Adding new PLC modules: PLC database and Default database

Adding new PLC modules: PLC database and Default database

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Adding new PLC modules: PLC database and Default database

rwcanary99
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I successfully added a 5069 module to the PLC Database.

 

3 questions:

How do I get it to break if it runs out of ladder lines?

Can I edit the component and tell it to break?

Do I have to ALSO add it to the default DB, because its not showing up in there?

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PeytonHarriss
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Question 1:
I'll assume you mean create a break on your PLC after its been drafted.  Using the split PLC command would be useful.

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https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-electrical/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/201...

 

Question 2:

 

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question 3:
Can you elaborate?

 

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rwcanary99
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Sorry Peyton, I thought I had replied to this already.

 

thanks for 1 and 2

 

#3:

I inserted the new PLC module into the drawing.

I even created the footprint for the panel layout.


I could not get the footprint lookup to act right, unless I added the same module info to the ACE_DEFAULT.mdb.

 

is this normal, or did I create the new module incorrectly?

 

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You may be looking for this.

 

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rwcanary99
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I’m looking for AB’s mdb.

 

so I don’t have to add each model.

 

I would rather have to add old slck500, than add the new ones.  Because nobody builds out SLCK anymore.

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PeytonHarriss
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https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-forum/out-dated-plc-database/m-p/10723769#M74031

 

its the same answer for the Footprints as it is for the parametric PLCs and the schematic PLC database.  I wish I had a better answer but I do not.  

 

I would say lets start a github to make an updated database, but I wouldn't be suprised if folks would fight over the right way to configure the footprints, schematic symbols, and PLC database.  

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