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Global Drive Control with OPC
General information
5 GDC mit OPC EN 1.0
3 Searching for OPC drives
Once GDC has been configured as an OPC client, you can search online to find the drives connected
to the OPC bus server:
1. If GDC is still in offline mode, click Options WOnline or press function key <F4>to change to
online mode.
2. Select Drive
WSearch... or press function key <F2> to open the dialog box Find OPC drives:
3. Click the button Search to start searching or click Cancel to abort.
Tip!
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The drive controllers found on the bus are listed in the window “ Drives connected to bus” .
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GDC automatically tries to allocate device descriptions to the drive controllers found.
– If only one drive was found and a device description could be allocated, the device
description is loaded immediately.
– If automatic allocation of the device description for a drive fails, the device description for
the drive can be allocated manually.
Select the corresponding drive in the window “ Drives connected to bus” or click Drive
WChoose... in offline mode to open the dialog box for manual allocation.
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Use the command Drive
WCommunication parameters... to display the OPC access path
for the active drive in the dialog box Active drive in the text field Access path (e.g.
“ COM1.Device_01“ ).
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For more information about operating GDC, please refer to the “ Global Drive Control –
Getting Started” documentation or the GDC Online Help.
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