Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 Manual page 40

Getting started
3.3 Create a simple network in your user program
Use the buttons on the "Favorites" to insert contacts and coils onto the network.
The "Favorites" also provides a button for creating a branch
To save the project, click the "Save project" button in the toolbar. Notice that you do not have
to finish editing the rung before saving. You can now associate the tag names with these
instructions.
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1. Click the "Normally open contact"
button on the "Favorites" to add a
contact to the network.
2. For this example, add second
contact.
3. Click the "Output coil" button to
insert a coil.
1. Select the left rail to select the rail
for the branch.
2. Click the "Open branch" icon to
add a branch to the rail of the
network.
3. Insert another normally open
contact to the open branch.
4. Drag the double-headed arrow to a
connection point (the green square
on the rung) between the two
contacts on the first rung.
Manual, 11/2011, A5E02486774-04
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