01 Sept 2015

Integrated Architecture Builder

Hands-On Lab - Architecture View
(30 minutes)

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 2

Before you begin ........................................................................................................................................... 3

About this Lab ................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Tools & prerequisites ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Document Conventions..................................................................................................................................................................... 4
IAB Program Directory ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4

1: Look at the Default Architecture View and Convert to New Architecture View (about 10 minutes) ......... 5

2: Add Devices and Organize the Architecture View (about 15 minutes) ................................................... 11

3: Get a Copy of the Architecture View (about 5 minutes) .......................................................................... 27

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Before you begin

About this Lab

The IAB Architecture View automatically captures your configuration as you work and presents it in one view. This can serve as
a logical or physical view of networks, chassis, and devices you create in IAB.
This lab exercise shows you how to use the Architecture View to represent your configuration. You’ll learn how to:
 Access the Architecture View
 Move devices in the Architecture View
 Redraw (or repath) networks
 Add enclosure and area bounding boxes
 Add text labels
 Print the Architecture View

Tools & prerequisites

For this lab, you need:
 IAB v9.3 or higher
 the IAB lab project file, which is installed with IAB: (C:\Program Files\PST\RA_IAB\Labs\IAB_Labs_Project.iab)
Note: In Win 7, Program Files is Program Files (x86).
We assume that you are familiar with basic IAB operations such as running subsystem wizards, drag & drop, going to the
network and hardware views, and adding hardware. If you are unfamiliar with these things, please do the IAB Basics lab.

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Document Conventions
Throughout this manual, we use the following conventions to guide you through the lab materials:
Style or Symbol Indicates
Words in Bold Italics An item or button that you must click on or a menu name from which you
must choose an option or command. This will be the actual name of an
item that you see on your screen or in an example.

Words or phrases ‘in italics and single quotes’ An item that you must type in the specified field. This information must be
supplied based on the application (e.g., a variable).
Note: When you type the text in the field, remember that you only need
to type the word(s) within the quotes.

Supplemental information appears in gray boxes. These items are not

required to complete the lab exercises, but they may help you gain a
Text in a gray box
better understanding of how IAB works & how to efficiently use it.

Note: If the mouse button is not specified in the text, use the left button.

IAB Program Directory

Newer versions of IAB are installed in C:\Program Files\PST\RA_IAB. In some cases, you may have IAB installed in
C:\Program Files\RA_IAB instead. If this is the case, please replace all references to C:\Program Files\PST\ in this document
with C:\Program Files\. Note: In Win 7, Program Files is Program Files (x86).

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1: Look at the Default Architecture View and Convert to New Architecture View (about 10 minutes)

1. Open the IAB Lab project, C:\Program Files (x86)\PST\RA_IAB\Labs\IAB_Labs_Project.iab:

If you don’t see the Open button, then right click on the file and select Open.
The Wizard View tab opens showing the project subsystems:

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2. Select File  Save Workspace As and save the project as C:\Program Files\PST\RA_IAB\Labs\Architecture
View\Arch_View_Lab.iab:

3. Click the Hardware tab and inspect the Hardware Tree. Notice that the project includes not only the hardware generated for
the subsystems, but also manually added ArmorPoint, ArmorBlock, and ControlLogix items:

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4. Click the Network tab. Notice that the project contains a CompactLogix subsystem DeviceNet network, a ControlLogix
subsystem ControlNet network, and another DeviceNet network.

5. Click the Architecture tab and examine the Architecture View.

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Notice that:
 In IAB version 9.3 and higher (which you are running now), the traditional Architecture View has been replaced by a
more dynamic, functional view. Existing projects (like the IAB Lab Project you are looking at now) will not show network
connections, text labels, areas, and enclosures in the Architecture View. Existing projects can be updated to the new
architecture view as shown starting in step 9.

 All the hardware items listed in the hardware tree are shown in the architecture view, including the ControlLogix chassis
in the upper left corner of the architecture view that is not connected to any networks.

 There is a World View window and an Architecture toolbar:

6. Use the zoom slider on the toolbar to zoom the Architecture View as large as you can:

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7. Try using the World View to move around the Architecture View. Move the cursor over the box in the World View window,
hold down the left mouse button and drag the box to reveal a different portion of the Architecture View:

8. Click the World View button on the Architecture tool bar to hide the World View window.

9. Convert to the new Architecture View.

a. Right-click anywhere in the Architecture View and select Convert to new style Architecture View…

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b. Click Yes in the dialog that appears.

Important: Clicking the ‘Yes’ button will permanently convert the project to the new Architecture
View!

The project is converted to use the latest Architecture View functionality:

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2: Add Devices and Organize the Architecture View (about 15 minutes)

In this section of the lab exercise, you will see:

 How the Architecture View reflects the items you add to the IAB configuration
 How to move networks and devices in the Architecture View
 How to add Area and Enclosure boxes to the view

10. You can move devices around in the Architecture View so they are positioned as you wish. This can be done for both
individual items and groups of items. Use the zoom slider to reduce the size of the Architecture View until you can see all of
the devices in it. Try moving an individual item: click and drag the ArmorPoint 3 chassis to a new location:

Click-drag-release

The ArmorPoint 3 chassis

relocates to where you
drag and drop it.

11. To move multiple items at once, click and drag a dotted-line box around a group of items:

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After releasing the mouse button, the item names within the box will be highlighted in blue:

Click on any of the chassis images and drag the highlighted group to anywhere within the Architecture View:

Click-drag-release

Since you selected the entire network, IAB moves the network along with the devices you selected. If you select only part of
a network, IAB leaves the network in its original position but maintains the connections to the moved devices.

12. You can also repath, or redraw, the networks in the Architecture View.
Right-click on the network path for Aux Lab DeviceNet and click Repath Aux Lab DeviceNet in the menu:

All chassis not on this network will be grayed out and a tip window will hover near the cursor:

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Click along points you want the new network path to follow. Press Enter or double-click to finalize the path:

Click

Click
Click

Double-click or Enter

13. You can reset to the default Architecture View at any point by right-clicking in the view and selecting Reset to default
locations. By doing this, you will lose all changes you have made to the network up to this point. Try this now. Click the
menu item, answer Yes to the dialog that appears, and proceed to the next step to add a new Ethernet/IP network.
Important: The Reset to default locations menu item applies to the entire architecture view.

14. Add a new Ethernet/IP network by clicking the New Network button on the toolbar:

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15. Under the Communication Networks folder select Ethernet/IP. Accept the default network name (EtherNet/IP001), keep the
selection at Standalone Ethernet/IP network, and uncheck the Start with Switch Wizard checkbox:

16. Click OK.

IAB adds the EtherNet/IP001 network to your workspace:

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17. Click the Architecture tab again, and notice that the EtherNet/IP switch has been added to the bottom of the view. The
switch is not currently connected to any devices.

18. Right-click on the unconnected ControlLogix device in the lower left corner of the architecture view and select
Go to Clogix001:

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19. IAB opens the Chassis View. Drag a 1756-EN2T and a 1756-CN2 from the Scanner folder to the chassis:

20. Right-click the 1756-EN2T and select Connect to EtherNet/IP network > Connect ’.’ to EtherNet/IP001 > Switch001:

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An icon will appear on the bottom of the 1756-EN2T module, indicating that it is now connected to
Switch001 (if the icon does not appear, click the Connections button in the network view toolbar):

21. Right-click the 1756-CN2 and select Connect to ControlNet network > Connect ‘A’ to CLX Subsystem 1_Cnet:

An icon will appear below the 1756-CN2 indicating it is now connected to CLX Subsystem 1_Cnet:

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22. Click the Architecture tab. IAB now shows the connections to the EtherNet/IP and ControlNet networks:

23. In EtherNet/IP001, drag a ring topology from the Topology folder in the EtherNet/IP device list to the Switch001 view.

In the pop up dialog select Copper.

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24. From the Adapter folder in the device list, drag two 1734-AENT and two 1734-AENTR modules to the ring topology.

25. Check the architecture view to see what the ring looks like. IAB shows the connections to the ring, including the ETAP
modules, and shows the ring closure with a dotted line. The 1783-ETAP is used with devices (in our case the 1734-AENT)
that don’t have a second Ethernet port with DLR or Device Level Ring. Whereas the 1734-AENTR has the second Ethernet
port with DLR.

ETAP

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26. Right click on the ring, select Repath EtherNet/IP001_Ring001.

Redraw the ring to appear more like a ring and move the devices on the ring to clearly show their positions.

27. Go to the Wizard View and open the wizard for CLX Subsystem 1 by double clicking the subsystem name:

Double-click

IAB opens the wizard at the Chassis Preferences page:

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28. Click the Next button several times to move to the DIO Networks page. Add two additional network connections for
DeviceNet, as shown below and click Next. Click Finish on the Module Selection page to complete the wizard:

29. Click Yes to the dialog that appears:

30. Click OK on the following dialog:

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31. Select No to the following:

32. Go to the Hardware tab and select CLX Subsystem 1_CLogix001. In the Chassis View, right-click on the DeviceNet
modules and connect one to CpLX Subsystem 1_DNet and the other to Aux Lab DeviceNet:

33. Navigate back to the Architecture View. IAB has added the two new DeviceNet connections:

The connections
accurately show the
modules they are
connected to.

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Note: Some of the chassis may appear to be crowded together. You can adjust this by click-dragging them to a different
location on the Architecture View.

34. Move CLX Subsystem 1_CLogix001 from the upper right corner back with the other chassis in the subsystem.

35. In the Architecture toolbar, click the Add Enclosure button:

In the Architecture View, draw an enclosure box around the ControlLogix susbystem’s chassis (move the cursor to the
location of one corner of the box, then hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor to create the box, then release
the mouse button). When you let go of the mouse button, IAB adds the enclosure bounding box to the view:

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Right-click anywhere in the Enclosure 001 box and select Rename Enclosure 001. Type in the name
‘ControlLogix Subsystem 1’ and press Enter:

36. Add another enclosure along the top that includes all chassis from DIO_Subsystem_1_FLX001 to CpLX Subsystem
2_CpLX002. Rename the enclosure ‘CompactLogix Subsystems’.

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37. In the Architecture toolbar, click on the Add Area button and draw an area around the bottom two rows of devices:

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38. Add another Area box around just the ArmorPoint devices:

39. Click the Add Text Label button in the Architecture Toolbar. Click on the Architecture View above the top row of devices
and enter in the text ‘IAB Architecture View Lab’ and press Enter.

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3: Get a Copy of the Architecture View (about 5 minutes)

40. Let’s say that we have finished organizing our Architecture View. Click the Report button:

Select Yes or OK to all prompts including the Project Completeness Wizard, save the report in the default location, and
open the report in Microsoft Word. The Architecture View appears just before the Bill of Materials:

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You can copy this image from the report and use it in other applications.

You can print a copy of the Architecture View by right-clicking in the view and selecting Print Architecture
View. The view will be printed on multiple pages depending on its size.

This completes the Architecture View lab exercise.

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