Drive Configurations, hands on

The Application Recommendation Drive Configurations (M-CAD aspects) describes how the mechanical side of a power train is modelled in AutomationML: the motor, any transmissions, the mechanism that turns rotation into the movement you actually want, the load being moved, and the movement itself.

These three pages let you try it rather than read it. Nothing needs to be installed, and everything you build can be downloaded as a conformant AutomationML file that opens directly in the AutomationML Editor.

A motor, gear box, ball screw and load laid out as a drive chain, with the AutomationML instance tree beside it

1 · Assemble a drive chain

Click a chain together and watch the AutomationML model write itself beside it, in plain English and as an instance hierarchy.

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A linear axis mid-stroke with a velocity chart and the motion pattern broken into sections

2 · Describe the movement

Drag the sliders and the axis follows. Shows how a motion pattern splits into sections, and where the numbers behind the movement actually live.

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A grid of load mechanism classes showing the technical drawings from the Application Recommendation

3 · The component library

Every class the recommendation defines, searchable, with the drawings and parameter tables from the document itself, plus the XML behind each one.

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The document behind these pages

The Application Recommendation itself, with citation details →

Application Recommendation: Drive Configurations (M-CAD aspects), AR DRIVE MCAD V1.0.0, April 2020. The download package contains the document, the role and interface class libraries, and the worked examples. Every class name, parameter name, unit and description used on these pages is read from that library; the drawings are taken from the document.

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