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CONTENTS
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Overview ............................................................................ 1
1.1 WINCAPS III Features .......................................................................................... 1
1.2 Robot Controller and WINCAPS III Versions ........................................................ 1
1.3 Product Components and Operating Environment................................................ 2
1.3.1 Product components..................................................................................................... 2
1.3.2 Operating environment ................................................................................................. 2
1.3.3 License certificate and user registration ....................................................................... 2
1.3.4 WINCAPS III trial and light versions ............................................................................. 3
1.3.5 Note on languages ....................................................................................................... 3
1.4 Installing WINCAPS III .......................................................................................... 4
1.4.1 Before you begin .......................................................................................................... 4
1.4.2 Installing WINCAPS III.................................................................................................. 4
1.4.3 Registering license ....................................................................................................... 6
1.4.4 Uninstalling ................................................................................................................... 7
1.5 Connecting to Robot Controller ............................................................................. 8
Chapter 2 Basic Functions and Operational Flow .............................. 9
2.1 WINCAPS III Basic Functions ............................................................................... 9
2.2 Steps in Writing Robot Programs ........................................................................ 10
2.3 User Levels and Access Rights........................................................................... 12
Chapter 3 Starting Up/Shutting Down............................................... 13
3.1 Loading WINCAPS III.......................................................................................... 13
3.1.1 WINCAPS III basic settings ........................................................................................ 14
3.1.2 Programmer password ............................................................................................... 17
3.2 WINCAPS III Screen Descriptions ...................................................................... 19
3.2.1 Screen components.................................................................................................... 19
3.2.2 Menu items ................................................................................................................. 21
3.2.3 Toolbars...................................................................................................................... 30
3.2.4 Docking view .............................................................................................................. 32
3.2.5 Program view.............................................................................................................. 38
3.2.6 Screen operations ...................................................................................................... 41
3.3 Quitting WINCAPS III .......................................................................................... 49
Chapter 4 Creating a Project ............................................................ 50
4.1 Overview ............................................................................................................. 50
4.1.1 Folders........................................................................................................................ 50
4.2 Creating a New Project ....................................................................................... 51
4.3 Opening an Existing Project ................................................................................ 53
4.4 Saving Project ..................................................................................................... 53
4.5 Configuring a Project........................................................................................... 54
4.6 Configuring Parameters ...................................................................................... 58
4.7 Link with Robot Controller ................................................................................... 59
4.7.1 Communications settings ........................................................................................... 59
4.7.2 Data transfers ............................................................................................................. 60
4.7.3 Arm parameter data transfer ...................................................................................... 63
4.8 USB Tool ............................................................................................................. 64
4.8.1 Reading data from USB memory................................................................................ 64
4.8.2 Writing data into USB memory ................................................................................... 67
4.9 Print ..................................................................................................................... 69