@sebastien We cheat.....we use the built-in pendant, anything that we want to be highly visible to the user we use a leading capital for the variable name so that it appears near the top of the variables list. We have the ability also to use popups and concatenate what is displayed, meaning we can make easy to use custom messages that contain strings and variable data. We can either use the standard popup where you get the stop program/continue buttons or if its purely a notification we will popup a message that only has an ok button (cannot block execution though), we also have written the ability to close those whenever we want programmatically so that if we need to display something else we can as popups come to the bottom of the stack so you have to close the previous popup to see the new one. This has allowed us for the time being to not need to develop any other displays for use in our cells.
Sebastien
Colin
matthewd92
Unfortunately @Colin its proprietary code that we have written that runs off of the robot since there is no string manipulation available on the robot natively.
If all you want to do is display the value of a variable and no text you can use the popup script function. Download the script manual from UR, here, and look for popup.
Hi Pros,
just wondering what people do when designing an interface for a UR robot? Do you guys use PLC with their HMI features or any of you programming caps or any other way to do this. What we usually show on interfaces are production status or request to the operator. We need something that would be more real time than insight. For example the robot scans a barcode on a part and we want to display the part number on the interface.
@matthewd92 what do you use?