Can Kuka.OfficeLite connect to RoboDK through the C3bridge?

Hello everyone,

To keep my question intentions accurate and concise, I'm reposting it with a slight change to the last post.

https://www.robot-forum.com/robotforum/thr…sim-for-simula/
I am planning to connect KUKA.OfficeLite with RoboDK and want to integrate C3Bridge on a VM where KUKA.OfficeLite is installed. The idea is to use C3Bridge as a proxy server to communicate with an external program like RoboDK, creating the following control flow: RoboDK -> C3Bridge -> KUKA.OfficeLite.

In this setup, my goal is to control the robot model in RoboDK and have simulation on KUKA.OfficeLite's KRL Program with $config.dat file's variables.

What I am wondering is:

• Is this method appropriate and technically feasible?

• From my understanding, KUKA.OfficeLite operates as a simulation version of KSS and should be capable of integrating with KUKA.Sim. Also, since KUKA.OfficeLite will be running on a VM, I expect that installing C3Bridge on the same VM would allow it to connect with OfficeLite.

I would appreciate any guidance or confirmation on whether this approach is valid, as well as any advice on the integration process. Please inform you if I need to provide information or need.

Thank you for taking the time to read the article.
It's always a great help.

Thank you for your kind response!
First of all, I apologize if I didn’t make my intentions clear.

What I really want to know is whether it is possible to use OfficeLite with C3Bridge to communicate with RoboDK and exchange data, just as we can with KRC and C3Bridge.

Quote from panic mode

But C3Bride or KukaVarProxy or KukaVarProxy_ForKRC4 are servers for KRC (or OfficeLite). they enable other products to connect to KRC (or OfficeLite).

network roles are client and server. servers are started and keep on running... and wait for connection...but they do not initiate connections to clients. it is the clients that open connection to server. and normally clients also close connection... (unless there is a timeout, in that case server may close it too).

From what I understood from your response, OfficeLite does not directly connect to client software, but it operates in a structure where clients like KUKA.Sim can access OfficeLite. Additionally, I understood that for client software like RoboDK to communicate with OfficeLite, it needs to request a connection to the server, which in this case is C3Bridge. Could you please confirm if my understanding is correct?

Thank you again for always being so helpful!

Thank you for your response!

It helped me a lot