FAQ: Can CAM profiles/recipes reside in the SMC motion controller and how many separate points of data are possible?
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Yes. CAM profiles can reside in the SMC motion controller.
Cams are stored in the special array memory using the ET commands, which can exist in the program or be saved to flash with the BN command.
There are 257 (0-256) points/pairs per slave axis available for camming in the Legend-MC and the SMC-2000. The SMC-4000 has1025 (0-1024) points/pairs per axis available for camming.
Cam data can be stored in a generic user array, then copied to the cam table at run time, allowing several different cam profiles to be selected. There are 8,000 array elements available in the SMC-3010 and SMC-2000, and 15,000 points available in the SMC-4000. Cam data may be calculated within the SMC application program, or in an Excel worksheet. If using the latter, the resulting data can be arranged into a command format (ET[1]=xxxxx) and copied into YTerm for download as part of a program. Recipe data can also be stored in one or many arrays, and selected by setting an index value at run time.
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