CX Designer

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CX - Designer

CX-Designer is used to simulate a control program via interactive diagram (like GUI).
The CX-Designer is designed after we finished a program using CX-Programmer.

Open CX-Designer:

Then, CX-Designer window will be opened as following:

Select exit, if the above dialog box is appeared.


Then, CX-Designer window will be appeared as following:

Let’s start to make a screen design for an ON/OFF control of an output Lamp. Firstly,
select File, then New:

A configuration window will appear like figure below:


Write the File Name, select the directory where we want to save it, and then click OK. A
comment window will appear as the following figure:

Click OK, and then the next comment’s window will appear:

Click OK, and then the next window will appear:


Select and drag any components used for a simulation like ON/OFF Button and Bit
Lamp, etc., and then put into the Black Screen:

Next, set the address at SERIALA:00000.00 following the address for ON/OFF Button
which has been set in CX-Programmer. And so on.. similarly for other components. The
window will be:
Don’t forget to change the address of the components as we have been set in CX-
Programmer. We set as following for the address of the second Button.

Next, add a Bit Lamp in similar steps like we did for the Buttons.

Don’t forget to set the address of the Bit Lamp as the output set in CX-Programmer,
correctly.
Next, save project all by clicking Save All menu:

At this step, the program and simulation design have finished. Next step, how to
connect/communicate between CX-Programmer and CX-Designer.

Open CX-Programmer window, select Simulation and click PLC-PT Integrated


Simulation:

The following comment window will appear:

Click OK and wait for the down-load process.


The following window will appear when the connection/communication between CX-
Programmer and CX-Designer success.
When we want to stop/cancel the connection, click Simulation and select Work Online
Simulator as following:

End for a very short note. Let’s explore more about CX-Designer through more example
problems, etc.

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