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Programming Basics and Setup 5-39
Exercise 5-1: Sample Programming Setup
The following exercise will take you through a recommended programming setup. As you become more
familiar with your system, you may want to modify this routine.
This routine includes:

Creating a Fluid File

Teaching Workpiece Alignment

Attaching a Fluid File

Teaching Workpiece Origin

Loading a Board

Teaching Fiducials

Creating a New Program File

Saving a Program
 NOTE You may want to review 5.4.3 Teaching Fiducials before performing this exercise, but it
is not required.
Creating a Fluid File
1. Select
Configuration > Setup Fluid Manager from the Main Window to open the Fluid
Manager dialog box.
2. Click on the Purge Parameters tab, disable the Purge Maintenance feature by clicking on the
box next to
Enable Purge Maintenance. The box should be blank when Purge
Maintenance is disabled.
 It is recommended that you disable Purge Maintenance for the tutorial exercises. This
means that the system will not automatically purge while in a production run mode and
will not purge during programming.
3. Click on the
Pot Life/Low Fluid Check tab and enter the information on the fluid you will
be using for this tutorial.
 The pot life should be documented in the material information data sheet.
4. Click on
Save.
 FmXP takes you back to the Main Window.
5. Click on
Teach a Program.
6. Select
File from the Programming Window menu bar.
7. Select
Fluid Table, and then Save As.
8. Save the fluid file as
FMW.FLU.
9. Click on
OK.
Attaching a Fluid File
1. Click
File > Fluid Table from the Programming Window menu bar.
 A drop-down menu with options for loading previously saved fluid files opens.
2. Select the desired fluid file.
3. Click
OK.