Simulting palletizing process

Simotion

In robotstudio I can already let my program run : the robot picks boxes and places them on the pallet.
But I have no visual simultion of the boxes for now.
What I would want is to see exactly where the boxes are dropped on the pallet.
What is an easy procedure to visualise the box in the gripper and then see it placed on the pallet.
I know there are some demo video's but it the whole process looks rather complex, I just need to see my boxes in the gripper and afterwards
on the pallet.
Has someone good advice or basic video's for that?
Thanks.

Jonathan Karlsson

One way to do this is to just attach a box to your gripper(to get it in the correct spot you may need to change the local origin for the box).

Then you can just use view robot at target at each placement point and copy and paste the box.

Alternatively you can step through the program and copy and paste the box at each position where you would want to drop one off.

To make the whole process automatic you would have to use smart components though and then it gets a bit more complicated.

Simotion

Any suggestion on a good tutorial for smart components, for the situation I need it in?

Jonathan Karlsson

The best suggestion I can give is to use the tutorial at http://www.robotstudio.com/tutorial/13b/CreateInFeeder.html. There is a whole series of tutorials if you go to http://www.abb.com/roboticssoftware, click on How to use it and then Free tutorials.