CX_Luigi

Omron sells industrial pc series NYB with some kind of integrated runtime to execute sysmac studio programs. it would be good if they can make available a SS runtime for installation in other IPC brands

As said above thread, NB/NA HMI would be the most obvious replacement for NS. One big downside is the lack of NT Link support, especially for installations where old controllers were used and many panels connected via 1:N linkage, not always possible using Ethernet connections For replacements, I had good success using Weintek hardware, while for some applications I used panel pc and wrote dedicated software

importing a project in version control gives the following error: "Cannot import the project because the POU data protection version for xxxxx in this project is lower than 2.0. Upgrade the data protection version to 2.0 or higher to import." while i am reasonably sure the project was saved in a previous version of Sysmac Studio, i am at a loss on what i should do to fix the issue Someone else has encountered it? And by the way how many use regularly the version control Thanks

In Windows you can install fonts both in regular folder (C:\Windows\Fonts) and also in user own folder C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Loca\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts NB-Designer reads only from the regular folder, so if you're sure you have installed the fonts, perhaps they are under local folder I understand the reply is late, but i literally lost hours before being able to fix the missing font message from the software

reply received from Omron service: Sysmac Studio and CX-Drive both can program MX2 inverter, but their file format are completely different and cannot be reciprocally imported. I made a request to be forwarded to Omron that at least a import/export tools be included in future versions of CX-One/Sysmac Studio

i had to program a 3G3MX2 inverter on the bench as spare, so I used CX-Drive to do it. The inverter is part of a project in Sysmac Studio, I thought i can just export the inverter parameters from there and import in CX-Drive for immediate programming, but I discovered that the format exported from Sysmac Studio (.drvp) is neither read nor can be imported from CX-Drive. Is there any way to program a standalone inverter without connecting through Ethercat, or even better, convert the files between the two programs?

Hi Lipton, Thanks for your reply. I use version control regularly since the mid-2000 for automation projects and got used very quickly on the convenience and the (huge) advantages it gives. I choose Mercurial, whose simplicity and power will never praise enough, the market however has moved towards Git so I had to adopt it for my use. I am still working over a workflow integrating past projects versioned with Mercurial with never ones versioned in Git, so I have to revise some of my previous assumptions that Mercurial made easy to implement. With Git it will take more time and require to read a whole lot of documentation more, I would have preferred Omron allow users decide which version control software to use, similar to what Visual Studio doing. For reference, I usually work on projects alone or with groups of 2-3 peoples, i use vcs mostly to track projects changes, additions and modifications, following mechanical and electrical changes of the machines.

Just started to use Version Control in Sysmac Studio, and getting used to the ideas behind it. One question though, the scope of commit from inside SS is limited only to the program? Retained memories ariables and memory seems not tracked, and i have to recommit them using Git directly from outside software Thanks

Got it, thanks

CJ area for FINS

getting two NX/NJ plc to communicate through CIP datalink, i can check _EIP_TargetNodeErr[<IP node address>] and _EIP_RegTargetSta[<IP node address>] for communication problems. However this does not work when the datalink is done through CJ areas. I can get around it in program, but I would better like using an internal variable like the ones above. So far I didn't found anything in the documentation, are such flags existing and available as system variables? Thanks

NB touchscreen doesnt support NT-Link, only HostLink communication. You can set nodes for an HL network, so you can connect more HMI on one PLC

i have to transfer program to a remote NB5Q so to avoid installing software and ask cabling to the technician at location, i choose to pass the program and load into the touchscreen with the USB key. All supposed went well until i was sent pictures of the transferred program and found some buttons with custom created graphics were missing. I thought all resources of a HMI program were included on the .pkg file, but evidently this not the case, or more likely i haven't created a good package. My questions are as follows: - i transfer the .pkg file found under /temp directory, that had the correct date following the HMI compilation, is it the correct location? - the .pkg file contains all the resources (including custom graphics) following the compilation or needs to be specified prior to that? - regarding the transfer of the whole HMI software, may it be that the whole HMI directory created by NB-Designer should be transferred to USB disk rather than pkg? The manual supplied with NB-Designer, while generally good, are rather terse on the subject

thanks for the suggestion, I did try and it works to export another program configuration, but do not add to a different device in Multiview explorer even created and selected it rather replace the original one. I don't think Omron currently provides a way to have many devices of same type in a single project, only combination of plc and HMI together. I do hope a future version of SS will allow projects having many devices grouped together in one file

is there a way to put different separate SS projects (ie plc) into one single project? The only way possible seems adding device from multiview explorer, but it does not accept import or drag and drop from other files such as was possible for example in CX-Programmer