MP STUDIO 2 Phase 9 · Menus and Settings

한국어 | English

This page describes the menu items and option settings of MP STUDIO 2, the language and themes, printing, the Modbus RTU master, autosave, problem reports and help. Menu items show their keyboard shortcuts on the right.

If there are unsaved changes when you run New Project, Open Project or Open Example, or close the window, you are asked whether to save them. If the file you are about to save has been changed by another program, you are first asked whether to overwrite it.

The items of the Edit and Search menus are described in Phase 3 · Ladder Editing and Phase 6 · Program Check. All shortcuts are listed in the Quick Reference.

Select Setting → Option or click the Options button in the top band to open the Option window. Choose an item in the navigation on the left to see its settings and a preview on the right.

• ① Search settings: finds items by setting name.
• ② Navigation: Grid, FONT, COLOR and Brand name
• ③ Settings area
• ④ Preview: changed settings are reflected in the ladder preview right away.
• ⑤ Cancel, Apply and OK: Apply applies the changes without closing the window. Reset all colors and fonts at the bottom left returns all customized colors and fonts to their defaults, and the number of customized items is shown next to it.

Columns per row applies only to the project. Custom colors apply to every theme, and colors you leave unset follow the selected theme. Printing always uses paper colors (black).

In the Setting menu, choose Theme: Modern Dark, Theme: VS Code or Theme: Light.

Select Setting → 언어: 한국어 to switch the menus and windows to Korean. To return to English, select Language: English in the same menu (in Korean the menu is named 설정). Both language items are always shown in their own language, whichever language the screen is in.

Select Project → Print (Ctrl+P) to lay out the ladder for printing and open the Windows print dialog. Page Setup and Print Preview open the same print dialog. Choose the paper orientation, margins and printer in the print dialog. To save a PDF, choose Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer.

Select Setting → Modbus RTU Master to open a window for setting up the list of registers that the device, acting as a Modbus RTU master, reads from and writes to other devices.

1. In ① Communication Port, choose the channel to use as the master (Comm Port 1 to Comm Port 3), and set the Baud Rate, Data Bits, Stop Bits, Parity, Timeout (×10 ms) and Delay (ms).
2. Click ② Add to add an item. Sort sorts the items.
3. In ③ the item table, enter the Modbus Code (for example WORD READ ( FC03 ) or WORD WRITE ( FC06 )), Slave ID, Address, Binding (the device memory that exchanges the value, for example D10) and Description on each row. Click Delete at the end of a row to remove that item.
4. Click OK to save.

When you click OK, the communication settings of the selected channel change to the values above, its mode is set to Modbus RTU Master, and download on that channel is turned off.

MP STUDIO 2 automatically saves the project you are editing. If the program closed without saving, the Recover autosave window appears the next time you start it.

• Yes: opens the autosaved copy.
• No: deletes the autosaved copy.
• Cancel: asks again the next time you start the program.

1. Describe ① what happened (required).
2. If needed, select ② Attach the open project (.mpl) and ③ Attach a screenshot. Diagnostic information (logs and system info) is always included.
3. To get a reply, select ④ Leave contact details for a reply and enter your email address or phone number.
4. Click Send.

After the program closes unexpectedly, you may be asked what you were doing when you start it again.

• Quick Reference · Shortcuts
• Phase 10 · Troubleshooting

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