Posts by LaserTech

Thank you for the info. The bulk of my calculations are done externally from the robot.

The 1-100 is the percentage of deceleration ignored.
Ive always wondered if cnt0 is the same as fine, not sure if thats allowed tho

If you have a manual the list of system variables is located in the "Software Reference Manual" section 2.
well in my r-30ia manual at least...

How many decimal places can be stored in a register?

assuming R[1] = 5.5555
If I were to teach two points and tell the robot to move in R[1] seconds, would it lop off or round any of the numbers?

r-30ia v7.70

I would have used Robot or Digital i/o with push buttons.

The camera method is probably better.

Could I use bglogic to change a position register that I use for an offset? or would that not take till the next time that statement is executed?

Due to thermal expansion some parts we weld on warp.
I need to change an x y or z coordinate of the robot during an already running program based on i/o signals.

Is there a way to accomplish this without a PLC?

Alright thanks. I guess I am a regular guy. They haven't treated us too nicely after buying used from a company not on their integrator list

When I was at fanuc they made it seem like roboguide costs alot, but they have it availible for download.
If I download roboguide from Fanuc's Customer Resourse Center will they charge my company?

You could use "wait" statement if you know the time.
We generally use this and time before with our powder feeders.

We have an R-30ia that does this.
I have also noticed that from ut:1 the tp files larger than 1mB are only partially loaded onto the controller.
To load files larger than 1mB in my case htmls I have plug into the controller ud:1. The transfer speeds are noticeably faster also.

Thank you Jay, I stumbled onto your blog sometime last week.

I'd like to right a program with a graphic user interface to give the operator an easier way of doing surface speed calculations.

Currently we do this with an excel spreadsheet on a computer in our office. The problem is we have moved our offices to the other side of our shop and potentially we will be buying a separate building for our offices.

I've considered writing something in javascript or php and hosting a webpage to view it on the tp browser.

Is this foolish? I can't find much on the browser itself so I don't yet know if this is possible.
Ideally the program would also change values in the registers to take away some of the possibility of human error. Our controller is a r-30ia with v7.70

What language do you recommend? Karel maybe?

When I use the coord statement it make some wild movements so I'm pretty sure coordinated motion was not configured properly. Your right that'll be difficult without a manual.

I got it working with 3 points, More programming than I hoped especially since I'm following the splines on various sized threaded rod.

Jog, User and Tool Frame all can be stored in postion registers.
pr[1]=utool[1]

Yes same program with group mask set for both groups. Coordinated motion j619 is installed as well as multi group motion j601.

Thank you for your efforts. I dont have very much experience with robots, but as a programmer I am learning quickly.
- I wish I had a manual

This is on a positioner, its a linear move because I need to move the robot simultaneously parallel to the positioners axis.
This is my first time trying to move more than 1 group at a time without using the Run statement to move a group in the backround.

I have a fanuc robot with 2 external axis's and need to spin one of them with continous turn in intervels of 360 degrees.
My trouble is that it wont rotate -360 or +360 only stays still. It also goes to the nearest point in any direction when lesser values than 360.
Is there a way I can be very specific in the direction and degree of rotations?