The Frame That Deflected Enough to Ruin the Process We built a weld fixture on a welded steel tube frame (40 × 40 × 3 mm). The robot welded a frame that pushed against a fixture stop with about 500 N of force. The weld was fine. But after welding, the part measured slightly off …

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