Lenze EtherCAT Controller-based Automation - Manual (Page 82)

7 Commissioning of the system
7.3 Detailed description of the commissioning steps
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7.3.11 Creating a task
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How to create a task in »PLC Designer«
1. Open the context menu of the Task configuration and execute the command Add object in
order to create a new task.
Assign a reasonable task name, e.g. "MotionTask".
2. Enter a reasonable cycle time in milliseconds for the created task in the Interval input field.
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Note!
• Select a cycle time, according to the technical data, from 1 ... 10 ms.
• If "distributed clocks" (DC) are used, the task cycle time to be set must comply with the
set DC cycle time.
 Setting a DC synchronisation ( 87)