Addon Modules Developed for Optimally Programming Your Robots

Is manual robot teaching creating a bottleneck in your manufacturing? This slow and error-prone method limits your ability to take on complex and high-value projects. It’s time for a better way! Robotmaster’s powerful CAD/CAM modules integrate directly with your CAD, allowing you to generate and optimize complex robot toolpaths in minutes, not days. Stop programming by hand and start unlocking your robot’s true potential.

The High Cost of Manual Robot Programming

While manually “teaching” a robot is fine for simple jobs, it becomes a major bottleneck for complex tasks like multi-layer welding, grinding, or polishing. Without a CAM system, businesses face critical challenges that stop them from growing.

Resource Drains & Production Bottlenecks

Manual programming consumes your most valuable resources: time and expert personnel. This creates immediate and costly inefficiencies.

Slow & Tedious: Programming complex parts involves entering thousands of points and commands by hand. This tedious, line-by-line process is often the slowest part of production.

Requires Elite Programmers: This method creates a dependency on a small pool of highly skilled programmers who are difficult to find and retain.

Longer Lead Times: The extensive setup time for manual programming drastically reduces your factory’s throughput, making it difficult to compete on small-batch or custom jobs.

Compromised Quality & Stifled Innovation

When programming is a chore, you are forced to compromise on both the quality and complexity of your products.

Restricts Design Complexity: Engineers are forced to simplify their designs to what can be coded by hand, directly stifling innovation and your company’s market potential.

Inconsistent Quality: Achieving the consistent, premium surface finish and tight tolerances required for high-value parts is nearly impossible with manual methods.

Inefficient Toolpaths: Manually created paths are almost always less efficient than CAM-generated ones, resulting in longer cycle times, increased tool wear, and wasted material.

Disconnected Workflows & Collision Risks

A manual process creates a dangerous and inefficient gap between your digital designs and your physical manufacturing floor.

No Collision Simulation: Without simulation, you are forced to rely on risky and expensive trial-and-error testing on the factory floor, leading to tool collisions, machine damage, and scrapped parts.

Broken CAD-to-Path Workflow: Any change to the CAD model requires a complete, time-consuming rework of the entire program, introducing delays and new opportunities for error.

Multi-Robot Complexity: Managing different robot brands without a universal platform requires learning multiple coding languages, creating a management nightmare that slows down the entire factory.

Build Your Ideal Workflow with Robotmaster CAMs

For manufacturers and robotic programmers seeking to optimize their workflow and budget, Robotmaster offers a flexible and powerful solution through its diverse range of specialized CAD/CAM modules. This modular approach allows users to select and implement only the specific functionalities they need, ensuring a cost-effective investment tailored to their unique production requirements.

This targeted selection of add-on modules empowers users to build a customized Robotmaster experience. Whether the focus is on intricate welding, precise milling, or smooth surface finishing, there is a module designed to enhance the efficiency and quality of the robotic process. This eliminates the need to purchase a comprehensive, and more expensive, software package with features that may go unused.

CAD Module: Design & Modify Directly in Robotmaster

Eliminate the time-consuming back-and-forth between different software packages. The integrated CAD Module brings a powerful suite of design and modification tools directly into the Robotmaster environment. Whether you are creating supplementary geometry for a fixture or modifying a customer’s existing part, you can prepare, correct, and perfect your models without ever breaking your workflow, dramatically accelerating your time to production.

Build parts from the ground up with a full set of 2D and 3D creation tools. Generate wireframes with lines, arcs, and splines, or create complex solids using features like extrusion and sweeping. For imported models, a robust toolkit makes modifications effortless. Quickly patch imported geometry by creating curves from edges or using the Fill Hole command. Perform advanced solid modifications with powerful Boolean operations, or add professional finishing touches like solid fillets and chamfers. This comprehensive toolset ensures your parts are ready for programming without ever leaving Robotmaster.

Applications: Modify/Create CAD files, Design custom fixtures, Repair “broken” or imperfect models, Create reference geometry for programming, etc.

Contouring Module: Instant Edge & Path Detection

Go beyond manual path creation. With our innovative automatic path detection, you can simply click on a surface, and Robotmaster will instantly identify and generate toolpaths for all associated edges. From there, effortlessly select the exact range you need, and your paths are ready in seconds. This eliminates tedious manual selection and dramatically accelerates programming for intricate parts.

Whether using automatic detection, swarf paths, or creating paths manually from CAD geometry, you retain complete control. Fine-tune every aspect of the operation with detailed parameters for tool speed, cutting depth, and precise approach and retract motions to ensure a perfect result every time.

Applications: Laser Cutting, Waterjet Cutting, Trimming, Deburring, Routing, Dispensing

Cycles Module: Automate High-Volume Drilling & Repetitive Tasks

Effortlessly conquer high-volume production with the Cycles module, engineered to handle extreme complexity. Whether your part contains thousands of holes, points, or lines, you can bypass tedious manual programming. Simply use a window select over the desired area, and Robotmaster instantly detects all cycle features automatically, transforming what would be an impossible manual task into a fully programmed routine in seconds.

Beyond initial creation, Robotmaster intelligently optimizes the path order to ensure the most efficient sequence of operations, minimizing robot travel and saving valuable production time. You maintain complete authority over the process with granular control of all essential tooling parameters, including tool speed, clearance, depth, and precise approach and retract motions to guarantee a perfect result every time.

Applications: Drilling, Tapping, Riveting

Welding Module: Precision Welds, Simplified

Program complex welds with unparalleled ease and precision. The Robotmaster Welding module turns tedious programming into an interactive, visual workflow. Simply click the seam you want to weld, and the software instantly generates an intelligent path, automatically calculating perfect torch angles and creating flawless transitions around corners.

For even greater power, take command of advanced settings like MultiPass layering, Push/Pull Angles, and corner-specific parameters. Drastically reduce your programming time, eliminate errors through simulation, and deliver consistently high-quality welds on every part.

Applications: MIG Welding, TIG Welding, Laser Welding, Arc Welding, Plasma Welding

Touch Sensing Module: Adapt to Real-World Part Variations

Weld with absolute precision, even when your parts aren’t perfect. The Touch Sensing module for Robotmaster bridges the gap between your ideal CAD model and the physical part on the factory floor. It uses the robot’s own wire or nozzle to find the true location of the weld seam, automatically adjusting the program to match reality.

This powerful, software-driven approach gives you the accuracy of expensive laser trackers without the cost. The intuitive point-and-click setup makes programming search routines fast and error-free. For maximum efficiency, upgrade to the Welding with Touch Sensing module to automate the entire process, generating both touch points and weld paths in a single step.

Applications: Welding large or imprecise fabrications, adaptive manufacturing, cost-effective alternative to laser tracking.

Surface Paths Module: Perfect Surface Finishing, Simplified

Perfect surface finishing, simplified. The Surface Paths module transforms programming for sanding and polishing into a fast, visual process. Simply select your surface, choose from powerful strategies like Parallel or Morphed paths, and instantly generate a toolpath that flows perfectly across your part.

Go beyond basic back-and-forth motions and apply Path Patterns like Figure 8 or Trochoidal to mimic the movements of a skilled technician. You can fine-tune the tool’s contact point with precise tilt and shift adjustments to guarantee consistent surface quality and optimal tool life.

Applications: Sanding, Grinding, Polishing, Spraying, Inspection, Surface Finishing.

3D Printing Module: Turn Your Robot into a Large-Format Printer

Turn your robot into a large-format 3D printer. The 3D Printing module for Robotmaster unlocks the world of additive manufacturing, allowing you to fabricate strong, complex polymer parts with unparalleled freedom. By using all of your robot’s axes, you can print on curved surfaces and eliminate the need for most support structures, saving significant material and post-processing time.

Our intuitive software makes it easy to slice your CAD models and generate optimized, multi-axis toolpaths that produce stronger parts with a better surface finish. From rapid prototyping to large-scale production, this module provides a powerful, efficient, and cost-effective solution for modern manufacturing.

Applications: Rapid prototyping, jigs and fixtures, end-use parts, support-free printing.

Cladding Module: Automate Robotic Repair & Hard-Facing

Repair and enhance your parts with unparalleled robotic precision. The Cladding module for Robotmaster makes it easy to add wear-resistant coatings or rebuild worn components using advanced Wire-Arc (WAAM) and Laser Aided Manufacturing (LAM) technologies. Extend the life of your valuable assets by creating flawless, durable surfaces on parts of any complexity.

Our software excels at generating toolpaths that perfectly conform to any surface you select. More than just motion, it gives you direct command over your entire deposition process. Fine-tune critical hardware settings like Laser Power, manage two independent Powder Feeders to create custom blends, and regulate Shielding and Conveying Gas—all from within the Robotmaster interface. Combine this deep control with multiple path strategies and a seamless hybrid workflow to build, repair, and finish-machine parts to perfection.

Applications: Part repair, custom material hard-facing, corrosion protection, hybrid manufacturing, creating custom alloy surfaces.

Intercam Utilities: The Ultimate Toolkit for Accuracy & Automation

Solve your most advanced programming challenges with the Intercam Utilities toolkit. This module enhances Robotmaster with powerful tools for high-fidelity calibration and data automation. Its centerpiece, the Best Fit Calibration Frame, closes the gap between design and reality by perfectly aligning your virtual CAD model to the true position of your parts and fixtures, including rotary axes.

Drive your programming directly from data by importing point lists from text files to instantly create operations. You can further streamline your entire workflow with automated path synchronization from a designated CAM folder and the ability to export a detailed Path Report to Excel for documentation and analysis. The Intercam Utilities module is the essential package for users who demand the highest level of accuracy, automation, and flexibility.

Applications: Workpiece and rotary axis calibration, automated path updating, process documentation, and creating paths from external point data.

Feature Based Paths Module: Stop Clicking, Start Finding.

Stop spending hours manually selecting every hole, slot, and pocket on your parts. The Robotmaster Feature Based Paths module revolutionizes your workflow by automatically detecting geometric features directly from your selected CAD faces. Instantly recognize and create paths for all circles, rectangles, and slots in a single operation, turning the most tedious programming jobs into a matter of seconds.

Gain complete control over the detection process. Use powerful filters to isolate features by shape and dimension, from the smallest drill holes to large rectangular pockets. Adjust the detection tolerance to intelligently handle imperfect CAD data, helping you either find or discard features that differ from their theoretical shape. Once your paths are created, you have full command to edit their properties, re-order them with smart algorithms, and apply transformations like move or mirror, giving you a perfect combination of automation and fine-tuned control.

Applications: Laser Cutting (with Macro), High-Volume Hole Drilling, Automated Inspection & Measurement, Surface Treatment (Brushing, Cleaning), Part Marking or Punching, Dispensing Applications (e.g., glue dots)

The Robotmaster Difference:
Built for Robotics, Not CNCs

While most CAM software is built on the rigid logic of CNC machining, robotic automation demands a more intelligent, intuitive approach. This is the very challenge Robotmaster was created to solve when it was first introduced in 2002. It was built from the ground up on a completely new architecture, driven by a unique vision: to bridge the gap between complex robots and the manufacturing experts who use them.

This vision was brought to life by a diverse team, combining experts in mathematical optimization and AI with simulation and gaming specialists who are passionate about user interaction. The result is a powerful, robot-centric CAM engine that makes programming intuitive, even for first-time users. It provides seamless compatibility with existing workflows but truly excels with its integrated, task-based solutions:

Automatic Optimization: The software intelligently manages tool orientation, adjusts the robot’s position for optimal reach, and smooths tool contact along complex surfaces, ensuring high-quality results without manual intervention.
Simplified Complex Movements: Easily program sophisticated trajectories that are difficult or impossible with traditional methods. Achieve complex patterns, such as figure-eight or zigzag polishing, by simply selecting the desired task.
Intelligent Path Conversion: For robots that support arc movements, the CAM module can automatically convert linear paths to smoother, more efficient arc moves, giving you full control over the conversion parameters.
Effortless Path Generation: Go beyond simple path imports. Robotmaster’s integrated functionality allows you to generate and refine machining paths optimized specifically for robotic kinematics, without needing to learn separate, complex CAD/CAM software.

By focusing on the user and the task rather than on complex code, Robotmaster delivers on its founding promise. It overcomes the limitations of conventional CAM software, placing powerful robotic programming capabilities directly into the hands of the process expert.

Ready to Revolutionize Your Robot Programming?

Stop letting manual programming dictate your schedule and profitability. Take control with the power of CAM, fully integrated into Robotmaster.