Omron CX-Supervisor - Page 5

Table of Contents
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2-5-2 Closing a Page ..................................................................................................................... 32
2-6 CX-Supervisor Preferences ............................................................................................................... 32
2-6-1 Startup Preferences.............................................................................................................. 32
2-6-2 Editing Preferences .............................................................................................................. 32
2-6-3 General Preferences ............................................................................................................ 33
SECTION 3
Points..............................................................................................35
3-1 What is a Point?................................................................................................................................. 35
3-2 About the Point Editor........................................................................................................................ 35
3-3 Viewing Points in the Point Editor...................................................................................................... 35
3-3-1 Filtering the Points in the View by Group ............................................................................. 36
3-3-2 Filtering the Points in the View by Point Type ...................................................................... 36
3-3-3 Sorting the Points in the View by I/O Type ........................................................................... 36
3-3-4 Sorting the Points in the View............................................................................................... 36
3-3-5 Changing the Viewing Mode................................................................................................. 36
3-3-6 Summary of Point Information .............................................................................................. 36
3-3-7 Drag and Drop of Points onto Control Objects ..................................................................... 37
3-4 Creating a Point................................................................................................................................. 38
3-4-1 General Attributes................................................................................................................. 38
3-4-2 Point Type ............................................................................................................................ 38
3-4-3 Point Attributes ..................................................................................................................... 38
3-4-4 I/O Type................................................................................................................................ 39
3-4-5 Memory Attributes ................................................................................................................ 40
3-4-6 I/O Update Rate.................................................................................................................... 40
3-4-7 I/O Attributes......................................................................................................................... 40
3-4-8 PLC Attributes ...................................................................................................................... 41
3-4-9 Data Transfer Actions When Opening a PLC....................................................................... 42
3-4-10 Conversion Attributes ........................................................................................................... 42
3-4-11 Advanced Point Settings ...................................................................................................... 42
3-5 Amending an Existing Point............................................................................................................... 43
3-6 Deleting an Existing Point.................................................................................................................. 43
3-7 Quick creation of many points............................................................................................................ 44
3-8 Runtime Point Maintenance............................................................................................................... 45
3-9 Optimisation of PLC Communications ............................................................................................... 45
3-9-1 Creation of an "Array" Point.................................................................................................. 45
3-10 Point Import........................................................................................................................................ 46
3-11 System Points.................................................................................................................................... 46
3-11-1 Time Points........................................................................................................................... 46
3-11-2 Date Points........................................................................................................................... 47
3-11-3 Internal Points....................................................................................................................... 47
3-11-4 Display Points....................................................................................................................... 48
3-11-5 Mouse Points........................................................................................................................ 48
3-11-6 Alarm Points ......................................................................................................................... 49
3-11-7 Error Logger Points .............................................................................................................. 49
3-11-8 PLC Communications Points................................................................................................ 49
3-11-9 Security Points...................................................................................................................... 50
3-12 Printing Points.................................................................................................................................... 50