Configuration Software Flexi Soft Designer - Sick

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Flexi Soft Designer
Table of contents
Table of contents
1 About this document ......................................................................................................... 4
2 Flexi Soft Designer – Online Help .................................................................................... 5
2.1 About Flexi Soft Designer Flexi Soft Designer ..................................................... 5
3 Hardware configuration .................................................................................................... 6
3.1 Starting the project ............................................................................................... 6
3.2 Selecting the main unit ......................................................................................... 6
3.3 Selecting the expansion modules ........................................................................ 6
3.4 Selecting the input elements ............................................................................... 7
3.5 Selecting the actuators/displays/outputs ........................................................... 7
3.6 Assigning tag names ............................................................................................. 8
4 Editing the hardware configuration ................................................................................ 9
4.1 Deleting and moving modules .............................................................................. 9
4.2 Deleting or editing an element/discrepancy time/test signal ............................ 9
5 Creating the logical process ..........................................................................................10
5.1 Positioning the input elements ..........................................................................10
5.2 Positioning the function blocks ..........................................................................10
5.3 Positioning the outputs .......................................................................................10
5.4 Simulation ...........................................................................................................11
6 Connecting, transferring and verifying .........................................................................12
7 Report and diagnostics ...................................................................................................13
7.1 Calling and printing the report............................................................................13
7.2 Calling the diagnostics ........................................................................................13
8 Saving the configuration ................................................................................................14
9 Device status values in the Flexi Soft system ..............................................................15
10 Flexi Soft Designer Extras ..............................................................................................17
10.1 Force mode ..........................................................................................................17
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