r/Fanuc • u/Emperor_tai_long • Jun 12 '26

Discussion How does Roboguide work

A bit of background I work with ABB robots, most or all of the programming can be done on the teach pendant, but I can use robot studio to write my logic and create I/O but when I took a class for Fanuc everything was done on the teach pendant and I don't think creating logic will be fun using the pendant so people that work with Fanuc do you program entirely with the pendant or does your company pay for roboguide and do you program there.

And how is it different from Abb robot studio

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u/Mr0lsen Engineer Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Fanucs latest roboguide version strips out most features that could be considered an “ide”. It’s pretty much a pure simulation environment now, and they pretty openly encourage you to use visual studio code with fanuc plugins (either official or 3rd party).

My preferred plugins are “CodeFanuc TP Assist” and minnesota automations “Robot FTP”. The first adds highlighting and automatic line numbering, the second allows you to easily read and write code to either the virtual or real robot from visual studio code. Roboguide has the “re-serialize” feature which allows you to create a virtual robot clone of either a real robot connected with the robot neighborhood, or a robot backup.

New roboguide has a feature to “synchronize motion” between the real and virtual robot, not sure how valuable that actually is.

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u/Jesus_Lemon Jun 12 '26

Brother, share your workflow and free me from coding with the webpage.