GalilTools

Ladder Interface

Galil has also developed a software package for the Linux operating system. The package includes drivers to establish communication with Galil's PCI and ISA controllers as well as utility software such as C DLLs for PC based and standalone controllers. The current version of the software has been tested under Redhat 6.X O.S and is available for download. All source codes for the drivers and other utilities developed for Linux are available to customers upon request.

Utilities Datasheet (pdf)

DMCWIN Users Manual

Linux Manual

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Specifications are offered in Acrobat PDF format, which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Example program :

#include <windows.h>
#include <Dmccom.h>

long rc;
HANDLEDMC hDMC;
HWND hWnd;

int main(void)
{
//connect to controller number 1 in the Galil registry
rc = DMCOpen(1, hWnd, &hDMC);
if (rc = = DMCNOERROR)
{
char szBuffer[64];
//Move X 1000 counts
rc = DMCCommand(hDMC, "PR1000;BGX", szBuffer, sizeof(szBuffer))

//Disconnect from controller
rc = DMCClose(hDMC);
return 0;
}
}

C-Toolkit datasheet (pdf)

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Program Applications in C/C++

• Independent Axis Positioning
• Jogging
• Linear Interpolation for
  up to 8 axes
  
• 2D Coordinated Motion for both Linear and Circular Interpolation
• Contouring
  
• Electronic Gearing
  
• Electronic CAM
  
• Helical
  
• Spline
  
• S-Curve
  
• Teach-and-Playback
  
• Feedrate Override
  
• Tangent Motion
  
• Control Variables and I/O
  Interface
• Automatic Tuning
  
• Trippoints
  
• Data Input and Output
  
• Multitasking and Arrays
  
• Sinusoidal Commutation
  And much more!
  

• Four-channel storage scope for displaying real-time position, velocity, error and torque
  
• Displays X versus Y position for viewing actual 2-D motion path
  
• Terminal editor and program editor for easy communication with the controller
  
• Automatic tuning for optimizing controller PID filter parameters
  
• Provides impulse, step and frequency response tests of actual hardware
  
  

WSDK datasheet (pdf)

WSDK Manual(pdf)

Screen shot of Windows SDK.
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• Terminal for sending commands and editing programs
  
• Polling window for displaying responses from the controller such as position and speed
  
• Storage scope for plotting real time trajectories such as position versus time or X versus Y
  
• Send file for sending DMC files
  
• Continuous array capture for data collection and teach and playback
  
• Coordinate transformation
  
• Graphical display of 2-D motion path
  
• Diagnostics for capturing current configurations
  
• Display of input and output status
  
• vector motion tools for slow down around corners and tool offsets
  
  

Visual Basic Example

LabView Example
(National Instrument LabView)

HPVEE Example
(Hewlett Packard HPVEE 5.0)

ActiveX datasheet (pdf)

ActiveX User manual

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• Translates 2-D contours including lines and arcs
  
• Can specify continuous or stop-start motion along motion path
  
• Translates motion dependent I/O events
  
• User-definable text macros can be defined on the CAD drawing
  
• Tool-offset feature
  
• Allows specification of first and last motion segments and path order numbers
  

Example screen
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DDE datasheet (pdf)