RockyLeafs
Member
Hello,
I'm digging all over the internet to find a solution for this but haven't come up with anything yet.
We have 3 nearly identical machines (only difference is sizing for 4", 6" and 8") with a AOI (PartType) and the customer wants all their possible part types in each machine. So they will share a large array of 200 part type variants.
So when you look at the PartTypes Array is set as:
PartType[200]
Description (40Char String)
PartNumber (8Char String)
WallType (SINT)
Welds4 (SINT, number of 4" welds)
Welds6 (SINT, number of 6" welds)
Welds8 (SINT, number of 8" welds)
I have the customer part list already in excel with the part number, description, number of each weld, etc (there is 178 unique parts...)... ready to go...
What I was hoping to do was to create an excel file where I can import all the values of the part list into the array in the PLC program offline.
I do have the machines powered up on the shop floor, and I have read about using RSLinx and the tag upload/download tool, but I am wondering if there is a way to get import/export the tag VALUES.
I'm digging all over the internet to find a solution for this but haven't come up with anything yet.
We have 3 nearly identical machines (only difference is sizing for 4", 6" and 8") with a AOI (PartType) and the customer wants all their possible part types in each machine. So they will share a large array of 200 part type variants.
So when you look at the PartTypes Array is set as:
PartType[200]
Description (40Char String)
PartNumber (8Char String)
WallType (SINT)
Welds4 (SINT, number of 4" welds)
Welds6 (SINT, number of 6" welds)
Welds8 (SINT, number of 8" welds)
I have the customer part list already in excel with the part number, description, number of each weld, etc (there is 178 unique parts...)... ready to go...
What I was hoping to do was to create an excel file where I can import all the values of the part list into the array in the PLC program offline.
I do have the machines powered up on the shop floor, and I have read about using RSLinx and the tag upload/download tool, but I am wondering if there is a way to get import/export the tag VALUES.