Basic Characteristics RAPID

RAPID Summary System & Time
10 System & Time
System and time instructions allow the user to measure, inspect and record time.
10.1 Programming principles
Clock instructions allow the user to use clocks that function as stopwatches. In this way
the robot program can be used to time any desired event.
The current time or date can be retrieved in a string. This string can then be displayed
to the operator on the teach pendant display or used to time and date-stamp log files.
It is also possible to retrieve components of the current system time as a numeric value.
This allows the robot program to perform an action at a certain time or on a certain day
of the week.
10.2 Using a clock to time an event
Instruction Used to:
ClkReset Reset a clock used for timing
ClkStart Start a clock used for timing
ClkStop Stop a clock used for timing
Function Used to:
ClkRead Read a clock used for timing
Data Type Used for:
clock Timing – stores a time measurement in seconds
10.3 Reading current time and date
Function Used to:
CDate Read the Current Date as a string
CTime Read the Current Time as a string
GetTime Read the Current Time as a numeric value
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