Select a Step ......................................................... REQUIREMENTS AND SAFETY Introduction Required Materials Safety Precautions Hardware Requirements and Installation FAQs for Motion Console ––––––––––––––––––––––– MOTION CONSOLE Object-oriented Motion Control Motion Console Objects Motion Console User Interface – Main Motion Console Frame – Adding a New Controller – Object Summary Windows – Object Explorer – Object List Configuration Dialog Boxes Configuring New Systems with Motion Console – Getting Started with Motion Console – Saving Parameter Settings – Associating Objects with Motion Console – Configuring a Motion Supervisor – Mapping One Object to Another – Removing (Deleting) a Mapped Object – Safety Reminders Motion Console Objects – Controller Object – Motion Supervisor Object – Axis Object – Filter Object – Motor Object – SynqNet Object – SqNode Object – I/O Object Command Line Options Reading Versions with Motion Console Troubleshooting

Motion Console User Interface

This section provides an overview of the Motion Console user interface.

Main Motion Console Frame

The outermost Motion Console window frame presents a toolbar at the top with several buttons. Each button function is summarized below.

Toolbar Functions

View Error List – MPI library function errors are displayed in the Library Function Errors window. When there are no errors to display, the View Error List button is disabled. Otherwise, it is enabled and clicking on it opens the Library Function Errors window.

To empty the list, click on the Reset button. To close the list, click on either the Close button, or the close ("X") icon in the upper-right corner of the window. Some MPI error messages are described in the Software Reference.

New – Clicking on the New Profile button will create a new initialization file (.INI), or profile. The default setting will initially display only the Object Explorer box with no controllers.

Open – Clicking the Open Existing Profile button will open a specified .INI file.

Save As – Clicking the Save Profile As button will save the current profile into the specified .INI file.

View Object Explorer – Clicking on the View Object Explorer button displays the Object Explorer window. See the Object Explorer section for more information.

Open and Configure Controller Summary – Clicking on this button opens and configures the Controller Summary window. See the Controller Objects section for more information.

Open and Configure Motion Supervisor Summary – Clicking on this button opens and configures the Motion Supervisor Summary window. See the Motion Supervisor Objects section for more information.

Open and Configure Axis Summary – Clicking on this button opens and configures the Axis Summary window. See the Axis Objects section for more information.

Open and Configure Filter Summary – Clicking on this button opens and configures the Filter Summary window. See the Filter Objects section for more information.

Open and Configure Motor Summary – Clicking on this button opens and configures the Motor Summary window. See the Motor Objects section for more information.

Open and Configure SynqNet Summary – Clicking on this button opens and configures the SynqNet Summary window. See the SynqNet Objects section for more information.

Open and Configure SqNode Summary – Clicking on this button opens and configures the SqNode Summary window. See the SqNode Objects section for more information.

I/O Summary – Clicking on this button opens the I/O Summary window. See the I/O Objects section for more information.

Configure Grid Rows – Clicking on this button displays a window to configure the Row Configuration of the highlighted Object Summary window. This allows the configfuration of each window to display only the required parameters. This will simplify the Motion Console interface and hide parameters that should not be modified. The Row Configuration settings can be saved to an initialization file.

Add Controller – Clicking on this button adds a new Controller object. See "Controller Objects" section for more information.

Refresh – Clicking on this button will refresh the Motion Console display. While the Status tabs at the bottom of the Object Summary windows are constantly updated, the Configuration tabs at the top are only updated when manually changed by the user, when Motion Console is restored after being minimized, or when the Refresh button is clicked. This is particularly helpful if another application is also accessing the XMP controller and changing the controller configuration.

Panic Button – Clicking on this button activates a Panic action for each Motion Supervisor.

WARNING! The Panic Stop behaves according to the user-specified Panic Action parameter located in the Motion Supervisor Summary / Config tab. Depending upon how Panic Action is configured, a panic stop may initiate a slow or rapid motion stop, an error state, or no error at all. For details on configuring your Panic Stop, see the "Motion Supervisor Object" section below in this chapter. You must custom-configure your Panic Stop according to the level of control and safety required by your motion system!

NOTE– The Shift and Ctrl keys can be used to modify the action performed when clicking on a toolbar button that opens a window. The modified actions are listed below:

Furthermore, for those buttons that open object summary windows, the Ctrl and Shift keys will cause the Summary Object List Configuration dialog box to be by-passed. The Summary window will be opened to the current configuration.