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This section describes how to set the network configuration information and how to
check EtherCAT communications from the Sysmac Studio.
5-1 Overview of Network Configuration Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
5-2 Creating the EtherCAT Network Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
5-3 Setting EtherCAT Slave Variables and Axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
5-3-1 Registering Device Variables for All EtherCAT Slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
5-3-2 Axis Settings for Servo Drives and Encoder Input Slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
5-4 EtherCAT Master and Slave Parameter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
5-4-1 Setting EtherCAT Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-11
5-4-2 Setting EtherCAT Slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
5-5 Comparing and Merging EtherCAT Network Configurations . . . . . . . . . . 5-24
5-5-1 Comparing and Merging with the Actual Network Configuration
from the Sysmac Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-24
5-5-2 Automatically Creating the Network Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
5-5-3 Using the Sysmac Studio to Obtain Serial Numbers
from the Actual Network Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-32
5-6 Downloading the Network Configuration Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34
5-6-1 Downloading the Network Configuration Information from
the Sysmac Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34
5-7 Confirming Communications after Completing EtherCAT
Configuration and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-36
Setting Up EtherCAT
Communications with the Sysmac
Studio