SoftMotion 4.18.0.0 is a service pack with several new features and improvements:

• Support for high precision digital cam switches with new function block SMCDigitalCamSwitchHighPrecision
• Additional Cam segment types modified sine and inclined sine
• Improved logging of errors and warnings for Robotics
• Improved SMC3_PersistPosition
• Numerous small improvements and bug fixes
• Automatic Reinit of drives
• Improved support for SoE (Servodrive over EtherCAT)
• New driver for Bosch Rexroth CtrlXDrive SoE

The new version can be downloaded and installed directly with the CODESYS Installer.

The update can also be downloaded from the CODESYS Store.

CODESYS SoftMotion

This version contains improvements to MC_CamIn and forecast functionality for single axis and master/slave movements.

New cam features include distance based ramping in, the segment type Poly7, and a CamBuilder API to programmatically create Cams.

The forecast functionality provides a forecast of the axis movement with high resolution timing. That means you can execute an action a given time (e.g. 100 ms) before an axis reaches a given position. And you can query the position, velocity, acceleration, and jerk that an axis will have at a given time.

CODESYS SoftMotion 4.16.0.0 introduces override functionality for single axis function blocks in the form of the function block MC_SetOverride. In addition, there are new examples for interrupt/continue and override and numerous small improvements and bug fixes.

CODESYS SoftMotion 4.15.0.0 adds support for trigger points on the path to Robotics, similar to h-functions in our CNC product. Trigger points can be created for movements using a relative position, an absolute distance, or the intersection with a plane. Within a configurable forecast-duration, the trigger can be queried in advance. The precise remaining duration until the trigger is reached is reported.

CODESYS SoftMotion 4.15.0.0 adds support for trigger points on the path to Robotics, similar to h-functions in our CNC product. Trigger points can be created for movements using a relative position, an absolute distance, or the intersection with a plane. Within a configurable forecast-duration, the trigger can be queried in advance. The precise remaining duration until the trigger is reached is reported.