Installation and Commissioning

PaintWare 3.14.6 PaintWare 3.1PaintWare comprises a large number of dedicated painting functions which make therobot well suited for painting and coating operations. It is powerful, yet simple sinceboth the robot positioning and the paint events are handled in one and the sameinstruction. All phases of the paint process are controlled, such as start, change, andstop painting, due to trig plane events.The necessary structures for paint process data are predefined and organised asBrushData and BrushTables.PaintWare is only avaliable with painting robots.PaintWare functionalityWhen painting, the fluid and air flow through the spray gun is controlled to suit the partbeing coated and the thickness requirements. These process parameters are changedalong the path to achieve optimum control of the paint equipment along an entire path.The paint process is monitored continuously.A set of gun process parameters is called a Brush and it is possible to select differentbrushes during a linear paint instruction. A brush can contain up to five parameters:PaintAtom_airFan_airVoltageRotationThe Paint flow reference.The Atomising air reference.The Fan air reference.The Electrostatic voltage reference.The Rotation speed reference (for rotational applicators).The five parameters may go directly to analog outputs controlling the spray gun in anopen loop system, or may go to dedicated I/O boards for closed loop gun control (IPS).The Brushes are set up as an array, called a BrushTable. A specific BrushTable isselected with the instruction UseBrushTab.The changing of brushes along a path is done using events in the PaintL instruction. Theevent data describes how a trig plane is located in the active object coordinate system.It also describes which brush to use when the path crosses the plane. Event data isincluded in all linear paint instructions as optional arguments. A maximum of tenevents can be held within one PaintL instruction.Data types included in this optionBrushDataEventDataData for one brush: flow, atomising air, fan air, etc.Data for one event: trig-plane (x, y or z), plane value and brushnumberPaintL, PaintC, UseBrushTab,40 Product Specification RobotWare for BaseWare OS 3.1