Generating a Collision-Free Path

You can automatically run through all process points, find motions with clash, and solve them by either rotating the process point (manufacturing fastener) or creating additional via points.

When moving from one Drill/Rivet point to another, the Drill-Rivet tool may collide with stringers and spars. Until now, the only way to avoid such a collision was to Teach the task and manually create a via point or rotate the Manufacturing fastener.

See Also
Generating a Spot or Rivet Task
Creating Drill-Rivet Operations
  1. In the Point Fastening section of the action bar, click Automatic Collision Avoidance .
    The system prompts you to select a task, or a resource having one or more tasks.
    Note: Drill Rivet Sequence tasks are not supported by this command.
  2. Select a robot task.
    The Automatic Collision Avoidance dialog box appears, and displays the list of operations for the selected task and an initial Collision status of Not computed for each.



  3. In the Automatic Collision Avoidance dialog box, click Collision avoidance options.
    Options appear that allow you to:
    • Set a minimum Clearance for collision.
    • Specify a list of objects that are considered Obstacles to avoid.
    • Specify a list of moving objects that are considered when computing the collision status.


  4. Select Reorient Process points to reorient tags or fasteners when necessary to avoid collision.
  5. In the Obstacles section, click Add and select objects in the work area to be considered as obstacles to avoid during the collision check. When finished, click Add again to exit the obstacle selection mode.
  6. Click Compute status to determine the initial collision status for each operation.

    The Collision status is updated for each operation.



  7. Click Compute avoidance to update the task to avoid collisions based on the options that you have specified.

    The Collision status is updated for each solved collision.



  8. Click OK to close the Automatic Collision Avoidance dialog box.