How do I compare FR5 positions while the gripper drawing is missing?

AishaBrooks0866 · 13 Sept 2025, 13:47 UTC

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AishaBrooks0866
Supplier wants a base choice for our steel-blank job. Their layout has a wrist point, no gripper body, no open door. I'd like a useful preliminary comparison without accidentally ordering a stand for a point.

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MayaBarnes0562
Replying to AishaBrooks0866

Who supplied the present tool envelope, if there is one?

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AishaBrooks0866
Replying to MayaBarnes0562

There isn't one. Literally a point at the fixture. I've requested the quoted assembly dimensions.

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JaneBrown0945
Replying to AishaBrooks0866

You can still compare broad positions with a marked provisional envelope once you have one. I wouldn't freeze the whole planning job, but I wouldn't order hardware from this picture either.

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DineshChen1169
Replying to AishaBrooks0866

Have you asked the machine owner to survey the door and fittings? The tool drawing won't supply those, and waiting for one should not delay the other.

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LuisBaker0521
Replying to AishaBrooks0866

Include maintenance access. Our cabinet door needed the same space someone gave the robot stand.

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IsaacBaker0520
Replying to AishaBrooks0866

And if they propose longer fingers to reach past the opening, have the complete tool reviewed again. I've seen finger length change while the old gripper outline kept doing service as the official drawing.

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ThomasBrooks0799
Replying to JaneBrown0945

A different approach orientation may be worth comparing before changing the base. That is conditional on the actual assembly and machine geometry, not a claim that your current position can work.

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Eli_Bailey
Replying to JaneBrown0945

Where does the setter stand for a fixture change? I would mark that with the provisional bases, rather than leave human access until the robot path looks attractive.

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AishaBrooks0866
Replying to DineshChen1169

Dinesh, survey is under way. Luis and Eli, maintainer and setter are marking their access on it. Tool supplier has sent a provisional complete envelope; two base candidates remain open.

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RaviBarnes0563
Replying to Eli_Bailey

Keep fixture-change frequency in the comparison too, since squeezing past a stand once a month and doing it repeatedly on every short order are very different nuisances.

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OwenBrooks0834
Replying to Eli_Bailey

Use the actual changeover trolley in that review. Our first training layout left just enough space for the trolley parked, but none to turn it into position. We only noticed when the setter walked us through the task.

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JaneBrown0945
Replying to OwenBrooks0834

Owen, exactly the sort of thing an early layout check can catch. Aisha doesn't need a finished trajectory before finding out a trolley can't turn.

11 points
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AishaBrooks0866
Replying to AishaBrooks0866

One candidate blocks the cabinet opening and is rejected. Other stays provisional for setter access and tool motion. Thomas, supplier will compare another approach from it. No stand order.

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Eli_Bailey
Replying to AishaBrooks0866

Did the setter try the trolley route at that remaining candidate, Aisha, or is that still to be reviewed?

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ThomasBrooks0799
Replying to AishaBrooks0866

Ask the supplier to identify the exact envelope revision used when that approach review returns. Otherwise the provisional geometry can be mistaken for the final tool without anyone consciously making that decision.

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