Controllers : TOPDOC® NexGen

TOPDOC NexGen Features

Application (APP) Editing

TOPDOC provides a comprehensive APP editor for both remote (online) and local (offline) use. Within the APP editor you can create/modify ladder logic, data table, and program documentation. You can create programs offline, then download them to your SoftPLC's. You can also work directly online connected to a SoftPLC to create, monitor, and modify programs.

Instruction/Data Entry are easy:

• Enter/edit logic and data with simple point/click interface
• Copy/paste rung(s), or portions of rungs
• Program/edit/search using addresses or tagnames
• Smart Paste feature lets you build a library of common logic sequences, then easily reuse them with new addresses and/or descriptions using a spreadsheet-style interface

TOPDOC also automatically determines if the connected SoftPLC includes any user loadable instructions (TLI's), and adds them to the instruction menus. TLI's can also be programmed offline.

Multiple APP editors can be opened simultaneously:

• Copy/paste rungs between APPs via the clipboard
• Monitor multiple SoftPLC's at the same time
• Attach multiple times to the same SoftPLC to view logic in different areas of the program simultaneously
• View offline and online versions of a program to compare

Documentation/Reports

SoftPLC application programs can include extensive text documentation, so programs can be easily understood and maintained. All documentation is included in the single APP file (which includes logic, data table, and all documentation). This means you have only one file to backup and keep track of!

• Rung comments are virtually unlimited in size. The first line of a rung comment can also become a easily located "subtitle" in a program.
• Program subroutines and data table files can be documented with short and long descriptions.
• Data Table address descriptors include a tagname and a long description. Descriptors are edited in TOPDOC using a spreadsheet style interface, or can be easily created/edited in an external program (eg: Excel) and pasted into TOPDOC's editor.

A Ladder Diagram Report and Data Table Report can be printed, including to .PDF format.

Properties Editor

The Properties Editor makes it easy to edit property file entries, using a spreadsheet style user interface. Property Tables are a RAM-resident database in SoftPLC that is useful for sorting, warehouse, and recipe-oriented control applications.

Monitoring/Troubleshooting

A number of features are available for SoftPLC system maintenance:

• Search by address, tagname, instruction, or instruction/address combination. You can search by direct reference or with wildcard specifications.
• A "Find All" function provides a list of all usages, search results are retained for an easy "trace" function capability.
• Position by rung number, program file number, or comment subtitles
• I/O forcing from ladder or force table editors, including block insert/remove of forces
• Status file monitoring, fault analysis, and other features make it easy to determine causes of problems
• Data table editor provides multiple data formats, "spinners" for easy field state/value editing, and a quick undo function to return to prior value on bit manipulation (On/Off)
• Data table "watch windows"- user customizable non-sequential data table editors

PLC Configuration

TOPDOC includes a complete SoftPLC configurator which is used to set up TCP/IP and serial communications parameters, select and configure TLM's (I/O drivers and loadable functions), set start-up parameters, and more. The PLC Configurator makes it easy to map other vendor's I/O to a SoftPLC system, such as Ethernet/IP, ModbusTCP, Modbus serial, Profibus, and others.

A "Detect on Net" function makes it easy to see which SoftPLC's are on the network, and to perform an easy configuration file backup of all PLC's.

Specifications

TOPDOC NexGen is available for Windows or Linux operating systems.

System Requirements:

• Operating System - 64 bit Windows or Ubuntu Linux
• Minimum Screen Resolution 1024x768
• 150MB free disk space
• Ethernet port
• USB port (for software protection key)