Rotate Robot around a Plane

Modified on Tue, 22 Oct at 5:11 PM

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Overview

There are a few ways to have the robot rotate around a defined plane

Teach Pendant or WinCAPS III

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Method 1: ROTATE The ROTATE command will rotate the robot arm through a circular path, for a determined number of degrees, along a defined plane. Required Inputs include Reference Rotary Surface: use existing planes "XY, YZ, ZX, XYH, YZH, ZXH", or a user-defined plane via 3 Vectors. Rotary Angle: how many degrees that should be rotated Rotary Center Coordinates: the center axis of rotation, or what the arm will be rotating around.	ROTATE Command
Method 1A: Existing Plane
Method 1B: User-Defined Plane
Method 1 Option: Rotary Option This option determines whether or not the robot pose is maintained through rotation. Pose 1: robot posture changes with rotation Pose 2: robot posture is maintained through rotation
Method 2: RotateH The RotateH option rotates the robot around the TOOL approach vector. The tool approach vector is whatever the robot's Tool Z axis happens to be. The TOOL approach vector can be changed via TOOL Offsets.
Method 3: Single Line Position Offset This method simply adds a position modifier to the move command. In the code sample, the robot moves to position P1, then moves to P1 with the RY position increased by 10 degrees. The "H" at the end of the modifier tells the command to apply it to the Tool approach vector.