PM 3.13 Upgrade Problems [PickMaster 3]

PickMaster
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We have an IRB340/IRC5 combination in our shop. Yesterday I tried to upgrade from PM 3.12 to 3.13. We had Robotware 5.07.5002 on the IRC5. After reading the release notes I did the following:

  1. Installed PM3.13 without uninstalling PM3.12 (basically did an upgrade)
  2. I ran the system without upgrading RW from 5.07.5002 to 5.10
    Note: I received errors 4317 and I think 4318.
  3. I uninstalled PM3.13 and reinstalled PM3.12.
  4. I ran the system and everything worked fine, no errors. I did this a couple of times to convince myself that it is a difference between PM3.12 and PM3.13.
  5. Loaded PM3.13
  6. In RSO I backed up the IRC5.
  7. I did a system build from the backup using RW5.10.1040.
  8. I did a system restore.
  9. Ran the system.
    Note: I get an error stating I have errors in my rapid code. It is not the typical error where it gives you the line number but a general error telling you to fix the code.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Shane

2

Did you ever try to uninstall PM3.12 before installing 3.13, which is said in the Release Notes?

I didn’t catch the final, does it work now?

3

I finally got everything working late last week. I must have missed the uninstall directive in the release notes. However, I never did uninstall it and everything is working now.

The only way I could get the system to work properly was to install all the Robotware installs. This is what I did.

  1. Verified the system worked, i.e. that I was able to pick and place objects with our demo.
  2. In RSO I backed up the 5.07 system
  3. Did a system build from that backup to RW5.08. Of course in the document “Migration Guide RW 5.05 - 5.10” I found that when going from 5.07 to 5.08 you have to change the I/O unit from DSQC652 to the old one DSQC328A. This was in the ppaeio1.cfg and ppaeio2.cfg files in RW5.08.
  4. Did a system restore and verified the program worked on the demo.
  5. Backed up the 5.08 system.
  6. Did a system build from the 5.08 backup to 5.09.
  7. From the migration document I changed the “NonCnvWOData” array from 8 to 25 elements.
  8. Did a system restore and verified the system still worked.
  9. Backed up the 5.09 system.
  10. Did a system build from that backup to 5.10.
  11. This time I did not need to change anything.
  12. Did a system restore and verified everything worked.

So I now have a system that has PM3.13 and RW5.10! What a lot of work that was. However, I learned a lot.

Now on to my problem of why PM is locking up.

4

One more thing that I did go back and try. I tried to go straight from 5.07 to 5.10 and change the array and I/O unit. However, this did not work. I got the same error that I had rapid errors.

Shane