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good idea, I'll try that. The books I am talking about are the ones that people get when they take an ab course which I doubt are free. (the books obviously, not the course) Since I have never been to one of their courses I wonder if they are more of a "here's how you do it hand holding book" or a "super whammadyne this is the stuff thats hard to figure out from the published manuals" book. I have seen posts about if a course is worth its price, but not one that talks about the relative value of the training materials supplied. Thanks for your advice, I'll call and see what I can scare up and meanwhile I'll continue to play with help from manual. hey I just made sparky:)

Thanks ron, I did what you said and then went back to my animations, redid the tags in the expressions and it works!! yee-haa, it looks like a 4 year olds artwork but its a start. I am still not sure why the tags would toggle and read in tag monitor and not in the animation expressions. I think somehow I had the wrong path setup and duplicated so that in monitor they were correct but not in animation expressions. Thank you very much. BTW I have the rsview32 manuals downloaded and I have seen the rsview32 class book from a rockwell course on ebay. If you have ever taken or know someone who has is the book from the class worth paying for? They seem to be at a cost comparable to college texts but without seeing one and being able to compare it to what is free as download its hard for me to estimate its value. Thanks again.

This should be easy, I have got a copy of the rsview32 demo software and I am taking a swing at making an hmi for my tabletop plc setup. I have kepserverEX trial software opc server, I have the tags in opc reading ok, I have the tags reading ok in rsview32 tag monitor, I am now trying to animate a graphic, I have it setup to cause a box to flash colors when Guard_Closed is true. The problem is when I go to runtime (through the editor) by either the little play (test??) button or if I use the project manager to select graphic display in run mode and start project I get no animation. (on any of the tags/animations I have setup), I entered the tag from the rsview tag list, i tried it by itself (its 1 or 0 digital) and with a logical expression like they show in the manual but still no animation. I think I am missing something very obvious. A little smack on the head is all I feel I need. (Doh!) I think I may not be putting the project in a way to show animation as some of the colors do change (but stay constant) and some of my motions show? invisible (outline of object). Thank you for your time and help.

excellent thank you, I will look into all your finds, this was setup off paper and is my first go at any program consisting of more than a few lines. I have been trying to read up on how to use subroutines to organize it better. The homing and manual mode will be added later. I just got my input contraption soldered up (only 1 out of 32 doesn't work!) so now I can test program and play with fault and reset scenarios. I feel a bit under weather lately but hopefully by end of the week I will have problems sorted out and I can start on adding features. I will post both pdf and .rss files for those that like either one when version 2.0 comes out. Thank you all for your help.

I see the mistake of the air and fault reset, also sys fault. do I need to use a one shot bit to control the one shot coil or can i just leave a one shot by itself and address it in the output rungs directly? Also how do i seperate the sections of logic by type i.e. overhead, system layer, motion objects, output rungs etc.? Do i put these into subroutines or?, little shakey on the setup, and this is already on the verge of being unwieldy and is only going to get more so unless I organize it better. Thanks for your input and help

I don't believe it is against code. Its just a card that I got in the deal via ebay, this is all cobbled together and will not be used on any real machinery, just my desktop and imagination, but I am trying to make it as real life as I can. I understand the concerns about how power is switched with regards to short ckt faults etc.

ok here goes, i wrote this as a starting point for learning purposes. The setup is a pick and place, 3 cylinders extend and retract on each as well as part present prox at entrance and one at exit. the methodology is from a book called cascading logic, maybe overkill I'll let you guys decide that. The bonus is ease of adding elements and functions to it later which I plan to do as I learn more. Any and all comments (constructive) are welcomed and encouraged. Especially in the area of program style, organization etc. it is in pdf format so anybody can slam me:)PICK_N_PLACE1.pdf forgot to add that I haven't ran it as I haven't got all my i/o wired to switches on my desktop plc yet, only verified in rslogix, so maybe some N.O. should be N.C. and vice versa. thank you all

thanks alot guys, this will help me out

how are you guys making a pdf out of you program code in rslogix500? This would really help me as I could take a printout or softcopy to my control engineers for their guidance and help, getting program to them and both of us having time to sit on computer and open rslogix to look at it is difficult. P.S. a huge thank you to those of you that post code with comments, makes life for a newbie much easier.

I am just starting out playing with a slc503 and some sensors, however looking ahead I am interested in learning to add in HMI capabilities. RSView seems natural choice, however I am confused as to what software to look for. I have a slc500 rslogix and rslinx pro I would like to get the software for rsview that would enable me to develop an hmi and run it on a regular pc. Minimal tags or I/O or whatever rsview goes by. I am confused about the whole rsviewME, studio, rsview32, runtime, development etc. Additionally I have a s7-200 (what I started learning on) and I wonder if i can create a hmi using rsview for this little guy too. (will I need to dive into learning OPC or does rsview have drivers etc. whole communications and protocols things really kicks me in the teeth but I'll get there), I try not to ask too many questions until I get up to speed somewhat. And no I am not asking for any pirate software. I will invest in my future if the price is reasonable. Thank you for your time and guidance, someday I hope I can return the favor.