Motion in SCL or keep it in ladder so maintenance can still read it?

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S7-1500, two axes, cam table. SCL is cleaner. The night tech reads ladder. If I hide the motion in an FB with a ladder wrapper, is that a peace treaty or a mess?

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Peace treaty. Motion math in SCL inside an FB. Interlocks, permissives, and the 'why is it stopped' bits in ladder on the face of that FB. Comment the in/out. The next shift should not have to parse a cam polynomial in the middle of a stop. They should see the permissive that is false.

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