Specifications

Hotkeys: Quick Editing Tools
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Hotkeys: Quick Editing
VisiLogic offers keyboard shortcuts for a number of tasks, including Ladder
editing. You can also assign certain tasks to keys F3 and F4 via Program
Properties.
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Selected Ladder elements can be moved within a net via the
keyboard arrows.
Task Hotkeys
Ladder
Pressing the appropriate key
attaches the element to the
cursor; click to drop it into
the net.
Once a Ladder element is
placed in the net, the user
can typed the operand name
and number, for example
SB41, and then press Enter.
Note • Selecting an element
and pressing < Fn> attaches
the new element to the one
selected.
Insert Direct ( N.O.) Contact
<F5>
Insert Indirect N.C.) Contact
<F6>
Insert Positive Transition Contact
<F7>
Insert Negative Transition Contact
<F8>
Insert Direct Coil
<Shift> + <F5>
Insert Indirect Coil
<Shift> + <F6>
Insert Set Coil
<Shift> + <F7>
Insert Reset Coil
<Shift> + <F8>
Within Operand Address Box Get Next Address
<Ctrl> + <N>
Symbolic Search
<Ctrl> + < L>
Toggle to Hex (when entering
Constant value)
<Ctrl> + <H>
Go to Label
This enables to you skip from
label to label. Note that
labels can be used both as
bookmarks as well as to
cause program jumps.
Next Label
<Alt> + <Right Arrow>
Previous Label
<Alt> + <Left Arrow>
Open Label Navigation
<Alt> + < L>
Help Open Help
<F1>
Project New Project
<Ctrl> + <N>
Open Project
<Ctrl> + <O>
Print Project
<Ctrl> + <P>
Exit Project
<Alt> + < Q>
Edit Select All
<Ctrl> + <A>
Find
<Ctrl> + <F>
View Toggles Show/Hide Project Explorer
<Ctrl> + <R>
Show/Hide Ladder
<Ctrl> + <Alt> + < L>
Show/Hide HMI Display Editor
<Ctrl> + <Alt> + <H>
Show/Hide Output Window
<Ctrl> + <W>
Show/Hide Comments
<Alt> + <C>