Machine A has a Siemens PLC and ABB robots.
Machine B has a PC control and not ABB robots.
We are making machine B like machine A.
I have the PLC code for Machine A and the drawings for both machines as they are now.
The new drawings for the conversion of machine B will not be available until after the installation. The software of Machine A needs to be modified to make Machine B work correctly.
I am assured that both will be nearly identical. Yeah.
I am looking through the code getting familiar with it all so I can make whatever changes are necessary when the time comes and I have 3 or 4 hours to make it all work. I can't really do much else until I know what is where and what the actual differences are.
I have discovered the Movitools in the Machine A project. I don't understand what all the Movitools is for. On a different project, I wrote a simple block to control Movidrives and MoviMots without any Movitools.
Since I didn't use Movitools before, I am now wondering how is this better or different from accessing the drive directly as I did before?
The drives are connected by Profibus, and the process image contains all the I/O, so the drive inputs and outputs can be written and read directly.
I am sure there must be some advantage to using Movitools, but it seems complex and I can't get the examples to open. I "retrieved" the examples from SEW but they do not show up in the projects files to open.
http://download.sew-eurodrive.com/download/pdf/11611812.pdf
Also I have found 2 references to the magic blocks from SEW for Step7 but no acyal location is given to download said blocks.
http://seweurodrive.com/support/sof...rodukt=&software_nutzung=3&software_gruppe=12
These are the samples I found, but can't open / don't show up in the projects list.
Machine B has a PC control and not ABB robots.
We are making machine B like machine A.
I have the PLC code for Machine A and the drawings for both machines as they are now.
The new drawings for the conversion of machine B will not be available until after the installation. The software of Machine A needs to be modified to make Machine B work correctly.
I am assured that both will be nearly identical. Yeah.
I am looking through the code getting familiar with it all so I can make whatever changes are necessary when the time comes and I have 3 or 4 hours to make it all work. I can't really do much else until I know what is where and what the actual differences are.
I have discovered the Movitools in the Machine A project. I don't understand what all the Movitools is for. On a different project, I wrote a simple block to control Movidrives and MoviMots without any Movitools.
Since I didn't use Movitools before, I am now wondering how is this better or different from accessing the drive directly as I did before?
The drives are connected by Profibus, and the process image contains all the I/O, so the drive inputs and outputs can be written and read directly.
I am sure there must be some advantage to using Movitools, but it seems complex and I can't get the examples to open. I "retrieved" the examples from SEW but they do not show up in the projects files to open.
http://download.sew-eurodrive.com/download/pdf/11611812.pdf
Also I have found 2 references to the magic blocks from SEW for Step7 but no acyal location is given to download said blocks.
http://seweurodrive.com/support/sof...rodukt=&software_nutzung=3&software_gruppe=12
These are the samples I found, but can't open / don't show up in the projects list.
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