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Operation with the MOVITOOLS
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MotionStudio engineering software
First steps
Manual – MOVIPRO
®
with EtherNet/IP™ or Modbus/TCP Fieldbus Interface
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Depending on the selected connection mode, you can choose offline or online tools
specific to your device. The following figure illustrates the two types of tools:
[4]
[1]
HDD
RAM
[3]
[2]
RAM
Offline tool
Online tool
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[1] Hard drive of the engineering PC [3] Engineering PC
[2] RAM of the engineering PC [4] Device
Tools Description
Online tools
Changes made using online tools affect only the device[4].
• Execute the "Upload (device →PC)" function if you want to
transfer the changes to your RAM [2].
• Save your project so that the changes can be stored on the
hard disk [1] of your engineering PC [3].
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→device)" function if you want to
transfer the changes to your device[4] as well. Check the para-
meterization afterwards.
Selecting the communication mode (online or offline)
Proceed as follows:
1. Select the connection mode:
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