0. Installation

If your license includes access to Verbotics Cell Editor, you’ll be able to access installers for software from the Downloads page on the Verbotics Accounts Website.

Cell Editor will appear in the Product drop-down menu, and when selected, will provide several versions you can select from. Verbotics Cell Editor has support for Windows, Linux and ARM devices.

Download the latest version for your device, then follow the installation prompts to install the software on your computer.

Cell Editor Format

The underlying format that Verbotics Weld (and Cell Editor) uses is the Unified Robotics Description Format. URDF (Universal Robot Description Format) is an effective method for representing a robot and its world, including all static colliders and links on the robot itself. One important concept of URDF is its use of links and joints.

Most of these details are hidden from you when using Cell Editor. However, it is nevertheless good to understand the fundamentals.

Links are parts of the world that can hold collision and visual models. They do not define position and orientation alone.

Joints are the parent to links and control the positioning of links.

Therefore, when moving a link, what you are actually doing is moving the origin of the parent joint. One useful way to think of links and joints in URDF (Universal Robot Description Format) is to think of joints as transforms and links as connections between them.

See the Joints, Links and Bodies tutorial for more information on these concepts in context with the cell editor.