Robot drivers provide an alternative to Offline Programming (where a program is generated, then, transferred to the robot and executed). You can run a simulation from RoboDK directly on the robot (Online Programming). More information about drivers is available in theRobot Driverssection.

Follow these steps to connect to the robot from RoboDK:

1.Right click the robot in RoboDK.

2.Select:Connect to robot…

3.Enter the IP of the robot.

4.SelectConnect.

There should be a green message displayingReadyif the connection succeeded. If not make sure you have the correct IP, user name and password. Also, make sure to properly format for the IP Address in RoboDK as mentioned in the previous sections (127.0.0.1/username@password).

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Note: If the connection fails, make sure you properly established a Network connection between the computer and the robot. Make sure the computer IP is in the same network as the robot. You may need administrator privileges to do so on Windows. More information in thedriver troubleshootsection.

The robot can be moved by selectingGet robot jointsfrom the connection menu, jog the robot, and click onMove Jointsto move the robot from the connection menu.

Tip: If the robot becomes unresponsive, double clickingDisconnectforces the driver process to stop. Then, selectingConnectshould restart the connection properly.

To run programs from the PC directly on your robot you should enable theRun on robotoption on your programs. The following steps describe how to enable the Run on robot option:

a.Right click the program (Print3D in this example)

b.SelectRun on robot

c.Double click the program to start it (or right click and select Run)

This method of programming robots is useful for debugging purposes, however, to deploy a robot program it is better to generate the program offline as mentioned in the previous section.

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一旦Run on robotoption is checked it will connect to the real robot every time we double click a program (or right click, then, selectRun).

These operations are also available from theRoboDK APIand it allows integrating robot programming with other applications. The API is available in Python and C# and other programming languages.

从RoboDK运行程序