
Connect Software
- Overview
- Specifications
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Designed for commissioning, optimising, and monitoring drive performance, our Connect PC tool is the result of extensive user research and human-centered design principles, ensuring a superior user experience.
Features include:

- Search for and connect to drives via Ethernet, Serial or Bluetooth (no need for EoE setup when using TwinCAT).
- Automatic drive discovery gets you up and running in the shortest possible time.
- Step-by-step guidance for quickly configuring the drive to suit your motor and application.
- Simply select a motor from a dropdown menu.
- Easily take control and run test profiles on your axis from within the Connect environment.
- Use simple tools to optimise the performance of your application.
- When tuning, all the controls needed are available on a single screen, including the integrated scope and motion controls with intuitive gain controls.
- Connect provides excellent visualisation of system statistics and drive performance (scope).
- The terminal layout viewer shows graphically how the drive’s I/O is configured.
- Advanced software features allow high end consistent performance of your servo axis at the click of a mouse.
- An enhanced help feature guides the user towards successful system set-up.
- Dynamic drive logic diagrams and searchable listings provide clarity during commissioning and fault-finding processes.
- Easy backup and restoration of drive parameter sets.
Latest features at a glance
- Guided setup
- ADS comms
- Integrated scope
- CAN object viewer
- Terminal view
- Visual layout
- EtherCAT start-up list file generation
System requirements:
- Windows 7 SP1
- Windows 8
Getting Started - Installation
Install Connect on Microsoft Windows (7 or later) by running the installation program provided. Your computer will need to have Microsoft .Net 4 installed too - in the unlikely event it hasn't the installer will download it from the internet, or you can obtain it directly from here. Note that installation may take some time, but please be patient.
Installation notes:
- Any previously installed version of Connect will be upgraded during the installation. Normally, there is no need to uninstall the older version.
- The installation can take quite some time to complete.
- Recommended system requirements for installation:
- Operating system: Windows 7 with SP1, Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10 (32-bit or 64-bit).
- Disk space: 2GB or more free.