# Cam functionality

## Notice

Definition of curve

A cam is a description of a motion profile that clearly assigns a slave position to each master position for a specific master position range.

The term “cam“ is also used with the same meaning in this document.

## Additional information

- Definition range of cams and their processing
- Cam processing with closed scanning
- Cam description by interpolation point tables
- Handling interpolation pointer tables
- Processing tables with LINE/POLY5 motion segments
- Access to cam tables
- File format of the cam tables (ASCII interpreter)