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Insert the PLCs from the imported data

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Insert the PLCs from the imported data

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- [Instructor] In the previous video, we set up all of our parameters that we wanted our parametric PLC to follow from our spreadsheet because we're using the Spreadsheet to PLC Input/Output Utility. They were all set up in this demoplc.wdi file, which we've already saved. As soon as you click on Save in that previous dialog box, it's actually back to this dialog box, the first dialog box that comes up when you start up the utility. So, we've already got the WDI file in place and it's there already. You can browse to any WDI settings file that you may have. Now, what we've got to start thinking about now is the Ladder Reference Numbering. So, I'm going to want that to start at 600, in this case, with an index or an increment of one. And then Drawing to drawing here, when it's going to a count like that, that's a hundred. So, my first PLC drawing will start at 600, my second PLC drawing will start at 700 'cause it adds a hundred on each time. We're always going to start at the top of…

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