OMRON PART 1: CX-Programmer
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CX-Net (Network Configuration) Functions
• CX-Net
Menus Changed
Previous version (Ver. 3.0) New version (Ver. 3.1)
Unit Status and Communications
Unit Setup were on the PLC
menu.
Operations for Communication units were separated from those for the PLCs and
Unit Status/Error Log and Communications Unit Setup were moved to the
Network menu.
Both Setup and Edit appeared
on the Routing Tables and Data
Link menus.
Setup and Edit were placed together on a Setup menu on the Routing Tables and
Data Link menus.
When Setup is selected online, the Routing Table or Data Link Component window
is displayed.
When Setup is selected offline, a dialog box with the following selections is
displayed before the Routing Table or Data Link Component window is displayed.
Routing tables: FINS Local, FINS Network, or SYSMAC NET
Data links tables: Controller Link, SYSMAC LINK, SYSMAC NET
Exporting Communications Unit Status and Error Log in CSV Format
Previous version (Ver. 3.0) New version (Ver. 3.1)
Unit status and the error log can
be monitored in a window but
cannot be saved as files. (The
error log data must be read and
then manipulated manually.)
Unit status and error log data for Communications Units (Controller Link Units and
SYSMAC LINK Units) can be written to files in CSV format.
This allows network errors to be analyzed from CSV files.
Displaying Communications Unit Error Logs for C-series PLCs
Previous version (Ver. 3.0) New version (Ver. 3.1)
For C-series PLCs, the error log
displayed when PLC | Unit
Status was selected was the
CPU Unit error log. (A
Communications Unit error log
could not be read or cleared.)
For C-series PLCs, the error log for a Communications Unit (Controller Link Units
and SYSMAC LINK Units) can be displayed and cleared using PLC | Unit
Status/Error Log.
Save As Operation for CX-Net Projects
Previous version (Ver. 3.0) New version (Ver. 3.1)
An open project could not be
saved under a new file name.
(The file name could be set only
when a new project was created.
Select Save As from the Project menu to save a project open in CX-Net under any
desired name.