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Desigo workflow, tools and programming
Desigo Xworks Plus (XWP)
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Desigo room automation often uses the same structures and functions, you can indicate a multiplier on
each sublevel within the Desigo room automation level.
Automation level
At the automation level you can calculate the required hardware based on specified data points.
You can choose and calculate many variants using presettings. Variants include, e.g., the automation
station type or I/O module type, larger automation stations, or if plants are to be distributed among
multiple automation stations. You can also consider other criteria, such as available panel sizes.
Room automation
You can choose solutions with LON and/or KNX. You can choose predefined solutions with drag & drop
and then equip them with the required field devices. This way you can create a sample room and replicate
it as required.
Third-party devices
You can integrate third-party devices with protocols, such as LON, KNX, ModBus, M-bus or OPC, on all
levels.
4.11 Desigo Xworks Plus (XWP)
You can edit project data in the Xworks Plus Editors.
See
Getting Started: Desigo Xworks Plus
(CM110629).
Xworks Project Manager
The Xworks Project Manager lets you:
Create, open and archive projects
Check in/out project data for parallel engineering from the Branch Office Server (BOS)
Define PXC automation stations, control units and Desigo CC. The automation stations are not
engineered here, but only used in the documentation and considered during the network check.
Define rough network overviews (network data) and control cabinet assignments (panel data)
Define further project data, data and automation stations for RXB and Desigo room automation
Create control cabinet assignments, that is, group automation stations to control cabinets. This way you
can export data and create documentation per control cabinet.
View locally available projects. There is no connection to the Branch Office Server (BOS) in this mode.
View the properties of an object, e.g., a network, an automation station, etc.