I'm working on a line-tracking job (HandlingPro, not PickPro) in RoboGuide 9ZB. I've managed to build a working first-draft cell, but I'm running into some odd issues.
So far, the only way I've found to get the conveyor to sync so I can teach Tracking Points has been:
Start in a non-tracking program waiting for the Part Detect DI from the Simulation Run Panel
Call a Tracking program
Stop the robot with Hold or by turning on the Pendant Enable, and stop the conveyor motion using the Conveyor Toolbar (not stopping the simulation, because that will reset the conveyor position and the Tracking).
Teach points in the Tracking program.
Reset the Simulation, and run it again.
This works, although it's a bit kludgy. The issue I haven't been able to overcome is that I can't step through the Tracking program. If I stop the robot and conveyor during the Tracking program, as described above, I can add or Touchup points, but any attempt to run one of the points using the virtual pendant throws a fault and resets the simulation as if I'd hit the Abort button in the Simulation Run Panel.
As you can imagine, this makes it very hard to test my Tracking Points at different conveyor positions. So far, the only way I can test the tracking program is in full auto, or not at all. On a real-world robot, if I stop the program and conveyor partway through a Tracking program, I can run to the various Tracking Points and see where they end up, before doing touch-ups, and I'd like to do the same in RG.
Is there a trick to this, or is this just one of those "live with it" RG things?