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Global Drive Control with OPC
General information
5 GDC mit OPC EN 1.0
3 Searching for OPC drives
Once GDC has been configured as an OPC client, you can search online to find the drives connected
to the OPC bus server:
1. If GDC is still in offline mode, click Options WOnline or press function key to change to
online mode.
2. Select Drive
WSearch... or press function key to open the dialog box Find OPC drives:
3. Click the button Search to start searching or click Cancel to abort.
Tip!
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The drive controllers found on the bus are listed in the window “ Drives connected to bus” .
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GDC automatically tries to allocate device descriptions to the drive controllers found.
– If only one drive was found and a device description could be allocated, the device
description is loaded immediately.
– If automatic allocation of the device description for a drive fails, the device description for
the drive can be allocated manually.
Select the corresponding drive in the window “ Drives connected to bus” or click Drive
WChoose... in offline mode to open the dialog box for manual allocation.
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Use the command Drive
WCommunication parameters... to display the OPC access path
for the active drive in the dialog box Active drive in the text field Access path (e.g.
“ COM1.Device_01“ ).
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For more information about operating GDC, please refer to the “ Global Drive Control –
Getting Started” documentation or the GDC Online Help.
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