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Clicking through the peripheral sequence can last a few minutes, but it saves you linking hundreds of PLC in-/outputs manually. The diagram shall help you if you don’t know what do. If you know what to do you can skip some steps: Enhanced description: Install device descriptions Only necessary if you want to add a bus device the first time on your laptop. Read field bus from PLC IDE (without updating designators) Only necessary if you have changed the bus configuration in the PLC editor. If you just have renamed a bus device in the PLC editor use the last step instead of this one. Write peripheral and IO designators to the PLC IDE It updates the bus configuration in the PLC editor. Only necessary if you did an EPLAN import or some renaming in Control plus Studio. Renaming of peripheral designators is more efficient in the PLC editor, see last step. Control plus Studio export It exports the peripheral instances and the BinIo FB. Only necessary if have changed anything in the bus like a new slave or renaming an IO. Build PLC project After a successful build the new PLC in-/outputs are available for linking with the bus. Only necessary if have changed anything in the bus like a new slave or renaming an IO. Link IO with variables in PLC IDE It links the PLC in-/outputs with the bus device. Only necessary if have changed anything in the bus like a new slave or renaming an IO. You can shortcut this step in two ways, especially if you have added/changed only one or two devices: Link the IO manually in the PLC editor. Since Control plus Studio 5.3 you can link only single bus devices:   Read fieldbus config from PLC IDE only to update designators Only necessary if you did a renaming of bus devices in the PLC editor. ... View more

For Beginners the automatic IntelliSense is quite helpful: But there is always a short delay when typing the first letter. You can deactivate the automatic IntelliSense and open it manually with CTRL+SPACE in case you really need it:   To automatically insert complete code snippets you can use the open source software AutoHotKey (download from autohotkey.com). You can download a AutoHotKey script template for Control plus from our website. Programming a step chain has never been as fast as now: ... View more

In the Targets folder of the station folder you can find several useful functions regarding the target system. Drag and drop the NXHC file on a batch file to execute this function with the corresponding target system, for example map network drives with the VPB40, by default Y: for C:\OpconApp and Z: for D:\OpconData.   The other batch files provide functions to enable/disable the write filter on the active mPad (Fbwf = file based write filter) to logoff/logon, restart and shutdown Windows (Os = operating system) to enable/disable Remote Desktop (Rdp = remote desktop protocol)   And how to remember if you must use the NXDC or NXHC file? NXDC = Nexeed deploy configuration = the checkboxes of the deployment dialog in Control plus Studio NXHC = Nexeed host configuration = hostname and logon credentials ... View more

Variables that are declared in the VAR area in methods lose their value after leaving the method. Use the VAR_INST area to keep the variable in the memory and to get the same behaviour like the variable would have been declared in the function block itself. For the VAR area the timer will never have Q=TRUE because the timer starts from beginning with every call of the method: ... View more