SEW-Eurodrive DFE24B EtherCAT - Page 5

Manual – Fieldbus Interface DFE24B EtherCAT®
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Contents
7 Operating MOVITOOLS
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MotionStudio via EtherCAT
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................................. 52
7.1 About MOVITOOLS
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MotionStudio .......................................................... 52
7.1.1 Tasks ......................................................................................... 52
7.1.2 Functional principle.................................................................... 52
7.2 First steps ................................................................................................. 54
7.2.1 Starting the software and creating a project .............................. 54
7.2.2 Establishing communication and scanning the network ............ 54
7.2.3 Configuring units........................................................................ 55
7.3 Connection mode...................................................................................... 56
7.3.1 Overview.................................................................................... 56
7.3.2 Selecting the communication mode (online or offline) ............... 57
7.4 Communication via EtherCAT
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................................................................. 58
7.4.1 Overview.................................................................................... 58
7.4.2 Configuration of the mailbox gateway in the EtherCAT
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master........................................................................................ 61
7.4.3 Configuring the network at the engineering PC ......................... 62
7.4.4 Checking the network settings................................................... 63
7.4.5 Communication settings in MOVITOOLS
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MotionStudio .......... 64
7.5 Executing functions with the units............................................................. 66
7.5.1 Parameterizing units .................................................................. 66
7.5.2 Reading or changing unit parameters........................................ 66
7.5.3 Starting up units (online)............................................................ 67
8 Motion Control via EtherCAT
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......................................................................... 68
8.1 EtherCAT
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introduction............................................................................. 68
8.1.1 Clock synchronism..................................................................... 69
8.2 Settings in MOVIDRIVE
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B with MOVITOOLS
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MotionStudio................. 72
8.2.1 Velocity mode settings............................................................... 72
8.2.2 Position mode settings............................................................... 74
8.3 EtherCAT
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master settings....................................................................... 75
8.3.1 Velocity mode settings............................................................... 76
8.3.2 Position mode settings............................................................... 76
8.4 Example TwinCAT .................................................................................... 77
8.4.1 Parameterizing clock synchronous operation ............................ 77
8.4.2 NC axis parameterization .......................................................... 78
8.4.3 Encoder parameterization.......................................................... 79
8.4.4 Velocity mode ............................................................................ 79
9 Error Diagnostics .............................................................................................. 82
9.1 Diagnostic procedures .............................................................................. 82
9.2 List of errors .............................................................................................. 84
10 Technical Data................................................................................................... 85
10.1 DFE24B option for MOVIDRIVE
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MDX61B.............................................. 85
10.2 DFE24B option for MOVITRAC
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B and gateway housing ........................ 86
Index................................................................................................................... 87