Ron Beaufort
Lifetime Supporting Member
Yo, friends and neighbors,
A few remarks made in another thread makes me think that some of you folks out there might not be familiar with the Custom Data Monitor features of RSLogix5 and RSLogix500. That would be a shame. Take a look at this sample:
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If your version of the software supports them, you can have up to 255 of these neat little monitors - all with helpful names which you assign - and then pop up one (or more) on your screen whenever you need to use it.
Neat trick (which works for regular monitor windows too): Right-click the little icon way up on the upper left corner of the monitor window’s title bar. Then click the “On Top” selection from the menu. Now the window won’t play “hide and seek” whenever you click something on your ladder editor window.
Use your keyboard’s “Insert” key when you want to add in a spare line.
One of my favorite uses for Custom Display Monitors: I include notes on how to “operate” the program when I email customers a chunk of ladder logic code. That way they can have the “how to” instructions handy right on the screen while they scroll up and down through the ladders.
If you want to know more about this subject, you can search for “CDM” in the RSLogix online help files.
A few remarks made in another thread makes me think that some of you folks out there might not be familiar with the Custom Data Monitor features of RSLogix5 and RSLogix500. That would be a shame. Take a look at this sample:
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If your version of the software supports them, you can have up to 255 of these neat little monitors - all with helpful names which you assign - and then pop up one (or more) on your screen whenever you need to use it.
Neat trick (which works for regular monitor windows too): Right-click the little icon way up on the upper left corner of the monitor window’s title bar. Then click the “On Top” selection from the menu. Now the window won’t play “hide and seek” whenever you click something on your ladder editor window.
Use your keyboard’s “Insert” key when you want to add in a spare line.
One of my favorite uses for Custom Display Monitors: I include notes on how to “operate” the program when I email customers a chunk of ladder logic code. That way they can have the “how to” instructions handy right on the screen while they scroll up and down through the ladders.
If you want to know more about this subject, you can search for “CDM” in the RSLogix online help files.