Has anyone used an FP-3000 in ABB 800xA Fieldbus Builder?

[ryharri]

I tried to imprt the dd files in ABBs 800xA Fieldbus builder and I get the following error:

In file C:\3rd Party FF Devices\NI FP-3000\IT016000\4E4943\4005\030101.cff:

Value  [NM Restrictions] VersionOfNmSpecSupported is missing.

Has anyone ever tried it in ABBs software?

[Steven_C]

Hi ryharri,

I have not heard of anyone trying this. However, perhaps somebody on the NI Fieldbus forum may have done somthing like this. Here is the link for your reference.

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board?board.id=120

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Steven

[Ryan.S]

We don't have this value in .cff file, because we think of it unnecessary.

Now that ABB software needs it, you have to manually add it to .cff file.

open the file by notepad, search for [NM Restrictions]. Under this section, add "VersionOfNmSpecSupported = 0x0104".

[ryharri]

I added "VersionOfNmSpecSupported = 0x0104" under [NM Restrictions].

Now I get a new error:

In file C:\3rd Party FF Devices\NI FP-3000\IT016000\4E4943\4005\030101.cff:

[NM Restrictions] EmsFeaturesSupported: invalid constant "0012BF30"

Is there a fix for this one?

[Ryan.S]

Can you import the dd files without the cff file? just delete the .cff file and try.

I believe there will be more problems when importing the .cff file, even if we fix this error.

Do you know where to download a evaluation version of your ABB software? If we can get one, we will be able to work out a valid cff file for that software.

[ryharri]

ABBs Fieldbus Builder only looks for the .cff file when importing.

There is no evaluation copy of their software available.

Thanks,

Ryan

[Ryan.S]

Do you know where/which directory is this cff file imported to?

I think you can try to manually copy the cff file to that folder and run the software. I'm not sure if this works.

Can you ask ABB for some information? If we can get a list of all parameters in .cff file that the software needs, we can make a fix.  Our cff ignores some optional parameters.

[ryharri]

Ryan,

I emailed ABB to send me their list of parameters and I will get back to you.

Thanks for your help.

Ryan

[ryharri]

Ryan,

Martin Hinrichs of ABB wrote

just add the format identifier for hexadecimal notation (i.e. 0x) in front of the number, as shown in the attached files.

(See attached file: changes.txt)

That should be the only required change besides NMSpecSupported. Both are mandatory cff file entries, btw.

His attached file "changes.txt" reads:

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Value  [NM Restrictions] VersionOfNmSpecSupported is missing.
  [NM RESTRICTIONS] FmsFeaturesSupported: invalid constant "0012BF30"

0012BF30 -> 0x0012BF30
 
Value  [NM Restrictions] VersionOfNmSpecSupported is missing.

VersionOfNmSpecSupported added

---

I edited the .cff file and added the 0x to the MmsFeaturesSupported and it imported ok.

Thanks again,

Ryan