panel

Scope

Use the panel as the fastest operator-level overview when you want to see the overall state of the IOC, EtherCAT master, slaves, axes, PLCs, plugins, and data-storage objects in one place.

Overview Panel

For an overview of an ecmc system, the ecmcMain.ui panel is a good starting point. The ecmcMain.ui covers most parts of an ecmc system:

  • ecmc_rt thread diagnostics:
    • Jitter
    • Cycle time
  • EtherCAT:
    • Status
    • Lost frames
    • Slave count
    • master Id
    • Links to dedicated sub panels for each slave type.
  • Links to all configured objects:
    • motion expert panels
    • PLC objects
    • plugin objects
    • data storage objects

Start the Panel

The panel is started with the following syntax:

caqtdm -macro "IOC=<ioc_name>" ecmcMain.ui