panic mode Posted October 3, 2024 Report Posted October 3, 2024 Was repairing piece of equipment and first time experiencing NB product. the NB Designer was not part of Omron suite so had to be downloaded separately. It is a free download. USB driver was included. Uploading project from HMI was straight forward, default password worked: 888888 The problem was trying to decompile uploaded file. It kept asking for another password, and then failing. Messages suggested that file was corrupt or password was wrong or wrong length (since it did not work, i did try guessing...). Message was: PKG file error, possible destroyed Turns out file and password were fine. The only thing needed was to change Locale of the computer on which NB Designer was running to a Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) and reboot. After this decompilation was a snap. Maybe this helps someone else too. Cheers... Quote
IO_Rack Posted October 3, 2024 Report Posted October 3, 2024 3 hours ago, panic mode said: Turns out file and password were fine. The only thing needed was to change Locale of the computer on which NB Designer was running to a Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) and reboot. Very interesting. Where did you find that information? Quote
panic mode Posted October 5, 2024 Author Report Posted October 5, 2024 i did not...i tried but my phone connection was rather spotty and searches were slow, and the plant did not have guest WiFi so i was on my own. i tried all i could think of to no avail. and changing Locale was the only thing remaining that i could think off (at least one that was easy and quick to try). i have seen similar issues reported for other products (users from different countries running into issue with specific software, like WorkVisual etc.). another clue was seeing comments in the freshly uploaded PLC code. Machine was built in China but the comments did not look like Chinese characters at all although there are several Chines fonts on every Windows machine (SimSun, SimHei....). but the PLC texts and comments were rendered in "garbage" ASCII characters one normally sees when looking at binary files in a text editor. so after dozens of failed attempts i tried this and - voila. it worked instantly. Quote
IO_Rack Posted October 7, 2024 Report Posted October 7, 2024 That is why, nothing beats experience! I've dealt with ASCII decoding and translations for comments but haven't seen transferring or decompiling issues like that before. Quote
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