Hello All,
I am trying to build a PLC but I need it to be a child instead of a Parent. We put the parent on a page that has the fusing and power of the PLC on it. We delete the power pins on the Parametric PLC.
Anyone have any ideas??
Thanks
Dennis
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This is not an inherent function available in AutoCAD Electrical. You could create two symbols, a parent and child like any other. In the attached screen shot, the parent block is named PLC1_1794IA8 and the child is PLC2_1794IA8. I will attach the files. You edt the descriptions and I/O adress under show/edit misc. The parent has an XREF attribute to show the location of the child I/O points.
What would happen if I editted the top block within the the parametric to be "TAG2" instead of "TAG". Would the parametric still see that and build it as a child???
I will try that when I get time.
As a DUH!!!! moment overcame me, I could just make the power suppy the child and avoid the whole issue all together!!!!!
Thanks for your help!!!
Dennis
Parametric PLC doesn't allow a child. The 4th character of the filename dictates parent (1) or child (2). Hence the 1 or 2 in the 4th character of the block names I created . For Catalog Lookup to open the correct table you will have to name the blocks HPC1_etc. and HPC2_etc. Also add a WDBLKNAM attribute to the parent and set the value to PLCIO. This is the name of the table for PLC part numbers. I have attached replacement blocks that are renamed and I added the WDBLKNAM attribute to the parent so the Catalog Lookup and BOM generator will work properly.