Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R3-1) - Manual (Page 147)

L-force | PLC Designer
Quickstart
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DMS 4.1 EN 03/2011 TD29 145
(8) Configure a communication channel to the PLC
Perform a double-click on entry “Device (L-force Controller 3200)” in the devices
window. The dialog “PLCWinNT” will open with subdialog “Communication Settings”.
Here you have to set up the connection between the PLC (target, device) and the
programming system according to the following steps. The resulting connection will
finally be entered in the line below Select network path to the controller:
If this is your first communication setup with PLC Designer V3.x, you now have to
define the local Gateway Server. (If you have defined the server already in previous
sessions, it will be displayed in the communication settings dialog as shown in the
figure below in chapter "Now define....". In this case you can skip this step and continue
with defining the communication channel to the target, see also next chapter "Now
define...".)
The server is provided with the PLC Designer setup. Press button Add gateway to open
the Gateway dialog:
Enter a symbolic Name for the Gateway, define the Driver type "TCP/IP" and enter IP-
address "localhost" (Perform a double-click on the column field to open an edit frame).
Leave the setting for the Port . Confirm with OK.