I just bought the software and downloaded the instructions. Are you serious about deleting the drivers? Will I loose any information that goes with my machine controller (camsoft). Plus there is not much information reguarding the WSDK. Whay would I want to use another software to communicate with my controller other than my machine controller software? I just want to tune my servos, that's all.
Camsoft says that they can't help me :rolleyes: with the pid's.
The machine intagrator should be hung up by his toes. :mad: :mad:
I hope you all can help me with this. :p
2verb on 08/03/2006 - 15:18
WDSK has program to calculate the PID for you. One of the buttons on the opening screen says "Getting Started" Try that.
Galil_RobinR on 08/03/2006 - 16:07
It's not necessary to delete the drivers, but you'll want to uninstall any previous copy of WSDK. If you have other Galil SW (SmartTerm etc) then the drivers will be updated with the newer software.
RE Camsoft: Camsoft uses our drivers for communication to the card, but I can't vouch for the forward-compatibility of their SW. They should be able to confirm that this is OK. RE the tuning, indeed, use WSDK's Tuning capability. You might also need to invoke the 2nd tier tuning, such as Pole or Notch filters, Acceleration and Velocity feedforwards, or gravitational offset. You'll have to define your own machine spec, choosing a blend of minimal overshoot, smooth velocity, fast positioning, etc. Tuning is a bit of an art. For more details about manually tuning, see http://www.galilmc.com/support/appnotes/optima/note3413.pdf