PLC Software saving to AutoCad
PLC Software saving to AutoCad
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Dear Folks;
Are the any commercial PLC packages that can save the ladder logic diagrams they create to .dwg format ?
I was just checking out Rockwell Automations RSLogix programming environment and did not see any means to do this.
Not sure if you have to pay for extra software to make this kind of thing possible
Many Thanks!
Are the any commercial PLC packages that can save the ladder logic diagrams they create to .dwg format ?
I was just checking out Rockwell Automations RSLogix programming environment and did not see any means to do this.
Not sure if you have to pay for extra software to make this kind of thing possible
Many Thanks!
Adrian Dunevein
AAA Drafting Services
www.aaadrafting.com





RE: PLC Software saving to AutoCad
1) Use a pdf print utility such as Cutepdf to print the diagrams in .pdf format, and
2) Use a conversion utility such as Img2Cad to convert the .pdf's to .dxf's.
Both utilities are available as free downloads, just google them.
RE: PLC Software saving to AutoCad
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RE: PLC Software saving to AutoCad
RE: PLC Software saving to AutoCad
Format was Booleen AND, OR, Function block representations of ladder logic.
We had special lisp routines to automatically draw the above, but still was a time consuming effort, and it was not an automatic function.
I thought there was a PLC to autocad package back in the 90s but it was pricey. Beiieve it was out of canada. Taylor was the name of the product back then, no telling what it is now. Googled it and still exists.
But the technical name was logic gate representation, I believe it was similar to the digital system classes that every electrical engineer took in the 1st or 2nd year.
RE: PLC Software saving to AutoCad
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