Siemens SIMOTION D4 5-2 Series Commissioning And Hardware Installation Manual page 154

Commissioning (software)
6.1 Overview of commissioning
● Axis and drive configuration can initially be carried out independently of one another.
● Communication connections are established automatically during the configuration of I/O
Apart from the symbolic assignment, no further configuration is required for the
communication. As addresses no longer have to be configured, the connection is retained
even with address offsets.
Note
During the configuration of drive objects (DO drive, DO encoder, ...) as well as in the
Message Frame Configuration dialog box (see Section Message frame configuration
(Page 244)), you can deactivate the automatic message frame configuration and the
automatic message frame adaptation.
As many of the previously described advantages are lost through a deactivation, we
recommend that a deactivation only be performed in exceptional circumstances.
The symbolic assignment enables an independent configuration of the axes on the
SIMOTION side and the drives on the SINAMICS side.
This enables, for example:
● The PLC and motion control functions to be completely configured by a programmer even
● The drives to be separately configured and optimized by a drive expert.
● The technology objects to be symbolically assigned later to the drive objects via an
Note
The previous methods of drive, axis and I/O configuration are still available.
The symbolic assignment must be deactivated for these methods.
For newly created projects, the symbolic assignment is used per default.
If projects < V4.2 are upgraded, the symbolic assignment is deactivated per default and
must be activated when required.
The symbolic assignment can be activated/deactivated in SIMOTION SCOUT via the
menu
"Project" > "Use symbolic assignment".
154
variables on SINAMICS I/Os (message frames are set up automatically, the I/Os
interconnected to the message frame and the addresses set up).
without drive know-how using technology objects (e.g. TO axis) and loaded to the device.
interconnection dialog box.
Commissioning and Hardware Installation Manual, 02/2012
SIMOTION D4x5-2