hi,
Are there any more complex emaples fro setting up multimove?
I am planning on 2 robots and 2 external axes ( 1 linear, 1 rotating).
When I try adding them all the system wont configure, tried external axis wizard as well.
Thanks for your help
ABB Robotics Community - Maintenance problem but not sure it was solved
External axes are driven by mu100 and mu200
and just found this
Application manual
Additional axes and stand alone controller
Application Manual - Additional Axes and Standalone Controller (3.68 MB)
The configuration isnt supported by build from layout, but not sure if i need to create my own moc.cfg since both motors are abb standard parts?
What defines a valid configuration and can it be added?
The manual you found gives the solution with the template files - page number depends on the version of the manual but is in the installation chapter or search for " template files "
Thanks for the hint, just found them moved to
C:\Users$USER\AppData\Local\ABB Industrial IT\Robotics IT\RobotWare\RobotWare_6.08.1040\utility\AdditionalAxis
I previously thought they were gone
Thanks so much. Like in any reasonable complex software there are lots of ways to do the same thing…
Examples are using the System Builder but my understanding is that it should be used with version 6 anymore?
Is the workobject already needed at system creation time?
So I build myself mechanism for both the rotating axes and the slides first and at them to the tasks?
I think I dont quite get how driven by a motor manifest in robotstudio?
4 months later abb support hasnt been able to even classify “sharing an axis with 2 robots” as a bug or feature request.
We have been through 3 of their experts and have explained the problem over and over.
Most depressing support experience of any company ever unfortunately.
So you want to share an axis between two robots? I did that years ago. The axis needs its own task, and the two robots take turns with coordinated motion. UNLESS, you mean share at the same time. It might be doable in the same fashion.
I agree with k_schmid. ABB provides very little support. I’m to the point of not purchasing another ABB robot. We started with 1 flexcell and up to expanding. I think AB makes one of the best robots out there but sadly their Robot Studio support is SOOO POOOR .
Thanks for the reply, the axis needs to be used at the same time, synchronous. I didnt plan the hardware.
I would have been OK to have confirmation that it is not possible (or a bug) but rather I got 4 months of insentient vague “maybes”.
Now my colleagues think I cannot do my job.
So @abb for about the 150th times: Is there a way of synchronously using an axis with 2 robots?
When you say “I am planning on 2 robots and 2 external axes ( 1 linear, 1 rotating)” is one of the robots fixed and one on the linear axis?
There is a rotational axis for the work piece. The robots are supposed to share the vertical linear axis
So the robots are both on the one carriage on the vertical axis?
Yes, exactly. We are trying to fake it with a 2 axis positioner instead but it adds complexity.
My understanding its a pure robot studio limitation 3 separate abb people couldn’t get around it so far.
Is the goal of the simulation to provide a visual representation of the process or to do offline programing as it would be in the real world?
If the former there is probably more scope to hash something together that would look the part but the program would not be anything like a real system.
The physical system has been build like it now, partly because we couldnt confirm its not supported.
It needs to work, visualization is nice to have
Can you post a graphic of the system - I can not picture what it looks like.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Will give it a go but it the experts have failed…
Robotstudio doesn’t let me move the frame of 2 robots by the same axis.
Seems a bit like an arbitrary limitation.
I was super surprised that is uncommon but i also couldn’t find any video or similar of a real system doing this.