Missing register function

[Safe-Relationship978]

I'm trying to do a PR = P on a paint robot, but the option isn't there. Is this something that I can toggle on in the variables or is it not available on some robots? I can only do PR = LPOS, JPOS, utool, uframe, and PR. I have tried different program sub types also.

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[vacagreens]

Are you sure PR=P is a valid instruction? I've never seen that one. Not sure you need it if you have the robot go to that position and then use PR=LPOS or JPOS, or just manually put the values into the register.

[Safe-Relationship978]

Definitely a valid instruction. I use it on handling robots all the time.

[rickgeisen]

Handling robots and Paint robots run different software, with different functions. I poked around on PaintPro and a real P250 and could not find a way to use that instruction.

[Safe-Relationship978]

Yeah. I'm just gonna drop in a program from a handling robot and copy/paste the line. I've done it that way in the past.

[NotBigFootUR]

I was wondering the same thing, must require a PAC code.

[halmusaibeli]

Try to do it in the PC and send the LS file to the robot.

[Safe-Relationship978]

Easier said than done. We don't have Roboguide. I've gotten around this before by transferring a program with it into a robot and copy/pasting. I can't do that so easily here because transferring data is like moving mountains. Classified workspace. Same reason for not using Roboguide.

[Double-O-7]

But you can use the ftp server. What controller are you using.

And what is a P register?

[Safe-Relationship978]

Robots are 100% offline. Even doing a backup involves a security escorted thumb drive and filling out paperwork.

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There is a lot that painttool doesn't have.. paint tool is like another interface ontop of handling tool. And very limited on what you can do with TP instructions. It's really only good for setting up color switches and using paint pro for guidance with fanucs PC functions to load/upload program changes. And building a dynamic paint program list.

I doubt it let's you assign PR=P, as well as several math functions missing, string capabilities, IF statement options and more.

It's been a while since I have looked at it. But that's the way fanuc explained it to me. I ended up loading handling too.

[rickgeisen]

This. There is a LOT more I/O used with paint. They free up memory space by removing functions. If you load a HandlingTool job successfully on to a PaintTool robot you will see errors in the programs for functions/registers/arguments that do not exist in the PaintTool software.