BECKHOFF ET9300 User Manual

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Application Note ET9300

Figure 29: TwinCAT 3 CiA402 axis setup

Add a new EtherCAT device and append the CiA402 description (Figure 30).

Figure 30: Add CiA402 device

Now the device variables (objects) need to be linked to the axis variables as shown in Table 10.

Table 10: Linking of device and NC variables

object index Type

variable name

device

NC axis

0x6040

output

Controlword

“Drive_Out” -> “nCtrl1” + “nCtrl2”

0x60FF

output

Target velocity

“Drive_Out” -> “nOutData2”

0x6041

input

Statusword

“Drive_In” -> ”nStatus1” + “nStatus2”

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