Hello,
I’d like to have a stack of lids on deck and pull from the top of stack to lid a plate while it is on an HHS. I’d like to be able to toss the lid to tip waste after. I’ve figured out how to move a lid from a plate to another plate, but not sure how to move a lid from a stack of lids to a plate. I tried defining lids as a separate labware and creating a stack of that, but I run into an incompatible labware error when moving from the lid stack to the plate. Is there a better way to implement this? Using Venus 4.5
You can’t move labwareTypeA to a position that is labwareTypeB, this is why you’re getting the incompatible labware error.
A typical way to handle it is to put a lid at the destination location in your layout file and teach the dropoff on top of the plate using the transport mode of your choice (CO-RE grippers in this case). Title it something that makes sense (e.g. destPlateLid) and it will effectively be hovering above the destPlate. Then your transport step will take from the lid stack to the destPlateLid.
The lid waste will also need a taught position using the lid labware definition in a similar fashion.
You also would have to do this for a plate onto a magnet or something on deck - there’s not a magnet definition that you stack your current labware on in the software, you’re just moving your labware to a spot that’s z-shifted according to the height of the magnet.
Hope that makes sense!
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