Citect Equipment Parameter Address Offset

[Anonymous user]

I have a M580 PLC, the PLC tags are by numbers, for example a AI module PIT0101 FB instance tag addresses are %MW1000 to %MW1050. 

If I want to use the equipment editor in Citect to create a equipment model, how do I indirect address these tags?

For example,

PIT0101.input = %MW1000

PIT0101.EUMax = %MW1001

Is there any way I can use offset in the equipment parameter so I just need to indicate the start address, then the rest of tag addresses will use offset.

PIT0101.input = %MW(startAddress)

PIT0101.EUMax = %MW(startAddress + 1)

Is it possible in Citect Equipment Editor?

Many Thanks

Chao

[BevanWeiss · Accepted solution]

I'm not a Citect guru here, but my understanding is that each entry in the Equipment model must stand-alone, and so you can't have it reference anything else.

You can often just use an Excel file to generate the entries.  But additional modifications aren't as simple as only changing one location, you'd need to take them into Excel, do the calculations, export back out.

[Anonymous user]

Mate, Thanks for the answers. 

Looks like import/export to excel with macro is the way to go.

[Timmy]

Hi, you can use any custom field to declare the prefix of tag address and add the fixed part of tag in the equipment editor.

Hope this help