The first step in commissioning a new machine is to get the basic software setup correctly installed. Because the software is designed to be very flexible across many machine types, the simplest way to do this is to copy from a recently built similar machine.
Étape 1 - Setup Front End PC
Follow technical bulletin 409 to setup PC with correct naming conventions and TeamViewer.
...All Netmatters CNC machines will have TwinCAT already installed, so you can normally skip this step
Install TwinCAT 3.16 from the mainserver (G:\Design\TwinCAT3\TC31-Full-Setup.3.1.4022.16). Go through the wizard and when prompted restart the PC. (2019 PCs will have this)
Étape 4 - Set up a route
Once restarted the TwinCAT icon will appear in the bottom right toolbar. We can now set up a route. Left click the TwinCAT icon once. There will be a menu, go to "Route" then "Add Route...". This is where the machine and the program can be linked. Making sure the machine infeed is on and connected to the local network,
Press on add in the bottom left of the window (1).
From here perform a broadcast search (2), this will search for any Beckhoff devices on the network.
When the machine is found select it (3)
and press add route (4).
Étape 5 - Build the Visual Studio Project
There are two ways to approach this
Use an existing project from a similar, older machine. This is a shortcut method but relies on having a copy of the setup from a machine with the same EtherCAT setup