5 Setting Up EtherCAT Communications with the Sysmac Studio
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NJ/NX-series CPU Unit Built-in EtherCAT Port User’s Manual (W505)
• We recommend that you set device names.
• To delete the mapping for the variable that is assigned to a port, delete the contents of the cell
in the Variable Column or right-click the cell and select Reset Assignment.
The mapping of the device variable is deleted. The variable is not deleted from the variable
table.
Refer to NJ/NX-series CPU Unit Software User’s Manual (Cat. No. W501) for details on device
variables.
• If you do not specify anything in the Variable Type Column when you register a variable or cre-
ate device variables, the variables are automatically registered in the global variable table.
To operate slaves that can be assigned to axes in the Motion Control Function Module, you have to
make axes settings. For details on the items and procedures of the axes setting, refer to the NJ/NX-
series CPU Unit Motion Control User's Manual (Cat. No. W507).
5-3-2 Axis Settings for Servo Drives and Encoder Input Slaves