Note on installing the cycles
Content of the cycle packet
The cycle packet contains the following files and directories:
- Set-up file to execute the cycle set-up.
- Dependency graph: Describes the dependencies (subroutine calls) for each of the cycles.
- Release notes: Description of relevant changes which the release contains.
- Documentation index: Contains the cycle documentation.
- Index of error messages: Contains the cycle error messages.
- Condensed index of cycles: This contains the CNC cycle and example call programs. When the set-up is executed, the files are unpacked and saved on the specified path.
Executing the set-up
To install the cycles, execute the file isg-cnc-cycles-setup.exe contained in the cycle packet.
When the cycle set-up is executed, the CNC cycles and the example call programs are unpacked and saved on the specified path.
To execute the cycles, the specified path must be saved in the controller as the subroutine path.
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When the cycle set-up is executed the contents of the previously installed cycle packet are overwritten. |
Integrating error messages
The error files must be saved in the TwinCAT set-up to ensure that the correct error messages are output if CNC cycles are incorrectly executed.
The file TcCncCycleErrors.xml in the error directory (error_files) in the TwinCAT set-up directory (here C:\TwinCat) is saved on the following path in order to output error message in the HMI: C:\TwinCAT\3.1\Target\Resource.
The file err_text_cycles_eng.txt (or err_text_cycles.txt) in the error directory (error_files) in the TwinCAT set-up directory (here C:\TwinCat) is saved on the following path in order to output error messages correctly in the log file: C:\TwinCAT\3.1\Components\Mc\CNC\Diagnostics.
Alternatively, the name of the error message file can also be modified by the channel parameter P-STUP-00200.