7 RoboDK Add-ins for High-Quality Robot Simulations

Want to improve the quality of your robot simulations? RoboDK Add-ins add extra functionality to your projects. These 7 incredible add-ins for help you get even more from your high-quality simulations.

Robot simulations are useful for more than just programming your robot. High-quality simulations can benefit your marketing, sales, and customer support processes.

For example, there are 3 different types of realism that apply to robot simulations: operational, physical, and visual. The last one, visual realism, is often neglected but is important when using your simulations, images, and renderings for customer-facing activities.

The RoboDK Add-in Marketplace includes various free and paid Add-ins for getting more visual quality from your simulations.

Here are 7 RoboDK Add-ins for high-quality robot simulations:

1. FilmMaker

FilmMaker is our go-to Add-in for crafting cinematic camera paths within your RoboDK simulations.

Who is the Add-in for?

It is ideal for you if you are looking to add a cinematic flair to your simulation renderings. This is particularly useful when you are using simulations for marketing or sales purposes.

What does it do?

FilmMaker allows you to create smooth, dynamic camera movements to enhance the visual storytelling in your simulations.

Features include:

• Custom camera movement parameters to achieve your desired motion effects, including speed, acceleration, and damping.
• Real-time previews to ensure a precise motion before finalizing.
• Support for linear and circular motion paths, allowing you to create varied visual effects.

2. Record

Record brings recording capabilities to your RoboDK simulation, facilitating easy video creation.

Who is the Add-in for?

The Add-in is perfect if you want to present your robot simulations in a dynamic, engaging way for demonstrations, project showcases, or educational purposes.

What does it do?

Record equips RoboDK with functions for advanced cinematic recording of your simulation and creating video files directly within the software.

Features include:

• Save videos to MP4 or AVI format for easy sharing and playback.
• Attach a camera to an item in your simulation, giving many possibilities for creating videos with unique videos (e.g. following the journey of a workpiece through your robotic process).
• Static and dynamic camera setting, allowing you to create full-coverage camera setups for your video.

3. Set Style

Set Style allows you to apply quick appearance presets to your robot setup, enabling you to easily create a coherent visual aesthetic for your simulation.

Who is the Add-in for?

It is ideal if you are looking to create a strong, consistent visual style across various simulations, such as when you need to align with company branding guidelines.

What does it do?

Set Style provides a suite of presets that you can customize to simplify creating a consistent visual style, allowing you to quickly enhance the overall look and feel of your robot simulations.

Features include:

• Easily accessible toolbar buttons to apply appearance styles.
• Color changes for object surfaces and curves for better visual distinction and project aesthetics.
• Shape changes for points in your simulation to improve clarity and presentation.

4. Sound

Sound adds a whole extra level of depth to your robot simulations by introducing programmable sound effects and background music.

Who is the Add-in for?

This Add-in is perfect if you are looking to improve the auditory experience of your simulation on top of the visual quality. It can also be useful when creating virtual reality simulations of your robotic solutions.

What does it do?

Sound introduces programmable sound effects and background audio to your RoboDK projects, with a range of functions to customize the auditory experience.

Features include:

• Add and toggle sounds, allowing you to easily enable and disable the sounds to add flexibility to during simulations.
• Automate playback with scripts, giving you extra control for more advanced sound design.
• Distance-based volume control. By attaching sounds to objects based on the distance to the camera, you can create realistic audio dynamics easily.

5. Display Panel

Display Panel provides functionality for you to add informative text or image elements to your robot simulation and renderings.

Who is the Add-in for?

This Add-in is ideal when you want to enhance your simulation with extra information. It can display real-time data, supplementary information, counters, instructional displays, and more.

What does it do?

Display Panel enables you to render text, images, and even video feeds within the RoboDK environment.

Features include:

• Dynamic rendering of text to create real-time interfaces, timers, and other interactive elements.
• Support for both static images and video feeds to complement your robot simulation.
• Predefined variables, such as local time or simulation time, that automatically update as the simulation state changes.

6. Snapshot

Snapshot gives you the power to quickly capture high-resolution images of your RoboDK projects.

Who is the Add-in for?

This Add-in is especially useful when you need to capture detailed images of your simulations for presentations, reports, marketing materials, or customer support.

What does it do?

Snapshot allows you to capture both standard and high-resolution images of RoboDK’s 3D view, enabling you to document your simulation with exceptional detail.

Features include:

• Quickly capture a high-resolution image of the current RoboDK view for documentation purposes.
• Background removal, using transparency effects to remove backgrounds, to enhance focus on key elements in the simulation.
• Customizable settings, including adjusting size, anti-aliasing, field of view, and other parameters to tailor your output.

7. Blender

Blender is our flagship Add-in for high-quality simulation rendering. It gives you complete control to create industry quality robot renderings using the industry standard Blender software.

Who is the Add-in for?

This is for you if you are a professional looking to incorporate high-quality simulation renderings. It is ideal for marketers, sales professionals, and visual artists want to take robot simulation to the next level.

What does it do?

The Add-in combines with the powerful Blender software for 3D rendering and animation. By leveraging Blender’s powerful capabilities, you can produce professional-grade animations, videos, and images to demonstrate the features of your robotic solution.

Features include:

• Export RoboDK simulations into Blender to seamlessly transfer objects and motions for enhanced rendering and visualization.
• Export camera motion directly from the FilmMaker Add-in, allowing you to set-up your cinematic scene in RoboDK and optimize it within Blender.
• Export colored objects and animation sequences into Blender to ensure visual consistency and speed up the animation and rendering process.

These 7 Add-ins are just a few of the many powerful Add-ins you can find in the RoboDK Add-in Marketplace.

By incorporating them into your workflow, you can easily create dynamic, visually compelling simulations that are useful and impressive for your customers.

Check out the Marketplace and try out some of them today!

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