Finding where a TP/Macro is called

    Hi All,

    I'm working on a Fanuc R2000 robot in a palletizing application. To cut a long story short, the integrator who put it together seems to have been on their first ever project! (They also went bankrupt half way through, so it's a cobbled together mess). I've never seen anything like it. There is no apparent logic to how any of it was put together, lots of issues, etc.

    The company needs a change made so that a new TP program would be called in place of the old one. I've found the location where the original TP is called (inside a macro), overwrote that command, but the robot still doesn't enter the new TP program. Obviously something else is directing it into the original TP. My question is, aside from combing through every line of code, is there a way to find references to a particular TP (similar to a cross reference?)

    I'm aware I can open the TP programs through a web browser and find keywords that way, but I don't know of a way to look through macros using this method, and since the first reference I found was in a macro, the second one might be too.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

    Hi JenCat28
    welcome to the robot-forum

    What controller is it ?

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    I will do a back up (if I know the controller I will tell you how) and then look at the list of files to see if you find your programming.

    I know nothing about Karel but maybe this program is running under Karel

    Also look under Background Logic (you might not have it because is an option)

    Retired but still helping

    If you don't need the old program anymore. could you rename it to something else. Then name your new program to the one that is called?

    Not the best solution but perhaps a temporary until you unravel what the implementer did.

    &quot;This is one of those industries where the tech level is very high and so are the expectations of our customers(Bosses).&quot; ---&nbsp; RacerMike123<br /><br />R2000ib-165F - R30iA

    A simple way to check it would be to just backup all programs as and .LS files and do a search for the original program name in all TP/macro programs in notepad++ or something similar.

    Should not take more than five minutes :icon_mrgreen:. I guess the macros are saved as .LS as well, but im just guessing.

    But this won't show if the program is called by a CALL SR [] statement.

    I frequently do this by getting the .LS files and using Xplorer2, http://www.zabkat.com/, to search for text in the files. This will generate a list of files that contain the text you are searching for.

    Here's a description of the find text in files feature. http://www.zabkat.com/x2h_2.htm#br_grep

    Also, if you want to go all out, you can look into RefView which has a ton of usefull features.
    http://www.thinkbotsolutions.com/refview/features/

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