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FT Optix settings watchout when installing

Posted By DeBruler Apr 09, 2026 09:15:00 AM
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Hey All - I wanted to hopefully save some people from the same headache I had yesterday. I was having problems with the tag importer getting locked up (Optix freezes and never recovers) with a large PLC project (I tried offline and online, same result). Two different colleagues did not have the same ...

FT Optix upgrade project with updated instance types

Posted By DeBruler Apr 08, 2026 04:06:00 PM
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Hi All - We have updated our template (did not use github) where our instance definitions are now slightly different than what we developed a couple of projects with. For those old projects, we want to upgrade them to use the latest objects. However, we cannot find a manual method to either bring ...

RE: FT Optix BUG: Cannot Move Object with Alias Type defined by a PLC UDT to Template Library (1.7.1,46)

Posted By DeBruler Apr 08, 2026 01:45:46 PM
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Any update on this? We are running into the same thing... thanks! -------------------------------------------

RE: Optix Number Formatting like PLC datatable

Posted By DeBruler Feb 04, 2026 09:54:51 AM
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Thanks - I did not try defining the formats in the Converters folder until now, so did I do this right? It works, but I don't understand the purpose of "Dynamic link mode", since keeping it at the default "Read" still allows bi-directional communication with the PLC. Also, even with this method, ...

RE: Optix Number Formatting like PLC datatable

Posted By DeBruler Feb 04, 2026 07:22:49 AM
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Sorry, I wasn't being clear before. You are absolutely correct, it does support bi-directional for both editable labels and text boxes when you hardcode the format, but for our re-useable objects, we cannot just say the formatting needs to be n3, n1, etc. all the time. We wanted to be able to pass in ...

RE: Optix Number Formatting like PLC datatable

Posted By DeBruler Feb 03, 2026 04:01:41 PM
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But if you actually try to run it with a PLC, you will get a message in the output window saying that bi-directional with string formatter is not supported (and it's right, it doesn't work)... -------------------------------------------

RE: Optix Number Formatting like PLC datatable

Posted By DeBruler Feb 03, 2026 02:25:43 PM
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Yeah, but as I mentioned in the original post, when you apply the string formatter, the communication is no longer bi-directional... Am I cooked? -------------------------------------------

RE: Optix Number Formatting like PLC datatable

Posted By DeBruler Feb 03, 2026 01:12:10 PM
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I'm not sure what you mean. This is a tag straight from the PLC. I tried to go to the tag definition and change to decimal, but got the following error when trying to run the application: -------------------------------------------

Optix Number Formatting like PLC datatable

Posted By DeBruler Feb 02, 2026 03:10:00 PM
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In Optix, how can we get the value shown in the HMI display to match the same PLC formatting? We use the same number object for multiple types of data in the PLC (int, dint, real, lreal, etc.), and I don't want to have to specify for every single recipe setpoint number object the max number of decimal ...

RE: FTOptix Inherited PLC Descriptions

Posted By DeBruler Sep 02, 2025 07:46:49 AM
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It is still an issue for me. I was told this is something that will be fixed in still yet a later version of Optix - hopefully due out soon! -------------------------------------------

RE: Optix - Tag Importer

Posted By DeBruler Aug 25, 2025 07:35:45 AM
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@AutomateSHANE, maybe this community can hook you up with a controller since you are so helpful! I did some more digging to see where the problem might be occurring, and it looks like it has to do with aliases. I did a simple test with creating a label on a screen pointed to a string tag in my PLC ...

RE: Optix - Tag Importer

Posted By DeBruler Aug 22, 2025 02:18:32 PM
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Thanks for the replies. For the tag importer, I've seen people deselect tags, hit apply, and then later reselect them after realizing their mistake. Is there any way to fix a project where they do that? (without having to find/fix every single place where it might have gotten broken? It's almost like ...

Optix - Tag Importer

Posted By DeBruler Aug 21, 2025 01:31:00 PM
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Hi All - Does anyone else have the problem that if you deselect tags that were being used on screens from the tag importer, then go back later and reselect them, that it breaks the original connection on the objects? Also, we have the problem that when we copy/paste objects from 1 project to another ...

RE: Optix Alias vs Variable with DINT or REAL Array

Posted By DeBruler Jul 31, 2025 07:45:19 AM
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Thanks - I never noticed before that you can add changed events to tags in the comm stations. Can you create those at runtime with c# code? -------------------------------------------

RE: Optix Alias vs Variable with DINT or REAL Array

Posted By DeBruler Jul 30, 2025 09:52:58 AM
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We did some testing with the +=, and it is interesting that it does not seem to put that tag on scan. It will monitor for changes, but when the PLC value changes, nothing is reading it so the event never fires. We had to do a variable synchronizer in combination with the += subscription. Is this how ...

RE: Optix Alias vs Variable with DINT or REAL Array

Posted By DeBruler Jul 25, 2025 02:04:17 PM
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Thanks - is there a watchout for subscribing to potentially many, many tags this way? For example, is it the same as reading each tag on the polling rate of the presentation engine, or is it somehow more efficient?

RE: Optix Alias vs Variable with DINT or REAL Array

Posted By DeBruler Jul 25, 2025 12:48:55 PM
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Very helpful - thank you! Another question: when we try to do the event subscription (+=) on the top level UDT tag, it does not fire when a UDT element changes. Is there a way to simply subscribe to a UDT?

RE: Optix Alias vs Variable with DINT or REAL Array

Posted By DeBruler Jul 25, 2025 09:45:29 AM
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Thanks - that widget is very interesting. It does work, and I'm trying to understand the code behind it - especially how it reads and writes the PLC values. Does anyone have a good explanation of all the options for getting live PLC values from within netlogic? So far, I have seen: RemoteRead (examples ...

RE: Optix Alias vs Variable with DINT or REAL Array

Posted By DeBruler Jul 24, 2025 02:45:54 PM
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Ah ok - I have both arrows just like in your screenshot. Do you have it working with a PLC? (I couldn't tell if you just set up a model variable within Optix or used an actual PLC/Echo)

RE: Optix Alias vs Variable with DINT or REAL Array

Posted By DeBruler Jul 24, 2025 11:58:49 AM
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I'm not sure what arrows you are talking about? Do you have a screen shot to show me? Also, we did confirm that addressing a single array index in a text box does work. In fact, the behavior in the table gets more weird: If I update the value in the text box, the value in the PLC and datagrid does ...