Specification Restrictions

No.

Restrictions

Reason

Remark

1

GX Works3 Ver 1.050C or higher must be installed on the computer.

APIs required for data conversion are incorporated into the GX Works3 Ver 1.050C or higher.

2

GX Works3 projects must be built.

Unbuilt GX Works projects may contain invalid or inconsistent data. Workbench rejects importing such project files.

Use F4 for the shortcut key to build the project in GX Works3.

3

GX Works3 projects created for safety CPUs cannot be imported.

Safety CPU projects are protected by a password.

4

The labels and structures that include forbidden characters in the Workbench will be replaced with underscores.   

Some usable characters on GX Works3 are (forbidden) not allowed in the Workbench.

The following characters are (forbidden) not allowed in the  Workbench, but they can be used on GX Works3:

! (exclamation), #(hash), `(backquote), and +(plus).

These characters will be replaced with _(underscore).

5

The array tags with more than 50,000 elements in total of 3 dimensions are not imported.

Workbench does not allow to set more than 50,000 elements in a single array.