6 UTILITY PACKAGE (GX Configurator-PT)
CHAPTER 6 UTILITY PACKAGE (GX Configurator-PT)
6.1 Utility package functions
Function
Initial setting
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Auto refresh setting
Monitor/test
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The QD70 utility package (GX Configurator-PT) is software designed to make initial
setting, auto refresh setting, monitor and others of the QD70 using dedicated screens,
without being conscious of the I/O signals and buffer memory.
Use the utility package with GX Developer (SW4D5C-GPPW-E or later).
The following table lists the functions of the utility package.
Make initial setting axis-by-axis for the QD70 to operate.
Set the values of the items that need initial setting.
[Setting items]
• Parameters
• OPR data
• Positioning data
(The initially set data are registered to the PLC CPU parameters, and when the PLC
CPU is placed in the RUN status, they are written to the QD70 automatically.)
Set the QD70 buffer memory values to be automatically refreshed.
[Auto refresh target buffer memory values]
[Common to all axes]
• Error status
• Warning status
[Axis by axis]
• Current feed value
• Current speed
• Axis operation status
• Axis error code
• Axis warning code
• Executing positioning data No.
(The values stored in the automatically refreshed QD70 buffer memory are read
automatically when the END instruction of the PLC CPU is executed.)
Monitor/test the buffer memory and I/O signals of the QD70.
• Axis monitor/test
• OPR monitor
• X/Y monitor
Description
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Reference
Section 6.4
Section 6.5
Section 6.6
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