Release Notes for RobotStudio 2020.2
General
The release name is RobotStudio 2020.2 and the build number is 20.2.9116.0. The release date is September 17, 2020.
What's new in RobotStudio 2020.2
Browser windows - Expand and collapse all nodes
Added a command to collapse and expand the tree structure in browser windows like Layout, Paths&Targets, Visual SafeMove, etc.
Collision Avoidance - Support for SCARA robots
Added support for configuring Collision Avoidance for IRB 910SC and IRB 910INV.
Robot models for the IRB 1300 family
Robot models for the IRB 1300 family have been added to ABB Library.
IRB 1300 is supported by RobotWare 7.0.4 and later.
SmartComponents - Zoom and Pan
Zooming and panning are now separate actions.
Pan: Use Ctrl + Left mouse button or the scroll bars.
Zoom: Use the Zoom slider.
Station Logic - Increased work area in the designer
The designer for Station Logic and Smart Components has an increased work area. The designer is now the first tab.
Stay up to date - be sure to have the latest version
In addition to the notification in the Windows taskbar you can verify that you have the latest version in the Help Tab.
Virtual Reality - Start/stop recording
Added controls in the VR 'Edit' pane for starting and stopping video recording of the 3D view. This way the user can control recording while wearing the VR headset.
Visual SafeMove - Controller name is displayed in the configuration browser
The IRC5 controller name is now displayed next to the system name in the Visual SafeMove configuration browser.
For OmniCore controllers the IP-address is displayed.
Visual SafeMove - Improved configuration browser layout
Icons for zone visibility and lock are now right aligned and only visible when enabled or hovering over the object.
Visual SafeMove - Improved Safety Report workflow
The workflow for the creating and saveing Safety Configuration Reports in has been improved and clarified.
- The report can be viewed and saved in PDF format.
- The windows for "Write to controller" and "Show Report" have different controls to clarify the difference.
- The PDF report is saved to the HOME directory on the controller when the safety configuration is written.
- "Show Report" can show either the current configuration in the controller, or the configuration being edited in Visual SafeMove.
Visual SafeMove - Lock zones from edit in 3D view
Added the ability to lock graphical elements from being accidentally edited in the 3D view.
When the lock is activated, no handles for modifying the geometry are displayed in the graphics.
Corrections
| PDD | |
|---|---|
| 12129 | Problem with smart component RapidVariable if type orient Fixed an issue which caused the 'RapidVariable' Smart Component to fail getting the value of an 'orient' RAPID variable. |
| 12179 | IRBT 7004 pedestal Removed the possibility to model an IRBT 7004 with a 500 mm pedestal as it is not supported by the real track. |
| 12194 | Workobject attached to track carriage - Discordance between station and Virtual Controller Added option for 180 degrees rotation. |
| 12245 | Duplicate Target Changed events in Signal Analyzer Fixed an issue which caused Signal Analyzer to show duplicate Target Changed events for RobotWare 5.15 and lower. |
| 12286 | IRB 5500 Type A(Right) on Elevated Type B(Left) and IRB 5500 Type B(Left) on Elevated Type A(Right) can't be modeled Added mounting options for a left-side IRB 5500 robot model on a right-side elevated rail model and vice versa. Fixed a problem in System From Layout which would fail when trying to create a virtual controller for such a combination. |
| 12398 | Collision Avoidance Problem See PDD12618. |
| 12416 | Visual SafeMove - Maximum number of global supervisions The application manual Functional safety and SafeMove2 has been updated to state that the total number of global supervisions is maximum 8 for both SafeMove Basic and Pro. |
| 12473 | Robot Control Mate misleading information Some ABB content in the RobotApps gallery was missing the "ABB" tag, this has been fixed. |
| 12546 | IRB120 CAD model incorrect, collision of axis 5 with wrist frame at +120° Corrected a difference between the IRB120 model and the real robot. |
| 12547 | Wrong orientation in Online monitor for IRB5500 on rail Before: Online monitor partly used the gravity parameters to orient robot and track. Unfortunately for IRB5500 and rail defines gravity parameters differently than other manipulators. That resulted in misplacement of the robot and track in online monitor, which also affects the online monitor in Visual SafeMove. Now: The orientation of the baseframe is used to orient the robot and track, as a consequence, robots with altered gravity parameters but untouched base frame orientation will not be re-oriented in Online Monitor. |
| 12581 | RobotWare 7.x license agreement while installing a RobotWare 6.x release Removed version number from RobotWare license agreement text. |
| 12599 | Configuring Stand Still Supervision can lead to a corrupt safety configuration An error is now shown if Stand Still Supervision has incorrect settings. It is now impossible to write such safety configuration to the controller. |
| 12618 | Not possible to configure collision avoidance on a real robot When configuring Collision Avoidance for a robot, it was not possible to attach an object to a mechanical unit. This has been fixed. |
| 12692 | Visual SafeMove - Invalid translated supervision default name The default names for supervisions was translated which caused the name to be invalid, for example "Übergeordnet_SST" in German. The default names are now in English, independent of the current language of RobotStudio. |
| 12728 | Closing Visual SafeMove did not remove SafeMove geometries. When closing the Visual SafeMove Add-In the Visual SafeMove geometries are now removed from the 3D view. |
| 12746 | Child components not displayed in Station Logic A Smart Component with a corrupt icon asset could cause errors in the Edit Smart Component or Station Logic user interface. This has been fixed. |
| 12764 | Visual SafeMove - Possible to select Fixed an issue where it was possible to select NoStop and NoSignal as Validation for PermanentlyActive supervision. This is not an allowed combination and such configuration file can't be loaded in the Safety Controller. |
| 12784 | Strange work envelope for IRB 910INV Fixed incorrect display of work envelope for IRB 910INV. |
| 12813 | Visual SafeMove - Elbow indicator does not follow the robot Fixed an issue with 4 axis robots that made the elbow indicator not follow the robot movements. |
| SmartComponent - Allow cyclic property missing in export When exporting a Smart Component or Station Logic to .rsxml, the "allow cyclic" property of Connections and Bindings was not included. This has been added. | |
| Reminder to activate RobotStudio displayed when there are several months to expiration The reminder is now displayed when there is 30 days or less left to expiration. | |
| Visual SafeMove - Safety report does not contain Allow In Manual Mode Fixed an error in the Safety report where information about Allow in Manual Mode yes/no was omitted. | |
| Visual SafeMove:Unhandled exception when launching Safe IO Configurator Fixed an issue where certain safe zones and ranges generated from a recorded simulation were causing exceptions when launching the Safe IO configurator. Recordings, where the robot is standing still will now also be discarded. | |
| Visual Safemove: "Length cannot be less than zero" exception when opening a safety configuration Certain safety configuration files made for older RobotWare versions will no longer cause .NET exception: Length cannot be less than zero | |
| Restore backup from a network location throws exception Fixed an issue with restoring a backup on a UNC network path to a Virtual Controller. | |
| Physics collision doesn't work Fixed an issue with the internal transforms of physics collision geometries, which could cause physics simulation to behave incorrectly. Also the commands for "Use original geometry" and "Recreate collision geometry" have been disabled for objects that consist of a known geometric primitive such as a sphere or a cuboid. Such objects always use an optimal collision geometry. | |
| Exception when comparing two files in the RAPID tab An Exception was displayed in the Output window when comparing two files in the RAPID tab, the second time a file was selected on the right side. | |
| Exception when importing geometry in Collision Avoidance Fixed an error that occurred when importing certain CAD files into the Collision Avoidance configurator. | |
| Visual SafeMove - Track included when opening a configuration with excluded track Fixed a bug which caused a track to be included when opening a safety configuration where the track was excluded. | |
| Visual SafeMove: Information message that I/O Configurator can resolve certain errors in safety configuration when upgrading from older RobotWare When upgrading from older RobotWare versions errors may occur which are caused by following:
By having the I/O Configurator open at the time of opening the older safety configuration file it can automatically update it to fit with the signal conventions used in the newer RobotWare. If I/O Configurator is not open and writing to the controllers fails, the following advice is displayed in the output window: "Failed writing the safety configuration. Open I/O Engineering Tool and then try to write the configuration again." | |
| Improved validation for UAS role description. The allowed characters are displayed if entering an invalid character. | |
| RobotApps: Wrong tag on Add-in distribution packages from ABB CDN Some content in RobotApps was tagged with "RobotWare-Addin" instead of the correct "RobotStudio-Addin". This has been fixed. |