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Figure 7-37 Entering a setpoint

7. Click the "Drive On" button. The green "Enable available" LED lights up. If you move the slider to the right, the drive rotates. The current motor speed is displayed under "Actual".

8. Click "Drive Off" to stop the drive after the test.

9. Deactivate the enable and click the "Give up control priority" button to deactivate the control from the PG/PC. In this state, you can no longer make the drive rotate.

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7.7.1 Overview of SIMOTION engineering

Performing engineering with SIMOTION SCOUT

You use the engineering software to configure the individual axes and define the project sequence by means of programs.

1. First, run the axis wizard to configure the axes and interconnect to the real drive (SINAMICS Integrated).

2. Then, select the "SINAMICS_Integrated" in the project navigator and deactivate the

"Connect Online" option in the context menu. This only downloads the project to the SIMOTION D4x5.

Provided you have completed configuration at the drive end, we strongly recommend you deactivate the SINAMICS Integrated so that work can be carried out faster.

3. Complete your SIMOTION application, for example, by creating axis functions and SIMOTION execution programs.

4. Compile the project and download it to the SIMOTION D4x5.

See also

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7.7.2 Creating an axis with the axis wizard

Overview

Axes are integrated as technology objects (TO) in SIMOTION. The axes are created with the appropriate settings under the inserted SIMOTION D4x5 and then interconnected to the real drive.

Inserting an axis

1. In the project navigator, double-click the entry "Axis" > "Insert Axis".

This will access the axis wizard.

Figure 7-38 Inserting an axis

2. Run the wizard and enter the settings for your system until the "Drive Assignment" dialog appears.

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3. Click "Align SINAMICS Devices" to display the "Device Alignment" dialog.

Figure 7-40 Device alignment

4. Select the drives to align and click "Align".

The message frame addresses of the selected drives will be aligned. Note, however, that drives that are configured but whose data have not been transferred to HW Config, and drives that are configured with "free message frame configuration with binary connector"

will not appear in this dialog.

Note

The device alignment must only be performed if this was not done when the drive was being commissioned. You can tell that device alignment has not been performed if there is no interconnectable SINAMICS Integrated drive available in the list of drives.

5. Select the "SINAMICS_Integrated" from the list of drive devices and complete the settings.

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6. To do this, click the "Accept data from the drive" button to transfer the SINAMICS Integrated values in the axis wizards.

7. Select the encoder from the "Encoder Assignment" dialog box and then adapt its properties. Click the "Accept data from the drive" button to transfer the SINAMICS Integrated values in the axis wizards.

Note

For motors with DRIVE-CLiQ interface, a "Accept data from the drive" automatically transfers the determined drive and encoder data (e.g. encoder type). This requires that the data has already been fetched from the attached devices. Namely, an offline configuration has already been used to establish an online connection or an online configuration has been performed.

8. Work through the remainder of the wizard.

Result

The configured axis will appear in the project navigator. You can now test this axis with the axis wizard.

7.7.3 Testing the axis with the axis control panel

Axis control panel

The axis control panel is used exclusively for testing axes. You can use the axis control panel for the following tasks, for example:

● To test each part of the system individually before program-driven axis motions are initiated.

● In the event of an error, to test whether the individual axes and drives can be traversed from the axis control panel

● To traverse the axes for optimization purposes (controller optimization)

● To perform active homing

● To set and remove the axis enable

● To test an axis that has been created

Requirement

The following requirements must be fulfilled for testing:

● The project has been downloaded to the target system.

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Axis test

1. Open the AXES folder in the project navigator and click the "Control Panel" entry below the axis (for example, Axis_1).

The axis control panel is displayed.

Figure 7-41 Axis control panel

2. To display the control range and axis diagnostics, click the "Show/hide control range" and

"Show/hide axis diagnostics" buttons.

3. Click "Assume control priority".

Confirm the notice that appears with "Yes" to set the control to STOPU mode.

Note

In order to move the axis from the PG/PC, you must assume control priority. However, by pressing the SPACER bar, you can stop the axis at any time.

If you are using the axis control panel for a real axis, you must first activate the infeed for SINAMICS drives before the axis can be moved. The infeed must be activated before you enable the axis.

4. The "Assume control priority" dialog box is opened.

Read the notices and click "Accept" to confirm.

5. Activate the infeed (either using message frame 370 or via a BICO interconnection; refer to the section entitled "Activating the infeed (Active Line Module").

Note

If you are using an infeed without a DRIVE-CLiQ interface, you will have to interconnect the "Infeed operation" signal (drive parameter p864) yourself.

If you are using an infeed with a DRIVE-CLiQ interface, select the infeed for which the control priority is to be assumed under "Infeed" in the "Switch axis enable" dialog box.

Select this checkbox when the control priority is to be fetched and activated.