Danaher Motion
06/2005
Master-Slave
This stores the cam as MyCam.Cam in flash memory. The name of the file
follows the 8.3 format. The filename cannot have more than 8 characters in
the main part and 3 characters in the extension. The cam data file must have
the .cam extension This file can be loaded at any time using
LOADCAMDATA
.
If you created the cam storage (
Common Shared <var> as Cam
), delete it
with:
DeleteCam Cam1
A cam table cannot be deleted if it is in use or if the task that it is attached to
is loaded.
5.3.6.2. D
YNAMIC
T
ABLES
Cam tables can be calculated dynamically. This allows you to build a cam
profile based on events that occur during operation, such as the current
position or speed of an axis. This process is identical to the process of
creating a static cam table from MC-BASIC except you do not place the data
in Flash. Instead, you use the cam table directly.
5.3.7. Operating
Cams
Now that you know the concepts of camming, you need to know the step-by-
step process to use one. Throughout this section, CAM1 is our example. The
entire process is shown in the figure below:
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