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Hi I'm maintaining a an Intellution Fix 7.0 installation for customer. This Fix connects to OMRON PLC. I'm more familiar with other HMI software, but not Fix. I know that Fix 7.0 is discontinued and replaced by iFix. Any one can tell me where to find Guide/Tutorial to Intellution Fix 7.0 ? Many thanks.

Hi This is maybe off topicc here. But anyone can help pls reply. Our machine has a proximity sensor to detect piston postions within cylinder. I want to use OMRON sensors to replace that. I've tried various sensors (E2E, E2F,..) but it always confused cylinder (made of alumunum alloy). Anyone can help?

Thanks! It works!

Hi I have a CPM1A-20CDR-A. For some reason, I cant download program to PLC. CX-P said PLC is write-protected. I can upload program+settings and see that it has Fun(49) to protect its program but protection is not activated (otherwise I cant upload program) and Memory is write protected in System Settings. I tried to download new settings to PLC to turn off write protecttion but still failed. How do I turn off write protecttion in PLC Settings ? Thanks.

Hi My friend has a CPM2x and wants to communicate with about 10 other K3 components over RS485 (Compoway/F). I know that I can use CPM2C + CPM2C-CIF21 for easy settings. But he is on a budget and CPM2C is more expensive than CPM2A. Do anyone have a program to communicate CPM2A with Compoway/F components. Many thanks.

Yes, thanks. Oh, I forgot this way, but the manual indicates only K3Nx series, not K3HB-V as we wanted. Do you have information on whether we can use this unit to comm with K3HB-V ? Many thanks.

Hi All We are having a C200H system with following modules: PLC BASE UNIT C200H-BC101-V2 PLC BASE UNIT C200H-BI051-V2 PLC BASE UNIT C200H-BI081 PLC CPU UNIT C200H-CPU01 / 02 /11 PLC INPUT UNIT C200H-ID212 PLC INPUT UNIT C200H-ID215 PLC MEMORY UNIT C200H-MR431 PLC MEMORY UNIT C200H-MR831 PLC NC UNIT C200H-NC111 PLC OUTPUT UNIT C200H-OA222 PLC OUTPUT UNIT C200H-OC211 PLC OUTPUT UNIT C200H-OC225 PLC OUTPUT UNIT C200H-OD211 PLC OUTPUT UNIT C200H-OD212 PLC POWER UNIT C200H-PS221 We would like to change this to CS1 PLC while retaining old modules. Can anyone look at the module list and advise if they can be reused in CS1? Many thanks.

Hi I understand that Special I/O modules use DM areas as Setup area. But DM is now D in CS1, and CS1 has a dedicated area for Settings, but only for newer model. When C200H-NC111 is used in CS1, what should I do with this DM settings? Thanks.

Thanks. I traced it from the IR mem to find that it's DM error. Fixed it! Thanks.

My friend is having 2 identical systems, each having a C200HE-CPU11 and a C200-CT001. He copies the program from a CPU to the other. But currently one of C200-CT001 unit has error with the Error lights. If he brings this C200-CT001 unit to the good CPU system, it is OK. if he brings the CPU with error to the good C200-CT001 unit, it has Error. Can any one give me an advice? Many thanks.

Yesterday I had a closer look at customer's site. Their Fix is in Japanese (menus, messages,..), but the HMI pages are in English. Now they want to install Fix in English so they can understand the menus, messages or modify/fix some errors. Currently, the database file is lost or cannot be found. So basically what I will do is install Fix-English version, then port the current pages and database into the new version. Can anyone tell me where I can find database file. Many thanks.

Thanks. I just want to minimise engineering work when converting from C200H to CS1. So, basically, I will reuse C200H-NC111. What I'm going to do is porting the program of C200H CPU to CS1 CPU. But I'm new to using NC units. Can anyone guide me to set up this unit so that it will work the way it does in C200H? Many thanks.

Thanks. What about NC UNIT C200H-NC111? Can it be brought to CS1 system for reuse? Thanks.

hi Ken U must accept that the experience of users is varied, and thus they are here to exchange knowledge. And it's now uneasy to find good support for this old software. Even when I asked Intellution rep, the answer is still far from satisfactory. Such as Intellution rep forgot about KEYDIAG.exe, but an advice from Andybr is valuable. Even if U gave valuable advice (in your knowledge), users here still have to filter out the good things from the bad. Anyway, I'll try the advices from all of you. Thanks.

Hi Andybr Yes, I was instructed by an Intellution rep to run KeyDiag to view dongle info, but I cant find it and the rep also forgets it. Hmm, accoording to all of your instructions, all files of all projects in Fix are mixed up in a folder or 2, and the files we need to copy are not known. If I'm not wrong, Fix also has a utility to backup project files for deployment to other machines, right? Many thanks.

Thanks Ken for spending your valuable holiday time on the matter. I also did things similar to your guide, but some time back and now I dont remember exactly now. I digged around Fix32 folder to find the project files I'm interested in. After all, I copied every thing in that folder to my laptop to study it, although I found it very strange & redundant to do so. If I'm not wrong, U must specify some thing as the startup, say a startup project, because it's common to have numerous projects already on the machine. So how to put the project in question to the startup list? The driver I got is serial HostLink. i also find it quite strange when Fix cant tell user how many I/O points they have purchased and available. Thank you.

Thanks Ken for the answer, I still have some questions : 1- Project files: According to your answer, all project files are in C:\Fix32 (if that's the installation folder). So, if you want to copy files of just a project, where to find it because C:\Fix32 also contains main executables and other things not needed for the project 2- Launching project: Fix32 doenst have a master project file like in other HMI or programming package ? So you have to open one of the project file or screen file (what extension?) , and trace from there? 3- Tags If we cant determine ourselves the I/O count the dongle can support, we must do some manual work of reading the serial part number? It leads me to a speculation that, dongle doenst contain built-in I/O count, instead, Fix sales office will associate DOngle serial with a license number to determine the I/O count 4- Driver I've obtained an additional driver from Intellution and added it. Can you guide me to configure it ? 5- Manual Actually, what set me back is Intellution manual. I found many terms they used were quite difficult to understand, compared to other HMI soft like Cimplicity, Citect, WinCC,.. Many thanks for the help.

Hi Thanks for the help. I have no idea about Fix32, and dont want to invest much time into it because it's obsolete and my laptop is WinXp, not Win32 or Win2000. But now I'm requested to do some work on an existing Fix32, e.g translating pages currenly in Japanese into English, fixing connection problems,.. I already have Fix CD and have installed it into my laptop. Some questions: 1- What files make up an HMI project? I need to find existing HMI project files to do the work, or at least, I have to open the master files in Designer, then open other files in that window 2- How to read the I/O count that a dongle supports ? 3- FIX32 can only be installed on WinNT ? Can it be run on Win2000, WInXP or Win98, ? 4- How are the user project files located ? They are grouped into a separate folder that user can set ? What file extension ? I found a folder called Sample on Setup CD that has .cmp files inside. Is .cmp project files ? 5- How to add driver for OMRON PLC Hostlink ? Thanks for your help.

Hi I already waded through their Support site, but all I found is just upgrade guide or bug knowledge base. Thanks.

E5_N can use Modbus?? Anyone can give me the documentation?

I can do it! No need to ask anybody! But I cant send anybody the software or the method as this is confidential.

Hi, SOme of our customers have very old systems with C200H CPU. You know that it's not orderable now, so we must make a choice to upgrade it to C200H alpha series or CS1 series. Can anybody give me some advice on things to note when converting C200H to C200Hx and to CS1. Many thanks.

Hi, Are u sure C200H-NC211 can be reused in CS1? I cannot find its listing in CS1 supported module. BTW, can C200-OA222 can be reused in CS1 ? I can only see C200-OA222V in CS1 listing. Many thanks.

Thanks for quick reply. I want to convert both hardware and software to CS1. Current config includes: C200H-CPU01 C200-IDxx C200-ODxx C200-OA222 C200-NC211 I will have to replace CPU, backplane, P/S and still retain I/O modules. My main concern is with C200-NC211. It's not a standard module in CS1. Can we still reuse this module? Second part to the conversion is software. With normal I/O, it's straightforwad. With special I/O module, we will have to set different memory I/O. But for other modules, I'm not very sure what to change. Can u help.

Haha, What a answer! The switch on CIF01 doesnt help you to communicate. Try Auto Online in CX-P.