Adding Devices To The Network - Omron CJ Series Operation Manual

5 Operation
Note Updating the Device Catalogue may take several minutes, depending on the number of installed GSD files.
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Adding Devices to the Network

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-PRM21
Master DTM must be added to the main branch of the project Network. To do so, one of three proce-
dures as outlined below must be used to add the DTM.
 Using the Context Menu
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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...
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).
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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.
 Using Drag & Drop
1
Open the Device Catalogue: Either select the View - Device Catalogue menu option, or press
the button
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in the Tool Bar.
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