TConnolly
Lifetime Supporting Member
Using RSLogix5000 version 21.
When using the mnemonic editor to enter a rung I frequently get an unknown instruction when it should be recognizing a tag. The tags are already defined. It always happens with an XIC or XIO instruction right before it. When I try to go back and make sure the mnemonic line is correct I find extra question marks. If I correct the rung and press enter, I still get the same thing. I can't open the menmonic line and copy the address and paste it to the instruction on the rung without the rung reverting to the same condition.
When I delete the rung and click/drag to create it everything is fine, but click/drag programming is intolerable - it wastes too much time.
I can copy the rung, go to another project, and paste it in and it goes in just fine. Go figure.
This is getting annoying because its really beginning to consume a lot of time. This is a PLC/2 program being converted to CompactLogix from a print out so using the mnemonic editor is highly desired to save time.
This happens about every other rung. The KB was no help, I found one technote about Compacting the DB, which I've done several times and had no results.
V21 also might have an attention deficit disorder of some sort - periodically it will just decide to take ten to thirty seconds to execute a click. I really hope that Studio5000 is not another Proworx like debacle in the making. Its not my computer, I can switch to another task and everything responds just fine.
Has anyone else encountered a similar problem?
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When using the mnemonic editor to enter a rung I frequently get an unknown instruction when it should be recognizing a tag. The tags are already defined. It always happens with an XIC or XIO instruction right before it. When I try to go back and make sure the mnemonic line is correct I find extra question marks. If I correct the rung and press enter, I still get the same thing. I can't open the menmonic line and copy the address and paste it to the instruction on the rung without the rung reverting to the same condition.
When I delete the rung and click/drag to create it everything is fine, but click/drag programming is intolerable - it wastes too much time.
I can copy the rung, go to another project, and paste it in and it goes in just fine. Go figure.
This is getting annoying because its really beginning to consume a lot of time. This is a PLC/2 program being converted to CompactLogix from a print out so using the mnemonic editor is highly desired to save time.
This happens about every other rung. The KB was no help, I found one technote about Compacting the DB, which I've done several times and had no results.
V21 also might have an attention deficit disorder of some sort - periodically it will just decide to take ten to thirty seconds to execute a click. I really hope that Studio5000 is not another Proworx like debacle in the making. Its not my computer, I can switch to another task and everything responds just fine.
Has anyone else encountered a similar problem?
(next post will attach file)
