July 2010
AADvance
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Table of Contents
Workbench _______________________________________ 1
Appearance ............................................................................................................ 3
Title Bar .......................................................................................................... 4
Menu Bar ........................................................................................................ 5
Toolbars ........................................................................................................ 15
Standard Toolbar......................................................................................16
Debug Toolbar .........................................................................................18
Window Buttons Toolbar.........................................................................20
Version Source Control Toolbar..............................................................21
Options Toolbar .......................................................................................21
Workspace .................................................................................................... 22
Zoom ........................................................................................................23
Output Window ............................................................................................ 24
Contextual Menus......................................................................................... 25
Status Bar...................................................................................................... 25
Customization ...................................................................................................... 26
Directory Structure .............................................................................................. 29
Working with Projects ......................................................................................... 32
Creating Projects........................................................................................... 33
Opening and Closing Projects ...................................................................... 34
Saving Projects ............................................................................................. 37
Renaming Projects ........................................................................................ 37
Adding a Project Description........................................................................ 38
Printing Projects ........................................................................................... 38
Project Access Control......................................................................................... 39
Importing and Exporting Workbench Elements .................................................. 40
Uploading Workbench Elements from Targets ................................................... 43
Link Architecture View ....................................................................................... 45
Resources...................................................................................................... 46
Resource Window Workspace.................................................................47
Creating Resources ..................................................................................48
Renaming Resources................................................................................48
Copying Resources ..................................................................................49
Projects can be developed using any of the five languages of the IEC 61131-3 standard: SFC:
Sequential Function Chart (or Grafcet), FBD: Function Block Diagram, LD: Ladder Diagram,
ST: Structured Text, and IL: Instruction List. When building, resources are compiled to
produce very fast "target independent code" (TIC) or "C" code.
Within resources, you can declare variables using standard IEC 61131-3 data types (i.e.,
Boolean, integer, real, etc.) or user-defined types such as arrays or structures. For defined
variables, you can set up alarms, events, and trending. Furthermore, field communications
allow you to connect variables to field equipment. Resources can share variables using internal
bindings. Internal bindings are between resources within the same project.
You develop projects on a Windows development platform, in the Workbench and language
editors. The Workbench graphically represents and organizes configurations, resources, POUs,
and networks within a project from many views: