Posts by JMF

Hi.

Have you tried to save the part as a .SAT format and then import it?

p/s = per second

Yes it is mm p/s.

I guess that you have a multitasking system.

Here is some code I have done on a FlexArc Cell previously and maybe this will guide you a bit.

Hope this helps.

Hi There from South Africa.

At our company we have also set up a hand sanitizing station which we are forced to use at lunch and tea. also during work day you can go and sanitize.

We have also implemented a "1 mt from each other" rule and no more group morning toolbox talks.

Myself, have a 20 month old son, and try as best I can, to reduce his risk of him or wife getting it. So if I was my hands 300000 x a day, i don't care.

Also have I requested a hand sanitizing unit for the robot cell and my NB at my Robot just to be sure.

I have, as mentioned previously above, I also think this MIGHT, AND I REPEAT, MIGHT, be a hand made virus for chemical warfare type situation, we all know it does exist, that got out someway or somehow.

But any case, we are our brothers keepers and have to look out for one another working with us and especially our families.

Keep safe all.

Can you supply more info regarding the routine etc where it is happening.

will help a lot if you can supply more details about the system

I find Notepad ++ the best fit for me. It keeps the rapid code like it is in RS Rapid Editor.

If you can access the controller via RS you can restore a backup to the controller. After the restart of the controller, start loading only the modules from the latest backup.

When loading modules:

1 - Know directory of modules.

2 - Right click on your task which the modules should be loaded in.

3 - Select "Load Module" and go to the module directory and select the module to be loaded.

Try to restore a backup which was errorless and reinstall all new modules one by one. See if error is still there.

Hi.

A old colleague got in contact with me this morning regarding the minimum seam bead for tracking to be effective and I was kinda not sure what the minimum is. .What I have gathered through the years is that I normally don't track on anything that have a bead less than 50 mm long because just as the weld is almost over the tracking have started to correct itself and then you are left with miss welding at the start while the middle-to-end weld is moving towards the right location. Center Line tracking specifically.

Does anybody know what is the minimum length of what Weldguide will be able to track efficiently?

Is there any parameters to adjust and make modify the minimum to what you want?

Hi Vikram. Try this code. You can play around with this code to suit your needs even better.

    ! Replace diProc1 and diProc2 with your Station Signals.
    ! Insert Main_Cycle into your Main Routine.
    ! Change your Station Routines in the Trap Routines as required

    VAR intnum intStn1;
    VAR intnum intStn2;
    PERS bool bStation1:=FALSE;
    PERS bool bStation2:=FALSE;

    TRAP tStation1
        bStation1:=TRUE;
        TPErase;
        TPPrint "Selected Station 1";
        ! Insert your Routine for Station 1 here
        TPPrint "Robot completed production on Station 1";
        Waittime 3;
        IF bStation2=TRUE THEN
            bStation1:=FALSE;
        ENDIF
        bStation1:=FALSE;
    ENDTRAP

    TRAP tStation2
        bStation2:=TRUE;
        TPErase;
        TPPrint "Selected Station 2";
        ! Insert your Routine for Station 2 here
        TPPrint "Robot completed production on Station 2";
        Waittime 3;
        IF bStation1=TRUE THEN
            bStation2:=FALSE;
        ENDIF
        bStation2:=FALSE;
    ENDTRAP

    PROC Main_Cycle()
        IDelete intStn1;
        IDelete intStn2;
        CONNECT intStn1 WITH tStation1;
        CONNECT intStn2 WITH tStation2;
        ISignalDI diPROC1,1,intStn1;
        ISignalDI diPROC2,1,intStn2;
        WHILE diPROC1=0 OR diPROC2=0 DO
            TPErase;
            TPPrint "Awaiting Input from diProc1 OR diProc2";
            WaitTime 0.2;
        ENDWHILE
        Main_Cycle;
    ENDPROC

Hope this helps.

First. If you have not yet attended a course for ABB Robot Programming, I strongly suggest to consider it. It will help a lot.

Second. Get Robotstudio if possible. It is lot easier and faster than on FlexPendant.

Third. Can you supply more details regarding the system you are using. S4C/IRC5?

I am using RS and is quite easier for me than on the FlexPendant. I am trying to put something together for you on how to do this on FlexPendant

Click on the "?" under the close button in RobotStudio there you will find the manual indicated. I haven't got a copy of the manual.

Have a look at WZHomeJointDef (World Zone Home Joint Definition) in the Rapid Instructions, Functions and Data types manual.

I do not know of a shortcut other than switch of welding and rerun the root pass as it would have welded and then switch welding back on after the run for the 2nd and 3rd passes. But what I have noticed is that your tracking might differ a bit because multipass requires tracking to be 100% correct.

When you use Multipass, you use the first weld as your reference to your mulitpass offsets. If your weldpath/reference weld change, your offsets will change. If you change you multipass data, your weld will be still referenced to where your first weld was only your offsets will adjust. So in short. When you change your weld path/reference weld, you need to rerecord that seam for the offsets to be accurately referenced to the weld path.

Also is your parameter set to "True" in the Trackdata for Store Path?

This must be set active to store the path names.

Question. Is the seam names stored as arrays or is it a string instruction?

As far as I know it should be "your_seam_name" if it is not declared in your data and "Your_seam_name{array nr}" if it is stored as array. NOTE the Inverted commas.

Make sure your seam names is unique to your seams.