Hello,
This is my first time posting on this forum. Before I write my problem I will give a short background story what let me to post here.
Recently I have started working as an intern for a small company that works with a DX100 robot. Apart from a short lesson on industrial robots during college, this is the first time I get to work with industrial robots full time. Until, now this company only wanted to produce single products. Tool paths are uploaded from a simulator, uploaded to the teaching pendant with a usb and started. There was no need for more, however(you probably get the gist of it) there is now. The boss wants to make more than a single product each time to decrease downtime.
I’ve read a couple of manuals by now and I have a general grasp of the basics and functions. But information about more advanced stuff like shifting coordinate systems is still a mystery. As I’ve mentioned my co-worker only had to turn on the program on the pendant so he doesn’t know anything about this programming matter either.
We have a robot arm (R1) and a basetrack (B1). What we want is that R1 performs its job then B1 moves a certain distance, then repeat. Reading the manuals, parallel shift sounded like the way to accomplish this. This however, is also where my knowledge ends. I’ve tried to follow the manual, but I either get an error at the point where I try to SFTON or nothing happens at all.
I have attached some screenshots of what I attempted to test this function.
I hope anyone can give me some directions on what to do, while I convince my boss to let me and/or my co-worker follow the actual training program instead just the manuals .
EDIT: can't seem to upload the screenshots so here's a puu.sh link: http://puu.sh/zAHbg/9429c6c9a4.jpgand http://puu.sh/zAHdC/c9bc28ed88.jpg
Mathijs