RapidPlan 2.9 Release Notes

Owned by Kurt Dudek
Oct 01, 2024
3 min read

This update brings a host of new features, improvements, and bug fixes designed to enhance your user experience and improve overall performance.

 

RapidPlan Create Changes

  • (Prototype)Support preset changing, including payloads, in native control robots

    • ABB and Fanuc robots are supported.

    • Only preset index and payload index are supported. Mass info entries are ignored.

    • For ABB robots, only preset index is used to switch payloads.

    • TCP index and mass index must be between 1 and 10 for Fanuc robots.

    • There is an error message “no mass info” for the robot preset, and the preset won’t be updated with any mass info.

  • Improved dialogue opening speed performance

  • RPCreate REST API is available for automating editing tasks in RPCreate

  • Support exporting Fieldbus lookup table

RapidPlan Control Changes

  • Profinet Interface

    • The default unit is now mm/deg

    • Lookup table is now generated in RPC and stay consistent after incremental changes in RPC or in Control Panel.

    • It is no longer necessary to set name "fieldbus" to a profinet interface. Any connected ethernet interface can be used by selection under the settings page.

    • New command module IO mapping is released and will replace the previous DSM module in the IO mapping. Other parts of the IO mapping is not affected.

    • New command module is supporting the following commands:

    • Activate/Deactivate(compatible with <2.9 IO mapping for the same command)

    • SetAltLocation(compatible with <2.9 IO mapping for the same command)

    • SetINT(compatible with <2.9 IO mapping for the same command)

    • SetMaxLinearAccel(new)

    • SetMaxLinearSpeed(new)

    • IsOnTarget with different epsilon parameters for prismatic and revolute joints(new)

    • Checksum(new)

    • DSM Add/RemoveBox

    • DSM Add/RemoveFrame

    • DSM Add/RemoveObject

    • DSM Reparent

    • DSM UpdateFrame

Motion Planning Changes

  • Native control for Fanuc robots

  • Native control for ABB robots

Known Issues

  • [RPC] Collision Analysis doesn't show results after finished analysis(RAPID-41681)

  • [ABB] ERROR_ON_SPLINE_WATCHDOG_ERROR: If the application requires a large motions (greater than 120 degree rotation of any axis), with low-accuracy settings (also called corner radius, smoothing, etc.), the robot controller may deviate from RTR’s expectation by up to 4 cm at any movable links or from robot TCP. It is recommended that these motions be performed well away from obstacles, OR broken up into smaller motions, OR performed with high-accuracy/no smoothing. Any of these three choices should be sufficient to reduce deviation.

  • [RPC] Performance issues with Collision view jogging for Robot attachment in-collision(RAPID-34285)

  • Deleting many Sub-assemblies freezes the tool (likewise undoing this freezes the tool)(RAPID-23513)

  • [RPC]When two targets overlap, RapidPlan might take the wrong target as starting point and generate a longer path than required(RAPID-38038)

  • [RPC] Bulk edges removal bottleneck in Canvas(RAPID-37478)

  • [RPC] Changes done in Project Settings dialog are not undoable(RAPID-47035)

  • [ControlPanel]Replacing a project doesn't transfer connected robot IP address info from the old project anymore - its saved in the RPC project and so it gets overwritten. If the project is downloaded from CP, IP addresses will be retained.

  • [ControlPanel]After the robot is switched from Manual (Auto Acquire) mode to RTR control mode, clicking the Enter Operation button will fail for the first click(RAPID-50981).

  • CancelMove error 7005 on paths with many edges(RAPID-50487)

  • (RobotControl)Combined move with hold should have 0 smooth distance at the last target before hold(RAPID-44849)

  • [RobotControl]Occasional Torque errors on Kuka robots when robot dynamics setting is high.

  • [RobotControl]Occasional linear move failures on 5-axis robots(Fanuc M410)