Small editting suggestion

[Garyhlucas]

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.

[RBPLC]

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.

[BobO]

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 /.

[Garyhlucas]

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!

[franji1]

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.

[Garyhlucas]

Thanks I will check that out.