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Operation with the MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio engineering software
Communication via EtherCAT
Manual – EtherCAT
®
Interfaces, Field Distributors
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The settings look as follows in Beckhoff's TwinCAT program:
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13.5.3
Configuring the network at the engineering PC
If MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio and the EtherCAT
®
master are running on the same
PC, you do not have to make any additional network settings.
If the EtherCAT
®
master is connected to an Ethernet network via an engineering inter-
face, PCs in the same subnet can access SEW drives on EtherCAT
®
with
MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio. To do so, the telegrams from the engineering PC are
routed via the Ethernet interface of the EtherCAT
®
master to the mailbox gateway (so-
called routing).
Two variants
are available for routing:
1. Design: Defining a static route.
In this variant, an entry is added to the routing table of the engineering PC that
routes the engineering data via the EtherCAT
®
master to the mailbox gateway.
The command for creating a static route in the DOS box is:
route –p add [Target] MASK [Net mask] [Gateway]
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[2]
[3]
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13.5.4
Checking the network settings
Irrespective of whether MOVITOOLS
®
MotionStudio and the EtherCAT
®
master are
running on the same PC or the EtherCAT
®
mailbox gateway is accessed via routing,
you should check the network settings.
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