The Conversion Settings tab, which is accessed in Control Expert via Tools → Options contains options for the conversion of PL7 Grafcet elements.
The options that can be enabled/disabled by checkboxes are listed below.
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When this checkbox is enabled, in order to improve the performances at execution time, some SFC transitions are converted to variables.
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When this checkbox is not enabled, the transitions are converted as they were in PL7.
Step State Explicit Definition
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If this checkbox is enabled, when the conversion of PL7 application to Control Expert is done, the macro steps not used on the PL7 program are declared on the Control Expert project.
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If this checkbox is not enabled the macro steps not used on the PL7 program are not converted to the Control Expert project.
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When this checkbox is enabled, the PL7 steps %Xi are converted with the PL7 step symbol. For example on PL7 %X2 with the symbol Motor_1 is converted into Motor_1.
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When this checkbox is not enabled, the PL7 steps %Xi are converted on X_i. For example on PL7 %X2 is converted into X_2.
