Trimming Down the Choices of Trimming Robot Software

While a robot might not be the ide­al employ­ee at a hair salon, when they are equipped with the right soft­ware, they can cer­tain­ly per­form a nice trim­ming job. Many of the com­mon trim­ming oper­a­tions, such as rout­ing and water­jet cut­ting, are made easy and effi­cient with trim­ming robot software.

Motoman offers their Points Importer EG soft­ware to cre­ate robot pro­grams from CAD data. It is espe­cial­ly use­ful when curved parts are used in water­jet cut­ting, grind­ing, or debur­ring. This soft­ware con­verts XML files into robot JBI files. 

Fanuc teamed up with KMT Robot­ic Solu­tions to devel­op com­ple­men­tary soft­ware tools. Trim­Pro is an offline CAD-to-path soft­ware solu­tion. The user can eas­i­ly import CAD part mod­els to cre­ate a sim­u­lat­ed work cell before trim­ming and cut­ting begins. AccuFind is a com­bi­na­tion of soft­ware with hard­ware to be used on parts that have changed their shapes over the course of time. AccuFind uses a sen­sor to deter­mine the new dimen­sions of the part, and applies these changes to the exist­ing trim pro­gram. The same steps are used for cut­ting, drilling, and rout­ing appli­ca­tions. The com­pa­ny col­lab­o­ra­tion also pro­duced Router­Ware and Jet­Ware, both soft­ware pro­grams that pro­duce sev­er­al util­i­ties for cre­at­ing, and if nec­es­sary, adjust­ing cut paths. These soft­ware pro­grams form com­mon geo­met­ric shapes for cut­ting with just a few inputs. 

An option of the Points Importer EG is the G‑Code Con­vert­er EG soft­ware for the trim­ming process. It is an appli­ca­tion-based soft­ware that uses six-axis devices to accu­rate­ly per­form cut­ting, debur­ring, trim­ming, and engrav­ing tasks, to name a few. G‑Code Con­vert­er EG soft­ware applies knowl­edge to cut­ting speeds and angles, as well as rota­tion speeds to devel­op pre­cise cut­ting paths. It is ide­al for work­ing with CAD/CAM pack­ages using spe­cif­ic appli­ca­tion tools to design intri­cate cut­ting and mate­r­i­al removal paths. 

For laser cut­ting, KUKA​’s LaserTech is an extreme­ly effi­cient and flex­i­ble choice.

Cut­ting right to the chase, these trim­ming soft­ware options can be tai­lored to any type of job. Robots​.com can help any com­pa­ny incor­po­rate the right trim­ming robot soft­ware into their pro­duc­tion line. Con­tact Robots​.com for more infor­ma­tion online or at 877−762−6881.