button which checked for collisions using the CollissionDetector class. At last it printed out a simple true or false to the debug window in RobotStudio depending on if there was a collision or not. This data can of course not be used by say a robot in the cell, so the question is how to do it correctly.

I guess I would like a stand alone instrument that could measure these things. In my very simple safety scanner example the functionality was still highly connected to RobotStudio through a push button which feels wrong. But if there is no other way I guess I could go with that.

RussD

You might want to repost this in the RobotStudio forum.