User Manual

LOGO!
Manual, 06/2014, A5E33039675
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LOGO! software
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LOGO! software
LOGO!Soft Comfort is available as a programming package for the PC. This software
provides many features, for example:
● A graphical user interface for offline creation of your circuit program by means of Ladder
Diagram (contact chart / circuit diagram) or Function Block Diagram (function chart)
● Simulation of your circuit program on the PC
● Generating and printing of an overview chart for the circuit program
● Saving a backup of the circuit program on the hard drive or other media
● Comparing circuit programs
● Easy configuration of blocks
● Transferring the circuit program in both directions:
– from LOGO! to the PC
– from the PC to LOGO!
● Reading the values of the hour counter
● Setting the time of day
● Summertime/wintertime conversion
● Online testing that provides a display of status changes and process variables of LOGO!
in RUN mode:
– Status of digital I/O, flags, shift register bits and cursor keys
– Values of all analog I/O and flags
– Results of all blocks
– Current values (including the times) of selected blocks
● Starting and stopping circuit program execution from the PC (switching between RUN and
STOP modes)
● Network communication
● Creating UDF blocks (Page 249) for use in a circuit program
● Configuring the Data Log (Page 253) function block for your circuit program to record
process values of the configured function blocks
The current version is LOGO!Soft Comfort V8.0. The Online Help for LOGO!Soft Comfort
describes all of the programming functionality and design features.