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Can't Find a Specific Drive Plug-in? You could use the serial example to write your entire program. This did not give me anything on the "data" variable. Does the xml file need to be modified to do this? What I am looking for is some general guidance to get me started; point me in the correct direction so I can get rolling. Hello JMJ, Here are my answers to your questions:

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I am going to use a Bassoon servo drive from Elmo Motion Control to control a voice coil.

I suggest you first look at what functionality you need. I'm not familiar with this drive, but am familiar with ethercat. I have just completed my graduation and I am working on a similar projrct.

Motion Control and Motor Drives

Thanks for the help. COuld you kindly help me?

Some command may change a setting in the instrument. Some other command may actually ask for the instrument to write back some data. Message 4 of 4. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. If you only need a handfull of commands, then this is probably the most straighforward for you to get going. I have no controlling experience and have no assistance other than the labvie and textbooks so I appreciate the help.

If the drive you are working with does not have a SDI Plug-in yet, we want to know! Everytime you use the VISA Write, the ascii values are written on the serial lines and transmitted to your device.

I am new to LabVIEW with a few weeks of experience and very little controls experience undergraduate student currently.

COuld you please help me with this? Your device reads and interprets these commands and acts depending on what the command is. The document explains "while" and "for" loops, etc. The most useful appeared to be laview following:. Despite most EtherCAT-capable drives conforming to the CiA standard, many operational behaviors differ between drive vendor implementations of CiA Message 4 of 4.

Since the functions provided by NI SoftMotion are hardware-agnostic, the same LabVIEW control code can be re-used with a variety of different hardware labvieq little to no change to the code. This one would only require sending one command. If I don't write an Instrument Drive will I have limited capabilities? Could I use either or neither?

How to access all the I/O variables for ELMO drive - Discussion Forums - National Instruments

For example, you will have one subVI that will initializes the instrument. Message 2 of 4. Can't Find a Specific Drive Plug-in? Proulx National Instruments www.

Using EtherCAT Motion Drives with NI Real-Time Controllers

Or does the mode status register have to be changed? Message 1 of 4.

What is your opinion on such matter? In this case, you need to have a VISA Read after the write to lqbview able to read the data into your computer. National Instruments provides a unified command framework called the SoftMotion Drive Interface as a solution to this issue.

However, keep in mind that this may not me necessary for your application.