Rockwell Automation 141A Mounting Ssystem MCS Star Tutorial - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
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Designing a Mounting System Solution Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1. Identify System Loads and Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Enter System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Enter Rack Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Enter Supply Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Confi guring Two Component Starters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Enter Starter Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. Copying Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Editing Component Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9. Confi guring a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
10. Moving Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
11. Adding Additional Racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
12. Changing Supply Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
13. Adding a Circuit Breaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
14. Confi guring a Soft-starter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
15. Confi guring Th ree Component Starters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Additional MCS Star Functionality Adding Busbar Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Creating Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Locking the Rack Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Exporting Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Exporting Assembly to TRCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Printing and Exporting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
User Defi ned Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Th e following tutorial requires that you have the MCS Star Confi guration Software installed on
your computer. If you do not have it installed, you can install it from the “Line-to-Load” DVD.
Go to:
Learning Modules > MCS Star Confi guration Software > and click on Download MCS Star >
Follow the prompts to complete the install.
Open MCS Star by double clicking on the short cut from your desktop or by going to the following:
Start Menu > Programs > Rockwell Automation > MCS Star
When you run MCS Star and are connected to the Internet, select “Yes” in the fi rst popup
window. Th
is will check for updates to the software and prompt you to run Current Program
Updater if any updates are available.
In the next popup window, select “Confi gure a Busbar Assembly”;
then select [ OK ] button .