Posts by Welding Panda

Hello!
Perfect answer. Thank you and have a great day!

Maybe there are some additional settings in weld schedule.
How are you referencing weld parameters in the program? If you reference the Fronius Job nr. than this can't be the problem. If you reference the Fanuc schedule, there might be some active extra setting. (Extra dwell time or idk)

Hello!

I've built in a gateway in the cabinet, which needs 450 mA (12-24 V).
I would really like to sort out the power supply from Fanuc's side, but I wasn't able to steal 24 V from anywhere, yet.

Do you have any tips or info or idea, from where I could get some?

Thanks beforehand!

Hello Guys,

some clarification. Fronius' usability depends a lot on the integrator.

Fanuc and Fronius develops the communication together, so there's also a Fronius library as a Fanuc option.

Basically you make a controll start select fronius EthernetIP inside, enter where to start IO-s and its done.

You can use job numbers in the TP programs, or enter each and welding parameter in the weld schedules. Whatever your preference is. You can manage all powersource setting from the teach pendat too. (water cooler, crater fill etc.)

8 mm sheets with a root gap tolerance of 2 mm?

Whats the welding joint geometry?

Hello,

we had the same issue before....

It is not possible the resolve it without the help of Fanuc.

We tried, trust me.

Contact local sales, and a technician will help you.

Some of them can outperform most of the market yes, but most of them will not.
It is also an option to buy robotics oriented ETFs (Exchange traded fund, basically a big collection of stocks from various companies.).

This way you can diversify your portfolio. This way you probably loose record losses, but record wins too.

Here's an article I found about relevant ETFs. On the issuer platform you can investigate which companies are part of the collection and in what percentage.

The best Robotics ETFs | justETF

Which Robotics ETF is the best? The annual total expense ratio, performance and all other information about Robotics ETFs.

www.justetf.com

I'm not an investment advisor though. This is my approach on investing.

You are most welcome.
If you find the source of the error please share.
I'm afraid some of us will get to this point in the future.

By full system backap, you mean "All of above"?
If it's that you can also manually find all .tp files in the backup folder.

If these are not there, the backup might be faulty.

Hello Guys,

I have a problem inside Roboguide.

I'm trying to make a generate a TP program for multiple welding seams.

I can select each individual seam as a feature, but I can only generate a short TP program from each feature separately...

I have tried:

• "Program automatic generation" under the right click menu when I select the part
  • Literally does not do anything.
• Merging each feature in a featuregroup and than creating a feature from this feature group. Than generating a TP program from this feature.
  • This method makes all seams but connects every point and skips approach and retreat segments between each seam...
• Reading the whole damn help menu.
  

I have searched everywhere, but as far as I see now, my two options are:

• generating all separate seam programs, than merging them somehow, or calling them in a main TP program,
• Generating the program from the featuregroup and correcting the path after each seam manually.

None of these seem to be favorable Can anyone offer some advice?

Thanks beforehands.

If it doesn't matter that your other axes moves, and doesn't have to be too precise, I would do it with program shift.

Try with rotation and the teaching method.
Touch up 3 points around the original program space, than 3 points where you want it to be.

Hope this workaround fits you!

Super info thanks!
I will check on our machine. I was applying some DCS paramters, but I don't think I changed this.

Hello,

I have experienced the same thing before.

I never found the reason though... Restart solved it for me.

Hello,

sorry for the late answer. I was traveling.

If I remember correctly, i found it here:

FANUC Robot CRX series: MECHANICAL UNIT - OPERATOR's MANUAL

or here:

FANUC Robot series R-30iB/R-30iB Mate/R-30iB Plus CONTROLLER: Arc Welding Function - OPERATOR'S MANUAL

Have fun in the world of Fanuc!

You are most welcome!

Hello,

similar to a UFrame. You can find it under menu > setup > Touch frames

You will also have to mark it in the search schedule. I Recommend you the arc welding function operator's manual.

The coord pairs calibration depends on the relative position of the table from the robot.

So Fanuc can't possibly calibrate it
Strange manual indeed

$MOR_GRP[1].$current_ANG

try this, for me it displays the rail "angle" in mm.

If you enable this: $SCR_GRP[1].$m_pos_enb

You can check on these: $SCR_GRP[1].$MCH_POS_....

But as far as my I've seen this only updates after the end of each move.


The ArcTool operators manual describes what type of errors you can search for with which "pattern" and combined with each "pattern type". 1D shift / 2D shift / 2D shift + rotation..... and so on.

It describes some basic weld and part geometries too, but after all you will have to figure this out. Your exact task will have unique requirements and tolerances. So you have to know your part to make a logical and empirical conclusion to which setting you have to use.

The details of vector calculations are not described in the manuals, if thats what you are looking for.

Hope I could gather you all the answers you needed!

As far as I know it is not possible. Maybe with some well hidden variable.

Although, you can modify the F2,F3 motion instructions to fit your needs, if you have those.

In case of the Arctool SW, these are arc start arc end and arc point, id I recall correctly.

There you will have 4-4 additional motion instructions to play with