Rockwell Automation 57C650 AutoMax Programming Executive Version 3.8 User Manual

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18Ć21

On Line Menu: Monitoring and Editing Tasks

18.4.1 PC Monitor Online Edit Commands

WARNING

USE OF THE ONLINE EDITING FEATURE CAN CAUSE THE CONTROLLED

PROCESS OR MACHINE TO SUDDENLY CHANGE ITS OPERATION. IT IS THE

RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER TO DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL HAZARDS

INVOLVED. FAILURE TO OBSERVE THESE PRECAUTIONS COULD RESULT IN

BODILY INJURY.

F3 is used to initiate an online edit command. F3 followed by one of

the following keys executes the indicated command. Each command

is described in the section listed to its right.

Ins Ć Selects INSERT SEQUENCE

See 18.4.2 and 18.4.3

Del Ć Selects DELETE SEQUENCE

See 18.4.4

C Ć Selects CHANGE SEQUENCE

See 18.4.2 and 18.4.5

P Ć Selects the MODIFY PRESET menu

See 18.4.6

F Ć Selects the FORCE menu

See 18.4.7

U Ć Selects the UNFORCE menu

See 18.4.8

R Ć Selects the RESEQUENCE menu

See 18.4.9

M Ć Selects the MOVE SEQUENCE menu See 18.4.10

When you initiate an online edit command as described below in

18.4.3 and 18.4.5, the procedures will be essentially the same as

insertion and editing in the the offline PC Editor described in 4.22.2 Ć

4.22.5, with the following exception: F9 R may not be used to create

a new remark sequence with the PC Monitor.

18.4.2 Limitations on Inserting and Modifying Sequences

There are a number of limitations on inserting and modifying a

sequence or sequences into a Ladder Logic task that is running.

These are detailed individually below.

18.4.2.1

Number of Sequence Insertions
When a PC task is downloaded, 1024 bytes are reserved for changes

to PC task runtime code. Once this is used up, the screen will display

an error message indicating that the memory is full. The smallest

possible sequence uses 14 bytes of memory. The smallest possible

block uses 22 bytes.

18.4.2.2

Adding Variables
From the time a task is downloaded, only 16 new symbols may be

added to the task. They may be any combination of local booleans,

common booleans, local integers, and common integers, but when

the total number of new symbols exceeds 16, the screen will display

an error message indicating the symbol table is full. Deleting a

sequence does not remove symbols from the symbol table. In other

words, if you add a sequence with two new symbols and then later

take that sequence out, you will still have used up two of the 16

allowable new symbols.

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