Hello all, i hope the way i am asking question is right 
if not, i am sorry in advance.
My question is:
i am gonna scan a 300mm x 300mm area with an inductive sensor and then If this sensor perceives a metal surface, there will be a process that calculates the center point of the metal piece.
I wanna use SPS file to make sensor check whether there is metal or not, but i dont know how to include SPS file to the SRC file to make them work together
You are on the wrong road.
You should check the sensor in the main program during movement, otherwise you will run into problems with synchronization of the two processes.
Search for interrupt / resume here in the forum.
You are on the wrong road.
You should check the sensor in the main program during movement, otherwise you will run into problems with synchronization of the two processes.
Search for interrupt / resume here in the forum.
hermann actually i already did it as you wrote and it worked well, but now my mentor wants me to do it by using SPS file
Doesn't make sense at all.
I am reading between the lines here but maybe your mentor wants a separate function/program/subroutine instead of everything written in 1 .src file.
Because using the SPS is like what hermann said it doesn't make any sense.
Hello all, i hope the way i am asking question is right
My question is:
i am gonna scan a 300mm x 300mm area with an inductive sensor and then If this sensor perceives a metal surface, there will be a process that calculates the center point of the metal piece.
I wanna use SPS file to make sensor check whether there is metal or not, but i dont know how to include SPS file to the SRC file to make them work together
Maybe giving away too much here but your teacher probably wants something like this in SPS
IF inductive_sensor THEN
metal_surface = TRUE
ENDIF
then you can use the metal_surface in .src and do the calculations there
The reason might be as Leon said.
it makes no sense involving SPS in this. SPS is a low priority task that runs asynchronously to robot program. there is no point in discussing this further unless goal is to show how result becomes less accurate.
Quotei'll try what dogeautomate said
why?! Because A it should not be in the SPS! and B it is also incomplete, ask yourself when is metal_surface become false? if the answer is when inductive_sensor is false then congratulations you just added a few pointless lines of code.
I'm not expert in this so I suggest you listen to herman and panic.
And maybe ask your teacher the reason and share with us 
