MrVolts
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Just to add another detour to this post, when people are talking VM's. How does one get started getting licences for Windows operating systems without breaking the bank and buying a MSDN Subscription?
Just to add another detour to this post, when people are talking VM's. How does one get started getting licences for Windows operating systems without breaking the bank and buying a MSDN Subscription?
Just to add another detour to this post, when people are talking VM's. How does one get started getting licences for Windows operating systems without breaking the bank and buying a MSDN Subscription?
In my (I guess you would say biased) opinion RSLogix/Studio 5000 wipes the floor with all the other vendors software (PLC only).
Siemens are heading in the right direction with TIA Portal at V14 now but it is still so clunky in comparison.
How can you compare RSLogix with TIA when RSLogix is less than half of the TIA portal's functionality?
Ive spent the last 25 years working on predominantly AB platforms. Last 19 working at a Pepsico plant where AB and Wonderware was the norm.
Where I am now is predominantly Siemens and I find it frustrating in navigating and searching how it opens new windows all the time.
Throw into the equation that most of the code is written by Germans and mostly written in German. Im glad Google translate is so easy to use.
Saving grace is I still have some equipment using AB to play around on.
Which is why I stated for PLC portion only.
Funny you should say that... I find it frustrating not being able to use a shortcut to cycle through routines in RSLogix. Using Ctrl+Tab will cycle through windows, but the code is opened in the same window inside flaps for which I haven't found a keyboard shortcut.
Use Ctrl+PageDown to cycle through the routine tabs forward, Ctrl+PageUp to cycle in reverse.
See the help file under keyboard for more shortcuts.
Through a dealer or MSFT directly?Volume licensing/Software Assurance
Use Ctrl+PageDown to cycle through the routine tabs forward, Ctrl+PageUp to cycle in reverse.
See the help file under keyboard for more shortcuts.
Thanks... It's not a great combination for regular keyboards, but on my dell they are right next to each other. Although I'll have to use the right hand.
Not a great combo, but with Windows reserving so many other shortcut combinations software developers have to use some of the less desirable ones.
We are recognized Rockwell SI's but we work with Siemens, B&R, Omron (older stuff, not the new Sysmac Studio), Mitsubishi, Panasonic.
In my (I guess you would say biased) opinion RSLogix/Studio 5000 wipes the floor with all the other vendors software (PLC only).
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