Logix5000 Integrated Development Environment

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2 Logix5000 Integrated Development Environment The Controller Organizer is a organizational view of a Logix5000 project. The project is organized in a series of expandable folders. There are seven main organizational folders. Some folders contain subfolders that can be expanded or collapsed by clicking on them. Controller Folder The first main houses Controller scope tags, a controller Fault Handler and a Power-Up Handler. Clicking on the Controller Tags will open the tag editor. The Fault Handler and Power-Up Handler are special tasks that can contain programs that will execute when the controller is powered up or there is a controller fault. These Handlers are optional, in many cases they are not used. Tasks Folder This is where your programs reside. The Tasks folder will house all your various tasks programs, program tags and routines. A new Task can be created or imported by right clicking the folder and selecting the appropriate action. Motion Groups Folder This folder contains all your various motions. If for instance you have a servo drive in your project this is where the controls to that drive will reside. It is also where you create new motion groups. A new group can be created or imported by right clicking the folder and selecting the appropriate action. Add-On-Instructions Folder Add-On-Instructions are created and housed here. This is where they are defined for the project. A new instruction can be created or imported by right clicking the folder and selecting the appropriate action. Data Types Folder This folder houses all the various data types. This is where new User-Defined types are defined. You can also browse Predefined, Strings, Add-On-Defined and Module-Defined types. Trends The trends folder contains any trends you define. A trend can be set up to monitor data points. I/O Configuration The I/O folder is where peripheral modules are added and configured. This includes communication, digital, analog and specialty modules. If you cannot see the Controller Organizer click View from the Menu bar then select Controller Organizer The seven main folders of the Controller Organizer are highlighted in yellow.

3 Controller Properties Window The Controller Properties window has multiple tabs that allow you to configure things like Date/Time, Redundancy and Novaolatile Memory. From here you can also change the processor type, revision and rack. The Advanced tab allows things like the System Overhead Time Slice to be altered. As the tab suggest these settings are advanced, don t change them unless you know exactly what you are doing. To open the Controller Properties window click on the controller icon from the Online Toolbar If the Online Toolbar is not visible click on View from the menu bar then Toolbars and enable it.

4 The Logix 5000 Ladder Editor To access the ladder editor simply double click on a routine, or alternatively you can right click on an existing routine and choose open from the pop-up window. If you have yet to create a routine then right click on a program and select New Routine. If you don t yet have a program right click on the Tasks folder and select New Program. This procedure also works for importing an existing program or routine. Once the Ladder editor is open you can drag and drop instructions from the Language Element toolbar. Language Element toolbar. Double click on a routine to open the ladder editor If it is not visible click View on the Menu bar, then select Toolbars. Finally check the Language Element box. Rungs, Rung-Branches and Instructions can be drug into the Ladder editor. Simply grab one by clicking on it. Then drag it down to where you want it, then release it.

5 Dragging Instructions into the Ladder Editor After grabbing an instruction and pulling it down into the Ladder editor small grey boxes will appear indicating possible placements for the instruction. Notice there are several possible landing locations. The instruction, when release will land where the green circle appears. Instructions can be grabbed and moved around the ladder editor as needed. Rungs and Rung branches can be moved the same way.

6 Creating & Editing Tags From the Ladder Editor To create a new tag from the Ladder editor right click on an instruction and select New Tag. You can also edit existing tags this way by highlighting a tag, right clicking it and selecting Edit Tag. A New Tag window will appear where you can define a new tag. Here you can select a tag type: Base, Alias, Produced, Consumed. You can and should set the Scope of your new tag. External Access refers to the visibility of the tag to other devices like an HMI for example. Tag names cannot contain spaces or special characters. Put a nice description of the tag in this little editor here. Clicking this box will bring up all the data types in the project, including any you have defined. How will data be displayed? Decimal, Hexadecimal, ASCII, Binary.

7 Creating & Editing Rung Comments To create a Rung Comment highlight a rung by rightclicking a rung number and selecting Edit Rung Comment, or use the hot-key combination CTL-D. The Rung editor. Anything goes in here, feel free to use any characters.

8 Online Edits Online Edits are made using the Online Edit Toolbar. The toolbar contains several functions for starting edits, testing edits and assembling edits. The right most button test, assembles and finalizes all edits in one step. The other buttons are simply steps in the process. Finalizing all edits will bring up a window that shows all the current edits. This is where all edits are finalized.

9 The Tag Editor/View Window To access the Tag Editor simply double click on either the Program Tags or Controller Tags. New tags are inserted at the bottom. Simply type a name then select a tag type by clicking the Data Type window. A window will appear where you can select the appropriate type. There are two views available in the Tag editor. The current view is Edit Tags. From this view you can create new tags or edit existing tags. You can change the scope with the drop down menu here. A configurable filer is available as well as a tag search box. Use these tools to quickly find tags. This is the monitor view. From this view the values of tags are visible. You can enter tag values here as well, the field is editable.

10 Create a New Task/Program/Routine Right click on Tasks to create a new task. Right click on a task to create a new program. Right click on a program to create a new routine. The New Task window allows you to pick the task type as well as other variables. The New Program window allows you to create a new program and select which task will manage it. The New Routine window allows you to pick what type of routine such as ladder or structured text as well as which program the routine will reside in.

11 Viewing, Adding & Modifying Data Types New data types can be added or modified from the Data Types folder. Right click on User-Defined to add a new data type. The Data Type window: New Data Types are created here. Existing Data Types can also be modified from this window. New data types can be added or modified from the Data Types folder. Right click on User-Defined to add a new data type or double-click on an existing one to edit it. New string data types can be made the same as a new UDT is created.

12 RSLogix 5000 Communications Select Communications to go online, upload and download to or from a PLC. Selecting Who Active will bring up a communication window where you can select the processor you want to communicate with. Select a communication path from the browser, then use the buttons to perform the appropriate action. Processor communication is setup in in a separate program called RSLinx Classic.

13 RSLinx Classic Communication Software Before you can communicate with a processor a means of communication must be set up. How will the programming computer communicate with the PLC? Will it be Ethernet, Serial, ControlNet? Select Communications from the menu bar then Configure Drivers Selecting the appropriate driver is dependent on how the programming device (your laptop) will be talking to the PLC. Driver types are accessed from the drop down box. Once a driver is configured you will be able to communicate with a PLC from the Logix5000 environment.

14 I/O Configuration Tree Modules are added from the I/O Configuration Tree. To add a new module right-click on I/O Configuration and select New Module A window will appear where you can select the new module you want to add. This window may look different then the one displayed here if your software version is different. This version (20.0) has a Module Discovery tab that allows the software to discover modules when online with a processor. Select a module by right-clicking it and selecting Create or simply double click to open a new module window. As you can see there are many modules available. Filters are available to make the job of locating modules easier.

15 Adding an I/O Module For this example I have selected a 16 point DC input module. From this window I can give the card a name, select the slot the card will reside in, revision, Communication format as well as others.

16 Adding an I/O Module Right-clicking on a module will bring up a properties window where a host of settings can be configured. Once the new module has been defined it will show up in the I/O Configuration under the Rack you selected.

17 Export a Program/Routine To export a program or routine right-click on it and select Export from the window. Select a destination and final name for the export.

18 Import a Program/Routine To import a program or routine right click on either a task or a program and select the appropriate action, in the case we are importing a program into a task. Browse to the file you want to import. From this window you can change what you want to import and where you want to import it to. For instance you could change it from a program import to a routine import.

19 RSLogix 5000 Help Files Last but not least use the Help. It is available from the menu bar as well as windows throughout the software. There are several different ways to accomplish the same task. As an example you can import a new program from a toolbar if you have it displayed rather than right-clicking on a task. To enable all the toolbars click View then Toolbars. and enable the toolbars you want.