‘Insert’ ‘Contact’ in LD

Symbol: Shortcut: <Ctrl>+<K>

Use this command in the LD editor in order to insert a Contact in front of the marked location in the network.

If the Cursor Positions in the LD Editors is a Coil or the connecting line between the contacts and the coils, then the new contact will be connected serially to the previous contact connection.

The contact is preset with the text “???”. You can click on this text and change it to the desired variable or the desired constant. For this you can also use the ‘Edit’ ‘Input Assistant’. Note the possibility of entering an address instead of the variable name, if this is configured appropriately in the Function Block and Ladder Diagram Options.

Also in the options dialog you can activate the options Comments per Contact and Lines for variable comment and reserve a certain number of lines for the variable name. This might be useful, if long variable names are used, to keep the network short.

Also note the option ‘Networks with linebreaks’, which you also can activate in the Ladder Diagram Options.