I have a third party device (Delta RMC150 motion controller) that I have connected to a Schneider M580 PLC using Ethernet/IP. I have the eds file installed and I can happily pass numbers REAL type numbers between the devices. I also would like to send some DWORD type signals (ie. 32 boolean signals), but but on the Schneider side it only permits me to write REALS into the data structure for interfacing to the RMC, so what I need to do is preserve the binary structure of my DWORD, but change the data type to REAL
In AB land I would use a COP to achieve this, and with Siemens I could use a BLKMOVE with the input being my DWORD and the output being the REAL variable.
Is there a simple way to do this with Schneider? This is my first time in the Schneider environment and everything seems reasonably straight forward, but I'm lost here. On the flip-side, anything I read in from the RMC will be recognised as a REAL by the M580, but I would like to preserve the 1s and 0s while re-defining it as a DWORD or DINT.
In AB land I would use a COP to achieve this, and with Siemens I could use a BLKMOVE with the input being my DWORD and the output being the REAL variable.
Is there a simple way to do this with Schneider? This is my first time in the Schneider environment and everything seems reasonably straight forward, but I'm lost here. On the flip-side, anything I read in from the RMC will be recognised as a REAL by the M580, but I would like to preserve the 1s and 0s while re-defining it as a DWORD or DINT.