Stepper online A6 Servo motor as Spindle motor

I have a Stepperonline 1000W servo motor with an EtherCAT servo drive, which I intend to use as a temporary spindle motor until I can upgrade to a higher-power unit.
Currently, I have three axes configured to work with Leadshine servo drives via EtherCAT.How can I configure this servo motor to function as a spindle motor?
Specifically, what needs to be added or modified in the following configuration files:I’ve tried setting it up based on information from other forum posts, but I haven’t had much success so far.

What have you tried? Which Leadshine drive model?
I am going to propose to use PV mode. It is similar to a vfd.
You just give a speed and the driver ramps up and down as needed.
I have not tried it myself, and I don't have a driver to try it so it is up to you.
I foresee that the cia402 component needs modification, it only handles csp and csv.

I *could* put my stepper drivers in PV mode. So I am making a modification to the cia402 component to (hopefully) make a stepper motor work as a spindle (how useful). Servo drives also. 
Check back in few hours. 
 

Here is now a modified cia402 component together with a complete example on how to use PV (Profile Velcotiy) for an EtherCAT spindle drive.

github.com/MetalMusings/cia402pv
 

Hi Hakan thanks for your help  to configure the drive. 
Unfortunately I am having no luck in getting it to work. 
I have attached my files below do you mind having a look to see if there is anything obvious I am missing?  
I am very new to linux so am struggling to work out when using the loadrt command in the .hal file  where the other  file is loading from? 

Thanks Will 


 

.Hal file I am using 

Very difficult to say, you give me no clues.
You have to show the error messages from linuxcnc startup, that is the biggest help.
I kind of think you have not installed the component?
"sudo halcompile --install cia402pv.comp"
should put the component in the right place.
Anyway, I have to see the errors you get. A general description is not enough.

sudo halcompile --install cia402pv.comp

cnc@raspberrypi:~$ sudo halcompile --install cia402pv.comp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/halcompile", line 1553, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/halcompile", line 1523, in main
process(f, mode, outfile)
File "/usr/bin/halcompile", line 1363, in process
a, b = parse(filename)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/halcompile", line 434, in parse
f = open(filename).read()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'cia402pv.comp'

Print file information:
RUN_IN_PLACE=no
LINUXCNC_DIR=
LINUXCNC_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin
LINUXCNC_TCL_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc
LINUXCNC_SCRIPT_DIR=
LINUXCNC_RTLIB_DIR=/usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules
LINUXCNC_CONFIG_DIR=
LINUXCNC_LANG_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc/msgs
INIVAR=inivar
HALCMD=halcmd
LINUXCNC_EMCSH=/usr/bin/wish8.6
LINUXCNC - 2.9.6
Machine configuration directory is '/home/cnc/linuxcnc/configs/probe_basic_dev'
Machine configuration file is 'EL8_machine.ini'
INIFILE=/home/cnc/linuxcnc/configs/probe_basic_dev/EL8_machine.ini
VERSION=1.1
PARAMETER_FILE=linuxcnc.var
TPMOD=
HOMEMOD=el8_homecomp
TASK=milltask
HALUI=halui
DISPLAY=probe_basic
COORDINATES=X Y Z
KINEMATICS=trivkins coordinates=XYZ
Starting LinuxCNC...
Starting LinuxCNC server program: linuxcncsvr
Loading Real Time OS, RTAPI, and HAL_LIB modules
Starting LinuxCNC IO program: io
Starting HAL User Interface program: halui
linuxcnc TPMOD=tpmod HOMEMOD=el8_homecomp EMCMOT=motmod
Found file(REL): ./hallib/EL8_machine.hal
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments

Debug file information:
Note: Using POSIX realtime
cia402pv: dlopen: /usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/cia402pv.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
./hallib/EL8_machine.hal:9: waitpid failed /usr/bin/rtapi_app cia402pv
./hallib/EL8_machine.hal:9: /usr/bin/rtapi_app exited without becoming ready
./hallib/EL8_machine.hal:9: insmod for cia402pv failed, returned -1
2207
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
Note: Using POSIX realtime

Be in the directory were you have downloaded cia402pv.comp
and there do "sudo halcompile --install cia402pv.comp"

Easy to spot with the error messages, that helps a lot.