SEW-Eurodrive MFE Series - Page 102

13
Operation with the MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio engineering software
Connection mode
Manual – EtherCAT
®
Interfaces, Field Distributors
102
The following figure illustrates the two types of tools:
[4]
[1]
HDD
RAM
[3]
[2]
RAM
Offline tool
Online tool
18014399752675211
[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] at first.
• Save your project so that the changes can be stored on the hard disk
[1] of your engineering PC [3].
• Execute the "Download (PC->unit)" function if you want to transfer the
changes to your unit [4] as well. This is only possible, when the PC is
connected to the device via USB.
Online
tools
Changes made using online tools affect "ONLY" the unit [4] at first.
• 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 engineering PC [3].
25809148/EN – 01/2019