Moving a motor

The intuitively named move command is used to move a motor. The motor may be a scripted device or a real motor.

For scripts running within the scripting engine, the units field may be omitted and the scaled units will be used by default. The scripting engine does not currently know the units of the motor, and moves can only be made in the units described by the scale factor for the motor.

The general format of the command is:

move motorName by|to value units

The units parameter can be

• scaled for movement using the scale factor for the motor.

• unscaled for movement using motor steps

• mm,um,A,eV,V,deg if the command is being issued from BLU-ICE.

Examples:

Issuing move commands from BLU-ICE:

• move gonio_phi to 30 deg

  Moves the motor gonio_phi to a position of 30 degrees.

• move gonio_phi by 30 deg

  Moves the motor gonio_phi by 30 degrees from its current positions.

• move gonio_phi to 30 unscaled

  Moves the motor gonio_phi by 30 steps.

• move energy to 13000.00 eV

• move energy to 1.00 A

Issuing move commands from the Scripting Engine:

• move gonio_phi by 30 scaled

  Moves the motor to 30 degrees, if the scale factor for gonio_phi converts steps to degrees.

• move energy to 13000.00

  The move will be in eV, if the script for energy reports its value in eV.