Recent changes, Compatibility differences – Adept AdeptSight Reference Guide User Manual

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Recent Changes

For the most recent change information, please see the ReadMe.rtf file, which can be viewed by selecting
the following from the Windows Start button:

Start > Program > Adept Technology > Adept ACE > Adept ACE ReadMe File

Compatibility Differences

This section describes the compatibility differences between AdeptSight 2.x and AdeptSight 3.x.

1. A standard collection of AdeptSight V+ programs are contained in a file called asight.v2. This file is

updated on any controllers in the workspace when the ACE software connects to a given
controller.

2.

The asight.v2 file contains some of the sample code associated with AdeptSight 2.x queue

management, namely:

getinstance

reset_seq

string2instance

nzs2string

set_as_exec_mod

It is no longer necessary to include those programs in an application being migrated from
AdeptSight 2 to AdeptSight 3.

3.

AdeptSight 3.x operates in the “AdeptSight Server” mode of AdeptSight 2.x. This will not

functionally change applications that use the communications tool queue to access parts.

4.

Several of the properties have changed. In total, there are 439 command parameter codes in

AdeptSight 2.x. The conversion to AdeptSight 3.x affects 17 of these commands. The changes

are as follows:

Property Name

Code

Description of the Change

RobotConfiguration

10400

No longer supported.

InverseKinematics

10060

The configuration used in the kinematic calculation is based on the current
configuration of the robot. It no longer uses the RobotConfiguration param-
eter.

Inverse kinematics calculations for a Cobra i-series robot is not supported

GripperOffset

10100

AdeptSight 3 returns the gripper offset from the gripper offset table asso-
ciated with a specific robot. For details, see GripperOffset.

The following command codes are not directly supported in AdeptSight 3.x at this time. Please
contact Adept Technical Support for programming options.

RecentChanges

AdeptSight Reference Guide, v3.2.x, Updated: 5/8/2012

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