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6000 Series Programmer's Guide
Motion Architect Communication Features
Motion Architect provides easy terminal emulation support in the Terminal, Panel, and
Controller Tuner modules:
• Terminal emulator window.
• Communication setup parameters (board address and interrupts for bus-based controllers,
and COM port selection for stand-alone controllers).
• Download the bus-based product's soft operating system (prerequisite to connecting,
programming, or sending/receiving motion programs).
• Download motion programs (file from your hard drive) to the controller. The program is
immediately executed with it is received by the controller.
• Upload motion programs from the controller.
For more in-depth user information, refer to Motion Architect’s online help system.
TIP: Try re-sizing the Editor and Terminal windows to be viewed side by side (see example
below). In doing so you can quickly jump back and forth between editing a program and
downloading it to the product and checking programming responses and error messages. The
program development scenario on page 8 uses this side-by-side technique.
Program Editor: Create and edit
programs, save them, and then
download them from the Terminal
module.
Terminal Emulator: Communicate directly with the
6000 controller. Download files containing
stand-alone commands and/or complete programs
or subroutines. Check system responses. Upload
programs from the 6000 controller.
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