Chapter
5
Operating Instructions
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Ethernet gateways
Method 1: Gateway writes to/reads from Tag/File — FX0-GENT writes the data
into/reads the data from the PLC memory
In this operating mode the FX0-GENT as a
master
writes the data of all activated data sets
into the specified memory areas of the PLC. The only task for the PLC programmer is to de-
fine a controller tag name which matches the gateway configuration tag name.
In order to configure the gateway to be
master
, perform the following steps:
Open the Flexi Soft Designer and load the hardware configuration including the
EtherNet/IP gateway.
Click on the
Gateways
button above the main window and select the FX0-GENT or
double click the FX0-GENT in the hardware configuration view to open the gateway
configuration dialog.
Click on
Gateway configuration
on the left hand menu. The following dialog appears:
Within the
Gateway configuration
dialog, select the transfer method by activating
Gate-
way writes to tag/file
for the Flexi Soft to Network direction and
Gateway reads from
tag/file
for the Network to Flexi Soft direction.
Select which data shall be written to/read from the PLC by checking the checkbox for
the required data set.
Define where in the PLC memory the selected data shall be written to or read from:
Enter tag names into the
Tag/file name
edit fields (max. 20 characters).
Select
Write all sets in one tag
if all data sets shall be written into one tag in the PLC
memory. In this case, the tag defined for data set 1 will be used.
Fig. 28: EtherNet/IP gateway
configuration as master