Lenze PLC Designer R3-x - Manual (Page 51)

Lenze · Commissioning of Lenze drives · 1.3 EN - 06/2014
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Extending sample projects - adding devices
Creating a control configuration - EtherCAT bus system
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8 Extending sample projects - adding devices
This chapter informs you on how to extend the control configuration manually.
• Lenze provide ready-made sample projects in which the control configuration has already been
created. More information can be found in the following section:  Working with the sample
projects ( 23)
• Proceed as described below to extend an existing sample project individually. Please note that
the communication settings have to be adapted for each individual node.
8.1 Creating a control configuration - EtherCAT bus system
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How to create the control configuration in the »PLC Designer«:
1. Open the context menu of the target system and execute the command Append device
in order to extend the control configuration with "EtherCAT Master".
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Note!
Before creating an EtherCAT configuration in »PLC Designer«, ensure that the following
conditions have been met:
• The sequence of EtherCAT slaves in the device tree must correspond to the physical
arrangement of the EtherCAT topology.
• In order that the system works properly, end terminals must not be used when setting
up the system configuration in the device tree.
• Select the cycle times according to the technical data, from 1 ... 10 ms.