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Delem
V1101, 2.3
Configuration of axes
To install an axis, two steps must be taken:
1. the module must be selected through menu 3: ‘module configuration’. See the next
paragraph.
2. the intended axis must be selected through menu 2: ‘auxiliary axis’.
‘Dummy axis’
There is a situation in which you have to use the auxiliary menu, but you do not have a ‘real’
axis to control: a so-called ‘dummy axis’.
For example, you have a mechanical Z-axis. The control can not automatically control that axis,
but you still want the control to calculate the Z-axis positions. In this case you can simulate a Z-
axis. The control calculates the positions and you can manually adjust your Z-axis.
To do so, enable an axis and select ‘No control’ in the axis menu. For such a dummy axis, there
is no need to configure a module.
Using an I/O module
For some applications it is only necessary to have extra I/O’s and you do not want to control an
axis. These extra I/O’s can be supplied by a DM04. To add a DM04 to your configuration you
can follow the standard procedure of module configuration and selecting an axis in the auxiliary
axis menu. Choose the axis type ‘IO’.
As the DM04 does not control an axis, no parameters are displayed in the user menus of the
programming mode and the execution modes.
2.5 Module configuration
This function serves to select the connected modules in the system and assign the proper axes to
those modules.
Chapter 4 contains a detailed description of axis configuration. This should be done first,
because otherwise no axis can be controlled.
Futhermore, A new software version for the modules can be loaded directly from floppy disk via
the control. Obtain from DELEM a floppy disk with the latest module software. When in the
menu ‘module configuration’ do the following steps:
Step 1: Press the softkey ‘update software’.
Step 2: The control checks the files on floppy. When the files have been read the files are
displayed on the control screen. An example of this screen:
FILES AVAILABLE ON FLOPPY
DM05 V2.2
MODULE ID Boot Flash
DM05 200766 V1.2 V1.8
Step 3: Check whether the version numbers of the files on floppy have correct version number.