Rockwell Automation 1492 WinABMS Marking System Software - Manual (Page 38)

Chapter
5
Importing Data
Chapter Objectives This chapter describes how to:
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Import Data from Other Sources
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Convert a Project File from ABMS 2.0 (DOS)
Importing Data from Other
Sources You can generate a program to create a WinABMS file with a software
program that supports .txt or .csv files (CAD, Microsoft Word, Excel). When
you import this text file to WinABMS, the code is automatically converted to a
WinABMS formatted file.
Creating a Program Source File
You must follow specific rules and conventions when creating the program file
on the source system.
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Each file must be a .txt or .csv file.
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The .txt files must contain line breaks. These line breaks indicate that
the following text will go onto the next marker in WinABMS. To create
separate lines of text on a single marker, place a “,” after the text to
represent a line break. If the first line of the file is “one,two,three”, and
the second line is “x,y,z”, then the first two markers will appear as:
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Each row in the .csv files will appear as a separate marker in WinABMS.
To create separate lines of text on a single marker, place the lines of text
in different columns. If three columns are created all with the word
“one” in the first row and the word “two” in the second row, then the
first two markers will appear as:
one
two
three
x
y
z