How to maintain an overview during simulation
A quick and easy way of selecting blocks and placing these into your circuit program
A quick and easy way of connecting blocks in large circuit programs
How to use the Info Window texts for your documentation
A quick and easy way of increasing/reducing the size of the Info Window
How to display the corresponding tooltip for a function key
How to identify your circuit program version
How to access functions via the shortcut menu
A quick and easy way of zooming your circuit program window
A quick way of changing block parameters
A quick way of closing LOGO!Soft without saving the data
How to establish the cycle time
It may be difficult in simulation mode to maintain a clear overview of large circuit programs and/or when working on low resolution screens. We advise the following procedure:
Maximize the LOGO!Soft Comfort application window to full screen size.
Close the Info Window and the catalog.
Position the mouse pointer onto the small strip, directly at the left side of the icons of the circuit program inputs. Keep the left mouse button pressed and drag and drop the input toolbar out of the LOGO!Soft Comfort application window to the top edge of the screen.
Do the same with the toolbar of your circuit program outputs, as described under 2.
Advantage: The space for editing the circuit program has increased. You can still access the I/O toolbars without restriction, since they always remain in the foreground.
Note: You can restore the I/O toolbars to their original position by left-clicking the small cross icon in the upper right corner of the toolbar.
You have two alternatives to the standard selection of blocks from the programming toolbar icons:
Alternative 1
Open the catalog from the programming toolbar.
Click on the required block in the catalog to select it.
In your circuit program, left-click the block insert position. The block appears at the correct position.
To insert further instances of this block, left-click on the relevant insert positions.
To insert a further block, select it from the catalog and proceed as described under item 3 and 4.
Advantage: When you change between constants/terminals, basic functions and SFBs, you save yourself having to click the relevant icons in the programming toolbar.
Alternative 2
Open the catalog of the programming toolbar.
Click on any block in the catalog to select it.
If you are creating a large program, you can close the catalog and also hide the programming toolbar.
Hold down the Ctrl key and left-click the block insert position in your circuit program. You are displayed a mask with block list, from which you can select the required block with a double-click.
Tip: In the mask header, you will also find an input field. You could, for example, enter the initial letter of the required SFB to restrict the display in the mask to a list of blocks with this initial. You thus do not have to browse the entire mask, and you can quickly find the relevant block.
The block is inserted at the correct position in your circuit program.
To insert further instances of this block, left-click on the relevant insert positions.
To insert a further block, select it from the catalog and proceed as described previously.
Advantage: You do not have to depend on the catalog and the programming toolbar to create large programs. You can thus close and hide these to provide more screen space for your circuit program.
In addition to the conventional method of creating connections with the programming toolbar icons, you have another alternative:
After you have placed the blocks into the circuit program, double-click on the input or output of a block.
A mask opens with a list of the target blocks. Double-click to select a block.
Tip: In the mask header you will find an input field. You could, for example, enter the initial letter of the required SFB to restrict the display in the mask to a list of blocks with this initial. You thus do not have to browse the entire mask, and you can quickly find the relevant block.
In addition, you can also use wildcards such as * or ?.
The connection is made.
Advantage: Particularly when you are handling large circuit programs, this method provides you with a quick and easy means of creating connections.
Use the mouse to mark the text you want to copy to your documentation.
Click the icon . The selected text is copied to the clipboard of your operating system.
Change to your documentation editor.
Call the Edit menu and select the Paste command to insert the text from the clipboard into your documentation.
Double-click the title bar of the Info Window to switch the window to full-screen mode in the LOGO!Soft Comfort application window. Double-click the title bar of the Info Window to restore it to its original size.
Prerequisite: The tooltips are enabled.
Under Tools -> Options: Look & Feel, select Metal or Extended Windows Look and Feel.
With the help of the mouse-over-icon function, LOGO!Soft Comfort shows not only the tooltip for this icon, but also the corresponding function key (if available).
Here you will find an overview of the shortcuts.
The first 16 characters you enter in the Project name field in the File -> Properties: General dialog are downloaded to the LOGO!. The version identifier included with these 16 characters is maintained when you download and upload the circuit program between the PC <-> LOGO!.
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This special function is only available with devices as of hardware series 0BA2. |
Right-click on an object to open a context sensitive window that offers you all the major functions.
Press [CTRL] and turn the mouse wheel.
Result: The size of your circuit program window changes
Click the parameter field you want to change. Press [CTRL] and turn the mouse wheel.
Result: The parameter changes
Open the File menu, press [CTRL] and click the Close menu command.
Result: LOGO!Soft Comfort is closed without prompt.
Caution: New or changed circuit programs will not be saved.
The cycle time is the pure program processing time (reading inputs, executing programs and writing outputs).
The cycle time of each function is less than 0.1 ms. The cycle time of the circuit program can be established using a test program. Refer to the LOGO! manual, appendix B for more information.
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With the LOGO! hardware series 0BA3 or older no statements can be made regarding the cycle time of individual functions. The cycle times are different for each function. You can only establish the time for one program cycle. Refer to the LOGO! manual, appendix B for more information. You can download this from the LOGO! homepage on the Internet. |