Month: May 2003

PLC WorkShop Suite for Siemens 505 v3.4 Release Notes

Posted: 5/23/2003

Features

  • Added a “Display Used/Display All” push button in the “Special Functions” dialog which toggles the contents of the Special Function Programs and Subroutines list boxes between all SFs or the used SFs only.
  • Added Password Security and Activity Auditing.
  • Added Hotkeys for the toggling of the display of documentation.
  • Add a Search & Replace Table dialog which allows up to 32 different ranges of addresses and instructions to find and replace with alternate values. This new feature is included with the original single addresses Find and replace dialog.
  • Added PLC Password Aliasing whereby the internal PLC password may be managed by an alias list.
  • Added support for use of the “Put” function for the imporation of network headers.
  • Updated the ladder compare feature.
  • Added ability to search for tags via case sensitivity.
  • Added a shortcut hotkey for turning Ladder Status on and off.
  • Added a “Print page info at” combo box to the “Page Setup” dialogs. The location (top or bottom) at which the page information (file name, date, time and page number) appears can be selected.

Solutions

  • Clarified notation used in the Search dialog between “addresses” and “registers.”
  • Corrected an error in the search within a DRUm instruction for a particular address/register.
  • Corrected an error in the Data Window for changing the value of a PID loop variable.
  • Corrected ladder status from turning off when moving out of an edit and back into Run.
  • Corrected format of imported TISoft description comments.
  • Users may now use Task COdes Per Scan for the 545-1103.
  • Corrected the use of TISoft hotkeys for One Shots and Box instruction mnemonics.
  • Added support for turning on and off Forcing on a contact with the use of the right mouse button.
  • Added a more detailed user warning when importing TISoft files whose ladder memory is greater than what is allowed for the PLC type.
  • Added a user error warning for 575 PLC type with EEPROM when displaying logic.
  • Corrected an error from the TEXT box instruction’s display of text strings greater than 40 characters from an imported logic file.
  • Corrected the display of parallel instructions within a network.
  • Corrected the merging of a ProfiBus binary file greater than 4kb.
  • Corrected problem of always printing Documentation regardless of whether it was activated or not.