motoplus and welding machine

[PCCSYY]

Hello, I would like to ask some questions. Can motoplus control welding machine? Or can we use the motoplus program to link the welding procedure to welding?Thanks！

[jcgarciaca]

Hi,
I think you can not send ARCON or ARCOF commands directly. Nevertheless, you could control robot movement with motoplus Motion Monitor/Control API functions and execute a JOB which includes just welding instructions (ARCON - ARCOF). In this way, you could even set variables to be used by those instructions, such as ASF and AEF numbers.

[PCCSYY]

Thanks very much for your answer, that is to say motoplus can't welding directly.As you say, how can I use motoplus to monitoring and execution the commands have been written in the teaching machine of welding device？Would you have some ideas？

[jcgarciaca]

Sorry for answering too late, I have been busy. Have you checked Motion Monitor/Control API functions?

[PCCSYY]

That's ok.I have implemented using API to execute a JOB which includes just welding instructions (ARCON - ARCOF), but once I use the motoplus API to call the job, the welder will be success，after that I use motoplus to drive the robot to move, then the welder will stop working, now I don't know why. Do you have any thoughts?

[jcgarciaca]

I think it should work.
Does the welder stop due an alarm/error? Does the robot keep moving?

[PCCSYY]

Once the robot's action command is issued, the welder will stop working and the robot will not execute the motion command. And there will be no alarms or error messages on the teach pendant.I think it is a problem with programming.