Omron CJ1W-PNT21 Operation Manual page 100

Setting up a Network
Note
7-2-1 Adding Devices to the Network
Using the Context Menu
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1,2,3... 1 Press the Install Device Description File... button at the bottom of the
Device Catalogue main window (refer to figure above). The standard
windows File - Open window will be displayed.
2 In the File - Open window browse to the sub-directory containing the
GSDML file, select the (one or more) GSDML file(s) and press the Open
button in the window. The GSDML file(s) will be copied to a sub-directory of
the CX-ConfiguratorFDT directory.
3 After completing the copy, a window will be displayed, asking the user
permission for an update of the Device Catalogue (see figure below). If
more GSD files need to be installed, select the No button and continue with
installation of GSD file. Otherwise, select the Yes button.
Updating the Device Catalogue may take several minutes, depending on
the number of installed DTMs and Device Description files.
If the Device Catalogue is up to date, it can be used to setup the network.
Setting up a network in CX-ConfiguratorFDT starts with adding single device
DTMs to the Network view. First the CJ1W-PNT21 IO Controller DTM must be
added to the main branch of the project Network. To do so, one of three
procedures as outlined below must be used to add the DTM.
1,2,3... 1 Select the top of the network to which the DTM must be added, i.e. select
MyNetwork in the Network view.
2 Right click the mouse and a context menu will be displayed.
3 From the menu select Add Device.
4 A simplified Device Catalogue is displayed. The list only contains the
devices which can be inserted at the selected network location (see figure
below, only Master devices are listed).
5 From the displayed list, select the device DTM to be added and select the
OK button. The Device DTM will be added to the network
Figure 7.3: Update Device catalogue
Figure 7.4: Add device
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