# Pick object with vacuum tool.
**URL:** https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/pick-object-with-vacuum-tool/9475
**Category:** RobotStudio
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/pick-object-with-vacuum-tool/9475 "2020-04-30T18:35:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jthyge](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/jthyge)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/pick-object-with-vacuum-tool/9475/1 "2020-04-30T18:35:52Z")
Hi
I am trying to pick up at box, using the Vacuum 2x3 tool.
The tool seems to work. When i send the value 1023 to giSCToolActivators the visualization changes from green to yellow.
However i am not able to pick up at custom made box. I tried with physics as Kinematic and dynamic.
What am i missing?
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### Author:  [@graemepaulin](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/graemepaulin)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/pick-object-with-vacuum-tool/9475/2 "2020-04-30T20:17:42Z")
Is this a smart component you have down loaded from the RobotApps or did you create it yourself?
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### Author:  [@jthyge](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/jthyge)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/pick-object-with-vacuum-tool/9475/3 "2020-04-30T20:29:04Z")
Oh, i found it in the Import Library-\>Equipment -\>Grippers.. Assume is a default RS tool?
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### Author:  [@graemepaulin](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/graemepaulin)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/pick-object-with-vacuum-tool/9475/4 "2020-04-30T20:59:19Z")
I do not have a grippers group only tools, and Vacuum 2x3 is not in that group.
Smart components need the simulation to be running to work correctly.
If you do not want the program to run - in the simulation setup you can de-select the robot (leaving the smart component selected), then you can press play and the robot program will not run but the smart component is.
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### Author:  [@jthyge](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/jthyge)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/pick-object-with-vacuum-tool/9475/5 "2020-05-01T10:56:34Z")
I have now made a test setup with the ABB FelxGripper 2.0 Vacuum\_Pallet gripper, and runs the program in simulation.
Same result, the indication changes, but the gripper doe not interact with the box.
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### Author:  [@jthyge](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/jthyge)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/pick-object-with-vacuum-tool/9475/6 "2020-05-01T15:08:33Z")
Solved the problem designing my own tool. Much learning in doing that.
There are no shortcuts in RS… 😉