Yes, it is per robot. Get a quote from Fanuc, it might be cheaper.
If you are an ethernetip user and purchase the advanced EIP package it comes with. I recommend that when buying new.
Yes, it is per robot. Get a quote from Fanuc, it might be cheaper.
If you are an ethernetip user and purchase the advanced EIP package it comes with. I recommend that when buying new.
I think it was less than $1000.
I have done something like that but it's not as easy as you think. There isn't a way that I am aware of to use the 3 point method directly in a program. Instead you have to do all the math to calculate the user frame yourself.
If you just need to update x,y,z or x,y,r you can do it with 3 points from the laser. If you need full x,y,z,w p,r then you must probe 6 points with the laser. Then comes the trigonometry. It is completely doable if you can handle the math.
What size is your connection size in the ethernetIP settings on the scanner robot? Needs to be at least 2 words or 4 bytes.
I don't know anything about powermill but I would suggest making moves continuous (CNT 100) as much as possible.
You want to use the link Navigate ipendant on the web browser. You must have purchased the remote PC ipendant option.
Is your robot connected to the network? Try opening a web browser and typing in the robots IP address.
Roboguide can be used to send and receive files. It has been a while since I have done it this way because I just use FTP. FTP is basically what roboguide does but I find roboguide to be clunky with this.
Basically you set up the real robot connection in robot neighborhood. Need to know that robots IP address and have PC on same network. Then if I remember correctly, there is a project menu in roboguide that allows you to send/receive files.
Otherwise you can do the same thing with any FTP client such as Filezilla or the built in Windows FTP in cmd prompt.
Connect to it can mean different things, (ftp, http, roboguide robot neighborhood, pcdk , web server). Can you tell us what you are trying to accomplish?
In my opinion the best general solution to do machine tending is on request.
If you go down the analysis road you might want to understand the terms "value added" and "non-value added". If you consider it from the point of view of the CNC, value added activity is when it is running, making parts. Non-value activity would be waiting, loading, unloading, downtime. This is the basics of "lean manufacturing". Minimize the waste, minimize the non-value added activity.
It should still be linear, but I would do what you can to avoid it. Usually that situation can be completely avoided by raising or lowering the height difference between the robot and pallet.
The wrist is working harder to maintain linearity during this situation so I avoid it for critical processes.
Probably time to call Fanuc tech support. If you have a license they should help you get it working.
You can create a tp program to assign values. Here is a simple example.
: PR[x]=LPOS-LPOS; (Sets to cartesian zero)
: PR[x,1] = y;
(Set each element as needed)
For comments there are several methods. Linuxsand's Comment tool works.
Sounds like a a powermill issue.
Post the code it produced.You should see if there is a way to make the motion smoother, maybe an option in the powermill software.
I have always used excel for things like that (cycle time analysis).
Move all joints to 0 degrees and see if the witness marks line up.
If not then move them until the marks line up and zero master it at that position.
It won't change anything. All that will do is add initial delay time then it will fall into a groove where you are putting out the same number of parts per hour.
The best you can do is make sure each CNC starts as soon as it is loaded, don't wait for the other machines. Then have each CNC send a complete signal to the robot when done. Have the robot service each CNC on request.
Go ahead and do it on excel and you will find out.
It is called RTCP, remote tool center point.
I believe it does in some manner lock J4, but I'm not sure if it is necessarily at 0 or 180. It seems to work pretty well with HandlingTool.
What version of controller? On newer controllers it auto generates line numbers when compiled. Back in RJ2 you had to manually number them correctly in order to get it to compile.