RDE – Robox Development Environment

The main features are:

• Besides allowing to write, compile and debug the application software, it permits to evaluate the behaviour of the controlled machine and therefore to choose the best solutions to optimize it
• RDE is supported on Windows 10 x64 systems, with build 1703 and later
  The controller is connected to the PC via serial/ethernet channels (TCP/IP)
• RDE offers the following main features:
  • Writing, with its highlighting integrated editor, the R3, RPE, Ladder, Object block source files. These files can also be written with any other pure ASCII editor
  • Compiling the source files and obtaining the report of errors addressing to the code line containing the error
  • Organizing all the files belonging to a particular job into homogeneous groups (see Project window in the usage examples)
  • Communicating on a serial/ethernet line with the Robox motion controller, through the Shell window (see Usage examples). This window allows to:
    – monitor the state of any hardware resources of the connected controller
    – read the directory of the files in the flash card of the connected controller
    – move any file from the PC memory to the flash card and viceversa
    – delete files, etc.
  • Displaying in a numerical form the registers/variables of the connected controller through the Monitor windows
  • Displaying in a graphical form the evolution of the involved variables through the Oscilloscope window (see Usage examples). This windows works as a 4/8-track oscilloscope, for which it is possible to define the variables associated to each track, the scale and offset, the synchronisms, if normal or XY display
  • Setting Debug utilities, such as:
    – break-points on the execution of an instruction (stopping the execution or just counting the event occurrences)
    – break-points on a variable read operation
    – break-points on a variable write operation
    – trace on tasks
  • Simulating, through the I/O Panels window, the system inputs/outputs. The possibility to force the inputs and to display the outputs permits the programmer to thoroughly debug the program without actually being connected to the machine
  • Using the Variable Load/Save window to create customized parameter menus
  • On-line help facility
• All the above features are available for teleassistance through Internet
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