Simulating scaning robotic hand for a newbie

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Bill M asked Jul 17, '17 Ben Wilson commented Jul 17, '17

Simulating scaning robotic hand for a newbie

Hello, I'm a student and my computer modelling teacher told me to create a project in FlexSim. I chosed this robotic hand. I researched how the movement should be performed (I even got a chance, to try it myself) but unfortunately I'm complete noob in FlexSim and programming. So I need some help. Maybe what should I learn firstly and so on.

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FlexSim 17.1.4

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Jul 17, 2017 at 04:42 PM

Hi @Bill M,

What exactly will you simulate with the robotic hand?

FlexSim excels as a process simulator, where your robotic hand may simply be one step in a multi step process in a factory, warehouse, or work cell.

If you are only concerned with simulating the movement of the robotic hand, outside of its application within a larger system, then FlexSim or any discrete event simulator is probably not the appropriate application. Robotics manufacturers often provide their own simulators to show and program movement for their robots. Depending on your application, that may be a more appropriate platform for the kind of simulation that you need.

Please help us by providing more information about the kind of simulation you are trying to do and how the robotic hand fits into it.

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Answer 1 · 2017-07-17T16:38:33Z

Ben Wilson answered Jul 17, '17

Hi @Bill M,

A good place to start with FlexSim is the beginning of the user manual. Open FlexSim, then from the main menu, choose Help>User Manual.

If you start with "Welcome", then work your way down through the tutorials, you'll have a good foundation for what FlexSim can do and how to build a simple simulation.

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