OMRON NB-Designer OPERATION MANUAL (NB-series, 2020)

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User Information

When the system uses User Permission function, the related information of the current login

user can be displayed in the table form by using the User Information component. The User Information

component must be used in combination with the User Permission, otherwise it will not work. Refer to

3-10-6 User Permission Setting (Page 3-308) for the details.

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Multifunction

The component which is unified the Bit Button and the Word Switch can operate the both the

bit set and the word set through one key.

The Multifunction component can be created by using the mouse to click [Components] -

[Button/Switch] - [Multifunction] or dragging [Multifunction] component from [Project Library Window] -

[Function Parts] to the Edit Window. The number of Actions which can be set by the Multifunction is 16

at max.

z Process of adding Multifunction component

Right-click the mouse in the blank box located in the left side of Basic Properties tab in the

Multifunction Property screen to add the Bit Set or Word Set in the procedure as follows.

Add the actions (Bit Set and Word Set). Right-click the Action List to select [Insertion Before] or

[Insertion After] option to change the execution order of the component.

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The Bit Set support the Types of [Set], [Reset], and [Alternate] only.

The Word Set support the Types of [Value Setting], [Add Value], and [Subtraction Value] only.

If the function specified according to the Action List order (ascending order) is failed to execute

normally, set the executing operations of the Multifunction by the [Exit when execution fails]

checking box.

• Checking the check box

When executing the function in the order of the Action List, if the specified function cannot be

executed, the execution of the Multifunction is quit at the moment and the Action on the List

is not executed.

• Unchecking the check box

Even if the specified function cannot be executed, when executing the function in the order

of the Action List, the next Action on the List will be executed.

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Event Display

Event Display is used to make the event information logged in [Event Setting] database

and meeting the current triggering conditions displayed scrolling from the right to the left.

z Event Display Property

Event Setting tab

Display Range: Specify the range of displaying types (formats) of the event.

Moving Step: The pixel point of the width to display the event information in loopy way in units

of pixel.

Refresh Rate: The period to refresh the display of the event information in loopy way in units

of 100ms.

Display: The contents are as follows.

For the displayed format of event information, all the selected format information will be displayed before the

event information.

Date of

Time of

Event

Occur.

content

Time of Occur.

The time when the event is triggered.

Extended Time Format (D/H: M)

The time format is displayed as Day/Hour: Minute.

Short Time Format (H: M)

The time format is displayed as Hour: Minute.

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Standard Time Format (H: M: S)

The time format is displayed as Hour: Minute: Second.

Precise Time Format (H: M: S: MS)

The time format is displayed as Hour: Minute: Second: Millisecond.

Extended Date Format (Y/M/D)

The date is displayed as Year/Month/Day.

Date of Occur. (M/D)

The date is displayed as Month/Day.

Time ascending Order Display

Checking this option means the event time ascends from the front to

back with the latest event information at the end, as shown below:

Not-checking this option means the event time descends from the

front to back with the latest event information at the front, as shown

below:

Note 1

The Event Display only displays the occurring event, and dose not support “Sequence No.”, “Time of Can-

cel” and “Check Time”.

Once the triggered event information is unmatched, the unmatched event will not be displayed in the

Event Display anymore.

The effect of offline test is as shown below.

Current trigger event is displayed in the Event Display.

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Project Database

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Text Library

Text Library can be used to store the text contents needed by the project, thus preventing

the label with the same text from being input frequently. In addition, Text Library can be used to the

conditions with the requirement of multi-language support to realize the switching among the multiple

languages for the PT Edit screen. NB-Designer currently supports up to 32 kinds of languages setting.

Text Input

(1) Pressing

icon or clicking [Text Library] in the [Project Database] of the [Project

Library] allows the Text Library to pop up.

(2) When the following “Add Text” dialog box appears after “Add” being clicked, fill in the Title,

State No. and click “OK” to proceed to the next step.

Note Once the text title is registered, it cannot be modified in the [Text Library] dialog box.

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(6) Checking the [Use Text Library] check box in the [Label] tab of dialog box for each Property

allows using the text string which was registered to the [Text Library].

If you haven’t added the text to the Text Library, “Use Text Library” can’t be checked and is

always grayed out until you have added the text into the Text Library.

Multi-language Switching

The switching among the multiple languages can be realized by modifying the value of special

screens, the displayed text will switch to the text (language) corresponding to the value being

changed to, and the language of the whole system will be changed regardless of the condition

of the current screen. Only resetting the value of LW9130 can make the language switched

again.

It is based on the system special memory LW9130 to realize the multi-language switching in

the Text Library.

That’s to say:

When LW9130 is 0, the contents corresponding to Language 1 in Text Library will be

displayed;

When LW9130 is 1, the contents corresponding to Language 2 in Text Library will be

displayed;

When LW9130 is 2, the contents corresponding to Language 3 in Text Library will be

displayed;

and so on.

When LW9130 is 31, the contents corresponding to Language 32 in Text Library will be

displayed;

When LW9130 is greater than 31, the contents corresponding to Language 1 in Text Library

will be displayed.

Note

“Number of Language” in [PT Property]-[PT Extended Properties] can restrict the number of Language(s)

displayed in Text Library. When the Text Library is used for the first time, the default “Number of

Language” is 8. Even if LW9130 is greater than 8, the system can only display the contents

corresponding to Language 1 to Language 8. If the languages to be displayed are greater than 8 [Max No.

of Languages] needs to be increased in [Language Setting] screen with [Number of Language] not

exceeding [Max No. of Languages].

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“Default Language” in [PT Property]-[PT Extended Properties] refers to the language number to be

displayed in the default Text Library. For example: When Language 2 in the Text Library is English, if

“Default Language” is set to “2”, the text using the Text Library will be displayed as “English” on the

System Screen after PT is powered ON and be switched to another language until the value of LW9130 is

changed.

Language Setting of Text Library

Clicking “Language Setting” in [PT Property]-[PT Extended Properties] or clicking “Language”

from the Text Library can open [Language Setting] dialog box to set the global Property of the

text font corresponding to each kind of language.

Max No. of Languages: The Text Library supports up to 32 kinds of languages with the

Default Language of 8. If the user needs more than 8 kinds of

languages, the Max No. of Language should be increased.

Current Lang: Refers to the language being edited currently.

Font type: Sets the font type of the language used currently to Vector Font or Bitmap Font .

Font Attribute: Sets the related attributes of the language used currently such as the Font,

Size, Position, Color and Italic and Bold.

Copy Font Attribute To All Language: Copying the font attribute which is edited currently to

all the other languages.

Language: The description of the language which is edited currently. The entry procedure to

the OS of the current PC is displayed.

Note 1

Although the font attribute for each language specified to [Language Setting] is specified to all the compo-

nent as default, the font attribute specified individually for each component attribute in the [Label] tab has

a high priority.

Changing the Font Attribute setting in [Language Setting] will not affect the component specified already

the Text Library as the font attributes of label. To use the Font Attribute modified in [Language Setting], it

needs to recheck “Use Text Library” in [Label] tab after the checking being cancelled, in order to refresh

the Font Attribute setting in [Language Setting].

Import/Export of Text Library

Text Library has the functions of importing & exporting the registered text in CSV format.

Exporting the registered text to the Text Library to the one in CSV format allows edition by the

spreadsheet software. Also importing the edited file can be taken in the NB-Designer.

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z Export Text Library

(1) The following dialog box will pop up after “Export” is clicked.

(2) Click [OK] to export the file. In order to change the destination to save the file and the

filename, click [>>] and specify the destination to save the file to and the filename.

(3) If the exporting is completed, the message saying “The file is exported successfully!” will be

pop up.

The opened export file in .csv format is as shown below.

z Import Text Library

(1) The following dialog box will pop up after “Import” is clicked.

(2) After confirming the CSV file supposed to be imported is not opened by other software,

select the CSV file and click [Open].

(3) If “Import file successfully” pops up, it means the import is successful.

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(4) If the imported file in .csv format has the items having the same name with that in the

existing Text Library of the system, the selection dialog box will pop up.

In this case, you can select “Yes” or “No” according to the circumstances.

z Notes for Import & Export

(1) The text strings such as “Text Lib”, ”Name” and “Status” included in the .csv file can’t be

changed, otherwise import will be impossible. Meanwhile, the value of “Status” must be

consistent with the actual status lines, as shown below, i.e. when “Status” is 2, the two

statuses contained in the text can only be “0” and “1”.

(2) If the line-break exists in the contents of Text Library, the exported file is shown as below.

If line-break is needed in spreadsheet software file, it just needs to input

“$_return_$$_enter_$”.

(3) Even after editing the CSV file by spreadsheet software, select “Unicode Text (*.txt)” for

[Type of Document] to save the file and then quit the used application and finally rename

the filename extension to .csv. The other file format cannot be recognized as available file

to import.

(4) The “Import” & “Export” are only applicable to the whole Text Library rather than the single

text item contained in the Text Library.

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Change of State Number of Text Library

The change method of states number of Text Library is to select one state and right-click the

mouse, as shown below.

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Variable Table

Variable Table is a useful address logon library, which prevents the inconvenience resulting

from repeated input of address, thus saving a lot of time. Check the [Use Variable] check box in setting

items for each component to use the address which was registered to the Variable Table with the

settings for each component.

Clicking

icon or entering [Variable Table] in the [Project Database] allows Variable Table

to pop up.

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Click “Add” to make the following small dialog box pop up.

Name: Inputs the name of this variable.

PT: Selects the No. of PT corresponding to this variable.

PLC No. : Selects the No. of PLC corresponding to this variable.

Memory Type: Selects the memory type corresponding to this address from “Bit” or “Word”.

Area: Selects the area corresponding to this variable from “the internal memory of the PT” and

“the memory of the PLC”.

Address: Specify the address corresponding to the adding address.

Data Format: Select the data format of the adding address from “BIN” or “BCD”.

Format (Range): Displays the address format (the address range) of this variable.

Input the above-mentioned items respectively, and click “OK”, then the variable will appear in

the library.

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Later you can use it in the other places, as shown below.

Note 1

The addresses having been logged in the Variable Table can’t be changed in the other places, that’s to

say, they can only be used. If they are needed to be changed, you just need to enter the Variable Table

dialog box to change the address.

Note the following points when using the Variable.

The Variable specified [Bit] for the [Memory Type] can be allocated only to the bit state component. Also

the Variable specified [Word] for the [Memory Type] can be allocated only to the word state component.

Importing/Exporting a Variable Table

You can save variable information as a CSV file by pressing the [Export] button.

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Press [Import] to import the variable information from a CSV file.

Importing Variables of NJ and NX Series

Variables of NJ and NX series can be imported to a variable table.

(1) Click [Tools] - [Export Global Variables] - [CX-Designer] under the Sysmac Studio Menu to

export the information about variables of NJ and NX series to Clipboard.

(2) Right-click on the Variable Table window. Select [Import Variable] to load the variable

information exported to the Clipboard *1.

*1 Importing variables is allowed only when you are using Omron Host that executes Ethernet com-

munication.

(3) A window to select a host appears after importing variables. Select the host, an import

destination.

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(4) Click [OK] to import the variables of NJ and NX series.

Note You can import only variables to which AT Specification address is allocated in Sysmac Studio.

Variable types to be imported are: BOOL, UINT/ INT/ WORD, UDINT/ DINT/ DWORD/ REAL.

On NB-Designer, BOOL variable is replaced to Bit, UINT/ INT/ WORD are replaced to Word, and UDINT/

DINT/ DWORD/ REAL are replaced to DWORD.

DWORD variable cannot be edited on NB-Designer.

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Alarm Setting

To display the information on the Alarm component or Alarm Display component, the logon in

the list of [Alarm Setting] database is needed. One bit address can control whether one piece of

information will be displayed or not. If the logged bit address is triggered (ON or OFF), the related

information will be displayed on the Alarm component. (This component is only responsible for the

logon of Alarm Setting, and the display needs to be done by “Alarm” component.)

z Add/Modify Alarm Setting

Clicking the

icon located in the Database Toolbar or the “Alarm Setting” in the “Project

Database” allows an “Alarm Setting” dialog box to pop up.

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Select the [Add] button to add the setting or select the [Modify] button to modify the existing

setting.

Descriptions of Alarm Information Property

Triggered PT

Select one PT to specify the Alarm Setting when multiple PTs were registered to the

project.

PLC Address

Specifies the bit address of the memory that triggers the read of the alarm.

Property

When the specified bit address is ON, one piece of alarm information is generated.

OFF

When the specified bit address is OFF, one piece of alarm information is generated.

Use Buzzer

When the alarm information is triggered, the buzzer will be enabled. The Buzzing

Time can be set with the unit of “second”.

Message

Inputs the contents of alarm setting to be displayed. Clicking [Font] can set the Font

and the related attributes.

Use Text Library

Determines whether to use the contents logged in the Text Library. For the use of

the Library, refer to [3-8-1 Text Library].

Language

When using multi-language Text Library, you can select the language here and click

“Font” to set the font attributes corresponding to text in each kind of language

respectively.

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Press the [OK] button to make the alarm setting displayed in the list. After the alarm setting is

logged, the existed alarm setting can be edited by [Delete] or modified by [Modify] buttons.

Press the [OK] button to complete the logon of the alarm setting.

Note In order to perform the communications effectively, specifying the continuous address is recommended as

read address of the alarm information. For example, when you specify the continuous addresses from M100

to M199, whole the addresses from M100 to M199 can be read in the communications only once.

z Event/Alarm Type

The Event/Alarm is divided into 256 types, i.e. 0 to 255, in the NB-Designer.

Event, Alarm and Alarm Display can restrict the types of the displayed events respectively. For

example, if the display type of “Event Component” is specified from 0 to 3 in the [Event Setting] tab

of Event Properties, only the contents of event ranging from Type 0 to Type 3 will be displayed.

This option is used to select the type of the alarm and event displayed currently.

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Event Setting

The information logged in Event component will be displayed in the Event component. To

display the information in the Event component, the information must be logged in the [Event Setting]

database in advance. One bit or word address controls one piece of information. When the logged bit or

word address is triggered (i.e. It is ON/OFF or the restricted value is triggered.), the corresponding

information will be displayed in the Event component. (This component is only responsible for the event

log, and the display needs to be done by “Event” component.)

z Process of Adding/Modifying Event Setting

Clicking the

icon located in Database Toolbar or “Event Setting” in the “Project

Database” allow “Event Setting” dialog box pops up.

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Select the [Add] button to add the information or select the [Modify] button to modify the

existing information.

Descriptions of Event Information Properties

Triggered PT

Select one PT to specify the Event Setting when multiple PTs were registered to the project.

Type

Classifies the events and the available type is from 0 to 255. [Event Display] tab of the Event

Display component can restrict the displayed event type.

Address

Specify the register working as the trigger of the event. The type of memory can be changed

into “Bit” or “Word” through “Data Type”.

Attribute

Bit

When the state of the bit address is turn from OFF to ON, one

specified event record will be displayed.

OFF

When the state of the bit address is turn from ON to OFF, one

specified event record will be displayed.

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Descriptions of Event Information Properties

Attribute

Word

When the value of the specified word address is less than the

specified value, one specified event record will be displayed.

When the value of the specified word address is greater than the

specified value, one specified event record will be displayed.

When the value of the specified word address is equal to the specified

value, one specified event record will be displayed.

[Value Range] When the value of the specified word address is within

the specified range, one event record will be generated. As shown

below, check “Value Range” with “Min Value” & “Max Value” set to “5”

and “10” respectively, if the value which is represented as N, of the

specified word address is larger than 5 and smaller than 10, one

specified event record will be displayed.

< >

When the value of the specified word address is not equal to the

specified value, one specified event record will be displayed.

As shown below, check “Value Range” with “Min Value” & “Max

Value” set to “15” and “30” respectively, if the value which is

represented as N, of the specified word address is less than 15 or

larger than 30, one specified event record will be displayed.

< =

When the value of the specified word address is less than or equal to

the specified value, one specified event record will be displayed.

> =

When the value of the specified word address is greater than or equal

to the specified value, one specified event record will be displayed.

Function

Execute

When event occurs, the selected Macro will be executed. *

Macro

Pop-up

Confirm

Touching the event information displayed in the event component, the

Screen

Dialog

specified screen will pop up. And it needs to use the “Close Screen”

function of the Function Key to close this Pop-up Screen.

Trigger

The specified screen will pop up when the event occurs. And it needs

Dialog

to use the “Close Screen” function of the Function Key to close this

Pop-up Screen.

Write

When the event log occurs, the state of the specified bit memory will

Value

be set to “0”.

When the event log occurs, the state of the specified bit memory will

be set to “1”.

Not

When the event log occurs, the state of the specified bit memory will

be reversed.

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Descriptions of Event Information Properties

Message

Inputs the contents of event or event display to be displayed. Clicking [Font] can set the

Font Type and the related attributes.

Use Text

Determines whether to use the contents logged in the Text Library.

Library

Language

When using multi-language Text Library, you can select the language displayed

as the event information here and click “Font” to set the font Property

corresponding to text in each kind of language respectively.

TIP: The data and others stored in internal memory LW can be displayed in the event

information.

The available formats are follows:

•

%h:mm:s#:

The Time of Occur. is indicated.

•

%y:mm:d#:

The Date of Occur. is indicated.

•

%nnfmd:

“%” represents the start symbol, “nn” represents the addresses of the internal memory LW

from 00 to 99.

“f” represents that the displayed number includes the decimal part.

“m” represents the digit of the decimal digit.

“d” represents the end symbol.

If “%nnd” is entered, the value excluded the digit of decimal digit will be displayed. For

example, if you want to display the value stored in LW20 with one decimal digit, enter

“%20f1d”. If the stored value in the PLC memory should be displayed, transferred it to

internal memory LW to display it.

Use Buzzer

When the event is triggered, the buzzer will be enabled. The Buzzing Time can be set with

the unit of “second”.

Open Text

Opens the text library editing dialog box.

Library

Open Variable

Open the variable editing dialog box.

Table

* Please refer to 3-9-3 Macro Triggering (Page 3-273).

Clicking [OK] allows the specified event setting added in the List of the [Event Setting] dialog

box. The registered event setting can be deleted by [Delete] button or modified by [Modify]

button. Click [OK] button to finish the registration of the event setting.

Note In order to perform the communications effectively, specifying the continuous address is recommended

as read address of the Event Setting. For example, when you specify the continuous addresses from

M100 to M199, whole the addresses from M100 to M199 can be read in the communications only once.

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PLC Control

When the corresponding control is triggered, PLC Control component can activate one

specific operation.

PLC Control component is a powerful component group, which can realize a large variety of functions

because it is more powerful than the general component. And its functions are as follows:

(1) Switch Screens: Changes the current screen.

(2) Write data (current base screen number) into PLC: Transfers the current Screen No. to the PLC.

(3) General-purpose PLC control: Realizes the data transmission between the PLC address and

LW/RW.

(4) Backlight Off: Turns off the backlight.

(5) Backlight Off (Write Back): Turn OFF the back light. (The control bit will be reset.)

(6) Execute Macro: Executes the corresponding Macro number when the condition is met.

(7) Backlight On: Turns on the backlight.

(8) Backlight On (Write Back): Turn ON the back light. (The control bit will be reset.)

(9) General PLC Control (Expansion)

(10) Change Screen (Ignore screen 0)

Note Do not specify the same address in the functions of Switch Screens, Change Screen (Ignore screen 0), and

Write data (current base screen number) into PLC.

z Process of creating one PLC Control

Press the PLC Control icon to make the list of PLC Control pop up.

Press “Add” button to create a new PLC Control or press “Modify” and “Delete” buttons to

modify the PLC Control and delete the selected setting respectively.

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Specify the options displayed in the PLC Control dialog box correctly.

Area/Variable: Specifies the Area/Variable of the devices performing the PLC control

operations.

Address: Specifies the addresses of the devices performing the PLC control operations.

Data Format: Includes BIN or BCD.

Function Mode: Specifies the operation types of the setting. There are 12 types available, and

their functions will be described later in details.

Macro: Sets the No. of Macro program to be executed when the Function is “Execute Macro”.

Press the “OK” button to exit from the PLC Control dialog box.

Repress the “OK” button to exit from the list of PLC Control.

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z Function Mode

Switch Screens

This operation needs 2 consecutive word addresses. When the [Read Address] is switched to

a valid screen No., the current screen will be closed and the specified screen will appear.

Specify the number in the destination screen in the [Read Address]. The number after

switching will be written in [Read Address + 1]

Read Address

For screen switching control

Read Address + 1

No. of the destination screen

For example, set the address to “DM0”, Data Format to “BCD” and the current screen to Frame

0. If DM0 is changed to 10, the current screen will be switched to Frame 10, and 10 will be

returned to DM1.

Note Each time the [Change Screen] Function Key is pressed, the current screens is closed and the

destination screen is displayed. The function of [Switch Screens] of the PLC control is similar to the

[Change Screen] function of the Function Key. Their difference is the respect whether function is operated

by touching the screen or it is performed by the PLC memory control. When the value of Read Address is

modified to an available screen No., the current screen will be closed and the screen specified with the

Read Address will be displayed. Then the content of the Read Address in written in the Read Address +

1. This operations can be executed only when the Read Address is modified.

Write Data (Current Base Screen No.) into PLC

The number of the base screen currently displayed will be notified to the PLC.

When there is a PLC Control with the settings shown as above, word address DM0 will store

the No. of the current base screen.

General PLC Control

The data transmission between the PLC and the PT can be controlled.

It can be divided into 4 types according to the direction of data transmission:

(a) PLC˘ RW (Recipe Data Memory), type code 1.

(b) PLC˘ LW (Local Data memory of PT), type code 2.

(d) LW (Local Data memory of PT)˘ PLC, type code 4.

The specific instructions are as follows:

Select “General PLC Control” as “Control Type” in PLC Control setting dialog box, and select

the data area and the address of the data transmitted by the [Read Address]. Please note that

the unit must be “word”, and the system automatically allocate 4 continuous addresses, which

are used as the controlling addresses of the data transmission. And the specific meanings and

usage methods are as follows:

(1) Read Address: Select the 4 types of execution type codes. When new value is written to the

memory, the system execute the corresponding transmission function. After the

transmission is detected, the memory will be reset to 0.

(2) Read Address + 1: Specify the size of the data transmitted. The number of the word

specified at this moment will be transmitted.

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(3) Read Address + 2: Specify the offset of the transmitted data address of the PLC side. The

offset is specified from the address of [Specified Read Address + 4].

For example, if the Read Address set in the PLC General Control is DM100, and the data

contained in memory DM102 is 4. The starting address of the transmitted PLC data is

DM108 = [(100 + 4) + 4].

(4) Read Address + 3 : Specify the offset of the transmitted data address at the sides of local

memory (LW) of the PT or Recipe data memory (RW)

In the example listed above, if the data contained in DM103 is 100, the starting address of

the transmitted PT data operated during the transmission is RW (LW)100=(0 + 100).

Here is the procedure which uses the PLC control, to transmit the data includes 30 words

starting from DM100, to the data block of the same size starting from RW200 in the Recipe

Data memory of the PLC.

(1) Firstly, specify the PLC control component set with [General-purpose PLC Control] for the

control select and DM10 for [Read Address].

(2) Secondly, specify the size of the data and the offset address of the controlling data. DM11

is specified to 30 (it means the number of transmitted words is 30 words.) DM12 is specified

to 86 (the starting address is DM100=(10+4+86) in the PLC and DM13 is specified to 200

(the destination address is RW200=(0+200), respectively.

(3) Finally, specifying the execute type code according to the direction of the data transmission

allows the data transmission. If DM10 is specified to 1, the number of the specified data will

be transmitted from the starting address of the PLC to the Recipe Data memory of the PT.

If DM10 is specified to 3, the direction to transmit the data will be reversed.

The other transmission to two destinations are performed in the same procedure as above.

Backlight Off

This operation uses one bit address to control the closing of the backlight, and when the bit

address is ON, the backlight will be closed.

In the settings shown as above, when D_bit0.00 is ON, the backlight turns off. In this case,

when the user touches the PT, the backlight will automatically light on, and at this time the

D_bit0.00 is still ON. If the user touches the D_bit0.00 again, it will be turned OFF, thus

returning to the state before the backlight is closed.

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Backlight Off (Write Back)

The operation of this option is similar to [Backlight Off], but the address of this bit of PLC will be

cleared to 0 while as well as the back light turns Off and then the bit address turns ON.

In the settings shown as above, when D_bit0.00 turns ON, the backlight is OFF, and D_bit0.00

is automatically turned OFF. When the user touches the PT, the backlight turns ON and

D_bit0.00 remains OFF.

Execute Macro

When the state of the specified bit address is ON, the selected Macro ID will be triggered.

Area/Variable and Address: Refers to the address to trigger the Macro program execution.

The Macro program will be executed when this bit is 1, while not executed when this bit is 0.

Macro ID: Select a Macro to be executed.

Execute Method:

ON¯˘ OFF: When the specified bit turns OFF from ON or vice versa, the Macro will be

executed.

OFF˘ ON: When the specified bit turns ON from OFF, the Macro will be executed.

ON˘ OFF: When the specified bit turns OFF from ON, the Macro will be executed.

ON: When the specified bit is ON, the Macro will be executed.

OFF˘ ON, Reset: When the specified bit turns ON from OFF, the Macro will be executed and

the specified bit will be forced into OFF.

ON˘ OFF, Reset: When the specified bit turns OFF from ON, the Macro will be executed and

the specified bit will be forced into ON.

Note Only when the Macro is added within the project, this function is available. If the Macro code is

removed after specifying the “Execute Macro” in the Function Mode option the PLC Control dialog

box by the Function selection, the code is converted automatically to the Macro in the default. If the

Macro does not exist, [Macro] column is left to blank as the default.

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Backlight On

This operation uses one bit address to control the lighting of the backlight, and when the bit

address is ON, the backlight turns ON.

In the settings shown as above, when D_bit0.00 is ON, and the back light will turn ON. If the

user touches D_bit0.00 again, it will turn OFF, thus returning to the state before the backlight

lights on.

Backlight On (Write Back)

The operation of this option is similar to [Backlight On], but the address of this bit of PLC will be

cleared to OFF while the bit address turns ON.

In the settings shown as above, D_bit0.00 turns OFF automatically as well as the back light

turns ON when the D_bit0.00 turns ON.

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