3   Operation Procedure for Drive Programming
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Drive Programming User’s Manual  (I580-E2)
3-1 Operation Procedure
The following figure shows the flow of procedure from programming to executing programs with the 
Drive Programming.
Create Drive Programming programs by the Drive Programming Editor in the Inverter/Servo support 
tool, CX-Drive.
The following figure shows the flow of procedure from programming to transferring (downloading) to the 
inverter.
For details on operation and other information, refer to Section 4 Drive Programming Editor.
Item Reference
Programming P. 3-3
Compiling Programs P. 3-3
Downloading Programs  P. 3-4
Selecting Drive Programming Functions P. 3-4
Starting Programs P. 3-4
Saving user programs
• Saving as CX-Drive project 
file
• Saving as exported file
Note: Saved programs are the 
same as that created with the 
Editor.
The compiler performs following operations:
• Converts flowchart programs to text 
programs.
• Converts label names automatically to 
the following names: label 1, label 2....
• Deletes comments.
• Deletes alias definitions and converts 
specified names to the same ones as 
before definition.
• Deletes region definitions and con-
verts forms to the same ones as 
before definition.
• Deletes all spaces and blank lines.
• Performs validity checks.
CX-Drive: Drive Programming Editor
CX-Drive 
compilation
Save
Text language 
method
Flowchart method
Text language 
method
Compilation
Programs after 
compilation
Upload
Transfer (download/upload) Program verification
Programs after 
compilation
Programs 
downloaded to 
the inverter
Convert