Procedure Summary

A summary of this procedure is as follows:

  1. Connect only the standard Kollmorgen drives and ATI I/O devices in the EtherCAT network. Scan the network as normal. Online Configuration of the AKD drives is possible using the embedded WB screens in the IDE

    Figure 7-273: Mapping of standard components

    Figure 7-274: Standard Components in Project tee

  2. Add the non-standard devices to the network. Use the EtherCAT Configurator as described further in this document to create the XMLClosed"Extensible Markup Language " XML is a general-purpose markup language. It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own tags file.
  3. Export the .XML file from the EtherCAT Configurator and import it into the KAS project.
  4. IF the EtherCAT device order has changed when adding the third-party device, update the EtherCAT addresses in the KAS dictionary in order to match the final configuration.

    Figure 7-275: EtherCAT structure in the dictionary

  5. Save the .KAS project to save the EtherCAT Configuration
  6. Read and write information from the non-standard I/O device use the following EtherCAT function blocks

    Figure 7-276: EtherCAT function blocks in the library.