Good morning Charles,

If you select all the items on the display, and then use “Tag Substitute, you'll be able to do a search and replace for the majority of the tags on the display.

And in later versions of View Studio, Rockwell added a project wide Find/Search and Replace feature which you also may find handy.

Hope this helps,

Shawn…[Read more]

Good morning Chuck,

You'd look in the Controller Properties to see the Controller and Firmware of the project,

Hope this helps,

Shawn Tierney,
Instructor at The Automation School

Good morning Brandon,

I'll contact you via email, but also wanted to respond here.

First, since the video works for me on multiple devices, let's first check to see if you can see the videos in the free sample course below:

If you can see those then the likely cause is your admin is blocking our video host Vimeo.com so I'd suggest tying…[Read more]

Good morning Nerito,

The good news is the software used in this course (RSLogix Micro Lite and RS Emulate) is free 🙂

As far as the software used in PAC and Compact Basics, as I state in those courses Rockwell only provides 30 day demos unless you buy a starter pack or experience kit.

You might want to try setting your PC's clock back…[Read more]

Good morning Eh Doh,

When you upload a program (from the PLC to the PC) if the A-B PLC is in the run mode it will continue to run, and you will recieve a message letting you know that you are performing an upload while the PLC is running and data table values may change during the time it takes to upload the entire data table.

That said,…[Read more]

Good afternoon Felipe,

Thanks for your question – I'm single clicking on the “+” to expand each. Does that work for you?

Sincerely,

Shawn Tierney
Instructor, The Automation School

Thank you very much for your comments Nerito,

Sincerely,

Shawn Tierney
Instructor at The Automation School

Good morning Edward,

Thanks for your question.

Yes, you can use a “Return” button to return to the previous screen, while with the “Go To” button you need to specify the exact screen.

I use to avoid the “Return” button because in old versions of View Studio it did not keep track of more than 1 previous screen, therefore you could not back…[Read more]

You're very welcome Felipe,

Shawn

Good morning Alvaro,

Thank you for taking my PLC Basics course. If cost is a concern, I'd recommend my PVP Core Basics course:

PVP Core Basics

If you'd like to discuss this further, please contact me at Support @ TheAutomationSchool . com.

Sincerely,

Shawn Tierney,
Instructor at The…[Read more]

Good morning Felipe,

I introduce Bits, Bytes, and Words in Lessons 12-16, and cover the B3 file here in Lesson 23.

In Lesson 28 I show how you can use Bits just like Input and Output data files, which can be helpful if you are using the free Emulator.

We also use them in the extended course in Lesson 41, where we use B3:0/6 as a Shift…[Read more]

Good morning Felipe,

The Binary Data file is intended to be used as internal bits or coils.

For instance, let's say you wanted a signal bit to be one when three limit switches were on, you could use a rung like this:

LS1 LS2 LS3 All_LS_on
I:0/1 I:0/2 I:0/3 B3/1
-[ ]—–[ ]—–[ ]———( )—-

They can also…[Read more]

Good morning Nerito,

If your Micro820 is not maintaining its IP Address, the likely cause is you have not disabled BOOT-P DHCP.

Can you check that you have indeed assigned an IP Address and disabled BOOT-P DHCP in your program prior to downloading it?

See Lesson 3.1 at 1:50 for how to set the IP Address in your project.

Hope this…[Read more]

Good morning Thomas,

Thank you for letting me know – you should now see the quizzes.

Thanks again,

Shawn Tierney
Instructor at The Automation School

Good morning Patrick,

The new procedure (which still works) can be found in the updated lesson titled “LESSON 20 / 21 UPDATE,”

Sincerely,

Shawn Tierney,
Instructor, The Automation School

You’re very welcome Neric,

Sincerely,

Shawn Tierney,
Instructor, The Automation School

You’re very welcome Neric,

Sincerely,

Shawn Tierney,
Instructor, The Automation School

You're very welcome Neric,

And thank you for your kind words,

Sincerely,

Shawn Tierney,
Instructor, The Automation School