Copy paste program

Quote from aditya

Can we copy program from one type of fanuc robot to different type of fanuc robot? If so, what differences will it cause?

Never attempted before just was curious.

You can absolutely do this, but you may run into a few different kinds of errors depending on how different the robots are. If you copy a TP program that uses instructions that don't exist on the target robot, then the program will likely fail to load with a syntax error (example: copying a TP program that contains a Spline Motion instruction to an older software version would just fail). This could also include information in the program header, such as trying to copy a program with singularity avoidance enabled to a robot that doesn't have the option.

In other cases, the program syntax could be correct, but the robot's mechanical configurations are so different that it causes issues. If you copy a program from a four-axis robot to a six-axis robot, the TP program might build/load just fine, but you will get an "uninitialized data" fault when you try to execute the program, you might get reach, configuration, or limit errors because the point data is invalid. Or if you copy from a robot that has one motion group to a robot that has two, you might get "uninitialized data" errors for the missing position info.

If the robots are similar enough in software version, then oftentimes, things will just work and maybe require point re-teaching/touchups.