Greg Smith Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Hello, I would like to print the PLC ladder logic, HMI screens and IO configuration / STRUCTs,... etc. How do I print from UniLogic? My preference would be to create PDF electronic back-up and hard copy print outs of ladder logic for user manuals. What did I miss? Thanks, Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 We do not currently have an option to print the HMI or the ladder logic within UniLogic. I will pass this idea along to our R&D department so that they are aware of the interest. Currently one solution to print the different project elements is to take screen shots of the project and print them individually. There are also options to export the global, local, and I/O tags as Excel files within the PLC ribbon which can then be printed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YINGD Posted September 24, 2014 Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 Has there been any timeframe estimate on when we should expect the ability to print to be added? This option in visilogic has always been helpful to me for debugging purposes. It is very handy to be able to print a whole subroutine and evaluate its logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo0n Posted October 4, 2014 Report Share Posted October 4, 2014 Indeed, I would like to print the ladder also. It is an easier way to find any bugs, and printscreening every page is just too much work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantcliff Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 This is one of those features that is a must have. Digital files can disappear and things go wrong. Hard to beat hardcopy sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpond Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Was there any resolution on this? I am trying to get HMI screens to my boss for firmware approval and the "print screen" option is not a solution. Also, printing the ladder is a key debug step for most programmers. Not including this option seems like a serious oversight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 Currently there is not an estimate for when this feature may be available. Please know that this is on our list of features to add. Our apologies for any inconvenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnhamcontrol Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 Found the print to PDF function in version 1.16 rev44, great at last I can now produce documentation. However the pdf of the ladder is one long page which is not great for printing. Some of the function block names are truncated so cant be identified. Would also like to be able to include the Tags in the pdf to save exporting separately. An improvement but still some way to go to be able to produce decent documentation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saragani Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Hi, the reason why we create a big page from each function is so it then can be printed in any kind of page (Not just A4, but A3, A0 and on industrial printers). When you open the PDF and choose to print it, then you have an option to print it as "Poster" (at least, that's the name of the option in Acrobat reader. Other programs may name it differently). So now, when you choose the printer and the page size, acrobat splits it to several pages (some of them are also on the horizontal axis, since the function logic might be too wide to fit a single page). Printing HMI and Tags is on our To Do list (but not for the next version). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Posted February 6, 2017 Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 (edited) Hi, I had the same issue however, the poster option did correct this partially. When acrobat splits the page however it's cutting some of the ladder functions in half when it reaches a page break. Is there a way to correct this? or at least select where the page breaks fall? Edited May 11, 2017 by Cam picture removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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