Can someone explain how I can do a direct entry tool frame?
Direct Entry Tool Frame
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ESIELI -
April 12, 2016 at 3:02 PM -
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MENU>6-SETUP>4-FRAMES>F3-other>Select Tool Number To be Modified>F2-METHOD>Select Direct Entry.....then enter your values accordingly
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Yea, I know that part. Where do I get the values to enter? I have the CAD drawings, just not sure what values are needed.
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Picture?
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Yea, I know that part. Where do I get the values to enter? I have the CAD drawings, just not sure what values are needed.Values are from the face plate coordinate system.
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Ok so lets say I measure from the center of the robots face plate out to the end of the tool, then measure how much lower the bottom of the tool is from the face plate, If the center of the tool is centered on Y, do I leave it at 0?
and what about rotation?
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Yes, if where you want your tcp is centered on the tool, then Y (or X, depending) would be zero. If your TCP was inline with the faceplate plane, then Z would be zero.
As for rotations, those happen after translations, in the order of a rotation around X, then Y, then Z. If you wanted your Z axis to face into the faceplate, you would do a 180 rotate on either X or Y.
If you wanted Z to be where X was originally, you would do a 90 rotate on Y
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Yes, if where you want your tcp is centered on the tool, then Y (or X, depending) would be zero. If your TCP was inline with the faceplate plane, then Z would be zero.As for rotations, those happen after translations, in the order of a rotation around X, then Y, then Z. If you wanted your Z axis to face into the faceplate, you would do a 180 rotate on either X or Y.
If you wanted Z to be where X was originally, you would do a 90 rotate on Y
Thanks, I'll give it a try today. I've always done it the manual way of recording. This will be my first time doing direct entry.