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ABB Robotics Operating manual Painting PowerPac Trace back information: Workspace RW 5-15-01 version a4 (not checked in) Published 2013-04-01 at 11:06:15 Skribenta version 1184 Operating manual Painting PowerPac Document ID: 3HNA019758-001 Revision: G © Copyright 2008-2013 ABB. All rights reserved. The information in this manual is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by ABB. ABB assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this manual. Except as may be expressly stated anywhere in this manual, nothing herein shall be construed as any kind of guarantee or warranty by ABB for losses, damages to persons or property, fitness for a specific purpose or the like. In no event shall ABB be liable for incidental or consequential damages arising from use of this manual and products described herein. This manual and parts thereof must not be reproduced or copied without ABB's written permission. Additional copies of this manual may be obtained from ABB. The original language for this publication is English. Any other languages that are supplied have been translated from English. © Copyright 2008-2013 ABB. All rights reserved. ABB AS, Robotics Discrete Automation and Motion N-4349 BRYNE Norway Table of contents Table of contents Overview .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Product documentation, M2004 ....................................................................................................... 9 Safety ................................................................................................................................................ 11 1 Introduction 13 1.1 About Painting PowerPac ................................................................................... 13 1.2 Terms and Concepts .......................................................................................... 14 1.3 Painting support in RobotStudio ........................................................................... 15 1.4 Event Visualization ............................................................................................ 16 1.5 Graphical User Interface ..................................................................................... 17 1.5.1 Overview ............................................................................................... 17 1.5.2 Painting Tab ........................................................................................... 18 1.5.3 Paint Path Tab ........................................................................................ 20 1.5.4 Paint Panel Tab ...................................................................................... 21 1.5.5 Browser Window ..................................................................................... 22 2 Installing and Licensing Painting PowerPac 25 2.1 System Requirements ........................................................................................ 25 2.2 License Key ..................................................................................................... 26 2.3 Getting Started with Painting PowerPac ................................................................ 27 3 Workflow 29 3.1 Painting PowerPac ............................................................................................ 29 3.2 Conveyor Tracking ............................................................................................ 32 4 Painting Tab 35 4.1 Paint Cell ......................................................................................................... 35 4.1.1 Creating a Paint Station ............................................................................ 35 4.1.2 Importing Workpiece ................................................................................ 38 4.1.3 Creating Brush Specification ..................................................................... 39 4.1.4 Creating Paint Specification ...................................................................... 42 4.1.5 Creating User Preferences ........................................................................ 44 4.1.6 Creating Conveyor Mechanism .................................................................. 47 4.2 Paint Program .................................................................................................. 50 4.2.1 Creating New Paint Program ..................................................................... 50 4.2.2 Loading a Paint Programs ......................................................................... 53 4.3 System ............................................................................................................ 54 4.3.1 PosTeach .............................................................................................. 54 4.3.2 Mapping Tables ...................................................................................... 55 4.3.3 Conveyor Setup ...................................................................................... 58 4.3.4 Part Control ............................................................................................ 64 4.3.5 Conveyor Parameters .............................................................................. 65 4.4 Synchronizing to Virtual Controller and Station ....................................................... 70 4.5 Brush Tables and Virtual Applicator ...................................................................... 74 4.6 Production ....................................................................................................... 81 4.6.1 Job Queue ............................................................................................. 81 4.6.2 Virtual CBS ............................................................................................ 85 4.6.3 Conveyor Simulation ................................................................................ 88 4.7 Reports ........................................................................................................... 89 4.7.1 Generating Cycle Time Reports ................................................................. 89 4.7.2 Reports - Material Consumption and Gun-On time ......................................... 94 5 Paint Path Tab 97 5.1 Programming ................................................................................................... 97 5.1.1 Overview ............................................................................................... 97 3HNA019758-001 Revision: G 5 © Copyright 2008-2013 ABB. 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Table of contents 5.1.2 Manual PaintStrokes ................................................................................ 98 5.1.3 Auto PaintStroke ..................................................................................... 102 5.1.4 Inserting PaintStroke ............................................................................... 106 5.1.5 Modifying PaintStroke .............................................................................. 107 5.1.6 Deleting PaintStroke ................................................................................ 108 5.1.7 Painting Patterns ..................................................................................... 109 5.2 Instruction ....................................................................................................... 113 5.2.1 Insert Events .......................................................................................... 113 5.3 Modifying Targets ............................................................................................. 114 5.3.1 Align Orientation ..................................................................................... 115 5.3.2 Adjusting Position and Orientation ............................................................. 116 5.3.3 Setting Spray Angle ................................................................................. 117 5.4 Context Menu ................................................................................................... 120 6 Paint Panel Tab 129 6.1 Importing Workpieces ........................................................................................ 129 6.2 Creating Panels ................................................................................................ 133 6.3 Shape Panels ................................................................................................... 136 6.4 Organize .......................................................................................................... 142 6.5 Context Menu ................................................................................................... 143 Index 147 6 3HNA019758-001 Revision: G © Copyright 2008-2013 ABB. All rights reserved. Overview Overview About this manual This manual contains information and instructions for installing, configuring, programming, and running Painting PowerPac. Usage This manual should be used during installation and configuration of Painting PowerPac. It describes Painting PowerPac and includes step-by-step instructions to perform the tasks. Who should read this manual? This manual is intended for: • System integrators • End Customers • Offline Programmers • Robot Paint and service technicians • ABB engineers Prerequisites The reader should: • Have experience with RobotStudio • Have experience of installation and configuration work • Good skills in the IRC5 robot controller and RAPID