8. Weld Filtering

Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to use the weld filtering options to better navigate your welds and locate specific welds in larger projects without having to manually sort through every weld yourself.

Prerequisites and Resources

Before starting with the tutorial, ensure to have the Yaskowa with Motoman Positioner example cell downloaded and imported into Verbotics Weld. This cell is available to download from the examples page on our website.

This tutorial also uses the weld filtering example project which can be downloaded here.

Video Tutorial

Timestamps:

• 0:00 Start
• 0:13 Introduction
• 0:46 Filtering Welds
• 1:22 Weld Filters
• 6:24 Inverting Weld Filters

Step by Step Guide

Filtering a Project’s Welds

The example project used for this tutorial has over 70 welds identified and ready to plan. Locating a specific weld with an assortment of welds this large is already tedious, let alone for your own projects which may consist of well over hundreds of welds.

Weld Filter Dialogue

To better locate certain welds, locate the filter button with the blue filter icon on in the widget to the left of the viewer. This button loads the weld filter dialogue, of which we’ll now look at its multiple filters and options:

Filter Type	Use	Example within Tutorial Project
Name	Locates all welds containing the word entered in their name	Typing plate into the name text box will isolate the thin plates inside the fire pit part.
Tags	Locates all welds containing the tag(s) selected	Entering the exterior tag into the tags box will return only welds located on the outside of the firepit (so long as they have the exterior tag).
Settings	Locates all welds using the specified weld setting	Several welds use a high-speed weld setting, entering high speed and selecting this setting will return only welds using this setting.
Status	Locates either enabled or disabled welds depending on your selection	Checking the disabled checkbox allows you to see any disabled welds, useful for finding accidentally disabled welds in large pools of welds
Planning Status	Locates welds depending on their planning status (planned, identified, failed or inaccessible)	The project consists of several inaccessible welds and a few failed welds. Checking the inaccessible and failed welds will return these welds and allow us to remove the inaccessible welds and replan the failed welds.
Weld Position	Locates welds depending on their position in relation to gravity (the world base, not the positioner)	To find welds which are to be completed vertically when the part is positioned, check the vertical up and down options. As these are in respect to gravity, these results can change if the positioner is adjusted.
Length	Locates welds that have a length within the range specified	Setting the minimum length to 400mm will return only the larger welds in the project.

In addition to these filter types, there are also several options and functions for filtering welds:

• Clear: Clears the current filters, located in the bottom right of the filter dialogue.

• Invert: Enabling this will return all welds NOT returned with current filters. E.g. Setting the length range to a 400mm minimum then inverting will return all welds with a length UNDER 400mm instead of over.