AKD Drive

First generation AKD drives support one axis per drive, while AKD2G drives support two axes per drive. When configuring drives in the EtherCAT Devices tab, you will need to designate which motion axis applies to each "drive axis", which is the actual axis the drive controls.

In addition to the different views, the WorkBench provides a toolbar and a status bar to display some extra information.

For more details about AKD GUIClosed"Graphical User Interface" A GUI is a type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer and computer-controlled devices click here

WorkBench Toolbar

The toolbar provides access to the following:

Figure 3-22: AKD Toolbar


  • To stop all the AKD drives at the same time, click on the Stop button in the Device Toolbar.

WorkBench Status Bar

The status bar provides the following information on the drive:

  • A fault indicator (No Faults / x Faults) that becomes red when any AKD gets a fault
    You can also set the Log message to get more details on the drive messages
  • The drive status: active / inactive
  • The software (SW) enable status
  • The hardware (HW) enable status

AKD Status Bar

Figure 3-23: AKD Status Bar

For the SW and HW enable status indicators, the color code is:

  • Green when it is OK (i.e. everything is ready to do motion)
  • Red in case of errors / faults
  • Grey for all other cases (for example when SW or HW is not enabled: status is not green because a motion could not happen, and not red because it is not an error)

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