S7Guy
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Hmmm, that's odd. My USP to MPI converter worked fine with Virtual PC. It's set up as a virtual comm port on the real PC, and the Virtual PC was able to emulate that port.
Yes, I have funcitonal blocks now but they take a lot of parameters. I was thinking of simplifying this so that the command takes just an any pointer to a structure define by a UDT. This means I would have to have a UDT define for each command but that would be less code than a bunch of different motion blocks like the way Rockwell did their motion blocks. UDTs don't take any space. I haven't looked to see if there is a UDT limit.CharlesM said:Peter,
I'm guessing your writing for the RMC70?
Yes, I know. How did it work out?CharlesM said:I've been working something similar with a Yamaha robot controller. I used S7-Graph for the sequence and S7-SCL to index through the array. I'm sure STL would be faster and better but it got the job done.
Virtual PC, VWare, DOSBox... cool things... unfortunately there is no way how to emulate serial communication for my old systems
The purpose is to keep my laptop free from the RLinxs and Siemen bloat that installs services, uses memory and otherwise degrades the performance of my PC when I am not programming PLCs.
tom_stalcup said:Ummm... What kind of serial emulation are you talking about? I've got it running for the older BDS5 software, the DTAM micro, the Indramat SOT panels, and the DL40's..... Works fine for those applications. I'm curious which applications it WON'T work for.....
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I know, I have RSLinx start when I load RS500 or RS5000. It is really the Step7 stuff that is a problem.PhilipW said:Gee Peter, you always have the option of NOT running RSLinx as a service. Try going to the RSLinx Launch Control Panel and unticking "Always run as a Service". No resource use until YOU decide to turn it on manually.