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SECTION 4
Useful Functions
This section describes useful CX-Designer functions for creating project data and debugging and how to use these
functions.
4-1 Creating Screens Using Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4-1-1 Changing Allocated Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4-1-2 Reusing Existing Projects in Another System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4-1-3 Copying and Pasting Symbols between the CX-Programmer and
the CX-Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4-1-4 Using I/O Allocation Table in Symbol Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4-1-5 Creating Screens Using Symbol Names and Then Setting Addresses 45
4-2 Using Screens from Other Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4-3 Classifying Screens by Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4-3-1 Creating Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4-3-2 Moving Screens between Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4-3-3 Creating New Screens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4-4 Checking and Changing Functional Object Properties without Opening
Property Setting Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4-4-1 Globally Replacing Settings for More Than One Object . . . . . . . . . 50
4-5 Listing and Editing Functional Object Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4-5-1 Setting Consecutive Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4-5-2 Copying the Same Setting to More Than One Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4-6 Editing Overlapping Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4-6-1 Method for Selecting Specified Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4-6-2 Displaying Only Specified Objects on a Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4-7 Creating Multi-language Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4-8 Checking Address Usage Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4-9 Searching for Embedded Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4-10 Transferring Only Edited Data to PT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4-11 Creating Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4-12 How to Use Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4-13 Integrated Simulation for the Entire System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4-13-1 Debugging Screens and the User Program with a Virtual PLC . . . . 59
4-13-2 Debugging Screens and the User Program with the Actual PLC . . . 61
4-14 Setting Security for Data Transfers with the PT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4-15 Setting Symbol Names and I/O Comments for Use as Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4-16 Executing Multiple Functions with a Single Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4-17 Replacing a Lamp with a Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4-18 Creating Polygonal Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4-19 Registering Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
4-20 Using Machine Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
4-21 Enlarging Objects Proportional to Screen Size during Data Conversion . . . . 77
4-22 Batch-setting Label Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78