Once you have the simulation ready in RoboDK you can easily generate the robot program. The robot program allows you to run the program on the robot controller without having to write a single line of code.

Follow these steps to generate a robot program:

1.Right click the program (MainProg for example). You can also hold Ctrl to select multiple programs at once to generate them.

2.Select Generate robot program (F6). Alternatively, you can select Generate robot program as… to specify the location to save the file.

You should then see the robot program displayed in a text editor.

You can find more information about how to generating robot programs in the Programs section.

In this example, you’ll obtain the SCRIPT program file for your UR robot. For Universal Robots specifically, you can export any program individually or the main program including the subprograms.

The file you obtained is the result of generating the program offline. The file can be sent to the robot controller to run the same movements that were simulated in RoboDK.

Note: If you are using a UR robot you can change the post processor to generate URP files readable by the robot controller. Visit the following sections for more information about the difference between SCRIPT and URP programs: How to generate and modify a URP program for a Universal Robots controller and Start a SCRIPT program with a Universal Robots controller.

Note: The Run on Robot option requires robot drivers to work properly. These drivers may require additional software options on the robot controller and/or a specific setup on the robot controller (this is not the case for UR robots).

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Tip: Offline Programming with RoboDK involves using a post processor that defines the syntax used to generate each program. RoboDK provides many post processors to support several robot controllers and different manufacturing applications. More than one post processors might be available for a specific robot controller.

It is possible to change the post processor for UR robots and customize the way a program is generated:

1.Right click a program or a robot.

2.Select Select Post Processor.

3.Select Universal Robots URP.

Note: All the Post Processors that have a black icon can be modified by selecting Program➔Add/Edit Post Processor.

Generate the program again. In this example, the default post processor uses joint values to define each linear move and the second post processor uses cartesian coordinates to define each linear move.

Note: More information is available in the Post Processors section.

Generate a Robot Program