Planar Motor components

[Este]

Today we have released new exciting components by Planar Motor Inc. The release has 13 Advanced Motion components, including 11 XBot movers, a Flyway stator, and a Controller.

These components can be simulated in a simple standalone mode or using the real hardware controller with the free addon: New Planar Motor Add-on for Advanced Motion

Controlling the XBots can be done in the simulation using the commands in the Program context or by using the XBots as Products in Process Modeling.

If the Planar Motor Controller is used, the simulated XBots will follow the commands received from the actual controller. Learn more about these digital twin capabilities by downloading the addon package from the above link and reading the included instructions manual. Note that using the addon requires you to have the actual Planar Motor Controller hardware.

Check out the Planar Motors website to see what these products are all about! www.planarmotor.com/en

[keke]

Planar Motor library has been updated in 4.10 eCat. There are few new movers and flyways and the old movers have minor updates to them.

-k

[ACT]

Hi, could you please provide any VCMX sample simulation, to understand better how to use them?

We are really in trouble, while trying to set-up a project, using your components.

Thanks in advance, Lorenzo

[KustiH]

Hello @ACT,
These have quite similar functionality to Beckhoff XPlanar Mover components (with the difference that Planar Motor components don’t have boolean signal maps in them).
This layout template in eCat category Layout Templates has quite good step-by-step instructions on how to build the system for simulation, despite the component manufacturer being different.

Also, in future, please ask questions like this in a new thread, as eCat updates become difficult to follow if old threads are bumped on the top. For example Layout Configuration would be a good category for that question.