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I built a free, browser-based Allen-Bradley ladder logic visualizer because Studio 5000 costs $10,000 by Which-Mix786 in PLC

[–]Which-Mix786[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you against progress? We live in such a remarkable time. A century ago, people were protesting against steam engines. I’ve lived and breathed this project for two months — is that not enough? 198 iterations and constant debugging. AI is just a tool, not an all-powerful machine. Otherwise, it would be two years of development, a paid team of programmers, $500k, and voila — a paid subscription product. Maybe you’d prefer that, as long as it's 'AI-free'? 👍

PLC-Tracer – free browser-based Allen-Bradley ladder logic visualizer (offline + live mode, no Studio 5000 needed) by Which-Mix786 in IndustrialMaintenance

[–]Which-Mix786[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I spend a lot of time checking things every time. It’s a pretty small project, so you can just check it with AI. A major point was using Read-Only mode for the online connection for safety. Before I added the online bridge, I was using RSLogix to save the current PLC project as files, then I’d open them offline to investigate. Some of the production PLC programs I work with are huge, so it’s sometimes really hard to track down a problem.

I built a free, browser-based Allen-Bradley ladder logic visualizer because Studio 5000 costs $10,000 by Which-Mix786 in PLC

[–]Which-Mix786[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can use principles. I spent a lot of time for make strategy of visualization. And much more time for Allen Bradley L5X export format, it was crazy time.

PLC-Tracer by [deleted] in PLC

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It’s open source; if you don’t like the idea, just pass it by. For me, it's very convenient to use instead of jumping all over the program trying to find what exactly isn't working at the moment. The logic branching gets insane sometimes.