Hey, I've got a question. Let's say I've got a stack of parts that I'm building up using the Seek / Stack Wizard, but mid-way through the operation the robot stops (because I need to go into the cell and fix something.) How do I restart the program to start from the position in the stack it left off from? I know how to do it in a pallet wizard, but not a stack. Any ideas??
Restart Stack Wizard Mid-stack
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It is not possible to immediately start from a previous stack position using the Stack/Destack wizard. You can see why this is the case if you look at the way they are implemented in the script file.
One option is to use a Pallet instead. If you configure the Pallet to be a line pattern, then set the StartPos to be the bottom of the stack and the EndPos to be the top of the stack, you can set the Pallet to remember traversal position between program runs and it should work fine. The biggest difference here though is that instead of setting an item thickness, you have to specify the total number of parts in the line (thickness will be determined automatically based on number of items in the stack, and the distance between the two stack endpoints.)
The other option would be to write your own stack function from scratch.