Upnorth wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 6:42 pm
Thanks for the reply Chris. I found a plug in for Notepad++ that lets me compare the original PLC before and after the changes were made to make the turret work. It highlights the changes. Some are straight forward some are in blocks and a little confusing.
My question is a lot of the edits are in areas marked as do not modify. Is it ok to modify these areas since I will be using a custom PLC? I will be watching the tutorial videos shortly but knowing the answer to my PLC question would help me understand things. I'm thinking I can figure out what changed between the first 2 files and then make those changes to the version 4.80 to make things work.
The area's marked as "do not modify" are area's the Wizard modifies. You can copy/edit these area's, but the wizard will overwrite them if it compiles the changes. Also you may run into some issues with undefined variables depending on what was changed, If you remove an Input for example, the wizard makes that input a memory bit to keep the PLC compile-able. If you edit it, you must perform this operation your self, in addition some Inputs/outputs get SET when not used to allow functions to work without it, further complicating it a little.
If you want to give updating the changes your self, typically i would copy over the added changes for your custom plc over to the new .src file (only what is needed). Typically i always keep these outside of the "Do not modify" area's. Then i will use the wizard to setup the rest of the built in I/O as it was before and let it compile the "modified" PLC for me and let it do its thing as well. Just ensure the .src file is named acorn_lathe_plc.src for example in the main directory as it is stock. Otherwise, wizard will grab from the "template" and blow away all changes then.
Thanks Chris this clears up a lot for me. Especially the part about what the wizard does. I'm working my way through the manuals now. I think learning how it all works will be useful in the future.
Thanks for the information about the updated manual cnckeith. I'll download it immidiately.
evosigns_production wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:55 pm
Hi, I'm trying to set a 3 second delay on SpindelOk delay option but seems to do nothing, don't know if I'm missing something.
install the latest version of CNC12, follow the install instructions (dont use restore report)
evosigns_production wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:55 pm
Hi, I'm trying to set a 3 second delay on SpindelOk delay option but seems to do nothing, don't know if I'm missing something.
install the latest version of CNC12, follow the install instructions (dont use restore report)