Beckhoff EP6224, Документация

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Commissioning and configuration
EP6224 and EP6228 38 Version: 1.5
5.2.2 Assigning devices to ports
There are four ways of assigning devices to ports:
Selecting a device from the device catalog
1. Search for the desired device in the "Catalog" field.
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2. Assign the device to a port. There are two ways to do this:
- Pull the device onto the desired port by drag-and-drop.
- Right-click on the device
Click on "Add to Port
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ð
The device is assigned to the port
Importing the device description file IODD
1. Supplementing the device catalog [
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2. Select a device from the device catalog [ } 38]
ð The device is assigned to the port
Scanning devices
ü Requirement: the master and the devices are cabled and supplied with voltage.
1. Click on the "Scan Devices" button.
ð The IO-Link master requests all connected devices to identify themselves. Each detected device is
automatically assigned to the port to which it is connected.
Entering the device description manually
1. Right-click on a port.
2. Click on "Create Device" in the context menu.
ð
A dialog box opens.
3. Enter the items of information that describe the IO-Link device.
5.2.3 Supplementing the device catalog
Following the installation of TwinCAT, the device catalog contains only the device descriptions of IO-
Link devices from Beckhoff. There are two ways of supplementing the catalog:
Importing from the online database "IODDfinder"
ü
Requirement: the PC can access the Internet
1. Click on the "IODDfinder" button.
2. Search for the desired device.
3. Click on the image in the "Picture" column.
ð The device description is downloaded and added to the device catalog.
Importing from the file system
1. Click on the "Import device description" button
2. Open a device description file (IODD) in the dialog box that opens
ð
The device description is added to the device catalog.