SIC Marking

SIC Marking e10 Controller

Configuration and Support

Guide on how to configure SIC Marking e10

Ethernet/IP Controller

-Documentation-
Version 1.0

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 Table of Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1
Configuring the Ethernet/IP card ................................................................................................... 2
EDS File ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Adding e10 controller to the network ............................................................................................ 7
Sending command to the e10 controller........................................................................................ 9

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 Introduction

The Ethernet/IP is an option that can be added to the e10 controller that allows its integration
into a complex control network. This document provides information on how to configure the
SIC Marking laser to be part of such network, notably as part of an Allen Bradley EtherNet/IP
network.

This guide however does not cover PLC programming.

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 Configuring the Ethernet/IP card

Before placing the e10 SIC Marking controller in a network, it must first be configured. Once
the EtherNet/IP card is installed in the e10 controller; turn on the unit and press the F1 key
upon startup. The following screen will be displayed on the controller:

Press the F12 to go to the Communication board configuration screen. The following screen will
be displayed on the controller:

To configure the e10 controller to be part of your industrial network, press the F5 key to set the
Ethernet information. On this screen you can enter all the parameters required for the e10
controller to be part of your network

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 DHCP 0: The controller IP address is set manually (DHCP disabled)
1: The controller IP address will be set by the DHCP controller (DHCP enabled)

IP The IP address of the controller

Subnet The IP subnet to be used in conjunction with the IP address

Gateway The IP address of the gateway

Qos 0: No quality of service used

1: Quality of service used

Once you have entered all the appropriate information press the F6 key to save the
configuration. The e10 controller can now be part of your industrial network.

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 EDS File

In order to address properly in an EtherNet/IP network, an eds file is provided with the
EtherNet/IP card. This file contains the information so that a programmable logic controller
(PLC) can send information to the e10 controller and read back information from it.

The eds file contains the definition of the e10 controller. So before adding an e10 controller in
the network, the e10 definition must be extracted from the eds file and added to the list of
device already recognized by the development environment. The following steps are done in
the Logix Designer Studio 5000.

From the “Tools” menu, select the “EDS Hardware Installation Tool” option

From the Rockwell Automation EDS Wizard, select the “Register an EDS file” option and click
the “Next” button.

In the next step, select the “Register a single” option. Either enter directly the path of the
provided eds file, or click the “Browse…” to select the file. Once the file is entered in the
“Named” text box, click the “Next” button again.

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The following step in the Rockwell Automation EDS wizard is a confirmation page to ensure
that you have selected the appropriate file. If you’re satisfied with your choice, click the “Next”
button to proceed with the extraction of the information about the e10 controller.

When the eds file is read by the wizard, the definition of the SIC Marking controller will be
presented to the user in the next wizard’s page. Click the “Next” button to confirm the product
type extraction.

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The last step is to insert the device definition contained in the eds file and to add the device in
the database. Again click the “Next” button to proceed with the insertion of the SIC Marking
e10 controller in the database.

This final wizard page is to confirm the SIC Marking e10 controller definition was properly
extracted from the EDS file and added to the Logix Designed devices definition. Click the
“Finish” button to complete the process.

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 Adding e10 controller to the network

With a SIC Marking e10 controller with an EtherNet/IP card installed and the product definition
added to the Logix Designer, you can now proceed with adding an e10 controller in your
industrial network. The following steps are done the Logix Designer.

In the Controller Organizer view, do a right-click on the “Ethernet” branch. Select the “New
Module…” to add a new device to your network.

You must now select the SIC Marking device from the catalog. The easiest way is to perform a
search is by searching for “SIC Marking” as the keyword. If the eds file was properly loaded
(see previous section) you should be able to see the definition.

Click on the “Create” button to add a new e10 controller in your network

Give your new e10 controller in your network a meaningful name in the “Name” textbox. The
other critical information is the Ethernet address. The information you enter in the Ethernet

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address must match what you have entered in the controller itself (first section of this
document). Click the “Ok” button when the appropriate information is entered.

Your new e10 controller will now appear in the Controller Organizer window of the Logix
Designer. Your device is now part of your industrial network and you are now ready to send
information and directive to it to perform you various marking needs.

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 Sending command to the e10 controller

Now that you have successfully added an e10 controller on your industrial network, we are
ready to send information to it. The way to send commands over EtherNet/IP to the e10
controller is to send SIC Marking protocol commands group by packets of 16 bytes at a time.

The first byte of the 16 bytes is the “line number” byte. It starts at 01, and after every packet of
16 bytes sent to the controller, the “line number” byte is incremented. The last line of a
command will have hexadecimal code “FF” has its line number. All the “unused” bytes in a 16
bytes packet must be set the 0.

Therefore, if a whole command can fit in 15 bytes or less, only one packet of 16 bytes will be
required and that single line number will be hexadecimal code “FF”.

In the following example, we want to send a command to load a file named “TEST” as the
active marking file. This is represented by the following command in the e10 SIC Marking
controller:

LOADFILE TEST

The 16 bytes packets that would be required to send to the e10 controller are the following:

FF 4C 4F 41 44 46 49 4C 45 20 54 45 53 54 0D 00

Has you can see, the first byte; the “line number” is set to hexadecimal “FF”. Following we have
the ASCII representation of the “LOADFILE TEST” string followed by a carriage return. The last
byte is not used and therefore set to 0.

This packet of 16 bytes is what you must send to the e10 controller

In the next example, we want to send a command to load a file named “SIC_MARKING” as the
active marking file. This is represented by the following command in the e10 SIC Marking
controller:

LOADFILE SIC_MARKING

Since the command is more than 15 bytes, it will have to be sent in two (2) packets of 16 bytes.
The first packet will be as following the part “LOADFILE SIC_MA” and the second packet will be
“RKING”. Here is the representation of the first packet of 16 bytes that you must send to the
controller:

01 4C 4F 41 44 46 49 4C 45 20 53 49 43 5F 4D 41

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And the remaining of the command will be completed by the second packet of 16 bytes as
following:

FF 52 4B 49 4E 47 0D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Please note the line number of the second line being hexadecimal “FF” and not 02 because this
is the last part of the command.

In the following example we issue a RUN command to indicate to the e10 controller to
physically start marking a part using the currently loaded file. This is represented by the
following command in the e10 SIC Marking controller:

RUN

Here is a representation of the packet of 16 bytes that you must send to the controller:

FF 52 55 4E 0D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

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