Engineering Docs

This half is for the engineer building a control application, not the operator running one. It covers what you install and the environment you build in. What a finished CNC machine looks like to the person standing at it is in CNC Docs.

Getting started

• Installation: what to install, and what each side runs on.
• Quick Start: a first project, in simulation.

The Development System

The order is the project tree’s own, so the list reads the way the environment does.

• Overview: what the environment is and what it produces.
• The Project: what a project holds and how it is organised.
• System: the tasks an application runs as.
• I/O & EtherCAT: bringing drives and I/O onto the bus, and mapping them.
• Motion & NC: axes, channels and kinematics.
• Linking: joining a variable to a terminal’s process data.
• PLC: the logic that gates motion.
• Libraries: how a package enters the build.
• Modules: the packages a machine is made of, and the files they hand over.
• What Your Code Owns: the line between a package and your logic.
• OPC UA: publishing a variable to the plant.
• HMI Project: the screens a project ships with.
• Simulation: motion, logic and screens with no target.
• Building & Deploying: getting a project onto a target, and back onto it to debug.

Reference

• Function Blocks: every block the packages provide.
• Built-in Functions: what the compiler provides without a package.
• Global Variables: every global the packages declare.

Where to go next

• The NEV Platform: how the Runtime, the Development System and the HMI relate.
• CNC Docs: the manual for a CNC machine built on the platform.