Modicon M580 Application update - Include a conversion from BMENOC03*1 to new BMENOC0302

[Trinxs1]

Modicon Advanced NOC module:

Control Expert has a Modicon M580 Application Update tool that helps convert:

• NOC.2 to NOC.3
• NOC.3 to NOC.4
• NOC.CSPN to NOC.4 (not sure what this is)
• M580 application to M580S
• Change NOC config export (.zhw) to an import file for duplication.

We an option to convert;

• NOC.4 to NOC0302 (advanced NOC)
• Quantum NOC to NOC.4

[GeoffChisholm]

Not sure an application update tool is the right approach. It would be so much better if this functionality was within Control Expert, I imagine going to the hardware view right clicking on the NOC module and having an option to replace the module. Then all the appropriate settings and DIO devices would be automatically restored into the new module. Changing a NOC module should be no more involved than changing from one M580 cpu to a different M580 CPU 

External tools and having to import/export (if only you could import DIO devices) is at best clunky.

[Trinxs1]

Understood and this would be the ideal case and perhaps this should be an option rather than automatically invokes the tool and then provides the replacement.   It will require import and export which is a little more than just a change of a module or a drag and drop into place