Patent ID: 9339932
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: B25J,G05B

Claim Text:
1. A method for locating robotic teaching point programs for editing, comprising the steps of: generating on a display screen of a robot simulator a 3-D graphical representation of a path of a robotic process to be performed in a workcell, the robot simulator having a user interface; permitting a user to select by the user interface a 2-D selection area of the path superimposed on the 3-D graphical representation; identifying on the display screen to the user at least one teaching point program associated with the 2-D selection area, the at least one teaching point program being an operation program previously stored to the memory of a robot controller of a robot, or an external memory source, associated with the workcell; and permitting the user to edit by the user interface at least a portion of the at least one teaching point program associated with the 2-D selection area.