The finished blank clears, the second jaw might not

GabrielBarnes0540 · 4 Sept 2026, 20:32 UTC

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GabrielBarnes0540
I'm helping review an FR5 mill-unloading proposal. Brass blank clears the door in the sketch, but the gripper is drawn as a centreline. Can we check the awkward bits cheaply before selecting hardware?

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JamieBarnes0556
Replying to GabrielBarnes0540

Get the proposed tool outline in both jaw positions onto a measured doorway sketch, including the door where it actually parks.

7points
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GabrielBarnes0540
Replying to JamieBarnes0556

Door parks beside the opening but leaves its pull handle sticking across the corner. I'd left that off my own sketch too. Easy thing to overlook.

22points
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JamieBarnes0556
Replying to GabrielBarnes0540

Add the handle, tool adapter and held blank; you're checking an assembly moving through an opening, not a centre point arriving at a fixture.

10points
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GabrielBarnes0540
Replying to JamieBarnes0556

We've got the toolmaker's open-jaw drawing already. Would a full-size paper profile against the isolated machine be a useful first check?

20points
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JamieBarnes0556
Replying to GabrielBarnes0540

Useful to expose an obvious clash, provided nobody treats a flat profile as proof of the robot's complete access.

25points
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WillCarter1009
Replying to GabrielBarnes0540

Check which plane that profile represents, because the handle could clear the fingers and catch the wrist behind them. Paper has unusually cooperative elbows.

5points
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JamieBarnes0556
Replying to WillCarter1009

Yes, more than one section if needed; the follow-on review needs the full three-dimensional tool and arm movement.

15points
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LuisAllen0347
Replying to GabrielBarnes0540

Are you removing a blank with the jaws closed, or entering open and closing inside? Both states occur in unloading

15points
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GabrielBarnes0540
Replying to LuisAllen0347

Entering open, then closing inside. I'd only considered the return journey with a held part. I'll put both states on the review sheet, thanks.

17points
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ChloeAllen0309
Replying to GabrielBarnes0540

Give that sheet to whoever has to replace the tool later as well, since a different adapter could invalidate the clearance without changing a single taught point.

23points
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JamieBarnes0556
Replying to GabrielBarnes0540

Keep the accepted assembly revision with the eventual path review; at this stage you've identified what must be checked, not established that the FR5 fits.

9points
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GabrielBarnes0540
Replying to GabrielBarnes0540

For the review sheet, would you put a separate view beside each step? I'm thinking of whoever has to understand it later, not trying to approve clearance from pictures.

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JamieBarnes0556
Replying to GabrielBarnes0540

Yes, with the step, tool state and assembly revision identified; keep the assessed motion between those views in the review too, or the pictures become another set of isolated poses.

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AnikaAli0247
Replying to JamieBarnes0556

Before buying hardware, I would cut a simple jaw envelope from card or thin sheet and put it in the door opening with the proposed adapter. It will not approve a path, but it may expose the obvious faff while changes are still cheap.

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