Test path

NOTE: This topic is only applicable to the following Robotics OLP products:

Visual Components Premium OLP
Visual Components Professional OLP
Visual Components Robotics OLP

In Test Path section user can validate the weld path after the path is created and do the point modifications. The robot can be previewed in 3D window at every point in the welding path.

	Name	Description
1	Number of the path	Number of the weld path.
2	Program status	Set the Program status, see Program Status for details.
3	Tool Solver	Automatically Adjust tool angles and offsets to avoid Robot Tool colliding with the Workpiece, keeping the path in Full-Modify mode. See Tool Solver for details.
4	Jump to first point	Jump to the first point in the welding path.
5	Jump to weld start	Jump to the point where welding starts.
6	Slider	Slider for navigating between points on welding path.
7	Name of the path	Name of the weld path.
8	Current point	Current active point. The active point can be changed from dropdown menu OR by activating the field and scrolling with mouse scroll.
9	Undo / redo	Undo/redo option for path modification, allows to undo all changes that are done for the current path and redo all undone actions. Buttons become active after changes have been made to path or when an action is undone.
10	Path check	Open the path check panel, see Path check for details.
11	Point control	Opens point control window, see Point control for details.
12	Jump to last point	Jump to the last point in the welding path.
13	Jump to weld end	Jump to the point where welding ends.
14	Slider interpolator	Click the S option (turns blue) to jog robot with slider smoothly through the intermediate path between two points	Turn off the S option by clicking(turns grey) to jog robot with slider only from point to point and not in the intermediate path
15	Add point before	Add a new point before the current one.
16	Jump robot to point	Moves the robot at selected point in simulation window
17	Touch up	Touch up the current TCP position and orientation to active point. To move the point, jog the robot to desired position and do touch up.
18	Undo touch up	Undo the touch up at active point.
19	Delete point	Delete the active point
20	Full mode	Applies the path parameters to all the points in the path instantly when modified from the different tabs in the path setup.
	Single mode	Applies path parameters to a selected point in the path.
	Multi-mode	Applies path parameters to all the points in the path except the point which is modified with the single point change option
21	Add point after	Add a new point after the current one.

Note: Add or delete points or do touch ups only after you have modified all the settings at path setup tabs. Otherwise, modifying the settings after touch up, for example, rebuilds the path and deletes the point modifications (e.g. the touch up).