Softmotion Dev. Module Tutorial

Any good tutorial for Softmotion Dev. Module?
I have used Softmotion for straight line move but my next application is contouring data taken by a CAD ... and I found it not easy to understand how the contouring Trajection Generator work... Can we constraint the speed/acceleration of the move? ...
Thanks,
Patrick

Patrick,
in contourined mode you need to provide the trajectory information directly as position points in an array. The motion control algorithm splines through these position points in a fixed interval.
Let's have a look at two imaginary sections of a contouring array for a single axis (absolute contouring):
Example 1:
...100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600,...
In this example, the axis moves with fixed velocity.
Example2:
...100, 200, 400, 800, 1600,...
This sequence accelerates the axis.
Here you can find more information about contouring. In contouring mode you need to generate the velocity profile by calculating the position points for the contouring array. Changing the update interval on the fly doesn't work, as this would have an significant impact on the timing of the spline engine and the control algorithm.
Sometimes it's not trivial to convert CAD data to contouring data. If you don't want to do this by yourself, you could use smart contouring feature of the NI Motion Assistant. Even though the NI Motion Assistant is meant to be used with NI 73xx motion control boards, the CAD import and smart contouring can be used with SoftMotion, too.
I hope this helps,
Jochen Klier
National Instruments

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Message Edited by Christian_M on 11-26-2009 11:49 AM

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I have been reading up/studying example code on the SoftMotion package from NI.
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Thanks for the clarification.
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My code that used the Trajectory Generator interface no longer works. I get an error message saying "Trajectory Generator Method: Library that defines the XNode cannot be found". A quick search of the website suggests that this may be because I've got the 'Standard' version of the module, and need the 'Premium' version to use this interface. Is that right?
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I don't think my problem is due to either of those things. I'm unable to create new VIs using the Trajectory Generator interface because those VIs don't seem to be installed.
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