Hi!
First of all, I'm still in a very early stage of learning how to work and program FANUC robots, so this question may be very basic or not clear.
I'm working on a FANUC R2000iA commanded by a R-J3iB controller and, right now, my aim is to reproduce his movements in a virtual robot through the HandlingPRO program. I have already established a connection with a real robot via Tools=>Simulator menu and I'm able to move the real Robot (i.e. only the motion group 1 joints) and to watch the virtual robot doing the same movements.
My problems began when I tried to watch the movements of a rotating cabinet and the robot rail, which are, respectively, in joint 1 of motion groups 2 and 3. To accomplish such task, through the Teach Pendant, I restarted the real robot controller in "Controlled Start", and noted the hardware configuration on Menu => 9. Maintenance => Group 2 and 3 => F4 (MANUAL) => 1. Display/Modify POSITION Axis 1. With such information, I configured the virtual motions groups 2 and 3 in HandlingPRO with the same data.
After such process, I shut down the real robot and started again in "Cold Start" mode, and I tried to call programs to move him to known positions and he did not answered to the requests, giving only an "Abort" message without giving any warning or error on Alarm menu.
I'm able to manually jog the real robot and I've already done a Zero Position Mastering and a Calibration, and he is still not answering to the requests. Does anyone know what the cause of this problem is?
Anyway, when I try to visualize the movement of the three groups of the real robot (by manually jogging the joints of each one of the 3 motion groups) in HandlingPRO, the program gets stuck and does not perform that. Is there any special care or trick to make this possible?
Thank you very much.