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VTB USER GUIDE
14 CANOPEN CONFIGURATOR
The CanOpen Configurator software, is a tool that is included in the VTB IDE package and allow to describe the
CanOpen net that a Promax CNC will use.
With this software, the developer can easily describe the number of slave nodes and the various PDOs that the net will
exchange.
14.1 Note on the devices using
This software can work with Promax CanOpen slaves (Old CanIo and CanAx or newer NG series) and also with third
companies slaves.
The only needed is to have a standard EDS file of the device, to understand which are the properties or the objects
that can be used.
For third company EDS files, ask to the producer to provide it.
14.2 Note on the CanOpen configuration meaning
CanOpen configuration initialize every slave node inside the net, with the needed synchronous PDOs (Process Data
Object).
It also informs the CanOpen master on which data it will exchange with the slaves that are in the net, using the PDO
communication.
At the end of the procedure, it also makes the slaves in the “operational” state, as defined in the DS301 draft.
Data and the structures that can be configured inside every slave, depends on the device firmware, not from the
CanOpen configurator software and are described in the EDS file of the device.
The net Configuration isn't linked to the master that will use it, but only on the slave devices present in the net.
An unknown slave can be also simulated with EDS file of a similar device, not supplied from the manufacturer and
already present in the library, but without any guaranties of success.