DRIVE 6, degs-ma[5],50

You are in STEP ONCE (see image).

To change, press this area, then press STEP ONCE window to change to STEP CONT.

Robot will then carry on executing program steps as usual.

When you are in STEP ONCE mode, it allows you to then press 'GO' button to advance to next motion step, usually this is used to step through program.

In usual Robot cycle, STEP CONT should be selected for continuous operation.

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In addition to this...……………..

This setting is ONLY applicable for repeat mode (teach mode is different).

Often this setting gets changed when someone is 'stepping' through the program in repeat or by accident and fails to return it.

You can control this setting from a program, as it is a system switch (Aux 0502) called STP_ONCE.

By using the following AS Commands into a program, you can effectively control/monitor for this:

SWITCH ; Returns status of a system switch

STP_ONCE OFF ; Step Continuous

STP_ONCE ON ; Step Single

A simple example would be in your main program at the start to ensure it's correct you could insert:

STP_ONCE OFF

Alternatively, you could just check whether it is on and if so, turn it off:

IF SWITCH(STP_ONCE) THEN

STP_ONCE OFF

END

There are many iterations which can be used due to the flexibility of AS Language and you could implement a full control/monitoring sequence in a PC Program to effectively 'lock' this setting down under certain conditions...…...but keeping it simple, a simple activation at the start of the main program is usually sufficient enough in most cases...……