Patent ID: 7123990

Claim:
A gap welding process for manipulating a movable robotic welder for making a weld between two or more substantially immovable work piece faces, the invention being operable as an intermediate step in conjunction with a gap-sensing routine for actual weld gap measuring by using the robotic welder to touch specific locations on pieces forming the gap or fixturing to produce weld variance data operably interfaced with a weld control program using weld variance data, and feedback data that is gathered during the welding process to determine and perform the correct manipulation required to produce torch movements to accurately weld the gap, the improvement comprising: using a high level programming language to generate weld program data; performing a data transfer routine which takes recorded data representing expected variables, runs a data conversion program that creates weld program data; processing said data transfer and exporting same as said weld program data, thence further usable in the robotic control program; said data including point position, user frames, weld schedule, seam tracking schedule, weave schedule, azimuth orientation, travel speed, wait time, weave type and number of digital output control data.