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3.2.3. PICKIT.TYPE

3.2.3. PICKIT.TYPE​

 

Description

A variable that stores the type of an identified workpiece

Syntax

•  PICKIT.TYPE

Parameter

None

 

 

Example of usage

•  V1%=PICKIT.TYPE

•  (Stores PICKIT.TYPE in V1%)

•  IF PICKIT.TYPE = 21 THEN 8 ELSE 99

•  (If PICKIT.TYPE is 21, a movement to the Row number 8 and to the row number 99 will occur.)

•  PRINT #0,PICKIT.TYPE

•  (Output of the form of the workpiece in the TP window)

 

Detailed description

•  PICKIT.TYPE stores the type of the workpiece whose pose value is transferred.

•  A built-in type variable that does not have to be declared as a variable separately

•  It will be automatically updated after the PICKIT.LFO and PICKIT.NXT commands are processed.

•  The workpiece pose values are stored in the Pick-it server as many as the count of PICKIT.REMAIN.

•  The values that TYPE can have are as shown below.

•  21 for square

•  22 for rectangle

•  23 for circle

•  24 for ellipse

•  32 for cylinder

•  33 for sphere

•  35 for point cloud

•  50 for blob

 

 

l The Pick-it equipment can recognize not only the workpieces of basic types, such as cylinders and cubes, but also those of complex types.

l For information on how to recognize the workpieces of complex types, refer to the Pick-it Manual.