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CAN Servo Tool: CANopen commissioning from a laptop

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A Windows and Linux desktop tool for scanning CANopen buses, commissioning servo drives, and plotting live PDO data.

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For: Engineers commissioning CANopen servo drives
Worth noticing: Its trace view decodes NMT, SYNC, EMCY, SDO, PDO, and heartbeat frames, with filters and saved traces.

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Loading an EDS file supplies the names, types, units, and PDO mapping used across the interface. The trace view lists NMT, SYNC, EMCY, SDO, PDO, and heartbeat traffic, with filtering and saved traces. Other listed functions include RPDO scripts, mapping edits, LSS, and firmware downloads; software master and slave modes are explicitly marked as coming soon in Pro.

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