Connect
Quick and easy commissioning
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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, Bluetooth or EtherCAT/ADS (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.
    • Our Unimotor hd range with Endat 2.2 or 3 encoder includes an electronic nameplate feature, where motor ratings and parameters are automatically read by Unidrive M or the Digitax HD range.
    • 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.
    • Quickly generate an EtherCAT start-up list for your PLC, to allow drive parameters to be configured on power up, safeguarding the application setup.
    • 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

Specifications

 

System requirements

  • Windows 10 or 11
  • Disk space: 2GB or more free. 

 

Getting Started - Installation

Install Connect on Microsoft Windows by running the installation program provided. 

Any previously installed version of Connect will be upgraded during the installation. Normally, there is no need to uninstall the older version.

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