Engineering Docs

This half is for the engineer building a control application, not the operator running one. It covers what you install, the environment you build in, and the target you deploy onto. What a finished CNC machine looks like to the person standing at it is in CNC Docs.

Getting started

• Installation: what to install, and what each side runs on.
• Quick Start: a first project, in simulation.
• Licensing & Options: what a licence is bound to, and what a system does without one.

The Development System

• Overview: what the environment is and what it produces.
• The Project: what a project holds and how it is organised.
• PLC & Structured Text: the logic that gates motion.
• Libraries: the function blocks that ship with the environment.
• Motion & NC: axes, channels and kinematics.
• I/O & EtherCAT: bringing drives and I/O onto the bus, and mapping them.
• Connectivity: OPC UA, Modbus and the WebSocket API.
• Operator HMI: the screens a project ships with.
• Simulation: motion, logic and screens with no target.
• Building & Deploying: getting a project onto a target, and back onto it to debug.

The target

• The System Image: what the NEV image carries.
• The Target PC: the cores it needs, and what must not share them.
• Supported Hardware: the drives, I/O and fieldbus devices a system is built from.

Where to go next

• The NEV Platform: how the Runtime, the Development System and the HMI relate.
• CNC Docs: the manual for a CNC machine built on the platform.