Manual – DFE32B Fieldbus Interface PROFINET IO 
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Connection mode
MOVITOOLS® MotionStudio – Operation
9.6 Connection mode
9.6.1 Overview
MOVITOOLS
®
 MotionStudio differentiates between "online" and "offline" communica-
tion mode. You can select the communication mode yourself. Depending on the select-
ed communication mode, you can choose offline or online tools specific to your unit.
The following figure illustrates the two types of tools:
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[1] Hard drive of the engineering PC
[2] RAM of the engineering PC
[3] Engineering PC
[4] Unit
Tools Description
Offline 
tools
Changes made using offline tools affect "ONLY" the RAM [2].
• Save your project so that the changes can be stored on the hard disk [1] of your engineer-
ing PC [3].
• Perform the "Download (PC->unit)" function if you want to transfer the changes to your 
unit [4] as well. 
Online 
tools
Changes made using online tools affect "ONLY" the unit [4]. 
• Perform the "Upload (unit->PC)" function if you want to transfer the changes to your RAM. 
• Save your project so that the changes can be stored on the hard disk [1] of your engineer-
ing PC [3].