Mecademic Meca500 - Overview; The Menu Bar

User Manual for the Meca500 Industrial Robot (for rmware 10.1) 29
THE MECAPORTAL
6.2. Overview
Figure14 shows the main elements of the MecaPortal web interface. These are:
• The menu bar
• The code editor panel
• The jogging panel
• The 3D view panel
• The event log panel
You can show/hide each of the four panels from the button , in the menu bar.
6.3. The menu bar
From left to right, the menu bar features
• The configuration menu button,
• The panels show/hide menu button,
• The show/hide tooltips button,
• The robot name surrounded by state bars (see Table 8)
• The connection state selector, (disconnect) or (monitoring) or (control)
• The robot state selector, (deactivate) or (activate) or (home)
• The recovery mode button,
• The simulation mode button,
• The end-of-arm tooling state icon,
Until you get to know the MecaPortal, we recommend that you activate the tooltips using the
button , in the menu bar. Most tooltips are disabled by default.
Table 8: The robot state bars in the MecaPortal
ROBOT STATE BARS
Visual state Explanation
Gray, solid
The robot is deactivated.
Yellow, solid
The robot is activated but not homed, or is in recovery mode but not moving.
Yellow, blinking
The robot is in recovery mode and executing motion commands.
Green, solid The robot is homed.
Green, blinking The robot is homed and executing motion commands.
Blue, solid
The robot motion is paused.
Red, blinking The robot is in error mode.