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dluhosko

Dear All,

I am a begginer in UR. Therefore I am sorry for the "stupid" question.

I would like to ask you, if there is a possibility to edit the program of the robot from PC (connected to the UR controller by ethernet cable). Is there any PC software, which I would connect to the robot and edit the code in the robot?

Thank you very much!

Best Regards
Viktor
chaseFearing

Hi Viktor,

The robot is designed to be programmed via the Teach Pendant but there are a couple options you can consider.

  1. Plug in a keyboard, mouse, and monitor directly to the UR controller to create a desktop programming experience
  2. Investigate VNC options for panel viewing the robot from a remotely connected PC. I would suggest searching the forums for this, or you could use a UR+ product like CobotVNC
If you are implying that you would like the PC to control the robot, then I would recommend you look into the Dashboard Server
jelms

Hi @dluhosko,

There are several options. You can use the UR simulator to edit and work out any syntax issues. This is often faster than actually using a real controller. You can transfer to the controller with a USB drive or using the network.

For a little more advanced, you can read the script programming manual. You can write scripts and send them to a robot of the command port.

You can also ssh into the controller for advanced use cases. I have read about using VNC but not sure how stable it is. See this thread for example.

Best of luck and feel free to ask more questions!
Jeff

Cedricundert

Hello Viktor,
If you want to use the UR offline simulator and your PC runs on Windows, so you dont have Linux Computer, you need a Virtual machine on your Pc. I also just recently started programming and Im using this as a way to program during the time the robot runs a program. But be aware that to efficiently use the Offline simulator you should have a way to load existing programs on your VM (virtual machine). The way I did this was with a shared folder. If you're also gonna do it this way you should know that it was literally impossible to set up such a shared folder with the virtual Box program from Oracle, so I'd recommend another program. I am saying this because it cost me a lot of nerves and I dont want you to run into the same problems, just because that program is free. I hope this helps you and best of Luck!
Cedric