Safety zones and maintenance areas around machines
A machine needs floor kept free around it: a robot cell's fence, a light curtain's distance, room to open a press's doors or to pull a spindle out for service.
Built in A field or setting does it directly.
When
Other equipment may not stand there, even though nothing flows through it.
How
In the machine's Hardware flyout, under Physical footprint → Safety and maintenance zones:
- Safety zone (m): floor kept free on every side of the machine (
"safety_zone_m": 1.5). - Maintenance area: one side, with its depth and, if it is narrower than the side, its width (
"service_area": { "side": "left", "depth_m": 2, "width_m": 1.2 }). Before and after are upstream and downstream of the machine; left and right are seen in the direction the units flow through it, so the area turns with the line when a row runs the other way.
No other station, pool, scrap bin or terminal may stand in a zone. Zones may overlap each other (two fences with one gap between them, two doors onto one aisle), and the links between stations run through them (the conveyor into a robot cell). Parts of one cell are its own drawing and do not count against each other.
Build layout keeps the zones free: after the stations are placed, it opens a strip of floor wherever something stands in a zone, as narrow as it can, on whichever side keeps everything inside the hall. The rows keep their order and stay straight; the strip lengthens the links it crosses, and the run's transfer times follow. A zone must lie on the floor: a fence past the hall's edge counts as a station outside it.
A canvas you draw yourself is not moved. The canvas draws each zone dashed under its machine, marked red when something stands in it, and a run warns of each one (CLEARANCE_ZONE_BLOCKED).
Keeping an infeed or outfeed free (a fork-truck loading a press from the front, a pallet taken off the end): a maintenance area on the side before or after the machine keeps other equipment off that side, while the links into and out of it still run through.
Zones keep equipment out; they do not stop people or runners walking through, and transport routes may cross them.
Check
A tube saw, a welding robot and a straightening press stand in a row, 3 m long each. Without zones Build layout puts them 0.4 m apart, inside the robot's fence. With a 1.5 m safety zone on the robot, the saw and the press stand 1.5 m from it, and the press's 2 m maintenance area on the left of the flow stays free (test/clearance-zones.test.mjs).