MRMC MRMC-1465-06, Quick Start Manual

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Pan Bars Quick Start Guide
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3. Power up the Pan Bars.
4. Start Flair.
5. Enable the mimic controls in Flair, either by right-clicking on the
relevant axes buttons at the top of the Flair window and choosing
Mimic Setup in the pop-up menu, or by using the main menu
option Mimic > Axis Mimic .
Setting up Pan Bars (Encoder output only) as a
Mimic Device in Flair
Once you plugged the Pan Bars to RT-14 using the Mimic1 or Mimic2
ports, you can start controlling the axis using the Pan Bars via the Flair
Motion Control Software.
You can add up to two mimic devices in Flair using RT-14 called the RIC
Mimic , or Root Mimic devices. Each Root mimic device has four mimic
control axes allocated to it in Flair as Rt Mimic Axis1, Rt Mimic Axis2 etc.
The procedure below tells you how to configure Flair to recognise the Pan
Bars.
1. Make sure the relevant cables are attached as described in the
previous section.
2. Edit the file
C:\Flair\Flair
x
\Flair.ini
. This file is a text file
that you can edit with any text editor such as Notepad, either
directly or by using the Flair menu option
Help > View .ini File .
You need to add or edit some lines in the file similar to the following
lines.
*RICMimic: True
This allows you to use the Root Mimic inputs.
Remember to save the file after you have edited it.
Hint
Flair does not store the Mimic > Axis Mimic settings from one
session to the next, so you need to do this step at the start of
every session. This is for safety reasons, as it would be
dangerous to start up a robotic system with the mimic devices
in an unknown state and fully enabled.