Data Readout Dialog Box

The Data Readout dialog box appears when you select Data Readout Output and it provides a variety of data on resources such as robots, NC machines, devices, mechanisms, and manikins. This data is displayed as you watch a simulation. This section describes the types of data available.

The actual content of the dialog box depends on the type of resource:

  • Robot or NC machine: Cycle Time, Joints, TCP, Turn Numbers
  • Device or mechanism: Cycle Time, Joints
  • Manikin: Cycle time, Joints

This dialog box contains controls for:

This page discusses:

Logged Values

The Logged Values tab shows general information about the simulation as it runs on the particular resource. The Logged Values are only updated if the Data Readout probe is active and if a simulation command is running. Logged Values are not updated during direct manipulation of a resource (for example, they are not be updated while running Jog, even if the Data Readout probe is active).

Cycle Time

Process Cycle Time
The elapsed cycle time of the process is shown in seconds.
Device Cycle Time
The elapsed cycle time of the device is shown in seconds.
Device Delay Time
The elapsed delay time of the device is shown in seconds.
Device Idle Time
The elapsed idle time of the device is shown in seconds.
Device Duty Cycle
The percent of the device's duty cycle that has elapsed is shown.

Joints

The joint values are displayed graphically as bars. The limits are also displayed on these graphical bars (for example, -180 to 180 in Joint 1).

When a joint value exceeds a limit, the bar becomes red and text in the bar shows by how much the limit has been exceeded (in the example, 107%).

TCP

The configuration of the robot is displayed, along with the TCP Speed.

Turn Numbers

The tab applies only to robots and only to those robots for which turn numbers are defined.

Data Readout Controls

Additional Data Readout controls are:
Customize
You can control which tabs appear and which fields appear first using this command.
Export to File
This allows you to export the logged values to an external file (.xls or .txt). When you specify the file name, add the correct file extension (for example, .xlsx).
Graph
You can see some of the data graphically.
Graph allows the user to view a plot of the data: you select the parameter to use for the X-Axis of the plot (typically, time is the X-axis parameter), but you can also choose to plot one parameter as a function of another.

This command allows you to clear the logged data in order to start a new log.