What's New in CIMPLICITYŽ Machine Edition v2.5
This document contains release information on CIMPLICITY Machine Edition v2.5 for Windows NT, 98, and 2000.
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CIMPLICITY Machine Edition
This section highlights some of the changes that apply to several products or to the CIMPLICITY Machine Edition environment as a whole.
Local Manager
When installing a Machine Edition product, you can select to include the Local Manager component. Local Manager is a project management system, letting you control access to projects and operations on that computer.
Enhanced Property Inspector functionality
- The Inspector now groups properties of many items into separate tabs, letting you concentrate on one piece of functionality at a time.
- Additional color-coding is now used to indicate property values that are read-only.
OPC Servers: Controller redundancy
Now you can set up a secondary backup controller to be accessed if the primary controller determines that there is a problem with its operation.
CIMPLICITY View Developer - Highlight of the new changes
Reduced the size of files included when downloading applications to a Windows CE target to increase the potential size of your application.
A new system variable, #Performance, you can access and track data on the performance of your application which include the speed of I/O operations are performed and the target's processing time is used by different areas of the application.
When configuring touch animation for an object, you can now specify a URL (Universal Resource Locator). When the item is touched at runtime, the document at the specified URL is opened in the target's default web browser.
Machine Edition 2.5 includes added support for CIMPLICITYStation targets (specific models of industrial PC).
PLC Access Drivers
- Following is a list of drivers available in View Developer, along with the target types that support it.
Allen-Bradley KT (Updated) - now supports PCI KT cards.
- GE Fanuc SNP-X (Updated)
- Honeywell UMC (New)- using the Modbus RTU serial protocol
- Modbus Plus (Updated) now supports PCI SA85 cards.
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Siemens AS511 (New)
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Siemens TCP-IP (New)
Logic Developer - PC - Highlight of the new changes
The PC Controller under Windows NT and HRT now supports data retentiveness using the Synergetic BBSRAM card. Also includes status feedback on the BBSRAM using the #SRAMStatus system variable.
The size of an SFC document can now be increased from the former 20 x 20 cells size. The minimum size is still 20 x 20.
Project Recovery
The functionality has been enhanced to allow for several modes of operation.
New and updated Logic Developer - PC drivers
- GE Genius driver now supports global data.
- The PCIF 9030 communication module for the Control Station CE IIx is now supported.
- Support for the Honeywell SDS using the ISA and PCI bus interface cards under Windows NT.
- The PCI bus interface card for Modbus Plus is now supported.
- Ethernet I/O Formally known as Modbus Ethernet, the Ethernet I/O driver now supports GE Fanuc EGD protocol for VersaMax ENIUs. The firmware in the VersaMax ENIU must be updated to v1.2 or later to take advantage of this new protocol. Additional modules are now supported for the VersaMax hardware. Maximum slots for the VersaMax ENIU is increased from 8 to 64.
Motion Developer - Highlight of the new changes
Motion Developer wizards are now much friendlier and easier to work with.
- Progress through various wizards is now saved. You can edit part of your application, close it, then return and continue editing it in the same wizard.
- Validation of parameters in wizards is now much more robust. Invalid values are highlighted to make them easy to spot.
The new Motion Solutions wizard provides complete templates (or "solutions") for common application types. Each motion solution consists of a configuration script, one or more programs, and any relevant motion blocks. Motion Solutions differ from other wizards in that it includes everything needed for the application, not just a single program or a single motion block.
Enhanced Application Builder usability
Changes have been made to the Application Builder to enhance usability.
- When displaying conditional steps and connector steps, the flowchart display will no longer overlap lines for multiple connections.
- Clicking a conditional step or a connector step temporarily highlights and thickens the line connecting it to its "partner". This lets you more easily see where connections lead in complex applications.
- The Create Motion and Create Homing Motion buttons have been moved to the Application Builder toolbar.
You can now quickly test communications with the motion controller by clicking the Test Communications button on the Motion Developer toolbar.
The References tab of the Feedback Zone now works for Motion Developer variables. With the References tab open, clicking a variable displays a list of all places in the project where that variable is used.
CIMPLICITY Logic Developer - PLC - Highlight of the new changes
You can now develop and deploy a GE Fanuc Series 90-70 PLC application using Logic Developer - PLC.
You can use Logic Developer - PLC to create a CPU Redundancy application using two of IC697CPU780, IC697CGR772 or IC697CGR935. It facilitates two separate (primary and secondary) Hardware Configurations within the same application where the logic components (LD, C Programs, etc.) can be shared.
The GBC can be set up for dual bus and redundant controller applications.
Redundant IP
Support for the IC697CMM742 Ethernet Adapter's redundant IP feature is available. The CMM742 can be configured to use both a primary IP address and a secondary IP address. The secondary IP address can be shared between two CMM742 modules and is great for CPU Redundancy applications where the active CPU can control the redundant IP.
Now supports the use of the GMR configuration tool. See the GMR supported 90-70 CPUs (788, 789, 790) Help for more information and step-by-step procedures for implementing Genius Modular Redundancy within a Logic Developer - PLC project.
Logic Developer - State - Highlight of the new changes
Series 90-70 Support You can now develop and deploy a GE Fanuc Series 90-70 PLC application using Logic Developer - State with additional features :
- Online Modify- revise the logic in a Task and update the PLC, all while online.
- LD Coexistence - Ladder blocks, C blocks and C programs can execute along with State logic on a single target PLC.
Variables of type REAL and with Ref Addresses of the form AIxxxxx and AOxxxxx provide a two-point scaling method for variables used in State logic.
You can now directly import State Logic projects that were created with ECLIPS software.
The following are known issues with version 2.5 of Logic Developer - State. For the most up-to-date information on resolutions for these issues, please visit the GE Fanuc web site at http://www.gefanuc.com/
- You cannot assign a negative value to a variable using the State Logic Editor.
- The Private, Read, and Write keywords are not supported in this release.
- The From keyword works in a subtract context (subtract X From Y), but not in a Read context (Read X From MyCOMport).
