Teaching the Robot
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P/N 113564 Rev. 2
Twister II Robot User’s Manual
Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.
Edit an Absolute or Relative Position
You may want to re-teach a position (edit position data) manually.
Re-teaching is required if you have:
•
Switched the pod position of your racks
•
Switched the location of your pods
•
Relocated the robot or any instrument in your system
Users who want to re-teach positions for instruments using
customized VBA code must re-teach positions using the steps
provided in this section.
WARNING
Do not
use the Teach Wizards to re-teach positions created using
version 1 and customized code. Using the Teach Wizards to re-
teach these positions will overwrite the customized code for the
instrument.
1
Use the controls on the Manual Control tab to move to the
desired position.
2
Click the
Teach
tab on the Robot main window.
Figure 67. Teach Tab
3
On the
Names
tab, select the instrument whose position you
want to re-teach. The positions display on the
Positions
tab. If
you are re-teaching a position retained from V1, select the
Robot instrument.
4
Select the position you want to change and click the
Change
button. The position is updated with the current position of the
robot.
