Managing Applicative Profiles

Each robot has an applicative profile associated with it. This procedure describes how to manage applicative profiles.

This task shows you how to:

Create a User Profile

This task describes how to create a user profile.

From the Motion Controller section of the action bar, click Applicative Profile .
Select the robot.
The Profile Management dialog box appears.
Click Create.
The Template Editor dialog box appears. A default unique name is provided.
Click on last line (i.e., Click here to add) to add a new attribute or select an existing attribute and click Delete or modify the attribute in the Parameter Editor area.

Note: Some attributes on the default profiles are not allowed to be deleted/modified as they belong to the default applications.
Click OK.

The profile is created.

This task describes how to create a new profile for a type that already exists.

Click Applicative Profile .
Select the robot.
The Profile Management dialog box appears.
Select the existing profile type.
The list of existing profiles is refreshed to display existing profiles of the current profile type.
Click Copy .
A copy of the profile type is added to the list.
Select the new copied profile.
The Attribute values appear.
Click on the attribute value you want to change, change it, and then click OK.

A new profile is created from an existing type.

This task describes how to modify an existing profile type.

Click Applicative Profile .
Select the robot.
The Profile Management dialog box appears. These are the available profile types:
- generic profile (tool, motion, accuracy and object frame)
- controller specific: depending on the controller type, there are predefined sets of profile types available
- user-defined: the profile type defined by an end user.
Select the profile type you want to modify.
The list of existing profiles is refreshed to display existing profiles of the current profile type.
Select the desired profile from the list of existing profiles.
The Attribute values appear.
Click on the attribute value you want to change, change it, and then click OK.
To add a specific attribute to a profile, use the F(x) command in the Knowledge toolbar. To add an attribute for a user-profile, click Create and then use the Template Editor dialog box to add attributes.

The profile is modified.

This task describes how import and export profiles in XML format.

To export, right-click on the tree node or the profile group, and select Export In XML.
To import, right-click on the Controller Profiles node and select Import in XML.