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

Object Explorer

The Object Explorer provides the topmost, "bird's eye" view of the XMP motion control system. Objects such as Motion Supervisors and Motors are grouped together in their own separate folders. When opened, folders reveal objects available for mapping.

In this example, the Filter icon is double-clicked to reveal currently available Filter objects (or you can click once on the file tree's "+" junction).

Tool Buttons – Clicking on a tool button causes an action to be performed in relationship to the object or folder currently selected in the object explorer. Another way to act on a selection is to right-click on the selected icon. Actions that can be performed on a specific type of object are unique to that object. Therefore, the user will notice that the tool buttons in the toolbar will change when a different object is selected.

The Tool Buttons can be roughly divided up into two groups:

Summary of Configuration Buttons

When you click on a summary button, it opens and configures the selected object's summary window (see below).

For example, suppose Axis 1 is selected on the Object Explorer. Clicking on the Filter Summary button will configure the Filter Summary window to display the Filter objects that are mapped to Axis 1. Clicking on the Axis Summary button will program the Axis Summary window to display Axis 1.

Summary buttons are lettered with the first letter of the object they represent. In the case of Motion Supervisor and Motor objects, the Motor is represented by an M, while the Motion Supervisor is represented with an S.

Within the View menu, summaries can also be displayed by typing their hot keys ("c" for Controller, "a" for Axis, etc.).

The Other Tool Buttons include:

- Reset the selected controller(s)

- Refresh display of the selected controller(s) and sub-objects

- Upload the firmware of the selected controller(s) to a file

- Download firmware from a file to the selected controller(s)

- Remove the selected controller(s)

- Add a controller

- Disassociate (un-map) the selected sub-object from the object containing it.

Object Explorer: Mouse Controls

Shift-click – When holding down the Shift key and clicking on a Summary window icon, the selected object is either: 1) added to the Summary window (if it is not already there); or 2) removed from the Summary window (if it is already being displayed).

Right mouse button – The functions performed by the toolbar buttons can also be accessed by clicking on the selected object or folder with the right mouse button. This provides a drop-down menu listing of all actions that can be applied to the selected item.

Each item on the pull-down menu corresponds to an icon on the tool bar.