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General Category => Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software => Topic started by: Garyhlucas on June 25, 2021, 03:22:01 PM
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When adding a rung in DMD you can type a C bit on the rung and automatically get a NO contact. In the instruction toolbox you can choose an NC or other contact and it will stay highlighted. However typing a C bit on the rung still gives you a NO contact. Seems like it would make sense that whatever is highlighted in the tool box would get placed until you select something else.
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What you're suggesting doesn't make sense. I suspect the intent of the the default NO contact is for a keyboard-centric approach to programming the controller with the intent that if you need a NC contact you would simply press the / after typing the bit name. Having them change from default would confuse the issue.
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The default is the most commonly used. Odds are that is right, even if the previous contact wasn't NO. And yes, I always type the element and hit /, or for relational contacts, = and then /.
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Didn?t realize you could just hit the / key! Yes I am very keyboard centric primarily because I do 3d modeling where you need to point very precisely with the mouse. So mousing over to an icon or such really slows you down. I am left handed too so I don?t take my hand off the mouse to type commands as I enter keyboard commands with my left hand.
I ascribe to the conspiracy theory that moving function keys to the top row was to handicap lefties because we had a huge advantage when they were grouped on the left with Alt, Tab, and Shift!
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If you are a keyboard person, you need to see this document listing all the hot keys
https://forum.hosteng.com/index.php?topic=1436.0
Note that slash toggles relational contacts, differential contacts.
Ctrl+/ toggles Ladder documentation on/off, great when doing online status and you want to see more logic w/status, but then need the documentation back on quickly.
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Thanks I will check that out.