Robot Ethernet Native Communications

Note: These steps only apply when Robot is selected as the Device, and Ethernet Native is selected as the Protocol in the Device Setup group box.
  1. After selecting Ethernet Native as the Protocol, EasyBuilder will automatically search your job for any Location or Inspection Tools that define a fixture and generate a data string representing the fixture.
  2. In the Format Output String tab, any tool that generates a fixture will be listed in the Position Name drop-down list. If your job only contains one tool that returns positional data, it will be selected by default. Otherwise, select the tool whose output string you want to send from the Position Name drop-down list. The formatted string will be displayed, as well as the number of characters in the string, for reference purposes.
  3. Now that the string has been formatted, the robot controller can request the data by sending the In-Sight Native Mode command, EV GetCellValue("Job.Robot.FormatString"). The EV GetCellValue("Job.Robot.FormatString") returns all of the data formatted in the string with a single command. For more information, see the In-Sight® Explorer Help file.
Note: If you have not defined a fixture in your job, or you want to create a custom string or customize the format of your string, press the Custom Format... button, which will launch the FormatString dialog. From this dialog, you can add a different string, modify the strings and/or rearrange the order of the data that will be sent by selecting the data from the list and clicking either the Up or Down buttons to set your desired order. Once you have finalized your string modifications, press the OK button.