SEW-Eurodrive DFE24B EtherCAT - Operating MOVITOOLS MotionStudio via EtherCAT; About MOVITOOLS MotionStudio

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Manual – Fieldbus Interface DFE24B EtherCAT®
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About MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio
Operating MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio via EtherCAT
®
7 Operating MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio via EtherCAT
®
The use of the engineering software MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio is described in detail
in the "MOVITRAC
®
B Communication and Fieldbus Unit Profile" manual and in the
MOVITRAC
®
B system manual. This chapter only describes the peculiarities of the com-
munication via EtherCAT
®
in detail.
7.1 About MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio
7.1.1 Tasks
The software package enables you to perform the following tasks:
• Establishing communication with units
• Executing functions with the units
7.1.2 Functional principle
Overview The following figure illustrates the functional principle of the MOVITOOLS
®
Motion-
Studio software package.
Note that the illustration shows only the logical communication correlation and not the
hardware connections.
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[1] Communication channel for fieldbus or Industrial Ethernet
[2] MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio software package with integrated SEW Communication Server
[3] Communication between fieldbus nodes or Industrial Ethernet
[4] Communication channel via interface adapter to SBus (CAN) or serial
Machine control
Machine level
System control
System level
Units
Drives
Firmware Firmware Firmware
PLC
Unit control
Field level
Parameter setting
Startup
Visualization & diag.
Programming
Functions
Tools
SEW-Communication-Server
SBus
Serial
EthernetProfibus
S7-MPI
[2]
[1]
[4]
[3]