Fanuc WeldPro simulator locking up.

[tayte2003]

When I move the robot with large IGES files it keeps on moving until it crashes.
and the CPU usage will shoot up to 90%. When I use small simple files it works fine.
My pc specs.
M/B MSI P35-Neo-F Intel QC/DC/D DDR2 ATX
Intel Duo Core LGA775 2.0GHZ E2180
Mem. 2 Buffalo 2G PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHZ total 4gig.
Vid. 9600GT-T2D512 512MB DDR3 PCIE2.0 DVI
HardDrive WDC 80G SATA3 DS 7200 8M
Any recomendations would be appriciated!
Thank You!
Tayte

[TylerRobertson]

Do you have CAD software you can analyze the file in? Try importing and exporting with different tolerances, or using a different filestructure.

[anonymous]

tayte2003,

If the robot is "crashing" -- not the PC you are running the simulation on, click Tools on WeldPRO's menu bar and select Options to show the Options dialog box. In the Options dialog box, move the Teach-Time Refresh Rate slider to its minimum value (some experimentation may be required) and click Apply.

[tayte2003]

Thanks
The refesh rate was set to 2 and I change it to 1 and this did help.
I am also changing my CPU from a Intel Core Duo 2.0GHZ. To a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor I am hoping that will take care of it.

As far as know the only files WeldPro will accept is IGES files. I have imported from ProE as IGES and Photo IGES. The Photo IGES turn out to be a good 70 meg smaller then the standard IGES giving me a file of 150meg. After I create the cell I delete the IGES files and WeldPro creates a smaller CSB. file from its cache that is about 60meg.
Any other suggestion anyone has I would appreciate!
Thanks for your replies!
Tayte

[laurens.deprez]

Hi,
I had the same problem with Paintpro, a special option of Roboguide. Good results can be gotten with Pro/E iges files using the trimmed (or windows?) surfaces option when exporting the CAD file in combination with moving the slider in the tools option to 1 or 2.

But the best result by far you get by turning off all collision detection in the workcell; this can be done with one click in the workcell properties. Of course you will want to check on collisions once in a while, but when making programs, teaching or touchup, you don't need it all the time. With collision detection turned off, you can put the refresh slider back to 5 or even 10, without any problems, and with the benefit of smoother motion.

Hope this helps.
Laurens

I had a question myself with no replies uptil now, so if anyone wants to check it and see if they can help me? (posted on april 29)

[bender]

I had a similar problem, as in the above response I also found turning collision detect off helped. Also I found toggling the Teach pendant on/off switch helped by interrupting whatever the robot was doing.

[[fanucker]]

advice: use a iges cad saved with surface 14 attribute or something similar and be sure to load as lighter as possible in order to don't overload CPU.

hope this help