Resource Clearances

The Resource Clearances options let you customize the clearance rules, the colors to be used for grouping tool device parts, and the default gun tip directional clearance information.

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Clearance Rules

You can specify the clearance values that are allowed during spot operation and robot motions for each group shown in below.

Robot self-clearance
This option lets you specify how the clearance values, as defined in the Robot Motion and Spot Weld Context clearance tables, are considered within a robotic system. While performing clearance computation, the type of each moving part is used to determine which clearance table is used to retrieve the allowed clearance value, based on the current context.
  • When selected, the clearance values are used as a threshold to filter out all the clearances that occur between the robot and the attached gun or rail, and that exceed this value. A value of 0 filters out all the self-clearances.
  • When cleared, the clearance values are applied while performing self-reliance checks.

    Note: Self-clearance checks are only performed when resource clearance checks are enabled.

By default, it is cleared.

Spot Weld Context

For each Component, specify values for Gun Tip, Gun Arm, Gun End, Gun Body, and Robot by clicking the current value In each cell and entering the desired value.

The defined checks can be enabled or disabled for each Component by selecting Active.

Note: The values defined for Gun Tip in Spot Weld Context are only used during directional clearance computation.
Robot Motion Context

For each Component, specify values for Gun Tip, Gun Arm, Gun End, Gun Body, and Robot by clicking the current value In each cell and entering the required value.

The defined checks can be enabled or disabled for each Component by selecting Active.

Clearance values defined for the Robot Motion Context are also applied during Jog or manual layout operations.

Clearance Grouping Colors

Click the color swatch for each group to start a color picker utility and select the colors used in the Tooling Part Grouping panel and in the Dynamic Clash Results panel.

Gun Tip Directional Clearance

You can customize the ray information to be used during directional clearance computation:

  • Number of levels along the tip specifies the default value for how many levels of rays are used during clearance computation
  • Number of rays/level specifies the default value for how many rays are used in each level.

 

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