I am just starting to work with the B&R. I need help setting up two Acopos 1016 drives!
I have a B&R PC model 5c5001.32 (with 5ls172.6) and ACOPOS 1016 drive(with AC110 and AC122).
I want to setup two ACOPOS 1016 drives using 5C5001.32. At the beginning I want the drives to run a simple program, for example, moving at 100 RPM until they are commanded to stop. Then I want to run a CNC program with this system.
I would appreciate your help.
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Hi and welcome,
this stuff is really not self-explanatory and can’t be explained with a few sentences either.
Various trainings exist for that, starting with single axis control (SEM415). This is assuming you already know the basics, so about AS and AR. (SEM210, maybe SEM251 doesn’t hurt)
You can try to read various topics in the automation help by yourself but I doubt this brings you to anything close to a working CNC machine, tbh.
These trainings can be (not promised) exist in both, presence seminars and remote lectures, though I think CNC is not really a “standard” case and thus maybe has to be requested explicitly (I only have found the training manual for it, not an explicit training to attend)
For the seminars see Seminars | B&R Industrial Automation
For dates see https://www.br-automation.com/en/academy/dates-and-registration/#country=de (filtered for germany since that’s where you are from according to your profile)
Various topics in the help for your usecases which also have a few “Getting started” topics each:
mappAxis - to help you insert your axis and test it without CNC
mappCNC - for the CNC parts
I hope this not so helpful “do a, then b, then c” answer is of use to you anyway
Best regards
Michae
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Thank you for your answer 
I actually want to test the drives and I don’t plan to build a cnc system!
I saw in some B&R manuals that there are sample projects, I was hoping to find a sample project for the 5C5001.32 but I didn’t succeed. Anyway I will continue studying, but I know it will be very time consuming.
At the moment my solution is to connect the drives to the 5C5001.32, and then write the required program using AR. I can say that I have worked with AS quite a bit, I have even run an x20cp0482 using AS for a project, but the AR space is unfamiliar to me. I was hoping someone could give a brief explanation of the programming steps with AR, step by step
Tanks, Mohsen Mollaei
Hi again,
I was mainly focused on your own post referencing CNC - if you don’t actually need that, even better.
I was just informed by a colleague who is lacking time to respond himself but gave me a brief shoutout, that parts of my answer don’t even apply because of the reasons outlined next:
The hardware you mentioned is /very/ old and out of support. The last motion software that supported it was ACP10 (so scrap everything I said about mapp[Motion|CNC]) in a version that’s > 10 yrs old. I was given a link which I wanted to share anyway: V4.0 MC Upgrade (Acp10_V2.51.4) | B&R Industrial Automation
which surprisingly is available for AS 4 (but I can’t tell which version is the newest to run support your PLC at all - the drive is supported I think until AS 4.12)
Unfortunately besides the chapters in the help for that and some examples focusing on the motion part (Link) I can’t even offer resources regarding trainings since mappMotion (its successor) is pretty much the way to go since quite a while
If you already worked with AS and thus are familiar with programming in a cyclic context (which is the AR part I was referencing), programming a motion application is basically the same as with everything else: parameterize FUBs, call them, react on the various outputs accordingly.
A brief idea of whats needed: Power On, Homing, Some movement command (Absolute, Additive or constant speed), some stop command and error handling.
The code in the examples in the link above can maybe give a better overview than this brief one - as stated, simply writing everything down is not feasible.
Best regards
Hi,
the B&R PC model 5C5001.32 is about 20 years old and very outdated.
The newest AS version that (maybe) supports it would be 2.7, you might even have to go back to back to 2.3 or 2.4.
AS versions < 2.7 can only be installed under WinXP. AS 2.7 can work (no guarantee) on Win7 (32-bit).
It is really worth it to setup a system with such outdated components?