I have just purchased a Schneider Twido starter kit to evaluate these small PLCs for some jobs I have coming up. Price was good, cable software etc included.
Installed software and attempted to use it without reading the online manuals and help. Bad mistake.
Lots of function keys shown across the top bar. Beauty he says and madly begins hitting function keys. Nothing happens. Had a closer look at the bar and the function keys seem to only select various things like timers, counters, open contacts etc for use. The next step is to use the mouse and click here, ckick there, get RSI from clicking.
Has anyone used this software yet and, if so, found a simple way to operate the programme?
Lots of things to set up on the side like timers, counters, registers - all very confusing. What ever happened to simple to use software where one can use a function key to select something, it pops up in the right place on the screen and then all the configuration, symbols etc are typed in, the enter key is pressed and one can move on to the next element.
If there is no quick simple method to operate the software, I think I have bought my last Twido.
I have found over the years that the European style of software is a pain to program.
Others programmes force one to type in % symbols etc.
Some require one to type in, for example, %I0.0.1 to describe input 1 at position 0 in the rack etc, etc.
I think I have been badly spoiled by using Omron Syswin, and now CX-Programmer to write software. Most of the others are too difficult and slow to use.
For example, to insert a timer in the latest version of CX-Programmer one would type in F8 TIM 23 #40. This refers to F8, function - TIM, on delay timer - 23, timer number - #40, time band 4.0 seconds. How easy is that compared to all this other click and drag nonsense.
I think I must be getting old and crotchetty (older and crotchettyer?) and becoming very hard to move away from my preferred brand.
If anyone can indicate to me an easier way to use this software I would be most appreciative.
and banghead
Installed software and attempted to use it without reading the online manuals and help. Bad mistake.
Lots of function keys shown across the top bar. Beauty he says and madly begins hitting function keys. Nothing happens. Had a closer look at the bar and the function keys seem to only select various things like timers, counters, open contacts etc for use. The next step is to use the mouse and click here, ckick there, get RSI from clicking.
Has anyone used this software yet and, if so, found a simple way to operate the programme?
Lots of things to set up on the side like timers, counters, registers - all very confusing. What ever happened to simple to use software where one can use a function key to select something, it pops up in the right place on the screen and then all the configuration, symbols etc are typed in, the enter key is pressed and one can move on to the next element.
If there is no quick simple method to operate the software, I think I have bought my last Twido.
I have found over the years that the European style of software is a pain to program.
Others programmes force one to type in % symbols etc.
Some require one to type in, for example, %I0.0.1 to describe input 1 at position 0 in the rack etc, etc.
I think I have been badly spoiled by using Omron Syswin, and now CX-Programmer to write software. Most of the others are too difficult and slow to use.
For example, to insert a timer in the latest version of CX-Programmer one would type in F8 TIM 23 #40. This refers to F8, function - TIM, on delay timer - 23, timer number - #40, time band 4.0 seconds. How easy is that compared to all this other click and drag nonsense.
I think I must be getting old and crotchetty (older and crotchettyer?) and becoming very hard to move away from my preferred brand.
If anyone can indicate to me an easier way to use this software I would be most appreciative.
and banghead