Lenze Engineer v2.21 - Manual (Page 34)

Getting started: creating a project
Creating a new project
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10. Click the Next button.
• Further proceeding is described in the chapter entitled "Project structure".  Inserting
components ( 51)
4.1.2 Creating a new project (starting the search for devices connected)
Instead of beginning with an empty project, you can ask »Engineer« to look for devices that can be
reached online.
• After the search has been carried out, you can open the Start-up wizard and select the identified
devices that are to be included in the project.
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How to create a new project with connected devices:
1. Click the icon or select the menu command FileNew to call the start-up wizard.
Step 1 - What would you like to do?
2. Select the option Search for connected devices.
3. Click the Next button.
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Note!
A communication link to the system via CAN or via the X6 diagnostic interface (in the
case of the Inverter Drives 8400 and Servo Drives 9400 device series) is needed in order
to read out the data.
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Stop!
In the step "Reading online data", the Start-up wizard (after the Start search button has
been clicked) automatically establishes an online connection via the selected interface
in order to enable the read-out of data from the connected devices.