Create an Auto Search

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

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

The Auto Search functionality generates the Searches for the weld automatically.

Click on the weld statement for which you wish to create the search.
Click on the Auto search option from the Statements toolbar in the Program Editor.
The searches will be automatically generated, along with the proper allocation of memory locations to the weld.
If you wish to change any parameters of the automatically generated searches, you may click on the search statement and use the Path setup tab and tweak any of the needed parameters. For e.g. you can repick the search by going to Path setup tab, or change the search type to 1-D or 2-D etc.
By default, the software generates 2 searches, at the beginning and end of the weld. The user has the control to define how the auto-search function should generate the searches by going to the settings tab.

Changing the Default Settings of the Auto- Search function

Click on the Robot > Click on Settings from the Program ribbon bar > Select the Auto-Search Tab. Here, you can find the default parameters for the Auto-search function that you may change as needed. The below table describes each of these parameters.

	Parameter name	Default value	Unit	Description
	Auto search enabled			Checking this box will cause creation of searches automatically without clicking the Auto search function, everytime you create a weld
AutoSearchBasic	Device	“Wire”	string	“Wire”, “Nozzle”, Ext”
	Touch type	”Wire”	string	“Wire”, “WireSweep”, “Neck”, “NeckWOwire”, “Middle”, “Shoulder”, “Front”, “PointLaser”, “PointLaserSweep”, “Camera”
	Drive distance 1	30.0	mm	Search approach distance for first search surface (search distance)
	Drive distance 2	30.0	mm	Search approach distance for second search surface
	Drive distance 3	30.0	mm	Search approach distance for third search surface
	Tangent distance 1	30.0	mm	First touch location distance from second surface
	Tangent distance 2	30.0	mm	Second touch location distance from first surface
	Tangent distance 3	30.0	mm	Third touch location distance from first/second surface
	StartOffset1	30.0	mm	First touch location distance from point or surface (StartOffsetFrom3rdSurface)
	StartOffset2	30.0	mm	Second touch location distance from point or surface (StartOffsetFrom3rdSurface)
	Start Search			Always creates a search at the beginning of the weld. Untick the checkbox if this is not needed.
	Min memory slot			Change the starting memory slot value if needed
	Max memory slot			Tick the box to enter the maximum memory slot number
	Middle search			Always creates a search at the middle of the weld. Untick the checkbox if this is not needed.
	End search			Always creates a search at the end of the weld. Untick the checkbox if this is not needed.
	Search each point			Always creates a search path for every point in the statement. This is useful in cases where the search method used saves the exact position of the found joint, thereby it’s necessary for generating the search on exactly the same point where the weld point is.

After making the necessary changes to the parameters, hit apply. Now, each time the Auto-search function is used the software will use the settings you have defined here in the settings tab. For.e.g. if you have unchecked the Middle & End search, it will generate search only at the beginning of the weld.

Auto-search advanced settings are covered in Auto-Search Advanced Settings.