Calling FC-105/106 multiple times in Siemens Step7

[aamirawan91]

This is the first time I am working with Simatic Manager Step7 as I started my siemens journey with TIA which is pretty easy and do a lot of stuff automatically. Anyway, I am trying to use the scaling functions from the step7 library "FC-105" for scaling and "FC-106" for unscaling. I have to call these functions multiple times as there are a lot of analog inputs to be scaled and a few analog outputs to be unscaled. I used/called the function FC-105 for the first time without any issues but as soon as i dragged and dropped it the second time it said "The object 'FC105' already exists. Do you want to overwrite it?". Now what should i do here? Should i rename it or overwrite it? How does selecting either effects the program?

 

[L D[AR2P#0.0]]

Once you have dragged it from the library it will exist in your project so use the project blocks folder from then on.

 

[aamirawan91]

Instead of "calling" the function the second time I dragged and dropped it again from the library. I'm so stupid.

 

[mk42]

I'm so stupid.

Not stupid, just learning

Everybody has to relearn things every so often, too, alas.