I have a servo gun mapped to axis 7 currently and the customer would like it to be mapped to axis 8. Is there a way to do this? I've tried going through a controlled start and use the maintenance menu to change it but that didn't work.
Changing Hardware Axis Number
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naduley -
May 9, 2017 at 3:41 PM -
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Have you tried to delete it and create a new one with #8 ?
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I did try that but from what I remember it didn't give me the option to choose which axis. I should also note that this is a GM robot and I have to run a wizard when setting up the servo gun and it always seems to set the servo as axis 7 so i'm not sure if there will be a way around this.
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Why does he want it like this?
Go to variables, $SCR_GRP, select the 2nd SCR_GRP
Change HW_STRT_AXS from 7 to 8.
Then open AXISORDER and change the 7 in field [1] to 0 and put an 8 in field [2]
Cycle power.
I'm not sure if it will work or not. But you would think that it is now the 2nd axis in group 2. -
Thanks for the reply. I found out that they just wanted to be able to jog the servo gun with the J8+- keys and it didn't matter which physical axis it was. So first I had to go into the variables under $SGSYSCFG.$MAPKY78_2SG and set that to false. Then under System-Config-Item 49:J7,J8 jog key setup I just had to switch the J7 and J8 values.