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Except as may be expressly stated anywhere in this manual, nothing herein shall be construed as any kind of guarantee or warranty by ABB for losses, damage to persons or property, fitness for a specific purpose or the like.
1.1 Introduction to ArcWelding2 PowerPac About ArcWelding2 PowerPac ArcWelding2 PowerPac brings together experience of robot and weld processes into RobotStudio, to prepare offline programs more efficiently by utilizing the CAD geometry as basis for all robotics programming. This method is known as geometry-based off-line programming, it gives you unprecedented control over the robot configurations and weld angles, resulting in more accurate weld paths.
1 Introduction and Installation 1.2 Installing ArcWelding2 PowerPac 1.2 Installing ArcWelding2 PowerPac Overview To be able to install ArcWelding2 PowerPac, RobotStudio must be installed on your computer. Installing ArcWelding2 PowerPac To install the ArcWelding2 PowerPac, follow these steps: 1 Browse to ArcWelding2 PowerPac installation package and double-click on Setup.exe setup file.
1.3 Accessing the User Interface Overview Before you can start using ArcWelding2 PowerPac, you must load a RobotStudio with atleast one arc-welding robot and/or the CAD model of the workpiece. The virtual controller (VC) associated with the arc-welding robot must be loaded with RobotWare Arc.
1.4 Concepts 1.4 Concepts Reference Coordinate System (RCS) In ArcWelding2 PowerPac, every robtarget is associated with a local reference coordinate system called Reference Coordinate System (RCS). RCS is primarily used to help create and manipulate targets in RobotStudio. As workobject/UCS, RCS can be used to set the target location and angle.
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