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RobotWorks provides a path manager in
which you can set the desired pitch to faces. The path manager
(middle and right forms) shows selection of a small pitch (0.1
mm) for face 10 of Chamfer2 of part JetBlade-1.
It is not uncommon on parts like jet engine blades to have
such small movements, which would be impossible to enter
manually.
This part is being deburred by a robot carrying a rotary tool.
We created three chamfers on the part itself, to represent the
sharp edges we want to break.
We clicked once on each chamfer, and RobotWorks calculated 427
points along the path, giving each face its appropriate point
spacing.
This could have taken three days using a teach pendant and a
real moving robot. Instead it took about 15 seconds on our
desktop.

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