User manual

AC Adjustable Frequency Drives
Drives Software
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DriveTools32
This suite is a family of software tools designed for Microsoft
®
Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT
®
4.0 operating
systems. These applications provide you with an intuitive means
for programming, troubleshooting and maintaining your legacy
Allen-Bradley AC and DC drive products. Easy-to-use menus,
dialogs and graphic displays help you to quickly start up your
Allen-Bradley drive product. Powerful diagnostic features
simplify diagnosing drive as well as system problems.
DriveManager32™
This software is the primary product in the DriveTools32 family. It
provides you with all the easy-to-use tools you’ll need to create
and edit online or offline drive data tables which are used to
configure the drive for your application. Whether it’s your first
Allen-Bradley drive, or you manage a plant full, the online
product help, easy-to-use search capabilities, graphic analog
metering, and a logic probe tool, help to make drive start-ups
simple. File compare utilities help to assure drive data integrity
and extensive documentation options keep your maintenance
records simple and complete.
DriveMonitor32™
An optional tool within the DriveTools32 family, provides you
with an advanced method of graphically monitoring drive data.
You can also chart controller data points when connected to a
network such as Data Highway Plus™ or ControlNet™. You can
easily display live data values in a graphic format. The display
options in this software tool allow you to easily manipulate how
data is graphed.
DrivePanel32™
This is the graphical implementation of the Human Interface
Module (HIM) used with Allen-Bradley AC and DC drive
products. It duplicates the programming and control functions
available with the HIM, and includes some special features only
available with DrivePanel32 software.
DriveTrending32™
This software provides a simple-to-use method for programming
the internal drive trending functions supported by certain Allen-
Bradley drives as well as displaying the data stored within the
internal drive trend buffers.
DriveBlockEditor32™
This software uses a graphical format to create and monitor
function block programs supported by certain Allen-Bradley
drives. Pictorial flow diagrams allow you to easily follow the data
flow within your uniquely designed drive application. Powerful
features such as Composite Blocks, multiple level undo/redo, auto
routing and user-defined libraries allow you to create, modify and
maintain highly complex programs with ease.