Lichuan CL57E Very Basic Setup

Let me preface this with I am very new to LinuxCNC, Ethercat, and CNCs in general. However, in hopes to help someone else out and maybe keep them interested in getting LinuxCNC working for their CNC I wanted to share my very basic setup files for the Lichaun CL57E-4A 4 axis Ethercat closed looped stepper motor driver. I think these files would be similar to what would be needed for the Lichaun OL57E? I searched the forums for the past few weeks but could not find any working examples for the Lichaun CL57E, (I might just be bad at searching the forum haha). I followed MrRodW's fantastic YouTube tutorial video on how to get all the main Ethercat setup complete and I am using an old HP Elitedesk 800 G1 DM PC, and its built in Ethernet port to run my LinuxCNC setup.

Attached is a very basic Ethercat xml configuration file, that I created with the "lcec_configgen" tool and then I filled in the missing parts by referencing the attached "pdos" and "sdos" files. Also attached are the hal and ini files. With the three files "cl57e-ethercat-conf.xml", "cl57e.hal", "cl57e.ini" a LinuxCNC config can be created and ran, which should in turn allow you to move all four axes. These files are very basic and will need more to get the CNC really going but it is always nice to see the motor move when you tell them too.

Great work! When I first tried lcec_configgen, the output was useless, common on multiaxis drives. But recently I tested it after some changes made by Grandixximo and he now has an inbuilt driver for the OL drive so its even easier than this xml you used. And yes, it think it will work for the open loop version too. He should see this and might be able to extend the OL driver to support this too