FR5 unloading route without its gripper body

Martin_Bowen · 22 Feb 2026, 06:38 UTC

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Martin_Bowen
Our steel-blank removal sketch includes the fixture and a line to the FR5 wrist, but no gripper body or open door. I need a combined access check. More precisely, I need the loaded withdrawal and the empty return checked, not another picture of the wrist reaching the same point.

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JamieBarnes0556
Replying to Martin_Bowen

Get the complete tool assembly and a measured open-door survey into the same model first, including the blank's actual position in the fingers and the connections behind them.

23 points
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Martin_Bowen
Replying to JamieBarnes0556

Tooling has the assembly drawing already. The machine survey only gives the opening size; it does not show the door panel parked beside it.

5 points
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CalebChan1102
Replying to Martin_Bowen

Include the handle and stay. They occupy real space too.

12 points
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Martin_Bowen
Replying to CalebChan1102

Yes. I have asked the machine contact for that full parked-door outline, rather than measuring only between the guards again.

17 points
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LeoAllen0275
Replying to Martin_Bowen

On our last layout the separate drawings were both accurate, but their origins were different. The first overlay put the fixture in a remarkably convenient place. Have the integrator confirm the shared reference before you take a clash, or apparent clearance, as meaningful.

12 points
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JamieBarnes0556
Replying to LeoAllen0275

Useful point, Leo. Include the surveyed fixture location as well as the door outline, so nobody aligns the pages by eye.

16 points
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ElliotBrown0944
Replying to Martin_Bowen

Keep the setter's fixture-change area on that survey. It is easier to reject an obstructing stand before it acquires a price and a delivery date.

13 points
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CalebChan1102
Replying to ElliotBrown0944

And maintenance panel access. Different task, easily forgotten.

11 points
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Martin_Bowen
Replying to CalebChan1102

Setter and maintenance areas are marked on our floor survey. Those were omitted from the supplier's simplified sketch too. I'll give the integrator the survey itself, not just my list of missing things.

22 points
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LeoAllen0275
Replying to Martin_Bowen

That's the sensible source. Do you have a receiving tray position on it, or is the current unloading route still ending outside the machine?

24 points
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Martin_Bowen
Replying to LeoAllen0275

Receiving tray is marked beside the bench. The blank must be placed there, then the open tool returns to the machine. No extra turn of the blank intended.

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JamieBarnes0556
Replying to Martin_Bowen

Then retain that orientation in the assessment; if the supplier proposes turning it for clearance, tooling has to review the changed grip and placement too.

20 points
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Martin_Bowen
Replying to JamieBarnes0556

Combined model returned. The proposed withdrawal crosses the parked door handle. The integrator has suggested moving the stand sideways, but has not assessed that candidate through the complete route yet.

17 points
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ElliotBrown0944
Replying to Martin_Bowen

Does that proposed move enter the marked setter area? Worth checking before they spend time refining the motion.

20 points
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Martin_Bowen
Replying to ElliotBrown0944

It sits on the edge of the marked area in their sketch. I cannot tell whether the base footprint is complete. That is now a specific question for the integrator and setter.

16 points
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LeoAllen0275
Replying to Martin_Bowen

So the original position has a known clash and the sideways idea is still a question. I'd make sure the quotation says that plainly.

23 points
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Martin_Bowen
Replying to LeoAllen0275

Agreed. I'm withholding the stand choice and asking for the complete base footprint in that candidate. At least we now know why the original point-reach picture was insufficient.

7 points

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