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1. T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T E Gi LTO J Bo B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 1l 23 R2 lal s lel aalala 0 DONE AO A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 Keypad Names The keypads are divided into Reserved keys and Programmable keys The first series of keypads are the ones on the LEFT and RIGHT sides of the display The keypads are designated L1 for LEFT 1 R2 for RIGHT 2 and so on The next series of keypads are two rows of keypads below the display The top row of keypads are designated TO for TOP 0 T1 for TOP 1 BO for BOTTOM 0 and so on The final group of programmable keypads are located below the numeric keypads and are designated AO through A7 The numeric keypads including the blank keys above the numeric keypads cannot be assigned and are designated as Reserved Panel Editor GFK 1855 Keypads e 263 Assigning Keypads You can assign a keypad to a button by clicking the Advanced button in the settings dialog Shown below is the Advanced button in the Push Button Settings dialog Push Button Settings Tag Acton OF Momentary Cancel ON Style OFF Hake Default Standard i Toggle Bezel Legend Clicking the Advanced button displays the Advanced Settings dialog box In the following example the Push But
2. Click the illuminated push button icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the illuminated push button to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the illuminated push button immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the illuminated push button Release the mouse button and the illuminated push button is sized The following Illuminated Push Button Settings dialog box will appear The Bezel and States buttons bring up additional dialog boxes Note also there is a tag setting for the Push Button and one for the Light lens Illuminated Push Button Settings Button Tag Acton OK Momentary Cancel i C ON Light Tag Make Default lt i C OFF C Toggle Advanced Bezel States Help ati 164 e Illuminated Push Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Push Button Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the push button This tag will be a single discrete bit in the PLC memory that the target display can control A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field Action
3. OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the Text Display Settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Text Display Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Text Displays appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Text Display Settings dialog box The current settings in the Text Display Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Text Display the saved settings will automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Text Display Settings Panel Editor GFK 1855 Text Display 227 Time Date Creating a Time Date display A Time Date display consists of a bezel and numeric readout LENS NUMERIC READOUT CLOCK DISPLAY 12 59 AM 12 59 AM Move the cross hair and time image to the top of the cell where you want the time to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the time display immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the time display Release the mouse button and the time display is sized Click the Time icon on the Tools menu The following Time Display Settings dialog box will appear You can select a Time display or a Date display Selecting Time will display the Time Options and selecting Date will display the Date Options The text size can
4. TEMP TEMP 0 0 212 0 0 0 212 0 UNFILLED FILLED Shape Select either the 180 or the 360 meter If you selecthe 360 meter the Orientation list box appears Panel Editor GFK 1855 Analog Meter e 247 Orientation Selecting the 360 meter causes the Orientation dialog to appear Heter Settings Tag E Filled Cancel Bar Color Flashing Make Default Shape Onentation Face plate Scale Simulate Help The 360 degree meter can be selected to have the starting point min setting at the top of the meter or the bottom The bar on the meter face moves clockwise from the min value to the max value Use Simulate to see the action Face Plate This dialog is used to select a background color and outline color for the meter face plate The outline color is the outline around the meter face and the outline around the face plate Face Plate Settings Background Color Flashing i Outline Color Flashing Scale The Scale Settings menu is used to customize the meter Enter the Text and select the Text Size to appear on the meter legend You can have only ONE row of scale text Enter the Scale Range Min minimum and Max maximum values Number Size refers to the numbers on the scale Select the number of Digits and Decimal Positions A decimal position is the number of digits to the right of the decimal point The decimal point counts as a digit Tick marks are placed around the meter face
5. wii Standard Pilot Light The elements of the standard pilot light are shown below The standard pilot light is a square lens with text inside The lens has two states either State O or State 1 Typically State 0 is OFF and State 1 is ON You can select the lens color outline color text color and text size for each state The text can be changed to describe the operation of the pilot light STANDARD a LENS COLOR ee Le _RILOT LIGHT TEXT Circular Pilot Light The elements of the circular pilot light are shown below The circular pilot light is a combination of a round lens and a legend plate The lens and legend plate text have two states either State 0 or State 1 Typically State 0 is OFF and State 1 is ON For each state you can select the lens color the lens outline color legend plate text color and legend plate text size Although the lens and legend plate text can change color the legend plate background and legend plate outline colors remain constant LEGEND PLATE TEXT CIRCULAR LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE e PILOT LIGHT LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND LENS LENS OUTLINE Panel Editor GFK 1855 Pilot Light 177 States The States button will display the State Settings menu A pilot light has two states either State O or State 1 Typically State 0 is OFF and State 1 is ON You can change the text and appearance of each state Use the Next and Previous buttons to select between St
6. Ea COM2 z psR 4D Connection established Event Log Determining display device state Connection established Below the bar graph will be a display device status information box which gives you some general information about the display When the application download is complete QUICK COURIER will close and the QUICK MANAGER program will return Since no default panel was selected the panel with ID number 1 will be displayed If no default panel is selected and there is no panel with ID number 1 then the screen will be blank except for the name of the protocol shown on the bottom If you had a real Modicon Modbus PLC attached to the QUICKPANEL jr display the push button would operate Pressing the push button would set ODO0100 to a 1 In this tutorial the ladder logic in the PLC is written so that setting ODO100 to a 1 will cause OD200 to also be set to 1 The Pilot Light tag variable for the push button is tied to OD200 so it will go on The push button was selected to be a toggle type button Pressing the push button again will cause ODO100 to be set to 0 and OD200 to be set to 0 The pilot light section of the push button will go out You had to read about ten pages of this tutorial in order to create your first push button It might have taken you about ten minutes to complete the exercise Now that you are familiar with the operations it should take you a minute or two to create another button or pilot light Just
7. Damage Enea Add Delete For Help press F O QUICKPANEL jr 6 OP Ji If you select Tag Attributes or double click one of the tag names the Tag Attributes dialog will appear Do not change any settings Click OK to close the Tag Attributes dialog and return to the Tags dialog Click the Close button to exit Tags Tag Attributes Hames Tag Do2 Var op200 Type Ranges Cancel Integer Float String Scale low o Size Period o Scale high 1 Samples Data File Input low fo Humber of elements Input high ji Download Panel Before you attempt to download a panel you must connect the HMI CAB C49 cable between an unused comm port on your computer and the target display Click the Download button or click the Download icon to download the new panel design to the target display The first operation that appears on the screen is the compiler GPC which compiles the selected project into code the target device can accept Your compiler display may look slightly different 28 e Quick Tour Panel Editor GFK 1855 When the compile operation is complete the QUICKCOURIER menu is displayed Follow the prompts which are displayed by QUICKCOURIER QUICKCOURIER will determine the condition of the display and begin loading the required files A bar graph will display the loading progress Quick Courier Piel Es Project Project Bancel Filename GPC A Exit h Communications port CTS RI Help
8. TAN ColR7C8 KHAKI CoIR8C8 198 e Triggered Message Display WOOD CoIR8C7 Panel Editor GFK 1855 64 Color Grid The Color Grid shows the Color Index number and the Color Name The help files contain sample colors however you must have a display capable of showing 64 colors The colors in the grid can be referenced in two ways when preparing an import file for a Local Message Display lmd or a Triggered Message Display tmd Use the names shown in the 64 Color Grid Use the Row and Column numbers shown in the Color Index Numbers table ie BLACK ColR1C1 KHAKI ColR8C8 Color Color Color Index Index Index BLACK C23 AET PRPL2 Broe 24 _ WHEAT ereen 25 Pro cyan 26 Drum PRED gt erm MAGENTA 28 MNTGRN YELLOW 29 DKPINK WHITE 30 MDMAG DKRED 1 LOLGRN PBLU2 32__ PALGRN 33 Ba 35 36 Ea Ee D pais __ 42 AYO Ola K L03 KYBLU STGRN DGRN RCHID ALMAG 60 GRNS ANGER RANGE CHBLU L04 Reo as oxconp Trusch 44 _Pouvern 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 gt 2 3 UO O 3 4 3 6 7 8 9 O 1 2 33 4 S 6 37 8 9 40 41 42 43 44 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Triggered Message Display e 199 RGB Color Map Here is the list of colors that are available on the 64 color display referenced to their RGB values The center column shows how colors from a 64
9. BK Done This is a picture of the symbols keypad SYM i SP amp A Z a Z I NUM a Enter BK Done Panel Editor GFK 1855 ASCII Data Entry e 253 Jog Button Creating a Hardwired Jog Button The Hardwired Jog Button is a panel button connected directly to the Auxiliary Port You can have a jog button toggle a single bit or multiple bits The output of the Auxiliary Port can then be used for jog functions since it will toggle in response to pressing the panel button Click the Hardwired Jog button icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the Hardwired Jog button to appear and click the mouse Hardwired Jog Button Output Value OK 0 i Cancel C Byto lid Bit m a 2 e e J a 7 6 5 eee Button Style Standard Output Value To toggle a single bit check the BIT option in the Hardwired Jog Button dialog Select a bit to toggle then click OK When you download the panel the button will appear in the normal off condition Pressing the button will turn the bit ON The associated pin on the Auxiliary Port will be enabled Bit numbers and associated Auxiliary Port pin assignments are shown in the following table To toggle multiple bits check the BYTE option and enter the 8 bit binary byte in the data entry box Now when the Hardwired Jog Button is pr
10. Tag PLC Value word Cancel Bit Hake Default States Import Export Help Ai 180 e Local Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tag Variable The Tag is a PLC word variable You can select whether the word is read as anumeric value Word or as discrete Bits Bit If you read the variable as a word value then there will be 255 possible states O 254 When the variable is read as discrete bits then there are 17 possible states 16 bit positions and 0 When multiple bits are ON the highest order bit in the ON condition determines the selected state Enter the tag variable name and click the Word or Bit button A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field States The States button will display the State Settings dialog box A Local Message Display has two or more states the maximum number depending on whether you selected the PLC variable as a word or a group of bits You can change the text size and appearance of each state You can justify text by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons Use the NEXT and PREV buttons to select a different state The last state selected will be the one displayed when you click th
11. The manner in which this tag will be controlled is defined by selecting an Action The most common action is Momentary where the bit is turned ON when the push button is pressed and turned OFF when the push button is released The ON selection will turn the bit ON when the push button is pressed and no action is taken when the push button is released The OFF selection will turn the bit OFF when the push button is pressed and no action is taken when the push button is released Toggle is used to change the bit to the opposite state when the push button is pressed and no action is taken when the push button is released Pilot Light Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the pilot light This tag will be a single discrete bit in the PLC memory that the QUICKPANEL can read The condition of this bit will determine whether the ON or OFF state is displayed A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctr1 T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field Bezel The Bezel portion of the push button is used to give a visual indication to the operator that the button was pressed The bezel outline and touch color can be modified to enhance the visual impact of the push button When the push bu
12. specify the tag name as System_Second You may get an error message indicating that the tag name is not valid for a particular PLC type but that is normal since you can create internal tags using any name However to use the SYSTEM tags the name must be entered exactly If you entered the tag name as Second the target display will create an internal variable called Second but it will not be connected to the internal clock System Variables This section contains the list of current supported system variables System_Second Internal clock seconds System_Minute Internal clock minutes System_Hour Internal clock hours System_Day Internal clock day System_Month Internal clock month System_Year Internal clock year System_Contrast LCD panel contrast setting Setting the target display time and date To set the time on a display use the Numeric Data Entry tool to set the internal variables Hour Minutes and Seconds To set the date use the Numeric Data Entry tool to set the internal variables Month Day and Year Do not use any other tool to modify the internal variables The following panel shows how to design a panel for setting the display time and date The panel consists of Numeric Data Entry tools for reading and modifying system variables and Numeric Data Display tools for displaying the system time and date For System Hour set the Numeric Data Entry tag name to System_Hour You must type the tag name exactly as
13. Acknowledge Time Stamp Column 3 Printer Port Clear Time Stamp Column None 2 Advanced Printer Port The Printer Port combo box allows selection of a serial or parallel port for printing alarms or you can select None to disable printing alarms The parallel port selection will only appear when a display model that has a parallel port is selected in the Project Setup dialog box Serial Cable The Tool CN3 port is an 8 pin mini DIN style connector The Tool CN3 port also known as the download port has two functions The primary use is to download application files from a computer to the target display The secondary use is to print alarm messages to a serial printer The Tool CN3 port uses TTL signal levels and requires conversion to RS232 The HMI CAB C105 cable will convert the TTL signals to RS232 This cable is equipped with a 9 pin D connector that is AT compatible The download port connector is an 8 pin mini DIN style The port settings are fixed at 9600 Baud 8 bits no parity The pin assignments are shown in the following drawing TXD 1 TTL lt 3 TXD a Ia TO _ 2 RXD PROPRIETARY INFORMATION GND 2 RS232 5 GND THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS A CONVENIENCE lt 4 CONVERTER J6 DSR TO OUR CUSTOMERS YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CTS 6 Saas gt crgo CONSTRUCT THIS CABLE UNAUTHORIZED CABLES ARE DSR 7 i
14. Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 103 Once you have grouped objects you can use move delete library file copy etc When objects are grouped using the Group Objects selection they remain grouped until they are ungrouped by the Ungroup Objects selection Object Tag Display You can view the Object Tag by enabling the option in the View menu The sample drawing shows the tag name displayed in the upper left corner LIGHT OFF Keypad Tag Display The keypad tag display is similar to the object tag display The keypad tag operates independently of the object tag display The keypad tag is displayed in the bottom left corner of the operator and provides a quick visual check to see which panel operators have keypads assigned The keypad tag will appear with a panel print You can view the Keypad Tag by enabling the option in the View menu FUSH BUTTON Changing the Window View You can change the view in the window from a zoomed out view of 50 to a zoomed in view of 800 Select Zoom options from the View menu Zoom buttons are provided for fast view changes Panel Preview You can see what the panel will look like on the target display by selecting Preview from the View menu A 1 1 full screen view is displayed Tiling and Drawing Grids The QUICKPANEL jr display is approximately 4 inches wide by 3 inches high A pixel is a dot of light on the display panel The QUICKPANEL jr display is made up of 320 ho
15. Parameter Possible Value 1 Possible Value 2 Possible Value 3 Possible Value 4 Tag Type Integer Float Text n ee cc Tag Modifier Array n Buffer n ec 66 66 ce Disk Logging State 0 1 Internal Var Flag 0 l Example RI100 RI100 0 Integer 0 00 32768 00 32767 00 32768 00 32767 00 0 0 EOR 0 Line Format 4 Tag Name Var Name TagType Scale Low Scale High Input Low Input High Internal Var Flag Parameter Possible Value 1 Possible Value 2 Possible Value 3 Possible Value 4 Tag Type Integer Float Text n 66 66 Internal Var Flag 0 1 Example RI100 RI100 Integer 32768 00 32767 00 32768 00 32767 00 0 Example file Comment lines begin with character This is an example file RI200 RI201 RI202 100 200 300 400 RI203 These tags used for temperature RI1001 RI1001 0 Integer 0 00 32768 00 32767 00 32768 00 32767 00 0 0 EOR 0 RI1002 RI1002 0 Integer 0 00 32768 00 32767 00 32768 00 32767 00 0 0 EOR 0 RI1003 RI1003 0 Integer 0 00 32768 00 32767 00 32768 00 32767 00 0 0 EOR 0 These tags used for pressure RI2001 RI1001 0 Integer 0 00 32768 00 32767 00 32768 00 32767 00 0 0 EOR 0 RI2002 RI1002 0 Integer 0 00 32768 00 32767 00 32768 00 32767 00 0 0 EOR 0 RI2003 RI1003 0 Integer 0 00 32768 00 32767 00 32768 00 32767 00 0 0 EOR
16. TT Flashing 17 Uncheck Draw Scale Legend to remove scale legend from the Trend display Enter the Text and select the Text Size to appear on the trend Text is vertical for left to right and right to left trends and horizontal for top to bottom and bottom to top graphs Blank spaces are ignored Enter the Scale Range enter Min minimum and Max maximum values The Min and Max values are for the display only and this setting does not automatically scale the input variable Use the Pens button to setup the input and scale ranges Number Size refers to the numbers on the scale Select the number of Digits and Decimal Positions A decimal position is the number of digits to the right of the decimal point The decimal point counts as a digit Tick marks are placed next to the trend to delineate the graph into equal segments Select the number of tick marks for the display Select the Scale Color and click OK to complete the trend Pens Pens are the plots of the data set samples The plots produce a trace in the display Each pen is tied to a single variable so the pen shows the data set for the variable NOTE Any variable assigned to a Trend MUST be a 16 bit integer type variable Each pen has a default name that can be changed in the Name data entry box Enter the tag name and the values for the Input Range and the Scale Range will appear You can have up to eight pens for each trend display up to a maximum of 20 pens for an enti
17. The following Numeric Data Display dialog box will appear Numeric Data Display Settings Tag OK Cancel Hake Default Data Format Help M Legend Visible Legend Panel Editor GFK 1855 Numeric Data Display e 215 Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the numeric Data Display This tag will be a word in the PLC memory that the target display can read A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field Legend Plate The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator about the meaning of the current value being displayed You can remove the Legend Text Legend Background and Legend Outline by unchecking the Legend Visible check box The Legend button will then become disabled grayed out Only the Data Text and the associated background color will be visible The text size can be changed and the text can be justified by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons The text color background color and outline color can be modified in appearance to enhance the application See Appendix D for Color Information Legend Plate Settings LGND TEXT LEGEND TEXT hx oe we B
18. You can also make the data display invisible by unchecking the Data Display Visible checkbox If you uncheck both the Bezel and Legend Visible checkbox and the Data Display Visible checkbox you will see a cross hatch pattern in the editor and nothing when the operator is downloaded to a display However there will still be an active touch screen area that will activate the data entry keypad This feature is used to place a data entry keypad behind a custom bitmap BEZEL LEGEND PLATE DATA DISPLAY NUMERIC DATA ENTRY MOTOR SPEED 123 45 Bezel The Bezel portion of the Numeric Data Entry is used to give a visual indication to the operator that the button was pressed The bezel outline and touch color can be modified to enhance the visual impact of the Numeric Data Entry button When the push button is not pressed the bezel color is displayed but when the push button is pressed the touch color will be displayed The outline color remains constant whether the push button is pressed or not pressed Press the Simulate button to observe the action of the bezel color change See Appendix D for Color Information BEZEL amp TOUCH Bezel Settings BEZEL OUTLINE Bezel Color C i Flashing l Cancel Outline Color a Flashing Simulate Touch Color el Flashing Help 220 e Numeric Data Entry Panel Editor GFK 1855 Legend Plate The legend plat
19. and the legend text can be justified by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons The legend text color background color and outline color can be modified in appearance to enhance the application See Appendix D for Color Information Legend Plate Settings Text Text Sze Justify TEST do we a CEC Cancel C4isia i te 16x 32 Text Color Flashing Background Color di Flashing T Outhne Color Flashing Help LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE yi TEXT DISPLAY LEGEND PLATE TEXT TEXT TEXT BACKGROUND e 1234 226 e Text Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Text Format Settings The text format dialog box has option buttons for selecting the text size and text justification The text color and background can be modified to enhance the appearance The default text size is set to 7x9 and justification is set to Center See Appendix D for Color Information The Length field is used to select how many characters will be displayed in the text field For example entering the Length as 3 will display 3 characters Text Format Settings Text Size Justification Length Cox Left B3 W Orai f Center Cancel 1lx1i amp 6 Right 16 x 32 Text Color a Flashing Background Color Flashing Hel Help LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE TEXT DISPLAY LEGEND PLATE TEXT TEXT _ TEXT BACKGROUND e 1234
20. Cleared Background Color Flashing Help OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Alarm Window Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Alarm Windows to appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Alarm Window Settings dialog box The current settings in the Alarm Window Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Alarm Window the saved settings will automatically be applied Advanced Button NOTE The Advanced Button is enabled when you select Keyboard Attached in the Touch Screen Configuration dialog in Setup Clicking the Advanced button will display the Advanced Settings dialog box The Alarm Button operation can be assigned to an external keypad See Keypads page 262 and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information Once a keypad is assigned you can disable the touch screen by checking the Touch disable box If you leave the touch disable box unchecked then the touch screen and the keypad can both operate the button Hel Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Alarm Window Settings 244 e Alarm Window Panel Editor GFK 1855 Using the Alarm Window When you place an alarm window on a panel it becomes a panel object just like buttons and pilot lights When an alarm condition occurs the alarm panel is NOT a
21. It will display the width and height of the bit map See the example below Save As File Name Directories Set Cancel c E gt windows C ccomail C mapp C system Picture Information Save File as Type ives idth 792 16 Color bitmap BMP cf Height 600 Colors 16 Planes 4 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bitmap e 153 Circle Tool Creating a Circle The circle tool is used to draw filled or unfilled circles Click the circle icon on the tool bar To create a circle move the cross hair cursor to the desired cells and click the left mouse button If you want to size the circle immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the circle Release the mouse button and the circle is sized The Circle Settings dialog box appears The Circle Settings dialog box can also be displayed by double clicking a circle The dialog box allows changing the line style and color selecting filled or unfilled circles and selecting the circle fill color The line style can be solid dashed dotted dash dot dash dot dot and none Circle Settings Line Style Filled w OF Cancel Hake Default Moving a Circle To move a circle move the cursor over the object click and hold the left mouse button and move the object to the desired location Sizing a Circle To select an object for sizing click on the object and sizing handles should appear on
22. Leave the Date format selection as mm dd yy Leave the Time format set to 24 00 See the Internal Tags on page 56 for information about setting the time and date configuring ine Alarm Queues Click the Queue button to display the Alarm Queue Configuration dialog box Aum Guru Conliguiahen D Acne Puut Sim 18 Seta T Hysteric Queue Sim 19 Setup e 55 The system queues hold the Active Historic and Logged alarm messages and make them available to the alarm window The default size of each queue is ten messages If you do not need one or more of the alarm types you can uncheck the boxes next to the queue name When the number of messages exceeds the size of the buffer the oldest message is deleted Each queue has a setup button for changing the text size and color If you are curious about what the Setup dialog looks like click the Active Queue Setup button You can change the colors if you want but for this tour I left them set to the default settings Click the Cancel button in the Alarm Queue Configuration dialog box to return to the Alarm Configuration dialog box Selecting Advanced Settings Click the Advanced button to display the Advanced Alarm Settings dialog box Adye ed Aleem Seta 86 e Alarms Guided Tour Panel Editor GFK 1855 The Notification Tags do not have to be set up now so click Cancel and return to the Alarm Configuration dialog box Click OK to return to the Alarms screen Click the Close button
23. MAGENTA CYAN WHITE With the addition of the Series 3 QuickPanel Quick Designer will now support 64 colors That means when you are using a Series 3 QuickPanel and you click on one of the color options a 64 color palette will appear Panel Editor GFK 1855 Local Message Display e 189 EEn M EE EE Ee ae Se EE See also the Color Index Numbers and the 64 Color Grid on page 184 Selected Fields Each field in the Default Fields section that is checked will appear fin tHe Selected Fields section You can change the sequence of the fields by clicking a field name then use the up and down arrows to change its position in the list Sample Contents The Sample Contents section contains a sample of what the first group of selected fields might look like Default Frelds Selected Field Sample Contents I State V Text Size I Text Justify Text Justify I Text Color Text Color Text Flash IM Text Flash Lene Eala I Lens Color I Lens Flash M Outline Color I Outline Flash M Text Sample Output in File A sample output line for the exported file is shown in this section You can use this line to check the layout settings for proper format The path and file name are listed next to the section title Sample Output In File C QUICKS TEST1_LMD 0 547 CC WHITE OFF BLACK OFF WHITE OFF STATE 0 190 e Local Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Define Values You can further define the
24. Position Size Tag Stxt Slen Sotl SFont State Text 240 160 320 240 N7 100 wht blk wht 7x9 REMOTE CONTROL 0 80 80 80 B3 20 7 blk wht wht 7x9 LOCAL CONTROL Tag Information All of the tags used for the project are sorted and printed by Tag Name A sample is shown below Project name TAG INFORMATION Tag Information Sorted by Tag Name Name I O Elements Type Size _ Scale Range Low __ Scale Range High N7 100 N7 100 1 Integer 1 32768 000000 32767 000000 B3 20 1 B3 20 1 1 Integer 1 0 000000 1 000000 System_Second System_Second l Integer l 0 000000 59 000000 Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 45 Alarm Information All of the information for the alarm configuration queue setup and alarm file are included in the list A sample alarm information page is shown below Project name ALARM INFORMATION ALARM CONFIGURATION Message Column 16 Trigger Date Stamp Column 1 Trigger Time Stamp Column 10 Acknowledge Time Stamp Column 37 Clear Time Stamp Column 44 Date Format MM DD YY Time Format 24 Hour Assume Initial State Same Printer None Active Queue On Size 10 Font 7x9 Trigger Text Text Color blk Background Color wht Acknowledge Text Text Color wht Background Color blk Cleared Text Text Color wht Background Color blk Historic Queue On Size 10 Font 7x9 Trigger Text Text Color blk Background Color wht Acknowledge Text Text Color wht Background Color blk Cleared Text Text
25. Simple 3 Legend Static Touch Object T tag Active Invisible PushButton None 3 Touch Object T tag Active Invisible Rectangle Tool Rectangle Object Static Selector Switch Tool Bezel Active Bleeds Legend Static Image Library Load L tag for states text and Active Bleeds background Touch Object T tag Active Invisible Text Tool Text Object Static Time Date Display Legend Static Delimiters or Static Time Date Readouts E tag Active Bleeds Triggered Message Display Image Library Load L tag for entire object Active Bleeds Bit Monitor Script w tag Active Invisible Trend Graph Tool Scale Static Title Static Trend Library Load L tag for trend display area Active Bleeds Trend Data File Invisible Text Display Legend Static Text DataReadout Object S tag Active Bleeds Video Tool Button Bezel Active Bleeds Button Legend Static Button Touch Object T tag Active Invisible Video Object V tag Active Bleeds Image Library Load L tag for entire object Active Bleeds WordButton Standard Legend Static Bezel Active Bleeds Touch Object T tag Active Invisible WordButton Circular Legend Static Image Library Load L tag for Round Bulb Active Bleeds Touch Object T tag Active Invisible WordButton Simple 3 Legend Static Touch Object T tag Active Invisible 1 These elements can be made invisible which will not cause bleeding 2 The legend plate can be made invisible 3 This button can be covered with a bitmap and will
26. The alarm text that appears in an Alarm Window will have the alarm message plus other options such as a date stamp and a time stamp The Message Format section is used to assign a starting column number to each part of the total alarm message The maximum number of characters that can be displayed is dependent on the type of target display and the size of the text The maximum number of characters that can be displayed is also dependent on how many options are selected such as the time stamp In any case the maximum number of characters for just the alarm message is 80 Obviously if you are using a QuickPanel Jr which can only display a maximum of 49 characters then you must design the layout for smaller alarm messages The following chart shows the MAXIMUM number of text characters that can appear in an Alarm Window Display Model 5x7 7x9 11x16 16x32 Characters Characters Characters Characters QUICKPANEL QPK QPJ QPH 49 37 23 18 QUICKPANEL QPI 103 77 47 38 QUICKPANEL QPL 124 95 57 46 Use a columnar tablet to help you design the alarm message panel The column count begins at column 1 Remember to put a space between text elements for easier viewing The date format can be 8 characters mm dd yy or 5 characters mm dd The time stamp is 5 characters 12 00 In the following example the display type is a QUICKPANEL jr which has a maximum 49 character Alarm Window The Date Format has been set to mm dd month day In this example
27. The selected object or group of objects are stored in a library See Library Browser page 128 and 136 and Library Tour page 133 Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 1211 Select All Selects all objects on the panel Deselect All Esc Deselects all objects that are currently selected Align Cirl A Aligns the selected object to a vertical or horizontal coordinate First select the object then select align from the Edit menu A cross hair cursor will appear on the screen COcHT e nae x 220 Y 155 The cursor position information box is located in the bottom right corner of the screen Move the cursor to the desired position and click the left mouse button The following dialog box appears Select Horizontal or Vertical alignment Click OK and the object will be aligned to the selected coordinates Align Object s Alignment Direction Horizontal D Vertical Change Alt Enter Change the attributes of the selected object You can also double click an object to display the associated settings menu Change Object Tags Ctrl T Modify the Tag Attributes of a selected object or group of objects The Modify Tag Attributes dialog box appears You can edit the Address by clicking the name and typing a new name Double click F2 the name to enter the edit mode Use ESC to undo the edit mode Select a different Address by clicking the down arrow to display a list box The Prompt field is used to ente
28. Under Tools select Validate Tags Any tags that are not valid tag addresses for the protocol selected in Setup will be listed in the Internal Tags box 6 What are the GE Genius protocol error messages a 02 C8 Datagram was requested user disabled datagrams b 02 C9 PLC is not on the Genius bus C 02 CA Cannot recognize the type code at this node d 02 CB Read datagram failed no specified reason e 02 CC Write datagram failed cause was not determined f 02 CD Micro Geni card failed to power up correctly g 02 CE Cannot find the S1 file h 02 CF A uGeni command timed out during configuration f 02 D0 A uGeni command configuration returned a syntax error g 02 D1 A uGeni command configuration returned an unknown response h 02 D2 An incoming reference address does not match the QuickPanel Configuration 1 02 D3 A BCD table length does not match our configuration j Memory type is not valid for this CPU 7 After importing a Remote I O application the block transfers no longer works even after revalidating the tags The block transfer files are usually created as internal Revalidating the tags will not correct this problem Under the project s Setup menu then the Protocol submenu delete the block transfers by disabling deselecting each block transfer file Say OK to the change and close the Protocol area Go back into the Protocol area and recreate the block transfer files again Once all the files
29. When you check the Button Off checkbox next to a function that function will not appear on the alarm management page For example if you check the Button Off checkbox next to Global Erase the DEL ALL button will not appear on the alarm management page Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms e 81 When the alarm management page appears you must press the MODE button to activate the other buttons except DONE When you check the Button Off checkbox next to the Mode button the MODE button does not appear on the alarm management page Therefore there is no way to activate scrolling through the alarms acknowledging alarms or deleting alarms However if you have notification tags assigned to the buttons they will still be enabled 82 e Alarms Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms Guided Tour Introduction The guided tour section is a step by step introduction to Alarms It will introduce you to the procedures needed to create an alarm display The tour references a particular PLC in order to demonstrate some of the procedures If you take the tour remember that the PLC variable names in the text may be different than those used in your PLC For example the tour references R3 B3 as a bit in the image table Your PLC will most likely use a different format for addressing bits The tour starts by assuming that you know how to use the QUICKDESIGNER software to create projects design panels and download panels to a display If you are not familiar with QUI
30. You can select the faceplate color and the outline color A sample is shown below To select the faceplate colors click the Face plate button Select the desired colors and click OK Face Plate Settings Beckgound Color MN Flesting FOS _ Cancel Outline Color Flashing l Help Time Axis The time axis displays the trend samples as a function of time If the display is Left to right the time axis will be on the bottom of the display You can display tick marks to show time marks For example you can display a tick mark every 20 samples so the operator can clearly see that 20 samples have been taken You can uncheck the Draw Time Axis Legend checkbox to remove the time axis from the trend Select the time axis color and click OK Time Axis Setup M Draw Time Axis Legend Show Tick mark every i H samples Cancel The following example illustrates a display with a time axis There are 250 samples and the time axis tick marks are set to 25 samples Panel Editor GFK 1855 Trend e 237 Scale Settings In a Left to right display the scale will be located on the left side of the trend display The scale settings dialog allows selecting different attributes to customize the scale to suit your application Scale Settings M Draw Scale Legend Text Size OK Text 5x7 Tene Fx Cancel 1116 Scale Range 16 32 Help Hin Har Number Size w5 xT Digits Dec Pos Ticks Fx C eB tats Scale Color
31. the State Text Size and Text fields are used However the Text Size field has been moved to the last position The text file for the example is shown below Op State OY 7x9 l State 1 720 Lon otate 2 xX9 Current Contents The Current Contents section contains the first group of selected fields Default Fields Selected Fields Current Contents W State M Text Size T Text Justify T Text Color Text Flash l Lens Color Lens Flash T Outline Color T Outline Flash w Text Once you have selected a layout format for the text file click the Save to Default button This will save the format for the next time you import a Imd file Delimiter Delimiter comma x A delimiter is a character that separates items in a file The most common is a comma separated file similar to the following example Bears dogs cats lions sheep whales elephants Items can also be separated by Tabs periods exclamations pound dollar percent etc Items can also be listed in one column with no separators Design the format of the text file so that it is easy to read and edit 1st Line in File The first line of the imported file is shown in this section You can use this line to check the layout settings for proper format The path and file name are listed next to the section title Tst Line In File C QUICKS4TEST1 LHD 0 5x7 CC BLACK OFF WHITE OFF WHITE OFF State 0 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Local Message Dis
32. BITO AND ON BIT1 OR OFF BIT1 XOR ON BIT2 3 16x32 CL PLUM OFF GRN3 OFF DKPINK OFF Message3 ON BITO AND OFF BIT1 OR ON BIT1 AND OFF BIT3 4 5x7 CC WHEAT ON PLUM ON MNTGRN ON Message4 OFF BITO OR ON BIT1 XOR OFF BIT2 OR ON BITO 5 7x9 CR RCHBLU OFF DKGOLD OFF PRPL2 OFF Message5 ON BITO OR OFF BIT1 XOR ON BIT2 XOR OFF BIT1 6 11x16 BL SKYBLU ON FSTGRN ON ORCHID ON Message6 OFF BITO OR ON BIT1 AND OFF BIT3 AND ON BIT2 7 16x32 BC SLTIBLU OFF DKGRAY OFF DKPLMG OFF Message7 ON BITO OR OFF BIT1 AND ON BIT3 OR OFF BIT3 8 5x7 BR BLUE ON CYAN ON MAGENTA ON Message8 OFF BIT1 XOR ON BIT2 OR OFF BITO XOR ON BITO 9 7x9 UL BLU2 OFF CYAN2 OFF PURPLE OFF Message9 ON BIT1 XOR OFF BIT2 OR ON BITO AND OFF BIT1 10 11x16 UC RYLBLU ON SPRGRN ON FUSCH ON Messagel10 OFF BIT1 XOR ON BIT2 XOR OFF BIT1 OR ON BIT2 11 16x32 UR DKPRPL OFF MNTGRN OFF MDMAG OFF Messagel1 ON BITI1 XOR OFF BIT2 XOR ON BIT1 XOR OFF BIT3 12 5x7 CL SKYBLU ON MDGRN ON PALMAG ON Messagel2 OFF BIT1 AND ON BIT3 AND OFF BIT2 AND ON BITO 13 7x9 CC BLU4 OFF OLVGRN OFF STLBLU OFF Messagel3 ON BIT1 AND OFF BIT3 AND OFF BIT2 XOR OFF BIT1 14 11x16 CR SEAGRN ON GRN4 ON PLPINK ON Messagel14 OFF BIT1 AND ON BIT3 OR OFF BIT3 XOR ON BIT2 15 16x32 BL CDTBLU OFF GRN5 OFF GREY OFF Message1
33. Editor GFK 1855 Alarms e 79 Alvin luwus Setting E Tet bie Cal Fie Cisie ee Co Langer Text Crim Flashing ean Tagger Background Caor Flashing l Acknowledged Text Coles Flashing 7 Ackeemiedged Hackground Color Flashing Domed Test Color Flashing I Chared Back giunadl Cuku Flashing T Hein Alarm Page Display In the following example the alarm window is showing three Historic alarm messages The Active and Logged alarm windows are similar The example shows only three message lines but there may be more messages in the historic alarm queue The first alarm is a triggered alarm the second has been acknowledged and the third alarm has been acknowledged and cleared See Creating an Alarm Window on page 241 HISTORIC ALARMS 09 1 my ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 1 09 19 13 25 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 2 13 26 09 19 13 20 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 3 13 21 13 23 When the operator touches the display panel over the alarm window the alarm queue will be displayed on the alarm management page The buttons on the bottom of the alarm management page are activated by pressing the MODE button Pressing the MODE button also displays the two horizontal lines that are used as a cursor The DONE button is always active f CAUTION Do NOT press the MODE button more than once If you do the panel will H freeze and no further operations will be displayed Press DONE to exit Once the buttons are activated they can be used to view and mod
34. GFK 1855 Completing Product Authorization After receiving the Email reply start the Product Authorization program by going to Start Programs Total Control Products and selecting Product Authorization Click the Software Keys button Select the Key Code button from the main software authorization dialog Product Authorization Site Code FF52 D246 Authorized Products GuickDbesigner SiM01 23456 Authorize a new product Mowe Move product authorization to another PC Heucmde Enter a key code received through e mail Use this aptior ney to complete an Internet or e mail authorization Enter the Key Code and click the Finish button Plaga eter lhi hiy CEH in fhe boo bakra eid You can use QuickDesigner software to create projects only for a limited time unless it is properly authorized Panel Editor GFK 1855 Installation e 9 Moving the Product Authorization The software license agreement allows you to install QuickDesigner on several PCs but restricts you to using the full authorized version on one PC You can move the authorization from one PC to another by utilizing the Move option in the Product Authorization dialog box The operation consists of moving the authorization from the Source PC to a floppy disk then to the Target PC The following dialog box shows QuickDesigner S N 1 as an authorized product To move the product authorization to another PC start the Product Authorization program and
35. Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to the associated dialog box 170 e Print Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Word Button Creating a Word Button A Word button is a multi function object that performs Set Add Subtract AND OR XOR of a selected value on a PLC word register For example if the selected value is 5 then the word button can set a register to the value 5 or add 5 to a register or subtract 5 from a register The logical functions of AND OR and XOR can also be performed using a selected value and a PLC word register Click the Word button icon on the tool bar Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the word button to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the word button immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the word button Release the mouse button and the word button is sized The Word button will appear similar to the one below BUT TOM ee HORD The Word button dialog box appears next to the word button Word Button Settings Action OF D M se E cance Style Hode Dec m Defauit Value Advanced hd Bezel Legend Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Word Button e 171 Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the Word Button This tag will be a word in the PLC memory that the target display can update A list of valid PL
36. Message 2 Note that when state 1 occurs Message 1 is still displayed In some cases this is not desired To correct this problem click the Erase previous state checkbox This will compile the empty states into black rectangles Active states will now be removed when an empty state occurs Now the chart looks like the one below State Desired Message Visible Message 0 Message 1 Message 1 1 2 Message 2 Message 2 3 You can also make a blank state by entering spaces in the state or by entering some text and making it the same color as the lens and outline colors This method may work for states that are close together such as states 0 through 10 This method becomes impractical when states are far apart such as state 100 and 200 WARNING The Erase previous state feature is expensive to use That is why you are warned to see the Help file before using it Consider the following examples Example 1 Erase previous state unchecked Create two states 100 and 200 This will compile into two image files each file approximately 120 bytes That means it will cost about 240 bytes of panel memory plus panel resource Example 2 Erase previous state checked All 254 states are compiled That would be 254 states times 120 bytes More than 30kb of panel memory You have several ways to deal with invalid states appearing on the display 1 Use the Erase previous state feature Uses the most memory 2 Fill some empty states Uses a lot of me
37. QUICKDESIGNER e 117 Check Click the Check icon or select Check from the File menu to check the panel design for potential errors Errors are reported in a dialog box and you will have the option of ignoring one or all errors Error checking is automatic each time you save a panel Make sure you ungroup all objects because grouping causes false readings during error checking See also Resource Manager Quick Designer Warming Panel objects are overlapping Resource Manager Each panel object is assigned a resource count For example a Pilot Light 1s assigned a resource count of 1 The table of objects and associated resouces is shown below Note the special condition for Triggered Message Display objects QuickDesigner Graphical Object ESTIMATED Resource Use Per Object Alarm Window 2 Ascii Entry 3 Bitmap 0 BarGraph l Circle 0 Goto Panel Button 1 Illuminated Push Button 4 Local Image Display 2 Legend Plate 0 Pie Graph l Local Message Display 2 Numeric Data Display 1 Numeric Data Entry 3 Pilot Light Print Screen Button 3 Line PolyLine 0 PushButton 3 Rectangle 0 Selector Switch 4 Text Object 0 Time Display 1 4 dependant on display format Triggered Message Display See Note 1 Trend Graph 1 8 one per pen Text Display l Video Display 1 Word Button 3 Print Trigger Tag 3 per panel in project Panel Confirmation Tag l Note 1 Determining the resource usage for the TMSD in
38. QuickPanel Mini 6 Monochrome display the Tool box will display a limited set of tools The Mini Tool Box is shown below Point with the arrow cursor to the desired icon in the Tool box and click the mouse When the cursor is moved into the screen area a cross hair will appear with a small image identifying the type of tool selected The example below is the Legend Plate tool The status bar on the bottom of the window will tell you which tool is selected 100 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Move the cross hair to the desired cell and click the mouse Most objects will appear across two cells as shown below If you want to size the object immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the object Release the mouse button and the object is sized A dialog box for the selected object will appear The drawing tools work slightly different The object can be placed on the panel in several different modes based on the selections in the Settings Preferences dialog box fF Quick Designer Untitled Project File Edit Toole View Options Settings Help Jy FT es eV PEE Fe DE FP PEN ES Text Size Justify OK OLET see Cancel CFR On ae Cixb CoCr Make Default 16 x 32 Text Color Flashing Background Color Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help Change object settings 60 44 100 Dialog Box The dialog box that appears
39. This project is already in use appears See Project in Use on page 53 2 When trying to enter thf Panels area of QuickDesigner the message Cannot open Close QuickDesigner software Go to File Manager Win 3 x or Explorer Win 95 and delete the file QMGR INI from the installed QuickDesigner directory usually c quick Go back to QuickDesigner and then open the Panels area 3 How do you determine how large the QuickPanel application is Start the download process you do not have to be connected to a QuickPanel This initializes the software compiler When Quick Courier is displayed exit out of the download Check the size of the GPC A file in your QuickDesigner directory This can be done through File Manager for Windows 3 1 3 11 or Explorer in Windows 95 Model number Approx application memory QPJ 2D100 x2P 240 Kbytes QPK 2D100 x2P 920 930 Kbytes QPI 2x100 y2P 920 930 Kbytes QPL 2xy0 C2P 1 5 1 6 Mbytes 4 When importing a project an error message appears saying Error Cannot set Tag to db a This indicates that the software had some problems rebuilding the tags during a portion of the import Go to the computer where the original project was created Go to the Tags area and then Purge the tags This will delete all of the tags listed in the tag database Then re export the project to the desired area usually a floppy disk After exporting the project re import the project to the destinati
40. This selection enables the zoom in tool Click the mouse while the zoom tool is present to zoom to the next level Click and hold the mouse to draw a box around an area to zoom in You can also use the zoom in button on the toolbar Zoom Out 1 1 Resets the view to a standard 1 1 Zoom to This option allows selection of several zoom settings Preview The preview mode produces a full screen image of the panel at a 1 1 viewing ratio This preview will give you a good idea of what the panel will look like when it is viewed on the target display 126 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Object Tag Display You can view the Object Tag by enabling the option in the View menu The sample drawing shows the LIGHT OFF tag name displayed in the upper left corner Keypad Tag Display The keypad tag display is similar to the object tag display The keypad tag operates independently of the object tag display The keypad tag is displayed in the bottom left corner of the operator and provides a quick visual check to see which panel operators have keypads assigned The keypad tag will appear with a panel print PUSH BUT TOM Dim Flashing Colors When you are creating panels you have the option of selecting Flashing Colors Flashing occurs only when the panel has been downloaded to a target display To see which colors have been selected as Flashing check the Dim Flashing Colors option in the View menu Flashing colors
41. Variable The Tag is a single discrete bit in the PLC memory that the target display can control A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field Action The manner in which the tag variable will be controlled is defined by selecting an Action The most common action is Momentary where the bit is turned ON when the push button is pressed and turned OFF when the push button is released The ON selection will turn the bit ON when the push button is pressed and no action is taken when the push button is released The OFF selection will turn the bit OFF when the push button is pressed and no action is taken when the push button is released Toggle is used to change the bit to the opposite state when the push button is pressed and no action is taken when the push button is released Use caution when implementing the Momentary push button for critical applications such as ramping a motor Pressing the button sets a bit and releasing the button clears the bit If at any time during the press and release cycle a communication fault occurs the bit clear action may not occur Instead of relying on a bit set or clear use multiple Word buttons to increment and decrem
42. Word is 0 then state O will be displayed When the value changes to 10 then state 10 is displayed If the PLC Value was set to Word the state dialog box would appear similar to the following picture There are 255 states 0 254 using Word Select Bit to control the selection of the state by the bit assignment of a PLC word If no bits are set then state O is displayed If bit 4 is set then state 4 is displayed When multiple bits are ON the highest order bit in the ON condition determines the selected state There are 17 states 0 16 using Bit 204 e Local Image Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 States The States button will display the State Settings dialog box A Local Image Display has two or more states the maximum number depending on whether you selected the PLC variable as a word or a group of bits You can change the image of each state Use the NEXT and PREV buttons to select a different state The last state selected will be the one displayed when you click the OK button There are 255 states 0 254 using Word There are 17 states 0 16 using Bit x State Settings State OF E Cancel ext Previous Justify rit Library for word 0 Remove Erase previous state see help Editing If the image you paste to the current state does not fill the entire window it will be forced to a position determined by the Justify selection Cut will remove the contents of the current state Cop
43. a Ee M ae e ae e TOO Fees o o 2 ee ee Oa O Poa MO NG E265 Cyan AO 369 2 OO D 10 Beek 0s aa 0 eG NOL hae NO Green OR eo Loo Moori Ma _ 255__ Whate __100 69 _100 OL 255 It OL a E E Awe p40 1255 1176 0 Yellow 100 69 0 ae NT PIG 2S Cyan Naas 69 00 ao a a Ee ek Ee ee eee Sn 18 L3 20 Ze ZZ ae 24 26 ae 8 9 30 Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 111 LL __ 02255 Values ___ 8 Color Percent Values E Li Red iereen ae e _i Green Blue aes E ee Os Greer eos pais Te 2 ee Magenta 60 Ae o Ac Niye re Q235 White p69 M69 Poo aroa n o Red 69 a ng pas Nie ie Or venom 69 peg e Ao Ec a a ae Maa OY a o o e ae e o a a oe e aa Sei 0 ae a Deo E A a a 0 eo _ A o ea 2 Mare aea o aa eo Pea e259 Je re ae O eo e iG 255 Ge ete eoe 00 eos aa o a a ee 2 oe a _ re a a_i __ Go re Greer a eo JA pol ie a lite Magenre 60 _ Ae _ 69 eee EWG eG ere Wines 69 G9 60 os J TG D a Red 0s An aa ae ner no Jeti vem tow lt 9 eo Aa T12 e QUICKDESIGNER ane Editor GFK 1855 QuickDesigner Graphical Objects Push Buttons Pilot Lights Legend Plates etc are called Panel Design Objects PDO These objects are made up of active and static elements A good example of a static object is a legend plate which has a rectangle element and a text element A good example of a active o
44. a bit variable the trend is started when the bit is set to 1 and stopped when the bit is set to 0 If you select a Word variable the least significant bit usually bit 0 controls the start stop function When the bit is 1 the Trend function is started The next significant bit usually bit 1 controls the clear function Setting the clear bit to 1 will clear the Trend display If there is a condition when both control bits are 1 then the least significant bit has precedence Trend Graph Advanced Settings Enable trend control tag q sd Cancel Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Trend e 239 Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Trend Graphs to appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Trend Graph Settings dialog box The current settings in the Trend Graph Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Trend Graph the saved settings will automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Trend Graph Settings Trend Graph Elements FACE PLATE OUTLINE _ FACE PLATE BACKGROUND See Perel SCALE 240 e Trend TREND BACKGROUND PEN TIME AXIS Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarm Window Creating an Alarm Window The alarm window is used to display alarm messages which consist of the alarm text message and can include time and date stamps The alarm window can display Active
45. are created click OK and exit Setup These new block transfer files should now function as they once did 8 A QuickPanel gets a PLC Comm Error 02 xx or only partial communications occurs on some panels when using Modbus protocol a The Modbus protocol groups address request into groups of 8 in order to maximize communications between the QuickPanel and the PLC A PLC communications error will occur when the number of groups on a panel exceed 8 1 e OR100 110 group 1 OD113 115 group 2 ID1 10 group 3 OD1 group 4 etc To resolve this issue an ini file can be created to set the grouping number to 0 so that all tags on a panel will be read as group NOTE This ini setting may cause QuickPanel communications to slow down b Create an ini file called PCO INI under the C Quick directory this can be done in Notepad In that file create the group Modicon Modbus Under this group type the line GroupGapSize 0 This will enable the QuickPanel to read and write values to the PLC without grouping Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide e 279 Screen Changing Issues 1 The GoTo buttons do not change screens when pressing the GoTo button s on the touchscreen Check to make sure the GoTo button contains the name of an existing panel Because panel names are case sensitive select a panel name from the drop down list in the GoTo object 2 After downloading an application the GoTo buttons do not change screens
46. be correct for your project When you start a real project you may want to write down the settings and verify they are the same as those on your PLC Click OK Click the Protocol button to setup the optional parameters for a particular PLC type These parameters MUST also match those of your PLC The settings shown in the dialog box are default settings and may not be correct for your project The Modicon Modbus dialog box is shown below Click OK Madiran Modu Sariai Pc ft Finat Storagn Format Worl Storage Fromat C HDS LSW E AWLI deh i CEW MEW pelad C LPW Click the System button to open the System Configuration dialog box QUICKPAME i Sasien Comfigerstion Panel irigos tag fo a OOOO a Lag Tapui E sarani The panel trigger tag allows a register in your PLC to control the selection of panels You can allow the operator to select panels the PLC to select panels or a combination of the two The Panel confirmation tag is a register that gets a bit set when a new panel is selected The watchdog is a register in your PLC that is periodically checked to determine if the communication link is still operational Each timeout period the display sends a value to the watchdog register The PLC waits for a specified period then checks the contents of the register If there is a value in the register the link is working The PLC then clears the register and begins waiting again The watchdog operation requires some PLC ladd
47. be exported to an external file format and later imported to a new project The exported panel objects have tag variables that are valid for Project X When you are working on a different project the custom panel is first imported The tag variables for each object must then be changed to match the new project PLC type The panel is then saved with the modified custom panel Procedure 1 Go to the QUICKDESIGNER program and create a custom panel Each object will have a tag variable that is valid for the project PLC type Save the panel 2 Select Export from the file menu and export the panel using 8 characters or less The file will be given the pnl extension Example filename pnl 3 Exit the QUICKDESIGNER program and return to the QUICK MANAGER program Create a new project or select an existing project Go to QUICKDESIGNER and select Import from the file menu 4 Import the desired panel Change the tag variables for each object so that they are valid for the new project PLC type Save the panel for the new project 5 Continue to import other panels until the project is complete Import Load a file saved in pnl format When you import a panel with the pnl extension save it with your own panel name For example if you import PANEL1 PNL save it immediately to the new panel name of PANELI NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 120 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Export S
48. color palette are mapped to an 8 color palette O N opes Values 8 Color Percent Values _ Red eee Blue e Green Blue __ o SY Fc ee E o a Wo or ee e e a So e Green po ioo Jo CE Dyan ko ioo 100 p25 OO a E OO Oe oe o 7 oo hoa l No Ol O1 LO Oe 255 Magenta Hao io Pioo EO evettow A00 Aoo o a oA iz Ec Bax pae Jo po Ai ooo o ee Ja doao a oe ey a d Eee Pea No OJ O1 255 112 EE B Ao J __ o A o Magenta 69 o 100 Yellow 69 100 255 White 69 100 100 w e S a a So TE CNS EG po ar Irie o Jo coz p255 i2 Green bo JIo _ E A e a co J oo w Jae gS area e or 22 255 o 176 Magenta 100 o 112 o 112 Black J44 Jo Gaa JO oe Blue kay MoE 4 28 o pie J Jan Rea df 69 Jo 30 176 o 176 Magenta 69 o J69 Si 176 255 Jia Yellow 69 100 Ja 32 176 255 176 White 69 100 69 De rae Pe ee Blue Jo Jas 100 oa lo Ioe 2s yan o Jee Jon DO Ie a E e o ae e 36 lo 176 o Green lo 69 Jo 38 255 176 255 White 100 69 100 P39 J255 Ji J0 rRe Joo Ta Jo e ae E ee 100 69 o Ar Ma aye 2an ya Ag Too A a a o a A ae e 44 44 44 44 6 4 24 20 Z ZM E ER E hoe a 2a Pra 24 Pam 26 ia Ea os HA gt 200 e Triggered Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 a255 Valies a aee iCo lor Percent Values Red iereen Blue Red iereen i Biue Wa WA ees 0 Gree
49. correct this problem click the Erase previous state checkbox This will compile the empty states into black rectangles Active states will now be removed when an empty state occurs Now the chart looks like the one below State Desired Image Visible Image 0 Image 1 Image 1 1 2 Image 2 Image 2 3 You can also make a blank state by pasting in an object the same color as the background This method may work for states that are close together such as states 0 through 10 This method becomes impractical when states are far apart such as state 100 and 200 WARNING The Erase previous state feature is expensive to use That is why you are warned to see the Help file before using it Consider the following examples Example 1 Erase previous state unchecked Create two states 100 and 200 This will compile into two image files each file approximately 120 bytes That means it will cost about 240 bytes of panel memory plus 1 panel resource plus the size of the bitmap images Example 2 Erase previous state checked All 254 states are compiled That would be 254 states times 120 bytes More than 30kb of panel memory You have several ways to deal with invalid states appearing on the display 1 Use the Erase previous state feature Uses the most memory 2 Fill some empty states Uses a lot of memory 3 Design ladder logic to eliminate empty states Uses PLC resources 4 Create a project so invalid states don t matter Panel Editor
50. dialog box The current settings in the Numeric Data Entry Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Numeric Data Entry button the saved settings will automatically be applied Advanced Button The Advanced Button is enabled when you select Keyboard Attached in the Touch Screen Configuration dialog in Setup NOTE The Numeric Data Entry Button operation can be assigned to an external keypad See Keypads page 262 and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information Once a keypad is assigned you can disable the touch screen by checking the Touch disable box If you leave the touch disable box unchecked then the touch screen and_the keypad can both operate the button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Numeric Data Entry e 223 Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Numeric Data Entry Settings 224 e Numeric Data Entry Panel Editor GFK 1855 Text Display Creating a Text Display A Text Display consists of an alphanumeric readout and a legend plate Data is read from a PLC register and displayed as text NOTE If your PLC supports text variables the PLC register will be read as two text characters Otherwise the PLC register will be read as a single text character LEGEND PLATE ALPHANUMERIC READOUT TEXT DISPLAY TEXT TEXT MESG MESG ABCDE ABCDE a Ne J Click the Text Display icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair and the
51. downloaded to the panel An example of this is shown below LEGEND LEGEND PLATE Legend Plate in Editor Legend Plate at Runtime This issue was most commonly found by users that attempted to shorten reduce in height things like legend plates local message displays etc so that they could fit as many of them on the panel as possible Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide e 275 In order to address this issue we adopted a standard for wrapped text output and made all of the problematic graphical tools adhere to it Those tools which are not generally shortened were not included in the fix A summary of the text cutoff status of our graphical tools is shown below Text Cutoff Fixed Text Cutoff Fixed Retained 3 40 Functionality Numeric Data Entry Bargraph Ascii Data Entry Pilot Light 180 Meter Graph Hardwired Jog Button 360 Meter Graph Local Message Display Text Data Display Z o Z o Z o Numeric Data Display Word Button O y y O The fix covered two main items e Ensuring that the graphical tools that contain legends and lenses all output their wrapped text in a standard way e Ensuring that if the text will be clipped on the panel at runtime it is shown as clipped in the editor As a result of this fix some text may appear to have vanished in the editor compared with earlier versions of QuickDesigner Because the output of the text has been standardized there ar
52. error codes is included in this guide 52 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 About This menu selection will display the About information box which shows the software name software revision level software serial number and copyright information Error Message Project in Use The following warning message appears when QUICK MANAGER believes another task or user is working with a project You will get this message when you try to access one of your projects and all the buttons are greyed out The message indicates the database is locked Quick Manager Q This project is already in use The QUICK MANAGER window appears similar to the one below with many of the icons and option buttons greyed out Note that the project database named MEDUSA INI has been maximized in the QUICK MANAGER window This can be confirmed by the presence of the control buttons located to the right of the word Help O Guusb Harig MEDUSA IMI The first step in unlocking the database is to close the database Make sure no other tasks or users are using the database Click the control icon a located to the left of the word Project to display the control menu NOTE If there is no control icon next to the word Project your project window has been minimized Click the maximize button to restore it Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 53 Select Close from the control menu and the following dialog box will appear Dush A nage
53. example of an object associated with a touch region A pilot light is an example of an object not associated with a touch region Part objects associated with touch regions always occupy a complete touch cell All touch objects must occupy a minimum of four touch cells Tiling Grid for Objects The tiling grid is a series of cells used to assist the designer in placing objects on the display The tiling grid can appear as dots lines or boxes The cells appear only in the editor and not on the target display Objects can occupy more than one cell as the cells are simply used as a layout guide The default size of each cell is 80 pixels wide by 40 pixels high The first cell origin point is located at 0 0 and the opposite corner is located at 79 39 The default cell size of 80 x 40 pixels corresponds to 8 touch cells The drawing shows a tile cell of 80 x 40 pixels and 8 touch cells 0 0 79 39 TILING CELL with TOUCH CELLS 80 x 40 TILING CELL DEFAULT SIZE Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 105 The next drawing shows the tile grid for the whole QUICKPANEL jr display The default setting of 80 x 40 pixels produces 24 cells The default Preference setting of Auto size on create forces an object to be drawn on two cells 80 x 80 Tiling Snap System Another aid for placing objects on the panel is the snap feature When placing an object on the tiling grid the upper left corner of the object will snap to the upper left corne
54. going ON or OFF You can create a word alarm file by selecting New Word from the File menu Word alarms are based on the value of the word The large buttons at the bottom of the window are convenience buttons which allow rapid access to menu selections The Config and Close buttons are File menu options while the Add and Delete buttons are Edit menu options NOTE See the Alarms Guided Tour on page 83 for an overview and guided tour File menu L The file menu option is used to create new word or bit alarm files to open existing alarm files to save new or edited files to delete unwanted files to configure alarm files or to close the alarms manager window File Menu Buttons The Config and Close buttons shown in the Alarms window perform the same function as the Config and Close options in the File menu The Config button will open the Configuration dialog and the Close button will close the alarm window e You can display the Configuration dialog box by selecting Configuration from the File menu or by clicking the Config button You can close the alarm window by selecting Close from the File menu or by clicking the Close button Open Delete Configuration Create an alarm file based on a bit or a word in the PLC Bit alarms are controlled by a bit going ON or OFF while word alarms are based on the value of the word File Open Open an existing alarm file The Open Alarm File dialog box appears Se
55. help files relating to Local Message Display Settings 206 e Local Image Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Selector Switch Creating a selector switch A Selector Switch consists of a bezel a legend plate and initially two OFF lenses and two ON lenses The Selector Switch requires multiple variables one for each selector switch position These variables will be interlocked so that only one of them can be turned on Each time the selector switch is pressed the position that is currently on will be turned off and then the next position will be turned on The number of positions can be two three or four BEZEL LEGEND PLATE 2 ONLENS 2 OFFLENS SELECTOR SWITCH Click the Selector Switch icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair and Selector Switch image to the top of the two cells where you want the Selector Switch to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the Selector Switch immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the Selector Switch Release the mouse button and the Selector Switch is sized The following Selector Switch Settings dialog box will appear Selector Switch Settings Ed OK Position Position 1 Tag Positions C3 Make Default Previous Position 1 States C4 Aeneas Bezel Legend Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 S
56. in Tech Support Web Page Knowledge Base The Knowledge Base files may have been added to your system during installation These files can be found in the default directory Quick Qd_kb Panel Editor Manual User manuals in PDF format may have been added to your system during installation The Panel Editor manual contains all the information about Installation Software Authorization QuickManager QuickDesigner QuickCourier Tags Alarms etc When you click on this link the manual is opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader Hardware Reference Manual User manuals in PDF format may have been added to your system during installation The Hardware Reference manual contains information about QuickPanels cable diagrams cutout diagrams bezels option modules keypads and maintenance procedures When you click on this link the manual is opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader Communication Manual User manuals in PDF format may have been added to your system during installation The Communications User Manual contains information about communication protocols including cable diagrams setup information and tag variable tables When you click on this link the manual is opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader Troubleshooting Guide The troubleshooting guide provides a variety of topics that give suggestions and tips on troublshooting common issues This guide covers both QuickDesigner related issues and QuickPanel runtime issues A list of protocol related
57. individually refer to Import Export of the section of the Panel Editor manual on how to export panels Also export any alarm file that may have been created NOTE Do not export panels or alarm file into the default c quick directory else they will be erased during the restructuring process b Close down the QuickDesigner software Go to Explorer or File manager and under the QuickDesigner software directory select the subdirectory Data The file Clean200 bat should be listed in this subdirectory Double click the clean200 bat file to restructure the Quick Manager database NOTE This will delete all projects and other additional items that were added to the Quick directory c Once the database has been restructured you may import the applications and or project components panels alarms etc back into QuickDesigner 9 When importing alarms the message Alarm import error Unable to overwrite an existing alarm file in the DB An alarm file already exists in the project database with the same alarm file Choose File from the top menu then select Delete Delete the alarm file in the database that has the same alarm file as the one you are importing Then select File again then Import Choose the alarm file that you want to import If you wish to keep the existing alarm file then it must be renamed Go to File Manger or Explorer and change the name of the alm file Then go back to QuickDesigner and import the new file 10
58. is used to create and edit project tags This window and all the options are explained in the Tags chapter on page 56 Liuec th rnn T ag MEDUSA JF Alarms Selecting Alarms will open a dialog box to enter bit alarms or word alarms Once the alarms are created the main alarm window shown below is displayed The Alarm window and all the options are explained in the ALARMS chapter on page 68 See also the Alarms Guided Tour on page 83 for an overview and guided tour of alarms E Lith bl rae il T 4 IHI Fiai a J i f m fl i f Pi m E F m z a Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 49 Options Menu Preferences Selecting Preferences will display the Project Options dialog box When you double click on a project name the default operation is to display the Project Setup dialog box You can select a different operation in the Project Options dialog box Pecqeect LI plirens Window Menu Cascade Tile and Arrange Icons are the standard window options for arranging your desktop See the Appendix for information about using Windows m a i Tie Arse hone Toole w Gieure Bm a uira HEDUSAIHI Toolbar The Toolbar is normally displayed below the menu bar Clicking one of the tools is the same as selecting the option from a menu To remove the toolbar from the window click the Toolbar option When the check mark in front of the menu is removed the toolbar wil
59. may be missing the initializing signal from the QuickDesigner software because the baud rate is a little high Go to Notepad Windows text editor on your computer and open the Courier ini file Change the Autobaud rate from its current setting to 9600 usually the default setting is 38400 Save the changes then go back to QuickDesigner and try the download again You may notice an increase in download time because of this change Run Time Issues 1 When using a Text Display tool with the GE SNP protocol the characters in the text display object does not display correctly The characters of each word is switched i e waters becomes awetsr The GE SNP protocol reads the low byte of the word address then the high byte that shows up on the QuickPanel as inverted To correct this problem press one of the top corners of the screen one of the bottom corners then the other top corner at the same time follow the above sequence A menu bar should appear at the bottom of the screen Press Offline then press System Environment Setup Under System Environment Setup choose Character String Data Setup Change the current number 1 to a 2 Press Set Go to Main then press Run The character should now be read correctly NOTE This change is not retentive Once the unit is reset or another download has occurred this procedure must be done again to read the character values correctly 2 After importing a project from one QuickDesigner software package
60. mouse button and drawing a box around the objects to be deleted To copy an object click the desired object then use the COPY option in the EDIT menu A copy is placed on the clipboard Use the PASTE option in the EDIT menu to paste a copy of the clipboard contents to the screen Remember the clipboard is a temporary storage area Items are kept there only until new items are copied to it You can select multiple objects buy clicking the first one holding the Shift key and clicking additional objects Use DESELECT ALL in the EDIT menu or press the ESC key to deselect all objects When you are done designing a panel use Save in the File menu to save the panel Select New to start a new panel Continue building and saving panels until your project is complete When you have completed designing all panels exit QUICKDESIGNER and return to QUICK MANAGER to download the project to the target display Grouping objects Two or more objects on the panel can be grouped together so that they will act as a single object You can use select all to select all objects for grouping You can select several objects by clicking and holding the left mouse button as you draw a box around the objects You can select multiple objects by holding down the SHIFT key and clicking the objects you want grouped Items remain temporarily grouped only until the next object selection Select Group Objects from the Edit menu or use CTRL G to maintain the grouping
61. objects Summary of Features e Objects and groups of objects can be stored in folders in multiple libraries e Drag n Drop feature allows fast panel design and saving objects e Folders provide for custom design of the database e Projects can be quickly built from libraries of objects When you create your favorite object like a pilot light or selector switch you can save the object in a named library folder Later when you want to make a copy of the object the library feature allows for fast and easy selection and transfer of the object to your panel You can create templates for panels and store all the objects as one file in a folder You can design a complete panel and store it in a folder in the library This tour will demonstrate how to create objects and store them in a library Create a new project and open QUICKDESIGNER Select Options and click Library Browser to open Quick Designer Library Quick Designer Library Library Edit Yiew Browser Folder Object Library DATADEMOMDB 222s Folder lt Unassined gt O M Obee A Panel Editor GFK 1855 Library Tour e 133 Select New from the Folder menu New Transter Delete Enter the name of the new folder in the Add Folder dialog box In this example the name Legends was selected Click OK when done Add Folder Name ance Select Exit from the Library menu to exit the Quick Designer Library The first object to create is a legend
62. of the keypads to simulate the following panel operators e Push Button e Goto Panel Button e Print Button e Word Button e Selector Switch e Numeric Data Entry The first operation is to select which keypad will be assigned to the simulated panel operator Click the down arrow in the Key list box then click an unassigned keypad Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 125 Next select one of the operators to simulate by clicking a button in the Key Assignment area When you click one of the simulate keys the rest of the buttons will be grayed out Click the Attributes button to display the setup dialog A simulated Goto Panel dialog box is shown below Goto Panel Button Settings i Panel Hame OK fs Cancel Make Default i Advanced Bezel Legend Help Note that the Bezel Legend Make Default and Advanced options are disabled grayed out You only have to enter the Panel Name and click the OK button When you download the project file to a QuickPanel with the Keypads option the keypads can simulate a panel operator For example if you press the AO keypad which was selected to simulate a Goto Panel the panel name you selected will be displayed This is the same operation as the GoTo Panel Button but without the panel operator taking up screen space View Menu oom In Chrl Zoom Out 1 1 Ctrl 0 Zoom to Preview Object Tag Display Object Rey Display Dim Flashing Colors Zoom In
63. plate In this example all legend plates will have the same appearance but different text Here is an example of a simple legend plate To save the legend plate in a library click the legend plate to select it then select Store Library Object from the Edit menu The Transfer Library Object dialog box appears The selected object will be displayed in the Source box on the left side of the dialog box The right side of the dialog box determines the destination Select the Legends folder created earlier and type in the name of the object There is an additional text input box for a description of the object Click OK when done Transfer Library Object Source Destination Library Select Library DATA DEMO MDB Folder First legend plate Description L Delete source after successful transfer The Transfer Library Object dialog box closes and the Quick Designer Library window stays open Select the Legends folder and the legend plate with a description should appear The Library function supports Drag and Drop so that you simply select the object in the library by clicking and holding down the mouse button then drag the object from the library to the panel Once the object is on the panel the setting dialog for that object will appear 134 e Library Tour Panel Editor GFK 1855 The custom legend plate can be placed on any panel by opening the Library Browser selecting the folder then dragging and dropping the desired obj
64. sample colors however you must have a display capable of showing 64 colors The colors in the grid can be referenced in two ways when preparing an import file for a Local Message Display lmd or a Triggered Message Display tmd Use the names shown in the 64 Color Grid Use the Row and Column numbers shown in the Color Index Numbers table ie BLACK ColR1C1 KHAKI ColR8C8 Color Color Color Index Index Index LACK YEL2 LUE WHEAT REEN PLUM YAN DKPURP GRN3 MNTGRN DKPINK PRPL2 SEAGRN DKCYAN MDMAG GRN4 E a oe E ie La ae a RRED o fror o2 o2 PALGRN E p E E E ca Eo K e CO a ae MAGENTA ELLOW WNGRN YAN2 SKYBLU NDRED FSTGRN URPLE MDGRN LWGRN ORCHID URQ PALMAG VYBLU TANGER YLBLU ORANGE RN2 RCHBLU PRGRN ED2 43 pxconp rusca 44 ouvern 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 Cp 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 O I 32 2 34 5 36 7 38 9 40 41 42 43 44 T SPRGRN Fusen Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix D 64 Colors e 287 RGB Color Map Here is the list of colors that are available on the 64 color display referenced to their RGB values The center column shows how colors from a 64 color palette are mapped to an 8 color palette p 0255 Values 8 Color Percent Values _ _ _ _ _ Red Green Bue Red Green Blue o Jo Jo Bak jo _ Jo _ Jo 2 Jo _ Jo _ Bue tT o 25 Green Jo 10 Jo 4 Jo _ 25 25 Cyan o jio 10 25
65. setup information for a QuickPanel display setup for a PLC panel designs tags and alarms Projects can be saved in prj format for future editing Projects are compiled for a unique QuickPanel display type then downloaded to the display The compiled file cannot be recovered however a project file can be loaded along with the compiled file By default the project is always stored along with the compiled file The memory required to save the project file should be about 10 to 15 percent of the downloaded file This means that for most applications there will be room to store a project file QPI and QPK platforms have 1000K of storage while the QPJ has 256K of storage If you need more space for the compiled file disable the Store Project in QuickPanel option and download the file again You can disable the option by opening the Project menu and unchecking Store Project in QuickPanel or by clicking the corresponding button on the tool bar Project Download This option is used to send a file from the computer system running the QUICKDESIGNER software to a target display See the QUICKCOURIER chapter on page 90 for details Project Upload C Selecting Upload is the same as clicking the Upload Project button fe The Upload Project button is used to upload a project file from a QuickPanel The project file must have been saved with the downloaded file otherwise an error message will appear When the project file is uploaded it is saved
66. shown including the tilde at the beginning Remember to enter the desired text in the legend plate to identify the Numeric Data Entry tool as system hour Set the Input Range Min and Max values 1 to 12 for 12 hour display or 0 to 23 for Military display For System Minute set the tag name to System_Minute and for System Second set the tag variable to System_Second Remember to enter the desired text in the legend plates to identify system minute and system second Also remember to set the Input Range Min and Max values for minutes and seconds Panel Editor GFK 1855 Internal Tags e 67 For System Month set the tag name to System_Month for System Day set the tag variable to System_Day and for System Year set the tag variable to System_Year Save the panel and download it to the target display Use the data entry operators to set the Time and Date for your display The target display maintains the system time and date between power cycles Contrast System Variable The contrast of the target display can be changed to suit different viewing conditions The contrast can be adjusted offline or online To adjust the contrast online the system variable System_Contrast must be set to a value from 1 to 7 This can easily be done by using two Word Buttons one to increment and one to decrement the value of System_Contrast You can see the contrast change as the value is increased or decreased Select the Word Button operator and place i
67. silently ignored during import time Data Section Rules e Must follow the Field Names Section e The first non comment line after the Field Names Section e PT_IDs and ADDR fields will be converted to uppercase e Empty fields must be delimited by commas Tag Mapping When you import tags a standard File selection dialog will appear giving three options tcs snf tag When you import from an SNF file you will be prompted to map the PLC tag to a device This can be useful because each SNF file represents the tags for a single device The result of checking the Map To Device checkbox and selecting a reference is that the Device reference _A _B etc will be appended to the end of each tag Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tags e 63 Map PLC Tags To Device x X Map To Device CPI ID String at Reference default hd This allows you to choose whether to map all the addresses in the file to a given CPU reference This feature will only be available for the following drivers GeSnp GeSnpx Ge Genius If the mapping to a CPU reference causes a conflict with an existing tag already exists but mapped to a different reference you will be warned on a per tag basis and will be allowed the standard overwrite options yes no yes to all no to all If you elect not to overwrite a tag then a new tag mapped to the appropriate reference will be created Example file SNF HH This is a Shared Name Fi
68. tag field KeyPad Title Off When you touch a Numeric Data Entry button the current panel is erased and replaced by a numeric data entry panel The legend text from the Numeric Data Entry button will normally appear at the top of the data entry panel Checking the KeyPad Title Off box will remove the text from the top of the data entry panel See the Data Entry Panel on page 222 Input Range The min and max range settings are determined bythe PLC type and the tag variable type You can change the range values to allow only a specific range of values If you enter an incorrect value for the min or max range values an error message will appear The dialog box will identify the type of errror and display the User Defined Range and the Default PLC Range Buttons in the dialog box allow editing the user defined range values or using the default settings Yalue Out of Range Max is outside the valid input range defined in the PLC Either go back and edit the Max value so that it ts within range or press the Use Default PLE Range button to use the PLC s default Max value User Defined Range Default PLC Range Max 6 7000 Max 69935 Edit User Defined Range Panel Editor GFK 1855 Numeric Data Entry e 219 Bezel and Legend Visible The following drawing shows the three main parts that are combined to make the Numeric Data Entry operator If you uncheck the Bezel and Legend Visible checkbox you will only see the data display
69. the PLC can select a panel by changing the panel ID number in the Panel trigger register In this situation the GOTO PANEL button will write the panel ID number to the Panel trigger register to initiate the panel change The important point to remember is that a new panel is displayed when a change occurs in the PLC trigger register NOTE If you use Panel Trigger Tag you should also select a Default Panel If the Panel Trigger Tag in your PLC is equal to 0 or an unused panel ID number and you don t use a Default Panel the target display screen will be blank after downloading Panel Confirmation Tag The Panel Confirmation Tag is an internal or PLC tag address that will contain the current panel ID number Whenever you select a new panel using the GotoButton or Panel Trigger Tag the Panel Confirmation Tag address will be updated with the ID of the current screen The Panel Confirmation Tag functionality is only available on panels created with the panel editor The Numeric Data Entry Keypad panels alarm panels and any other panels that the program generates do not have the Panel Confirmation ability Therefore if the user is on panel 9 and presses a Numeric Data Entry button this will move them to the keypad entry screen but the screen ID in the Panel Confirmation Tag address will not change Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 39 Print Trigger Tag The Printl Trigger tag is a register in the PLC that can be used to print the curre
70. the corners To size an object move the cursor over one of the sizing handles and observe that the pointer changes into a double end arrow Click and hold the left mouse button and adjust the size eS k 154 e Circle Tool Panel Editor GFK 1855 Rectangle Tool Creating a Rectangle The rectangle tool is used to draw filled or unfilled rectangles Click the rectangle icon on the tool bar To create a rectangle move the cross hair cursor to the desired cells and click the left mouse button If you want to size the rectangle immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the rectangle Release the mouse button and the rectangle is sized The Rectangle Settings dialog box appears The Rectangle Settings dialog box can also be displayed by double clicking a rectangle Rectangle Settings The dialog box allows changing the line style and color selecting filled or unfilled rectangles and selecting the rectangle fill color Rectangle Settings Line Style Filed D OK Cancel Hake Default Line Color Flashing Fill Color C Flashing Help Line Style Solid dashed dotted dash dot dash dot dot none Filled Unfilled Check the Filled box to fill the rectangle with color Line Color Select the color of the rectangle outline See Appendix D for Color Information Fill Color Select the color for the ins
71. think how much time and money you have saved You can add an object to your control panel in less than two minutes with no wiring changes That s QUICKPANEL Panel Editor GFK 1855 Quick Tour e 29 QUICKMANAGER QUICKMANAGER Window QUICK MANAGER is used to set up a project file that contains the type of PLC used the serial communications attributes and other information required for a project From the manager window you can jump to the panel editor which is used to design panels You can jump to the tag editor to add or modify the tag list You can jump to the alarm manager to setup the alarm processor When you have completed a project you can click the download button to send the completed project to a target display The QUICK MANAGER window is shown below Tite Bar akM a Furr e me Iofs Menu Bar p S Project Components Options Window Help l x Too Bar Li cs Se e eit ss 2e Project File List Menu Buttons _ New HA Panels sew For Help press F1 O QUICKPANEL jr 5 OPS Status Bar Menu Bar Windows commands are listed on menus Menus are represented by names in the menu bar at the top of each application window In Windows you select a menu and then choose a command from that menu Choosing the command carries out the action The menu bar for the QUICK MANAGER is shown below Project Components Options Window Help The items listed on menus are
72. to another some or all of the objects tag addresses on the panel do not appear to communicate with the PLC There are no messages on the QuickPanel that indicate a communications error a Go to the Tags area of the project then select Tools from the top menu and select Validate This will determine if there are any internal tags used in the program If the tags were marked as internal then this validation process should correct those tags that are valid so that they communicate with the PLC Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide e 283 b If re validating did not work purge the tag database of all tags Then go to each panel open it and go to File Save As and save the panel with the original panel id and name This will regenerate the tags in the tag database as new 284 e Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix D 64 Colors Color Selection Originally the QuickPanel supported only eight colors BLACK RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE With the addition of the Series 3 QuickPanel Quick Designer will now support 64 colors That means when you are using a Series 3 QuickPanel and you click on one of the color options a 64 color palette will appear The palette appears whenever a color selection combo box is clicked inside the QuickDesigner software eee If you load a color project from an 8 color unit into a monochrome unit Red Green and Blue will be conver
73. variable The button is permanently assigned an internal variable that controls printing There are three styles of the print button available The three button styles are standard circular and simple LEGEND PLATE BEZEL PRINT SCREEN BUTTON PRINT PRINT SCREEN SCREEN Click the print button icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the print button to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the print button immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the button Release the mouse button and the button is sized The following Print Button Settings dialog box will appear The Bezel and Legend buttons will display additional dialog boxes Print Button Settings OF Style Standard Cancel Make Default Advanced eo aa ee Legend Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Print Button e 167 Style The style list box is used to select the style of the button Select Standard Circular or Simple Standard Print Button The elements of the standard print button are shown below The standard print button consists of a bezel and legend plate The bezel is the frame around the legend plate The bezel can be one color when the button is idle and a different color when the button is touched The bezel color the touch color and the bezel outline colo
74. variable over a period of time collect the data set in a buffer and display the data you have a QuickPanel trend display The Trend display is capable of displaying data from multiple data sets To add a trend display to a panel click the trend icon in the floating Tools menu The Trend Graph Settings dialog box appears Each of the buttons controls a major section of the Trend Graph design Trend Graph Settings E Onentation Hum Samples Sample Hate oO o E seconds Cancel Background Color a Flashing Advanced Hake Default Face plate Time Axnis Scale Pens Help Orientation refers to the direction the trend will be displayed The number of samples determines how many data points will appear on the screen The sample rate determines how often a new sample is taken Background color is the color behind the trend display A sample trend operator is shown below There is a limitation when using large trend displays on a 10 5 color and 9 Mono displays In some cases a trend display 8 cells wide by 12 cells high with a sample rate of 1 second would appear to lockup a panel When the trend display was reduced to 8 cells wide by 8 cells high the panel updated normally If you experience this problem reduce the sample rate from 1 second to 2 seconds or more or reduce the size of the trend display 236 e Trend Panel Editor GFK 1855 Face Plate The face plate is the area around the trend display
75. with a HMI CAB C49 cable and a Null Modem adapter You may also need a 25 pin to 9 pin adapter since the HMI CAB C49 cable has a 9 pin header Depending on your modem you may also need gender changers PC with QuickDesigner Software Requirements HyperTerminal is used to connect and configure the modems This allows changing modem parameters and dialing the remote modem while in the command mode Once Hyperterminal connects the modems the program is disconnected to leave the modems ready for communications QuickDesigner uses a program called Courier to communicate with QuickPanels Courier must be forced to a fixed baud rate This is done by editing the COURIER INI file found in the Quick folder Change the AutoBaud setting to 9600 See the sample file below Note that the Port setting is set to serial port 2 Settings CourlerWindow 16 63 Port 2 AutoBaud 9600 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Download and Upload Files e 95 Running HyperTerminal Start the HyperTerminal Program The Connection Description dialog appears Enter a name and select an icon for the connection When the Phone Number dialog appears select Direct to Com 2 in the Connect using list box When the Com2 Properties dialog box appears set the parameters a
76. you can gain access to any other help topic by clicking the Quick Help button at the top of the help screen Index An alphabetical list of all Help topics that are available Using Help Instructions on how to use Windows Help Product Authorization The Product Authorization procedure requires that you authorize QuickDesigner for full use on your computer Unauthorized versions can be used to create projects but they cannot be downloaded to a QuickPanel display You can authorize the software via Phone FAX or the Internet The procedures are detailed in the Installation section of this manual See Product Authorization on page 4 Tech Support Web Page Technical support home page on the Total Control Products web site You must have a web browser installed to view these pages Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 51 If the Users web browser is not IE or the path to the web browser is not correct the following error dialog will be shown luek H arapa Fike bo eel ae Gee H het a ee a vlad be eee r hel ir a EB ee Abe ba phiri ba aaa tle The O0HE LF is ieaie e CULE E QuickPanel Home Page QuickPanel home page on the Total Control Products web site You must have a web browser installed to view these pages See the warning in Tech Support Web Page Online Knowledge Base Online Knowledge Base page on the Total Control Products web site You must have a web browser installed to view these pages See the warning
77. 0 Line Errors There are certain illegal states possible when importing tags They are e Invalid number of fields must be 1 5 or 14 e Invalid field text where number should be Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tags e 61 e Empty field empty field for number is considered to be zero Empty field for tag or var name is considered to be an error If there is an error reported during tag import you will see the following error Quick Manager x Tag Import Error File C 4Test NumEnrr tes Record 4 The remainder of the tag import will be aborted Those tags already imported will now be validated The tag import process will then end Please note that you will still be led through the tag validation process because if the import detects an error halfway through importing 100 tags the first 50 will already have been created and must be validated If you attempt to import a tag that already exists in the tag database but differs in its configuration you will be presented with the following options PJ mga tee rel Tag ERLPO0 shni EHE amer Lee T Considerations If a tag exists multiple times in the import file only the last instance of the tag will appear Tag Validation Once the import is complete the tag validation process will occur This will ensure that all the tags you imported have the correct configuration Following the Tag Validation a report will be generated that gives the following informati
78. 1 STATE 2 TEXT A TEXT Creating States A state can contain a single element such as a polyline or a bitmap image States can also contain complex images that are made of bitmaps text or polylines You can think of states as a stack of pictures States can be created by designing the elements for each state on an unused area of a panel copying the elements to the clipboard then pasting the grouped elements to the desired state Once the elements are pasted they cannot be edited If you want to change the state you must recreate the picture elements This process works well for a small number of states Another method of creating states is to design the elements for each state and save the design in a library The library feature allows you to view all the designs and make changes before creating the Local Image Display This method is recommended for a Local Image Display with many states The States dialog box has a Library button for easy access to your designs A major design consideration for the Local Image Display is the final size of the display Once you create all the states you can size the Local Image Display like other panel objects When sizing the Local Image Display down the minimum size is determined by the largest object or group of objects on any one state For example if you paste a large bitmap to one of the states then you cannot size the Local Image Display any smaller than the size of the bitmap Ther
79. 187 Alt 0191 Alt 0195 Alt 0196 Alt o197_ a alt 0198 A alt 0199 FAlt 0200 gt Alt 0201 gt aitoo e alt 0203 Alt 0204 c alt 0205 e ait 0206 a alt 0207 alt 0208 pa Aalt 0209 ait o210 Alt 0211 Alt 0212 Alt 0213 alt 0214 i Alt 0215 awo tan Alt 0217_ v alt o218 e alt 0219 palt 0220 i aAlt 0221 i ait o222 ait 0223 Alt 0227 Alt 0228 6 Alt 0229 u Alt 0230 P Alt 0231 Alt 0235 alt 0236 alt 0237_ alt 0238 Alt 0239 Alt 0240 Alt 0241 Alt 0242 Alt 0243 g Aalt 0244 s alt 0245 alt 0246 Alt 0247_ J art o24a alt o249 ait o250 Alt 0251 a Janee A ae alt 0255 Note 1 The character created with Ctrl I is not available as a printable font The two characters shown in the box can be combined to create a character similar to what is displayed on the QuickPanel Note 2 The character created with Alt 0208 is not available as a printable font The character shown is similar to what is displayed on the QuickPanel 268 e Appendix A Character Map Panel Editor GFK 1855 ppendix B Print Options QuickPanel Print Options All QuickPanels are equipped with a download port which is used to download application files from a computer This port is also used to print Alarm messages and screen images Some units have an optional Parallel port which is used to print only screen images The information in this docu
80. 5 ON BIT1 AND ON BIT3 OR ON BIT2 AND OFF BITO There are a couple of issues that must be considered when creating an TMD file They are Any bits that are used must be fully defined State and Name Any two bits must be joined with an operation AND OR XOR Panel Editor GFK 1855 Triggered Message Display e 197 Color Index Numbers The Local Message Display and the Triggered Message Display allow importing and exporting text files that contain color descriptions Colors can be specified by their color name or by their index number The index numbers are laid out on a grid that corresponds to the color palette The index number grid is shown below The index numbers can be cross referenced to the 64 color grid so you can match Color Index numbers to a Color name R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 WHITE CoIR1C8 TURQ ColIR2C8 WHEAT ColR3C8 PALGRN CoIR4C8 ORANGE CoIR5C8 GOLD ColR6C8
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82. 6 Color QPK 3xxxx 256 QUICKPANEL Mini 6 Monochrome 128 QUICKPANEL 9 QPI 11100 S2P Series A only 256 When you have completed a panel you can check the resource count by clicking the Check icon or selecting Check from the File menu Resources are also checked each time you save a panel The message box displays the number of resources used on a panel Panel Designer Ea Ho problems found in active panel Resource count Current 128 Maximum 128 Ignore All Cancel Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 119 If too many resources are used the following warning message is displayed Panel Designer x Resource count may have exceeded the maximum allowed for this panel Ignore All Cancel To ensure the panel does not contain more than the maximum number of resources use the following procedures 1 Save the panel often You will receive a warning when the number of resources has exceeded the maximum allowed 2 Perform a resource check File Check or click the Check doctor bag icon in PanelDesigner If you exceed the resource count remove objects until the count is at or below the maximum If you attempt to download the project a warning will appear when Courier starts Delete Delete a panel from the list of panels for the current project Importing and Exporting Panels If you create a custom panel for Project X and you want to use the identical panel for Project Z the panel can
83. 8 NOT SUPPORTED BY TOTAL CONTROL DTR 5 7 RTS p 1 DCD HMI CAB C1 Fa 5 8 C C105 TO PC TO 8 PIN DIN 9 PIN FEMALE D Parallel Cable The parallel port cable is the HMI CAB C99 This cable has a 14 pin mini Centronics connector on one end and a standard 36 pin Centronics compatible connector on the other The 14 pin mini connector connects to the parallel port on the display See the cable diagram on page 78 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix B ry Options e 271 Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide Installation Issues 1 During the installation of QuickDesigner the error message appears Severe dll is in use close down all program a This usually occurs when QuickDesigner is being installed on a computer that has other software packages running in the background These other software packages may be using some Windows DLLs that are needed by the QuickDesigner installation program MSOffice is a big culprit because although the MSOffice programs are not running the MS Offfice group icons are usually running and can be found at the top right corner of the computer screen Close the icon bar then restart the installation procedure b Any Windows based software package that is running during the QuickDesigner installation should be shut down also Windows 95 NT Press Ctrl Alt Del keys to bring up the Close Program box Select those programs that are currently running then press the End Task button Windo
84. ACKGROUND C729 caec Cancel Cixi E oe 16 3 Text Text Size Justify Background Color C iH Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help LEGEND OUTLINE 216 e Numeric Data Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Data Format Settings The data format window allows setting up the display information Text Size Font Size of the text characters expressed as pixels Smaller text allows more characters in the text field Justification Determines if the text characters are forced to the Left Right or Center Signed Number sign if the PLC supports signed values Fill With Zeros Check to display leading zeros Format Decimal binary hexadecimal octal or floating point Digits Number of numerical characters displayed equal to or less than the maximum allowed because of the text size selected Decimal Positions Number of digits that will be displayed to the right of the decimal point A decimal point is counted as one of the Digits positions See Appendix D for Color Information Data Format Settings Text Size Justification Options CSx Left Signed Number 7x9 Center Fill With Zeros Cancel 11 16 Right C 16x 32 Format Digits Decimal Pos Text Color a Flashing DATA TEXT Background Color ass Flashing Help BACKGROUND COLOR OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Numeric Data Display Sett
85. AM 16X CD ROM drive 80 Meg of free space on the hard drive Mouse and Keyboard 3 800 x 600 Video Display 16 bit Color Backing up and Restoring your data NOTE If you are upgrading your QUICKDESIGNER software your data files will not be changed We recommend that you backup your data files often If someone were to steal your computer or if your hard drive breaks down you will have a backup copy of your important data files You can use the project export feature to copy complete project data to a floppy disk You may also backup your data by copying the files in your data directory to a safe place A simple backup procedure from DOS would be to copy all the files from the data directory to a blank and formatted floppy disk For example copy C QUICK DATA b v should suffice To restore the data simply copy the data files from the floppy disk back to your data directory For example copy B C QUICK DATA v You can also use Windows Explorer to copy files to a different data directory or a floppy disk Installation Procedures Insert CD into CD ROM drive If AutoRun is enabled the CD browser will automatically start If AutoRun is disabled select your CD ROM in Windows Explorer then double click InstallFrontEnd exe The CD browser will start and display the following options Install Browse Manuals Panel Editor Manual Manuals are in PDF format Communications Manual Manuals are in PDF format Hardware
86. C tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field Style The style list box is used to select the style of the button Select Standard Circular or Simple Standard Word Button The elements of the standard word button are shown below The standard word button consists of a bezel and legend plate The bezel is the frame around the legend plate The bezel can be one color when the button is idle and a different color when the button is touched The bezel color the touch color and the bezel outline color can be changed The legend plate contains the text and the background The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are three text sizes available LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND LEGEND PLATE TEXT BEZEL OUTLINE 1294967 BEZEL COLOR TOUCH COLOR ojo Simple Word Button The elements of the simple word button are shown below The simple button is similar to the standard button except it has no bezel The simple button is a legend plate and text The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be change
87. CKDESIGNER take the Quick Tour on page 3 All of the steps for a complete project are included in the tour but all steps are not discussed in detail As your tour guide I will take you through the tour quickly stopping to explain points of interest You can explore all the aspects of Alarms by going to the Alarms chapter on page 56 The first step of the tour is to go to the Project Manager dialog and create a new project called Guided Tour and select QUICKPANEL jr 5 QPJ Color as the display device In the Project Setup dialog I selected Omron for the PLC Type Once you have completed the tour you can go back and charlge the display type and PLC to match your system configuration The QUICK MANAGER dialog box should look similar to the one below fe Dok Manages WEDUSA IHE For Hap parece FT CWIRPAMEL 105 Ca Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms Guided Tour e 83 Create the Alarm Table Click the Alarms button to display the New bit alarms dialog box Flic al olan Enter the starting address as IR3 BO Image Register 3 Bit 0 Enter the number of bits as 5 and make sure the Default state is set to On Click OK and the alarm table is created 84 e Alarms Guided Tour Panel Editor GFK 1855 The QUICKDESIGNER software created the table starting at IR3 BO and extending to IR3 B04 for a total of 5 bit addresses The State column indicates that the alarm is triggered when the bit is turned On Move the mouse curso
88. Color wht Background Color blk Logged Queue On Size 10 Font 7x9 Trigger Text Text Color blk Background Color wht Acknowledge Text Text Color wht Background Color blk Cleared Text Text Color wht Background Color blk SYSTEM TAGS Individual Acknowledge None Global Acknowledge N7 200 Individual Erase None Global Erase None Global Alarms Address Value Message TRO B8 1 Bit 8 Alarm TRO B9 1 Bit 9 Alarm 46 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Project Print Setup Displays the standard Print Setup dialog box for Windows Pani halup i i Lais E12 a11 in Project Exit Closes the QUICK MANAGER window and returns to the Windows operating system Program Manager Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 47 Components Menu The Components menu contains the same selections as the large buttons in the QUICK MANAGER window You can select Panels to create and edit project panels select Tags to create and edit tag variables or select Alarms to create alarm files Panels Tags Alans Panels Selecting Panels will open the QUICKDESIGNER window This window is used to create and edit project panels This window and all the options are explained in the QUICKDESIGNER chapter on page 97 Cici mo si kabia leh iT eae Oe eho PRY ne 48 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tags Selecting Tags will open the Tags window This window
89. Database File Hame Directories c iquick Set Cancel E gt quick C data C ddo C device C odbcreq C peo Drives Ee germe E Save File as Type Library mdb Open Open a new Library database Enter the file name and select the destination drive and directory The default library file name extension is mdb Click OK to complete the operation NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 Open Library Database File Hame Directories c iquick C ddo C device Cg odbcreg C peo Drives Ee germe is List Files of Type Library mdb Exit Close the Quick Designer Library dialog box Panel Editor GFK 1855 Library Browser e 137 Edit Cut Deletes the selected item from the Library A delete confirmation dialog box appears Click Yes to delete the object or No to abort the delete operation There is no UNDO Delete Object Confirmation Are you sure you want to delete this library object Library ADATASDEMO MDE Folder Legends Hame Legend plate 2 Description Copy Copies the selected object to the clipboard Paste Takes the contents of the clipboard and pastes it to a selected library and folder The Transfer Library Object dialog appears Select the destination library and folder enter the name of the object and a description and click OK to complete the transfer Transfer Library Object Source Destination Library
90. GFK 1855 Local Image Display e 203 Creating a Local Image Display Click the local image display icon Fs on the Tools menu Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the local image display to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the local image display immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the local image display Release the mouse button and the local image display is sized The Local Image Display dialog box will appear Local Image Display 2 2a Cancel Help Iag States Tag Variable The Tag is a PLC word variable You can select whether the word is read as a numeric value Word or as discrete Bits Bit If you read the variable as a word value then there will be 256 possible states When the variable is read as discrete bits then there are 17 possible states 16 bit positions and 0 Enter the tag variable name and click the Word or Bit button A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field PLC Value Select Word to control the selection of the state by the value of a PLC word If the value of the
91. GFK 1855 Text Tool e 149 Bitmap Creating a Bitmap The bitmap tool is used to place a bitmap image on a panel The bitmap can be created using Windows Paintbrush or imported from another bitmap source The bitmap becomes a static image on the panel The following picture is a sample bitmap NOTE Only bmp files can be imported into QuickDesigner Click the bitmap icon on the tool bar Move the cross hair to the cell where you want the bitmap to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the bitmap immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the bitmap Release the mouse button and the bitmap is sized An empty bitmap frame similar to the picture below will appear 150 e Bitmap Panel Editor GFK 1855 The bitmap dialog box will appear next to the bitmap frame The selections allow you to determine how the bitmap will be placed in the empty frame The default settings place the bitmap at the top left corner of the frame Selecting the Stretch fit option will automatically size the bitmap to the empty frame Bitmap Settings Bitmap Statistics ox Width Height Cancel Colors Size Hake Default Help Horz Justify Vert Justify Options Left i Top l Stretch fit Center Center C Right Bottom Import Export Horizontal Justify Select Left Center or Right to justify the bitmap to the frame The defau
92. GRAPH WITH i M l NO FACEPLATE AND SCALE P S 00 y j TICKS l BAR COLOR BACKGROUND COLOR BAR COLOR Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bar Graphs e 231 Face Plate The face plate settings allow you to select different background and outline colors for the bar graph However when you download the project the background for the bar area not covered by the bar is always black Text and scale color are set in the Scale Settings dialog box See Appendix D for Color Information 212 8 Gq QAM Face Plate Settings Beckgound Color MN Flesting 2 l Cancel Outline Color Flashing Help Scale The Scale Settings menu is used to customize the bar graph Enter the Text and select the Text Size to appear on the graph Text is vertical for top to bottom and bottom to top graphs and horizontal for left to right and right to left graphs Enter the Scale Range enter Min minimum and Max maximum values Number Size refers to the numbers on the scale Select the number of Digits and Decimal Positions A decimal position is the number of digits to the right of the decimal point The decimal point counts as a digit Tick marks are placed next to the bar graph to delineate the graph into equal segments Select the number of tick marks for the graph Select the Scale Color and click OK to complete the bar graph See Appendix D for Color Information Scale Settings T
93. How do I delete individual alarms from the alarm database QuickDesigner versions 3 32 and below were designed to delete alarms based on the number of alarms from the bottom of the list This was done primarily to keep alarm addresses grouped to maximize communications To delete individual alarms select the alarm to be deleted Then go to Edit and select Freeform Addressing This option allows the alarm s address to be edited Delete the alarm 274 e Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide Panel Editor GFK 1855 address and also delete the text message from the alarm line In QuickDesigner 3 4 and above you select the alarm and click the delete button 11 When trying to print copies of the project s screens from the Reports submenu the only thing that prints is a line of text for the screen and the rest of the page is blank or has ASCII characters Usually this problem is caused by the video resolution setting of your computer s monitor Lower the video resolution of the monitor to about 640x480 resolution and 256 colors This usually corrects the print problem 12 When importing a project the message Cannot set alarm record to DB appears The alarm database has an alarm s that could not be imported correctly Export the alarm file of the original project source from the Alarms area This can be done by selecting File from the top menu bar of the Alarms area Then select Export The software will ask for a storage location and a n
94. Introduction Panel Editor Basic Panel Objects A basic panel object is a push button pilot light illuminated push button selector switch or any type of operator control mechanism typically found on a control panel The QUICKDESIGNER editor allows the Windows operating system user to easily create basic panel objects and group them in panels When the design project is completed in Windows a project file is transferred to a target display Using the editor and display combination you can quickly create and modify a custom control panel for your control application The QUICKPANEL 5 and 6 displays are 320 x 240 pixels which is divided into 24 cells of 80 x 40 pixels The QUICKPANEL 9 EL display is 640 x 400 pixels which is divided into 80 cells of 80 x 40 pixels The QUICKPANEL 10 5 display is 640 x 480 pixels which is divided into 96 cells of 80 x 40 pixels The QUICKPANEL 12 1 display is 800 x 600 pixels which is divided into 150 cells of 80 x 40 pixels The QUICKPANEL jr display is shown below The size of the cells and the tiling grid can be changed The grid is an aid for placing objects on the panel 240 PIXELS 40 PIXELS 320 PIXELS 80 PIXELS Panel Editor GFK 1855 Introduction e 1 The editor presents you with a group of panel object design tools You simply select one of the tools from the tool box and place it on the screen Some objects require a PLC wo
95. MI CAB C99 cable can be used to connect a display to a Centronics compatible printer 78 e Alarms Panel Editor GFK 1855 A TO TCP DEVICE TO PRINTER 14 PIN MALE JIYN NId9E O O NO o1 8 ON gt O O NO o1 8 OMN HMI CAB C99 _ _ TO PRINTER PORT ek Rio r _ 24 TO PRINTER Queue Button The Queue button is one of the option buttons in the Alarm Configuration dialog box Queues are internal storage buffers for alarm messages The three possible alarm queues are Active Historic and Logged Each queue has a default setting of ten messages which means the display will store ten messages Excess alarms are dumped oldest alarms first If you want more messages stored increase the size of the queue NOTE Alarm Messages stored in the QuickPanel queue are lost on a power cycle Aum Queue Conliguiahen Alarm Queue Setup Each alarm queue has a setup button to allow selection of the text size and color for the alarm management page See Alarm Page Display in the next heading When an alarm occurs the message appears in the Alarm Window When the operator touches the display over the Alarm Window the current panel is removed and the alarm management page is displayed The Alarm Queue Settings dialog is used to select the colors and size of the text displayed on the alarm page Panel
96. PLC type NOTE Make sure the target display and PLC have the same communication parameters A majority of interface problems are related to improper communication settings and Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 37 cables Protocol Button The Protocol button will display the unique protocol dialog box for the protocol selected in the PLC Type list box Make sure the settings match those of your PLC An example protocol is shown below Each supported PLC has a dedicated chapter in the Communications User manual 38 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 System Button The System button will display the System Configuration dialog box The Options and Watchdog sections are optional and are not required for project communications DUNCKPAMEL i Sasien Confiog ation Panel Trigger Tag The Panel Trigger tag is a register in the PLC that can be used to select a panel for display Each panel has a unique Panel ID number which is displayed when you save or open a panel When the panel ID number is put in the PLC trigger register the selected panel will be displayed The panel change occurs ONLY when the value in the register changes and the change overrides anything else being displayed If you leave Panel trigger tag blank panel selection is done using the GOTO PANEL buttons only You can use a combination of Panel trigger tag and GOTO PANEL buttons The operator can select different panels by pressing a GOTO PANEL button and
97. Plate Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a legend plate the saved settings will automatically be applied Examples LEGEND PLATE 158 e Legend Plate Panel Editor GFK 1855 Push Button Creating a push button Pressing a push button performs a write operation on a PLC variable On a standard push button the bezel changes color to indicate the button has been pressed The push button action can be selected as Momentary ON OFF or Toggle The four button styles are standard circular simple and none no bezel or lens A standard push button is shown below LEGEND PLATE BEZEL PUSH BUTTON FAN FAN STOP STOP Click the push button icon on the Tools menu LJ Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the push button to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the push button immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the push button Release the mouse button and the push button is sized The following Push Button Settings dialog box will appear The Bezel and Legend buttons will display additional dialog boxes Push Button Settings Tag Acton OF Momentary Cancel ON Style OFF Hake Default Standard Toggle Bezel Legend Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Push Button e 159 Tag
98. RATION ai 1 Setup will now launch the registration program to authorize your Quick Designer software Click OK to start the Product Authorization program You can also start this program from Quick Manager by selecting Help Product Authorization or from the Start Programs Total Control Products Product Authorization menu selection 4 e Installation Panel Editor GFK 1855 The Product Authorization dialog appears as follows The Key Code button is used for completing the authorization process when the key code is received through e mail Preduct Sula an Click the Add button to authorize a new product You will be given several choices for the authorization process Panel Editor GFK 1855 Installation e 5 Product Authorization using Email To authorize the software via Email select the Internet E mail option and click Next The program checks your system for Email functionality and displays the following dialog Product Sula an If the Email option is chosen the following data entry screen appears You must enter all items marked with an asterisk Ponci Abhi aan Paai Cord Prec ier EN CO es Sero eo Prem PDE dbs PSeT Emsi garm ekra a i ee ean Prodan Seis Drai Pasrenni mari ama 6 e Installation Panel Editor GFK 1855 Click the Next button to continue The next dialog is a summary of the items entered above Press the Back button t
99. RN YELLOW 29 DKPINK WHITE 30 MDMAG DKRED 31 LOLGRN PBLU2 32__ PALGRN eae i a B35 36 al 38 39 aoe aE A JJa o E Ea LU3 KYBLU STGRN DGRN RCHID ALMAG 60 GRNS ANGER RANGE CHBLU Lud Reo as oxconp ooo uscn a omven 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 UO O 2 4 3 6 7 8 9 0 31 2 99 4 29 6 37 8 39 40 41 42 43 44 7 10 11 LZ 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 110 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 RGB Color Map Here is the list of colors that are available on the 64 color display referenced to their RGB values The center column shows how colors from a 64 color palette are mapped to an 8 color palette Oena Valves 8 Color Percent Values _ Jed tevecn ite Red Green Blue a MO ee KE A OE Ors P6255 0 2 __ Magenta 100 E O P2565 ees E o aeoe __ 00 0G __ 0 ea 255 255 2255 Whaee 00 008 2 100 aa a e EO e A E a eao Mae OR e e A Oe OO e e a Ee e a ee ee eee ie WOO Rea Ie OO aa ine 0 _ 255 __ Magenta 69 _ 0_ 100_ Yeliow he9 J100 Fo Wane A E O Baeke AOE _ 0 A O EC ane S a oo 1s fad een Or S00 aa al cyan Mo 100 Neo 255 eal 255 176 Magenta 1000 69 __ F255 255 i7e white F100 700 69 Po Oe 2 a ie 30a _ Pate PO Gee AO GO fate 255 ive cyan Aa e feo ae NNO Re eS Oa e E E Magenta a N EE e ot Mae i265 ie eow e o
100. Reference Manual Manuals are in PDF format Web Support Site Exit Panel Editor GFK 1855 Installation e 3 From the main menu click Install After a moment the Installer starts Read each screen carefully and follow its instructions We recommend you install QuickDesigner in its default directory If you change from the default ensure all directories in the new path conform to MS DOS conventions NOTE Do not use spaces or other disallowed characters The Installer asks you to choose among these installation types Typical installs the software and its most popular extras Compact installs the minimum software with no extras Custom allows you to choose components to install The Installer shows the Space Required for the options you want above the Space Available on your hard drive so you can make sure you have enough room The options available are PCO drivers Acrobat Reader User Manuals in PDF format and Knowledge Base files Use the PCO option to select only the PCO drivers needed for you application If you wish to add PCO drivers after installing in the Custom mode start the installation procedure again check the Program Files option then select the driver from the PCO list Checked drivers will be installed The Program Files option cannot remove already installed PCO files Software Authorization When the setup program has finished adding QuickDesigner to your system it will display the following prompt REGIST
101. Select Library ADATASDEMO MDB Folder Legends Hame First legend plate O Delete source after successful transfer Cancel View Toolbar When checked the toolbar is visible in the dialog box Unchecking the option removes the toolbar from the window 138 e Library Browser Panel Editor GFK 1855 Browser Properties Allows changing the properties of the Library Browser The properties are arranged in a file box format The tabs are Drag n Drop Appearance and Text Colors Drag n Drop You can disable the Drag n Drop feature by unchecking the box When an object is dragged from the library to a panel the QUICKDESIGNER editor floats to the top You can disable this feature by clicking No Browser Properties Drag n Drop Appearance Test Colors When dragging an object do you want the QuirckDesigner editor to float to the top Yes gt No Appearance You can change the spacing of objects by entering a new value in the selection box The default setting is 3 Browser Properties Drag n Drop Appearance Text Colors Lane Panel Editor GFK 1855 Library Browser e 139 Text Colors Select the text color and background color for the library objects name Browser Properties Drag n Drop Appearance Text Colors Background Sample Folder New Folder Folders provide a convenient way of storing objects that are related in some way You may want to store all push butt
102. Settings dialog box can also be displayed by double clicking the text Text Settings The dialog box allows changing the text and the text size and color Text is available in several sizes Text characters cannot be sized like other objects Text Settings Text Size OTF 7x9 f11 16 Make Default C 16x 32 _Cancel_ Cancel Text Color Ss Flashing Help Text Enter the text you want to appear in the Text display Text Color Select the color of the text See Appendix D for Color Information Text Size Select the size of the text characters OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings menu and close the menu Cancel Cancel all changes to the Text Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box 148 e Text Tool Panel Editor GFK 1855 Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Text objects appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Text Settings menu The current settings in the Text Settings menu will be saved The next time you create Text the saved settings will automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Text Settings Moving Text To move text move the cursor over the text click and hold the left mouse button and move the text to the desired location Text will snap to grid positions like other objects For fine placement of text turn of the tiling snap to grid option Panel Editor
103. Text Display image to the top of the two cells where you want the Text Display to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the Text Display immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the Text Display Release the mouse button and the Text Display is sized The following Text Display dialog box will appear Text Display Settings Tag OK Cancel Make Default Legend Text Format Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Text Display e 225 Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the numeric Text Display This tag will be a word in the PLC memory that the target display can read For example in an Allen Bradley PLCS the word A2 0 contains 2 ASCII characters You must change the tag variable type to String See Tag Attributes on page 58 for more details A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctr1 T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You Palais add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field NOTE The Tag variable type must be set to String See Tag Attributes section Legend Plate The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator about the meaning of the current text being displayed The legend text size can be changed
104. The Hardware Reference manual contains information about QuickPanels cable diagrams cutout diagrams bezels option modules keypads and maintenance procedures When you click on this link the manual is opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader This manual can also be found on the installation CD Communication Manual If you selected the Typical installation user manuals in PDF format along with Acrobat Reader were added to your system The Communications User Manual contains information about communication protocols including cable diagrams setup information and tag variable tables When you click on this link the manual is opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader This manual can also be found on the installation CD Troubleshooting Guide The troubleshooting guide provides a variety of topics that give suggestions and tips on troublshooting common issues This guide covers both QuickDesigner related issues and QuickPanel runtime issues A list of protocol related error codes is included in this guide Installation Notes Answers to common technical Questions For additional Trouble Shooting tips see the Appendix Panel Editor GFK 1855 Installation e 15 Q Your old version of QUICK DESIGNER cannot get to its data files A See Understanding your data files in the next section Q Setup procedure said that my current data files are incompatible A Unfortunately if you have data files which were created prior to V1 02 we can
105. URE ALARM There are two procedures involved in creating an alarm display The first procedure is to configure the alarm manager You create a table of PLC address bits or words and enter the alarm text for each table entry The alarm manager reads data from the host and determines if an alarm condition exists You select the format for the alarm message date stamp and time stamp You can change the size and format of the queues buffer area where the alarm messages are stored When alarm messages exceed the size of the queue the oldest alarm messages are deleted You can select a bit or group of bits in your PLC that will be set when the alarm Acknowledge and Delete buttons are used The alarm table and configuration information are saved in an alarm file For each alarm condition the alarm manager creates an alarm message string The alarm manager adds date and time stamps add the alarm text from the alarm table formats the entire alarm message and stores the alarm message in the Active Alarm queue buffer area The alarm manager keeps track of when the alarm was acknowledged and cleared and stores this information in the Historic queue The alarm manager also tracks every alarm activity in a Logged Alarm queue Creating an alarm window is the second procedure required to view alarms The alarm window is a tool similar to other tools like pilot lights and push buttons The alarm window is placed on a panel and is used to view alarm informati
106. Use the Next and Previous buttons to select a different state The last state selected will be the one displayed when you click the OK button Click OK to return to the main dialog 7 vet Sie Jag fe Brevious z tele Action The manner in which the push button tag will be controlled is defined by selecting an Action A common action is toggle where the PLC bit tag is turned ON when the push button is pressed and turned OFF when the push button is pressed again Click the Toggle button Action oS Momentary ON OFF Toggle Click the OK button to save the illuminated push button settings 26 e Quick Tour Panel Editor GFK 1855 Click the File menu and select Save from the pull down menu or click the save icon When the Save Panel dialog appears type Panell for the file name Press TAB until the cursor is located in the Description window Type SINGLE ILLUMINATED PUSH BUTTON then click the OK button Click the File menu and select Exit The QUICK MANAGER window will return i Panel Editor GFK 1855 Quick Tour e 27 Tags The tags menu will allow you to view the tags created for the current project You can easily add delete cut paste and copy tags You can purge delete all of the tags from the current project Click the Tags button for the following menu GJ Quick Manager Tags MEDUSA_INI Projectt Iols az Tag Window Tools Help 5 a x
107. Word Buttons one to increment and one to decrement the value of System_Contrast You can see the contrast change as the value is increased or decreased Select the Word Button operator and place it on the panel When the Word Button Settings dialog box appears enter the tag name as System_Contrast You must type the tag name exactly as shown including the tilde at the beginning Select the Action as Add and set the value to 1 Remember to enter the desired text in the legend plate to identify the operator Place a second Word Button on the panel with the same tag name and select the Action as Subtract and the value as 1 You can adjust the screen contrast offline by simultaneously touching the top left and top right corners of the QuickPanel touch screen This will bring up a contrast bar on the bottom of the screen The contrast bar is divided into different shaded sections Pressing a lighter section will lighten the screen pressing a darker section will darken the screen If you press the black section the screen will go black To accept the screen contrast change touch the screen anywhere outside the shaded sections Be careful when using this adjustment A blank screen could indicate a serious malfunction of the display or an accidental contrast change to black Communications 1 After downloading a project to the QuickPanel the message PLC not Responding 02 FE appears at the bottom of the QuickPanel The communications cable
108. You can change the Text Size by clicking one of the Text Size radio buttons Justify text by clicking one of the Justify buttons Colors Originally the QuickPanel supported only eight colors BLACK RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE With the addition of the Series 3 QuickPanel Quick Designer will now support 64 colors That means when you are using a Series 3 QuickPanel and you click on one of the color options a 64 color palette will appear The palette appears whenever a color selection combo box is clicked inside the QuickDesigner software Een Be Triggered Message Display Limitations Considerations There are a number of considerations that apply to the TMD that may not be obvious to the user They are At any time the state of the bits being monitored by the TMD may be such that a number of the TMD States are TRUE In this case the first TRUE state will be activated If none of the logic states are TRUE then the TMD will be blank Because of the range of memory locations allocated for the TMD each TMD on the panel allows a maximum of 16 states to be defined Because of the range of memory locations allocated for the TMD a maximum of 16 TMD are available on each panel screen Panel Editor GFK 1855 Triggered Message Display e 195 Rules Concerning State Parameter Entry The table below shows all of the invalid settings possible when entering a Logic State into the Triggered Message Display pre
109. a Entry is sized The following Numeric Data Entry Settings dialog box will appear Numeric Data Entry Settings Tag Input Range Decimal OK Min ance ua Trigger Tag ae Hake Default ee Reeds V Bezel and Legend Visible M Data Display Visible Bezel Legend Data Format Help PURE 218 e Numeric Data Entry Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the Numeric Data Entry This tag will be a word in the PLC memory that the target display can read and update A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field Trigger Tag This tag will be a word bit in the PLC memory that the target display can write to A bit is set when the ENTER key is pressed and reset when the ENTER key is released If a word is selected for the trigger tag the low order bit is set A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctr1 T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the
110. a e Click OK to close the project database The QUICK MANAGER window appears similar to the one below E ce b Hanay si EB ee e aT a Click on the Database menu option and select Clear Locks Clear locks The following prompt is displayed Click Yes to clear all locks on projects in the database The Open dialog box is displayed 54 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Make sure medusa ini is selected then click OK When the locks are cleared the following prompt is displayed Click OK to remove the prompt Select Open from the Database menu Open Clear locks The File Open menu is displayed Select medusa ini and click OK When you select a project the buttons will again be active Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 55 Tags Introduction to Tags Tags are the names of control elements in your host device either words or bits For example if you have a pilot light there must be a control element in your PLC that is used to turn the pilot light ON and OFF Since a pilot light has only two states you can assume the control element is a bit Bits have specific names such as B3 100 or IR2 B2 In this manual the name of the control element is called a tag Therefore every panel operator that is active requires a tag The tag MUST be a legal tag name for the selected PLC type These tags are external to the display which means the display will have to read
111. able below QPJ 2 and QPI 2 and QPL 2 QPI 3 QPK 2 3 ee ee 0 Alarms Yes ves YES ves YES ponse e aa ean ae an Cable HMI HMI CAB 105 105 HMI CAB 105 HMI CAB 99 HMI CAB 105 HMI CAB 99 Printer Port Tool CN3 Tool CN3 Parallel Tool CN3 Parallel Setting NOTE Laser printers may not print alarms until the print page buffer is full Dot matrix printers will print alarms as they are triggered NOTE Screen prints on dot matrix printers may take a long time NOTE Alarm messages must be formatted to print properly See the Alarms section of the user manual for details on formatting alarm messages NOTE Screen prints are activated by placing a Print Screen tool on any screen or by using the Print Trigger tag in the System Configuration dialog box 270 e Appendix B Print Options Panel Editor GFK 1855 Port Selection The next step is to set the Printer Port for serial Tool CN3 or parallel operation The common name for the serial port is the Tool port On many displays the Tool port is also marked CN3 The Printer Port selection is found in the Alarm Configuration dialog box To get to this dialog box click Alarms in the main menu to open the Alarms window then click the Config button The Alarm Configuration dialog is shown below Alarm Configuration Message Format Date amp Time Format Message Column Date mm dd yy Trigger Date Stamp Column Time 24 00 Trigger Time Stamp Column
112. ach PLC word register can store 2 ASCII characters In the example below the Length is set to 4 therefore you need 2 PLC word registers Panel Editor GFK 1855 ASCII Data Entry e 251 Cox C Lett i o CFx9 C Center a Cancel 11 x16 Right Text Size Justification Length DATA TEXT Help BACKGROUND COLOR Background Color Flashing _ OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the ASCII Data Entry Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all ASCII data entry buttons appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the ASCII Data Entry Settings dialog box The current settings in the ASCII Data Entry Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a ASCII Data Entry button the saved settings will automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to ASCII Data Entry Settings ASCII Text Entry Panel When the ASCII Data Entry push button is pressed an ASCII data entry panel keypad will be displayed The date entry panel will appear in various formats based on the size of the display The drawings below are for 5 ans 6 displays There are nine panels that display characters A Z a z numbers and symbols To view a different panel of characters press the Prev or Next keypads To enter a character press
113. ad L tag for entire object Touch Object T tag Legend Image Library Load L tag for Round Bulb Touch Object T tag Image Library Load L tag for entire object Touch Object T tag Image Library Load L tag Rectangle Object Text Object Legend Scale MeterGraphObject g tag Image Library Load L tag for entire object Legend 2 DataReadout Object E tag Legend Touch Object T tag DataReadout Object E tag 1 Image Library Load L tag for entire object Legend Image Library Load L tag for Round Bulb Image Library Load L tag for entire object Legend Bezel Touch Object T tag Legend Image Library Load L tag for Round Bulb Touch Object T tag Legend Touch Object T tag Polyline Object Static Static Active Invisible Active Bleeds Active Invisible Static Active Bleeds Active Invisible Active Bleeds Active Invisible Active Bleeds Static Static Static Static Active Bleeds Active Bleeds Static Active Bleeds Static Active Invisible Active Bleeds Active Bleeds Static Active Bleeds Active Bleeds Static Active Bleeds Active Invisible Static Active Bleeds Active Invisible Static Active Invisible Static Panel Editor GFK 1855 PushButton Standard Legend Static Bezel Active Bleeds Touch Object T tag Active Invisible PushButton Circular Legend Static Image Library Load L tag for Round Bulb Active Bleeds Touch Object T tag Active Invisible PushButton
114. ains the basic elements of all projects You can substitute your PLC type for those instances where Modicon is used You will be shown most of the dialog boxes but only a few require any input or changes We strongly suggest that you read the Quick Tour section and attempt a simple project Make sure you are able to design a simple panel and download it to the target display When you have the target display communicating with your PLC then proceed to designing more panels You should download each panel and test it before designing the next Quick Project Setup Click the Quick icon to start the editor The following dialog is displayed We assume this is the first time you are using the software and there are no projects previously created O Quek Hane AH EDUSA IMI Note that there are no projects listed in the window and several menu buttons and tools are greyed out inactive Click the New button to display the New Project menu Panel Editor GFK 1855 Quick Tour e 19 New Project The New Project dialog is used to enter a title for a new project and pick a target display device Her Piopi Hem pii a PRDECTI Targets DUIOEPANEL j 5 DPI Codon al a Type PROJECT 1 for the project name and press TAB to move the cursor to the Display device pull down selector the down arrow to the right of the text field Select QUICKPANEL jr 5 QPJ Color as the display device If your target device is different select it
115. alarms Historic alarms or Logged alarms A typical alarm message is shown below DATE TIME MESSAGE ACK CLEAR 09 18 22 48 ALARM MESSAGE TEXT LATO sige ie An Alarm Window consists of a legend and multiple lines of alarm text Touching the alarm window operator causes the alarm manager page to appear Please refer to the Alarms Guided Tour on page 83 and Alarms on page 68 for more information mAT TSON TEIGGERE Click the Alarm Window icon on the Tools menu ay Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the Alarm Window to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the Alarm Window immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the Alarm Window Release the mouse button and the Alarm Window is sized An Alarm Window similar to the one below will appear ALARM HIND H TIGGERE Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarm Window e 241 The Alarm Window Settings dialog box will appear next to the alarm window Alarm Window Settings Queue Scroll Direction OF Active Up PTE SE Cancel Historic Down Log Make Default Advanced Bezel Legend Text Help aldi Queue Select Active Historic or Logged Active Alarms The alarm is displayed when the trigger event becomes active The alarm is displayed in the format and color specified in a configuration table When the alarm is acknowledged th
116. also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field NOTE Any variable assigned to a Bar Graph MUST be a 16 bit integer type variable Orientation There are four ways to orient the bar graph e bottom to top as the value is increased from min to max the graph will grow from the bottom to the top top to bottom as the value is increased from min to max the graph will grow from the top to the bottom e left to right as the value is increased from min to max the graph will grow from the left to the right e right to left as the value is increased from min to max the graph will grow from the right to the left Bar Color Click on the Bar Color list box to display a color chart Click on your color choice and the bar changes to that color Check the Flashing box to make the bar color flash The area the bar does not cover will always appear BLACK when downloaded to a QuickPanel See Appendix D for Color Information Remove Face Plate Scale The bar graph normally has a Face Plate and a Scale The Face Plate consists of an area surrounding the bargraph and scale The Face Plate background and outline colors are selectable The Scale consists of the scale range settings the scale text and the tick marks The Face Plate and the Scale can be removed to display only the bargraph and the outline by checking the Remove Face Plate Scale box to OUTLINE SCALE FACEPLATE OUTLINE COLOR ih COLOR a 4 212 0 fo T LE BAR
117. ame The help files contain sample colors however you must have a display capable of showing 64 colors Color names other than the original eight are fixed names for import and export The colors in the grid can be referenced in two ways when preparing an import file for a Local Message Display lmd or a Triggered Message Display tmd Use the names shown in the 64 Color Grid Use the Row and Column numbers shown in the Color Index Numbers table ie BLACK ColR1C1 KHAKI ColR8C8 Color Color Color Index Index Index Brack 23 vrm Brue 24 vnem CeREen 25 Pro Devan 26 DKPURP PRED 27___ GRN3 MAGENTA 28 MNTGRN TveLLow 29 PKINK DECYAN warre 30 MDMAG DKRED 31 LOLGRN ru s2 PALGRN Lee 34 ie 36 pe 8 so 40 rar e JJa oz L03 CORAL KYBLU STGRN SLIBLU DGRN RCHID DEGRAY ALMAG 60 GRNS ANGER DEPLMG RANGE CHBLU WOOD L04 Reo as okom ooo usen a omen 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 O 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 31 2 SE 4 39 6 37 8 39 40 41 42 43 44 7 10 11 12 13 14 To 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 186 e Local Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Selected Fields Each field in the Default Fields section that is checked will appear in the Selected Fields section You can change the sequence of the fields by clicking a field name then use the up and down arrows to change its position in the list In the following example
118. ame for the alarm file Give the file a name and then click OK Once the file has been exported delete the alarm file from the original project Note Before deleting the alarms from the original project make sure the alarm file can be re imported into a project The new project can now be exported 13 How do I place pictures of the QuickPanel screens into other software packages MS Word PowerPoint WordPerfect etc To copy a picture of a QuickPanel screen into other software packages open the screen you wish to copy Then on your keyboard press Alt Print Scrn buttons to copy a picture of your computer s screen to the Windows Clipboard The picture can now be pasted into a graphics editor program PaintBrush Paint Paint Shop Pro etc to be edited 14 After upgrading to QuickDesigner 3 50 the text in some of the graphical tools has vanished both in the editor and at panel runtime One of the major upgrades to QuickDesigner 3 50 was a complete re work of both the editor and panel runtime appearance of our graphical tools In the past these tools have not always appeared the same in the editor as they do on the panel This made it difficult for our users to correctly design their QuickPanel projects without having to constantly test them by downloading them to the panels In QuickDesigner 3 50 we tried to address the issue of text output specifically the issues where the text could appear in the editor but did not appear when
119. an alarm window The operator touches the screen to activate the alarm management page shown below If you assign a keypad to an Alarm window the alarm management page will have an additional row showing keypad assignments The alarm management page function keys Up Down Ack etc will now have permanent keypad assignments Up is AO Del is A3 and so on The touch screen and the keypads work in parallel If the touch screen is disabled only the keypads will operate the alarm page functions ACTIVE ALARMS 09 19 13 28 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 1 09 19 13 40 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 2 Up Down Ack Del a mh MODE DONE AO Al A2 AS A4 AS ACG AZ Simulating Panel Objects with Keypads You can assign a keypad to simulate a panel object even though there is no panel object visible on the screen You can assign one of the keypads to simulate the following panel operators e Push Button e Goto Panel Button e Print Button e Word Button e Selector Switch e Numeric Data Entry To create a simulated panel object go to the TOOLS menu and select Keypad Assignments Parts Drawing w Select Keypad Assignments The keypad key assignment dialog box appears Keypad Key Assignments AO Not assigned ne Atinbutes Key Assignment Unassion Simulated Goto Panel Simulated Word Push Button Simulated Push Button Simulated Selector Switch Si
120. and the following prompt appears Quek Manaayper LT Lido J e Click Yes to display the Save Alarm dialog box Enter the filename as Tour and the description as Guided Tour 1 Save Aloe Fie 4s Click OK to save the alarm file and return to the Quick Manager dialog box Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms Guided Tour e 87 Creating the Alarm Window The Alarm window is used to display the formatted alarm message on a panel For the next series of operations you will use the Panel editor to create a panel with an alarm window Click the Panels button in the Project Manager dialog box The QUICKDESIGNER window appears with a blank panel and the Tools menu The Tools menu is shown below Click the Alarm Window tool and drag the alarm icon to the panel Click the mouse over the desired panel location and the Alarm Window will appear ALARM HIND H TEIGGERE The Alarm Window Settings dialog box will appear next to the Alarm Window Set the Queue to Active so that alarm messages from the Active Alarm queue will be displayed in the alarm window As new messages are triggered they will scroll into the alarm window either from the top or the bottom The default setting of scroll up will show the latest alarm message on the bottom of the alarm window I prefer the Scroll Direction as Down where the latest alarm message appears at the top of the alarm window Take your pick hi A eines etter Hure Scroll pricin r iphi
121. and the message PLC Comm Error 02 xx appears at the bottom of the screen a This is usually caused by an invalid Panel Trigger Tag address Make sure the panel trigger tag address under System in the Setup menu has been programmed in the PLC b The panel trigger tag address may be regarded as an Internal Tag by QuickDesigner and is therefore not communicating with the PLC Delete the Panel trigger tag address from the System menu found under Setup Then go to Tag and delete the address from the database Go back to Setup and under System type in the panel trigger tag address can use the previous tag if desired Re download the application after changes are made 3 When selecting a Numeric Entry object to input data the data entry screen appears for 1 second but before data could be entered the QuickPanel switched back to the original panel The PLC ladder logic is forcing the QuickPanel to display a screen using the panel trigger tag When an internal screen number usually in the 4 000 range is sent to the panel trigger tag it is immediately overwritten by the PLC ladder logic a Use a One Shot instruction in the rung of ladder logic that changes the panel id number for the panel trigger tag b In the qmgr ini file under the section Options create a new line at the end of the section that reads ScreenChangeWriteTrap 0 QuickDesigner must first be closed down before this change is made After the line has been ente
122. ate O and State 1 Change the text by typing new text in the text box Select text size by clicking a Text Size radio button Justify the text by clicking one of the justify buttons Select a solid or flashing color for the Text Lens and Outlines colors Click OK to apply the settings and return to the setup dialog The last state selected will be the one displayed when you click the OK button State Settings Text Size Justify OF Next Saa LEF ON C l ance Fxg sos Previous 3 Or ik 1116 State 16 x 32 Help Legend Plate The Legend Plate button is only active for the circular pilot light Select a solid or flashing color for the Background and Outline colors The Legend Plate background and outline colors do not change like the lens and text colors Click OK to apply the settings and return to the setup dialog Legend Plate Settings k Background Color Flashing Cancel Dutline Color Flashing did Help OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Pilot Light Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Pilot Lights appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Pilot Light settings dialog box The current settings in the Pilot Light Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a pilot light the saved settings w
123. ate and a special display that shows data in a bar graph format LEGEND PLATE BARGRAPH FACEPLATE BAR GRAPH N 212 0 212 0 OT T E E M M P P S Z 0 0 d 0 0 Click the bar graph icon on the Tools menu Ti Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the bar graph to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the bar graph immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the bar graph Release the mouse button and the bar graph is sized The following Bar Graph Settings dialog box will appear Note the Face plate Scale and Simulate buttons which when pressed will display the associated dialog box See Appendix D for Color Information Bar Graph Settings Tag Orientation OK Lo Bottom to top I Cancel Remove Legend Scale ir Advanced Face plate cale Simulate Help 230 e Bar Graphs Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the numeric Bar Graph operator This tag will be a word in the PLC memory that the QUICKPANEL can read A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can
124. ations all follow certain conventions when listing items on a menu These conventions signal that extra information about the menu commands follows Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 97 MENU CONVENTION DESCRIPTION Dimmed command name The command is not available at this time An ellipsis after the name A dialog box will appear A check mark next to the name The command is active A key combination after the name A shortcut for this command A triangle at the right side The command leads to a cascading menu To choose an item from a selected menu click the item name Button Bar The button bar contains icons relating to commands found in the menu bar By clicking an icon you gain instant access to frequently used commands The QUICKDESIGNER button bar is shown below You can turn off the Button Bar by unchecking the selection in the Options menu Pom Fe Pes I EES EC Pe ke EN New To Exit Open Undo cae Back Zon Save oe To Front Out Redo Cut Check Paste Delete Zoom Copy Change In Align Status Bar The status bar is located at the bottom of the window and contains context sensitive status information The information changes are based on the location of the mouse and mouse selections You can turn off the Status Bar by unchecking the selection in the Options menu The center field of the status bar shows the coordinates of the mouse as it is moved around the panel The right field shows the view percentage A 1 1 v
125. attribute values of the text file by clicking the Define Values button In the Color section the basic 8 colors are shown with their common default names Only the basic 8 colors are supported You can change BLACK to BK or any other attribute The 5x7 Text Size can be changed from 5x7 to SMALL Any attribute changed in this dialog box must match attributes in the text file That is you cannot use 5x7 in the text file if you change the attribute to SMALL The dialog box shows the default settings for the Color Color Flashing Text Justification and Text Size attribute values Define Attribute Yalues Color Text Justification muck a z1 s me Bacen e Color Flashing On Save To Default Saves the current selections in the Define Attributes Values dialog box as the new default values Restore Default Changes all selections in the Define Attributes Values dialog box to the default values OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Local Message Display Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Local Message Displays appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Local Message Display Settings dialog box The current settings in the Local Message Display Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Local Message Display the saved settings will
126. automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Local Message Display Settings Panel Editor GFK 1855 Local Message Display e 191 Alarms and Prompts The primary purpose of the Local Message Display is to present simple information messages or operator prompts The drawing shows a Local Message Display sized to fit across four cells The display can be sized to fit almost any length message NOTE Do not confuse alarm messages in a Local Message Display with alarm messages created by the Alarm tool 192 e Local Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Triggered Message Display Creating a Triggered Message Display A Triggered Message Display consists of a two or more stacked lenses Each lens display is a different message Only one message is visible at a given time The triggered message display requires one or more PLC bit variables MESSAGE 0 MESSAGE 1 MESSAGE n TEXT TEXT TEXT The TMD works by displaying a message based on the status of PLC bit variable s For each displayed message the user can choose to relate up to four Bit variables with three different logic functions AND OR XOR Click the triggered message display icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair and triggered message display image to the top of the two cells where you want the triggered message display to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the trig
127. ave the panel design in pnl format When you import a panel with the pnl extension save it with your own panel name For example if you import PANEL1 PNL save it immediately to the new panel name of PANELI NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 Exit Quit the QUICKDESIGNER program Edit Menu The Edit Menu is shown below To the right of each menu option is a key or combination of keys You can select the option from the menu or use the key key combinations to perform the function Undo add object Alt tBkSp Redo add object Shiftt Alt Bksp Cut Ctrl xX Copy Ctrl C Paste Ctrl Store Library Object Ctri L Select All Deselect All Align Ctrl A Change Alt Enter Change Object Tags Ctrl T Delete Del to Background Ctrl B to Foreground Ctrl F Group Objects Ctrl G Ungroup Objects Ctri U Undo last operation Alt BkSp Undo the last operation The undo command will indicate what type of operation was last performed Redo last operation Shift Alt BkSp Redo the last operation The redo command will indicate what type of operation it will perform Cut Ctrl X Remove the selected object and place it on the clipboard Copy Ctrl C Copy the selected object to the clipboard Paste Cirl V Paste a copy of the contents of the clipboard to the panel The contents of the clipboard remain until you cut or copy a new object Store Library Object Ctrl L
128. be changed and the text can be justified by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons The text color lens color and outline color can be modified See Appendix D for Color Information ToD ate Deeley Steg Sige Te ptions gin pions Test Sire Justity Tie F Hours E pdi Hmo Ga Fe Date F hinutsr Moti y B a x ws Secomds Pep Hml 1 18 nt eal aa M Mulitary idsHoys C j ajf Aedes i Timi iEr i i ot TT Fasting Duine coi D le Pith The default settings for time are hours and minutes in 12 hour format You can add seconds to the clock display by checking the Seconds box Military time is displayed in 24 hour format For example 2 30PM would be 1430 hours 228 e Time Date Panel Editor GFK 1855 The default setting for date is Dd Mm Y yyy Setting the target display time and date To set the time on a display use the Numeric Data Entry tool to set the internal variables Hour Minutes and Seconds To set the date use the Numeric Data Entry tool to set the internal variables Month Day and Year Do not use any other tool to modify the internal variables The following panel shows how to design a panel for setting the display time and date The panel consists of Numeric Data Entry tools for reading and modifying system variables and Numeric Data Display tools for displaying the system time and date For System Hour set the Numeric Data Entry tag name to System_Hour You must type the tag name exactl
129. being downloaded is too large for the QuickPanel unit Exit the download then go back to the application and eliminate unnecessary objects in the Panels area Bitmap graphs are the biggest culprit of excessive memory use 282 e Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide Panel Editor GFK 1855 6 During the initializing process of the QuickDesigner software a message appears Error initializing memory a This is usually a problem when an attempt at downloading to the QuickPanel was abruptly interrupted such as the download cable becoming disconnected or the power to the QuickPanel or computer during the download process was turned off On the QuickPanel press three corners of the touch screen top two corners and one of the bottom corners NOTE If the two top corners are pressed simultaneously a contrast adjustment bar will appear at the bottom of the screen Press a top and bottom corner first then press the last top corner A menu bar should appear Press Offline Then select Initialize Then choose Initialize Memory The QuickPanel will ask you for a password Type 1101 then press Start With the QuickPanel Jr hardware you must press the password entry box to get a numeric keypad to appear Type in the password 1101and press Set Then press Start The memory should be initializing Once the memory has been erased try the download again b Changing the AutoBaud rate in the courier ini file can also be useful in this situation The QuickPanel
130. bject is a numeric data display which has a legend plate element and a data readout element When you attempt to put one graphic object on top of another graphic object you must consider the attributes of each object The foreground background attributes observed in the QuickDesigner editor are DIFFERENT than those observed in runtime QuickPanel operating system Please Note e Any element that is static will obey the foreground background rules as observed in the editor This means that if you put a static element on top of another static element they will appear the same way when the panel is displayed at runtime For example if you put a red circle on top of a green rectangle it will that way when the panel is displayed at runtime e Any element that is Active will always bleed through to the front of the screen even if the editor shows it as being behind something else This means that if you put a static object on top of an active object the active element will bleed through when the panel is displayed at runtime The runtime QuickPanel operating system makes active elements visible at all times It is acommon practice to put bitmaps on top of numeric data entry objects However the data readout bleeds through the bitmap You can turn off the data readout by unchecking the Data Display Visible checkbox in the Numeric Data Entry Settings dialog box Some graphical objects like the Push Button can be displayed in a Sim
131. box in the following drawing Baud Rate Older QuickPanels can support baud rates from 9600 to 38 4K while some newer versions QPI 3 can support baud rates from 9600 to 115K The default baud rate is set to 115K If you attempt to download to a unit with a slower baud rate the baud rate will automatically change and the AutoBaud setting in the COURIER INI file will be changed If you download to a QuickPanel that supports 115K and the AutoBaud setting in the COURIER INI file is set to 38400 the download will proceed at 38400 To get the higher baud rate the COURIER INI file must be changed to 115K Courier in1 Settings CourierWindow 63 Port 2 AutoBaud 1 15000 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Download and Upload Files e 93 Event Log QUICKCOURIER will keep track of all operator prompt messages and allow you to view them in a scrollable window See the Event Log in the following dialog box HA Quick Courier Project Proypectt Filename GPC_A Communications port CTS gt RI COM2 z DSR cD ae loader aa walit Event Log Reading display device machine ID Display device identified Loading bootstrap loader please walt Display device QUICKPANEL jr 5 QPU Color Flash memory RAH Executable 81001090 5PG Version Protocol Version Free Space When the application download is complete QUICKCOURIER will close and the QUICK MANAGER program will return If you have a default panel selected the panel wi
132. button is pressed Enter the text message in the Text box and select the text size by clicking one of the radio buttons in Text Size Justify the text by clicking a button in Justify Select a solid or flashing Text Background and Outline color There is more room for text on a simple button than on a standard button Click OK to apply the selections and close the dialog box Legend Plate Settings LGND TEXT Text Text Sze Justify F i ND TEST oo ote 7g e oge Ciixie C OC 16 x 32 Cancel Background Color di Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help LEGEND OUTLINE OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings menu and close the menu Cancel Cancel all changes to the Hardwired Jog Button dialog box and exit the dialog box Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Hardwired Jog Button Settings Panel Editor GFK 1855 Jog Button e 257 Video Display Video Inputs The Video QuickPanel has the standard serial printer and tool ports It also has three NTSC BNC video inputs The following drawing shows the location of the ports and input connectors SERIAL PRINTER TOOL PORT PORT PORT CHO CH1 CH2 VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO The video source must be NTSC The video output from a camcorder or VCR is usually an RCA phono plug type connector An easy way to connect these video sources is by adding an RF adapter to the Video QuickPanel A typical phono plug to BNC connector ca
133. ccessful transfer Cancel Panel Editor GFK 1855 Library Browser e 141 Delete Object Deletes the selected item from the Library A delete confirmation dialog box appears Click Yes to delete the object or No to abort the delete operation There is no UNDO This is the same operation as an Edit Cut Delete Object Confirmation Are you sure you want to delete this library object Library ADATASDEMO MDE Folder Legends Hame Legend plate 2 Description Object Properties The properties are arranged in a file box format The Name Desc tab allows changing the name and description of the object Object Properties Name Desc Library ADATAS DEMO MDE Hame Legend plate 2 Description Right Mouse Button Options for Objects Opening a folder in a library will display all objects in the folder Clicking the right mouse button when the cursor is ON TOP of an object will display the following options menu The menu is tied to the object directly below the cursor NOT the selected item Cut Copy Transter Delete 142 e Library Browser Panel Editor GFK 1855 Adjust Size Select Adjust Size to display sizing handles on the object below the cursor Use any of the handles to proportionally size the objects in the folder Cut Object Removes the object below the cursor and places the object on the clipboard The Delete Object Confirmation dialog box is displayed Copy Object Copies the object below the cu
134. ck on it again to change from the editing mode to the sizing mode The sizing handles should appear around the object If you click too fast you will get the Line Polyline Polygon Settings dialog box To size an object select one of the sizing handles and observe the pointer changes into a double end arrow Click and hold the left mouse button and adjust the size Sizing handles on the corners are for diagonal sizing Handles between the corners are for horizontal and vertical sizing The drawing shows an object resized in the horizontal direction HORIZONTAL Ze od VERTICAL DIAGONAL Cautions When creating a polygon be careful drawing when the grid is set to snap The cursor will attempt to snap to the nearest grid point on the drawing grid The mouse cursor may be in a different location when you start to create the next line This will cause problems if you attempt to make a polygon Make sure you draw lines from grid point to grid point or turn off the snap to grid feature Polyline Settings The dialog box allows changing the line style and color selecting filled or unfilled polygons and selecting the polygon fill color To display the settings dialog double click on the polyline object If you double click too slow you will only display the sizing handles Line Polyline Polygon Settings Line S
135. click the Move button Preduct Sula aan You will need the target site code to complete the move operation The site code is found on the top right corner of the Product Authorization dialog box A reminder message is displayed latin Horing i 10 e Installation Panel Editor GFK 1855 Click OK to continue The next dialog asks for the site code from the target device Pomtiict Aime eh ee Tap Se Coe Enter the site code and click Next You will be asked to verify the site code from the target device This is IMPORTANT Click OK to continue The next operation is to move the authorization to a floppy disk Flict A uah a ater irii Frieri h h y p ea oma Panel Editor GFK 1855 Installation e 11 Insert a blank formatted floppy disk and click Next A summary of the information appears Pemuct u y sen If the site code in the dialog box does not EXACTLY match the site code on the target device you will lose the authorization for this product Click Finish to write the information to the floppy disk This disk can now be used to authorize the target device Please note that the site code of the Source machine is now changed To add the authorization to the target machine start the Product Authorization program and click the Add button You can authorize a product via the Internet E mail by Phone Fax or by floppy disk Batic Sutbhei Abei Select Disk and click Next 12 e Instal
136. click the Make Default button in the Push Button Settings dialog box The current settings in the Push Button Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a push button the saved settings will automatically be applied Advanced Button NOTE The Advanced Button is enabled when you select Keyboard Attached in the Touch Screen Configuration dialog in Setup Clicking the Advanced button will display the Advanced Settings Dialog box The Push Button operation can be assigned to an external keypad See Keypads page 262 and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information Once a keypad is assigned you can disable the touch screen by checking the Touch disable box If you leave the touch disable box unchecked then the touch screen and the keypad can both operate the push button Advanced Settings el Key Assignment M Touch disabled Cancel Help Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Push Button Settings Panel Editor GFK 1855 Push Button e 163 illuminated Push Button Creating an Illuminated Push Button An illuminated push button consists of a bezel an OFF lens and an ON lens The illuminated push button requires two PLC variables one for the lens and one for the push button The push button action can be selected as momentary ON OFF or toggle BEZEL OFFLENS ONLENS ILLUMINATED PUSH BUTTON POWER ON
137. ct enlarged horizontally Note that only the word LEGEND appears The rest of the text has been clipped To see all the text the object must be sized vertically as shown in the picture on the right LEGEND cca a PLATE _ All graphical tools that contain legends and lenses all output their wrapped text in a standard way If the text appears clipped missing text in the editor it will be clipped on the panel at runtime Some users may find that after upgrading to QuickDesigner 3 50 the text in some of their graphical tools has vanished both in the editor and at panel runtime If you encounter this it is most likely the result of our Text Cutoff Fix Please review the information in the Troubleshooting Guide found in the Appendix 108 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Color Selection Originally the QuickPanel supported only eight colors BLACK RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE With the addition of the Series 3 QuickPanel Quick Designer will now support 64 colors That means when you are using a Series 3 QuickPanel and you click on one of the color options a 64 color palette will appear The palette appears whenever a color selection combo box is clicked inside the QuickDesigner software Color Index Numbers The Local Message Display and the Triggered Message Display allow importing and exporting text files that contain color descriptions Colors can be specified by their color name or by thei
138. d There are three text sizes available The simple button has more room for text characters than the standard button LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND 128456789012 LEGEND PLATE TEXT 7 172 e Word Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Circular Word Button The elements of the circular word button are shown below The circular button consists of a bezel and legend plate The bezel is the circular section in the center of the button The ring around the bezel is the touch indicator The touch indicator can be one color when the button is idle and a different color when the button is touched The bezel color the touch color and the bezel outline color can be changed The legend plate contains the text and the background The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are three text sizes available LEGEND PLATE TEXT LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE PUSH BUTTON LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND BEZEL TOUCH BEZEL BEZEL OUTLINE Action This pull down list box is used to select the action to be performed on the PLC word register The available action options are Set Set the register equal to the number in the Value field Add Add the number in the Value field to the PLC word register Subtract Subtract the number in the Value field from the PLC word register AND Perform the logical AND operation between the number in the Value field and the PLC word register OR Perform the logical OR operatio
139. d Push Button Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all push buttons appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Illuminated Push Button Settings dialog box The current settings in the Illuminated Push Button Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create an illuminated push button the saved settings will automatically be applied Advanced Button NOTE The Advanced Button is enabled when you select Keyboard Attached in the Touch Screen Configuration dialog in Setup Clicking the Advanced button will display the Advanced Settings Dialog box The Illuminated Push Button operation can be assigned to an external keypad See Keypads page 262 and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information Once a keypad is assigned you can disable the touch screen by checking the Touch disable box If you leave the touch disable box unchecked then the touch screen and the keypad can both operate the button Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Push Button Settings 166 e Illuminated Push Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Print Button Creating a print button The print button prints the current panel to a printer attached to the serial download or parallel port For information about hardware connections see the printer information in Appendix B The button works like a push button except that you do not need to set a tag
140. d place it back on the screen 2 When compiling a project the message No state is specified in the xxxx tool and the compiler would not build it OK appears This is a message that explains that the object described in the message will not be sent to the QuickPanel after downloading because there were no states specified for the object 3 During the compile portion of a download of a project a message appears during the initial compile setup Fatal error creating download file S1 file exhausted Project tags targets more than the 64 device and or address combination allowed Limit the number of devices or narrow address file ranges used Usually happens for an Allen Bradley network protocol or other network protocols This means the number of files addressed i e N7 where 7 is the file number the number of devices addressed in the application i e N7 0_3 where 3 is the device address number or node number or a combination of the two exceed a total of 64 The number of files or devices must be reduced so that it does not exceed 64 total 4 During the compile part of the download an error appears which says that the compiler could locate files taf dbl and log a This message is usually caused by a conflict with the Lantastic network software If you are using this network software especially in Win 95 it must be disabled before proceeding with the download b The PDO files for the object s
141. d the Scale high to 100 when the Input value is 32768 the displayed value would be 0 and when the Input value is 32767 the displayed value would be 100 Ranges Scale low Scale high 100 Input low 32768 Input high 32767 ii Validate Tags You can validate the entire tag list by selecting Validate Tags from the Tools menu The following warning is displayed 3 ian biie legal i Snake ae or all tage Does value skie prod pee l bes aieas a pe Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tags e 59 The tag validation process is displayed in the Tag Validation Progress dialog box Ta Voll ston Plog TU Tag Import You can import or update a tag database from a comma separated variable file tag tcs Versa Pro Logic Master generated snf files and text files of any extension NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 Imp EE li cote Ple The import is possible in several comma separated variable csv tcs line formats More than one line format can be used in a file The line formats are Line Format 1 Tag Name Example RI200 Line Format 2 TagName Scale Low Scale Hi Input Low Input High Example RI200 200 300 0 4095 60 e Tags Panel Editor GFK 1855 Line Format 3 Tag Name Var Name TadID TagType Tag Modifier Tag Period Scale Low Scale High Input Low Input High Disk logging state Internal Var Flag EOR 0
142. data files by via database routing file Now what is a database routing file also known as a DRF if you are so inclined It is simply a text file which tells us where the data directory see above is located If you looked into the database routing file you will see statements such as DBDPATH C QUICK DATA DBFPATH C QUICK DATA DBFPATH C QUICK DATA DBFPATH C QUICK DATA LOCKMAN internal Note that each item is assigned to points to the data directory C QUICK DATA If you had installed QUICK DESIGNER to the C BestPrgm directory you would see the follwing files in the database routing file DRF DBDPATH C BestPrgm DATA DBFPATH C BestPrgm DATA DBFPATH C BestPrgm DATA DBFPATH C BestPrgm DATA LOCKMAN internal The QUICK DESIGNER s default database routing file is MEDUSA INI This file resides in your installation directory Each time the QUICK MANAGER QMGR EXE program is executed it looks for this file to tell it where the data files are located If you decide to or already have data files in a different data directory for example you installed two copies of the QUICK DESIGNER in different directories you have two courses of action a You may manually modify the the contents of the default database routing file MEDUSA INI file to point to the data directory you want to use or b You may create an alternate database routing file a INI file in the MS Windows directory that points to a dif
143. e If the alarm table is new or changes were made to the table a prompt will appear reminding you to save the file You MUST have an alarm file saved for alarms to work Edit Menu You can create an alarm table or add new alarms by selecting Add from the Edit menu or by clicking the Add button You can delete elements from the alarm table by selecting Delete from the Edit menu or by clicking the Delete button Use Cut Copy and Paste to edit alarm text Select a bit alarm address and the Bit option will toggle the State setting Free Form Addressing allows editing the alarm address Add Delete lent Ets Eapy EHE Paste fet ety Free Form Addressing Edit Buttons The Add and Delete buttons shown in the Alarms window perform the same function as the Add and Delete options in the Edit menu ee Edit Add Adds bit or word address tags Allows single or multiple tag creation in contiguous blocks Used to create the alarm address table and alarm messages Adding Bit Alarms When adding bit alarms enter the starting address and the number of bits The alarm processor will automatically create a contiguous string of addresses starting at the specified address Glarting akbar PAFAT heims alee Nyaba fbi E Coa F Op De __ tee NOTE It is more efficient to create alarms in a contiguous order When alarms are scattered through different areas of memory the response time of the QuickPanel gets slower Panel Edit
144. e Rectangle 124 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Keypad Assignments Keypad Assignments is a menu selection used only with the Keypad option The Keypad Assignment dialog box has a list box for displaying the keypad assignments and a series of buttons for creating simulated operators such as a simulated push button keypai Eep Armpit X Ker Dea a Pali Linieeegn Tlel Geeta P i Simulated wood Paih Button Seulsted Pugh Butho Simaajej Salecl Seih Gimmie Perd Scieern Seu Hume Data Entiv You can view all the keypad assignments by clicking the down arrow in the Key list box A keypad assignment list similar to the one below will appear You can change the attributes of any simulated operator by selecting the keypad from the list then clicking the Attributes button Note that simulated operators are marked as Simulated To change the attributes of normal operators assigned to keypads you must use the panel editor and double click the operator Keypad Key Assignments AQ Simulated Goto Panel AQ Simulated Goto Panel Simulated Push Button Simulated Word Push Button Simulated Selector Switch Simulated Numeric Data Entry Not assigned d Posh Botton Not assigned Not assigned lector Switch Not assigned Not assigned ement Data Enty You can assign a keypad to simulate a panel object even though there is no panel object visible on the screen You can assign one
145. e type of tool selected Move the cross hair to the cell shown in the drawing and click the mouse Note the message in the status line at the bottom of the window Push Button Tag Variable The illuminated push button consists of two parts the push button and the pilot light indicator When the button is pushed it changes a bit in a PLC word Generally the pilot light is assigned to monitor the bit controlled by the push button A tag variable name must be assigned to the push button This tag will be a single discrete bit in the PLC memory that the target display can control Type OD0100 for the button tag and press TAB Pilot Light Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the pilot light This tag will be a single discrete bit in the PLC memory that the target display can read When the bit is ON the pilot light is ON Type OD200 for the Pilot Light tag and press TAB Panel Editor GFK 1855 Quick Tour e 25 Bezel The Bezel portion of the push button presents a visual indication to the operator that the button has been pressed Click the Bezel button to display the Bezel Settings dialog Click the Simulate button to see how the bezel changes colors Click OK to return to the main push button dialog Herel Cots States Click on the States button to display the State Settings dialog A push button has two states ON and OFF You can change the text and appearance of each state
146. e OK button State Settings Text Size Justify OF Next Lib less eee Cancel Previous eng eee State jo 16 32 for word 0 Quine Color di Flashing Hep Erase previous state see help The Erase previous state checkbox is used to compile all empty states into black rectangles with a black outline When this feature is checked it will use a lot of panel memory See the Erase State section for details NOTE To make a blank state enter one or more spaces in the state States should not be completely empty The State Settings dialog box will indicate the current state number and the control condition for that state The following drawing shows the states are controlled by the PLC Value set to Bit Text Size Nert OE Previous Fed 1116 State jo 16 x 32 for bit 0000 0000 0000 0000 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Local Message Display e 181 If the PLC Value was set to Word the state dialog box would appear similar to the following Text Size Next 5x F Previous CFxS 1116 State jo C 16 x 32 for word 0 Erase State With the Erase previous state feature off unchecked only active states are compiled That is only states with messages become active states Active states remain on the display until a new active state is triggered Here is a chart to show what is appearing on the display State Desired Message Visible Message 0 Message 1 Message 1 l Message 1 2 Message 2 Message 2 3
147. e a number of benefits to the user These are e Graphical tools can in general be shortened more than in earlier versions before the text starts to clip e Greater WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get compatibility between editor and panel runtime Users can see in the editor whether or not their graphical tool has been made too small to contain the text that is inside it As a result of our standardization process there are certain instances where the text may clip in QuickDesigner 3 50 where it did not clip in earlier versions These are e Graphical objects that have been made too narrow to contain their text previous versions of QuickDesigner did not clip for width but output the text even if it overwrote the graphical tool outlines etc e Graphical objects using the 11x16 text font that have been severely shortened Previous versions of QuickDesigner would output this text even if it overwrote graphical tool outlines etc If you encounter either of these issues it will be necessary to re size the graphical tool to ensure that it is large enough to contain the text within it Screen Display Issues 1 After downloading the QuickPanel does not display a screen a Make sure an initial screen has been selected in Setup Because the screen name is case sensitive select an initial screen from the drop down list 276 e Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide Panel Editor GFK 1855 b If initial screen is not selected make s
148. e a project file which is downloaded with the compiled file The default setting for the button is selected which means every time you start a download the project is also sent See also Store Project on page 41 Selecting Project Upload is the same as clicking the Upload Project button fe The Upload Project button is used to upload a project file fromla QuickPanel The project file must have been saved with the downloaded file otherwise an error message will appear When the project file is uploaded it is saved the same way as an imported project The project can then be edited using QuickDesigner software The file can be compiled and downloaded back to the QuickPanel or saved for other purposes See also Upload on page 41 Selecting Project Compile to File i same as clicking the Compile File button T The Compile File button will compile the lad ect and allow saving it to a selected directory This allows saving compiled files without having to download to a connected QuickPanel You can then use the Download from File button to send a compiled file cmp to one or more QuickPanels See also Compile to File on page 41 Selecting Project Downlgad from File is the same as clicking the Download File button The Download from File but allows the user to select a compiled file cmp and send it to a QuickPanel You do not have to compile a file prior to a download if a compiled version of the project is available The download button in the ma
149. e alarm processor modifies the alarm message with the format and color specified in the configuration table When the alarm is cleared the message is erased A common practice is to display the alarm message in red When the alarm is acknowledged the alarm color is changed to yellow For monochrome units the active alarm is commonly displayed as black text and white background Historic Alarms This type of alarm operates in the same fashion as the active alarm with an important exception Instead of erasing the alarm message when the trigger event is cleared the alarm message is modified with the format and the color specified in the configuration table A common practice is to change the alarm clear message to green Logged Alarms This type of alarm simply copies each alarm event message to a queue using the format and color specified for the alarm Each alarm event is listed on a separate line Scroll Direction The Alarm Window will display messages from the Active Historic or Logged queues As new messages are triggered they will scroll into the alarm window either from the top or the bottom Setting the scroll direction to scroll up will show the latest alarm message on the bottom of the window 242 e Alarm Window Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bezel You can select the outline and bezel colors for the Alarm Window by clicking the Bezel button The touch color appears when the operator touches the panel over the Alarm Window The alarm p
150. e allows you to provide text information to the operator about the meaning of the current value being displayed The text size can be changed and the text can be justified by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons The text color background color and outline color can be modified in appearance to enhance the application See Appendix D for Color Information Legend Plate Settings Text Text Se Justify Teel oO ee C79 es oe Cancel LGND TEXT eee LEGEND C11 16 BACKGROUND 16 3 Background Color id Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help LEGEND OUTLINE Data Display Visible The following drawing shows the three main parts that are combined to make the Numeric Data Entry operator If you uncheck the Data Display Visible checkbox you will only see the Bezel and Legend Plate You can also make the Bezel and Legend invisible by unchecking the Bezel and Legend Visible checkbox If you uncheck both the Bezel and Legend Visible checkbox and the Data Display Visible checkbox you will see a cross hatch pattern in the editor and nothing when the operator is downloaded to a display However there will still be an active touch screen area that will activate the data entry keypad This feature is used to place a data entry keypad behind a custom bitmap BEZEL LEGEND PLATE DATA DISPLAY NUMERIC DATA ENTRY MOTOR SPEED 123 45 Panel Edi
151. e correct communications cable is being used This can be checked by looking up the cable part number in the Communications manual under the specific PLC protocol b Make sure the cable wire connections are correct Wiring diagrams can be found in the Communications manual under the specific PLC protocol or in the Hardware manual c Check the Destination id in the QuickDesigner s Setup menu under the Protocol button The destination id is the PLC s address the source id is the QuickPanel s address If the destination id does not match the PLC s address then QuickPanel will assume it is not connected Check the Communications manual for specific setup instructions for your PLC 4 The message PLC comm error 02 xx appears on the QuickPanel screen a Sometimes this means that the Panel Trigger Tag address under the Setup System menu is an internal or invalid tag Select the project then go to Setup Then select the System button Delete the Panel Trigger Tag address then say OK to accept the changes Click OK to exit Setup Next go to the Tags menu Delete the Panel Trigger tag address from the tag list Close the tag database Go back to Setup then System and retype the Panel Trigger Tag address Click OK Re download the project b The QuickPanel unit is not physically connected to the PLC it has been set up for The communications cable is missing or the wrong cable is attached c If you are using QuickPanel to communicate wi
152. e object to a new location and release the mouse button Editing Nodes When you click on a polyline object the object nodes will appear To move a node move the cross hair over a node then click and hold the left mouse button Move the node to a new location and release the mouse button To display the node edit menu move the cross hair over a node then and click and hold the RIGHT mouse button Click a menu item to execute the function Insert node Append node Delete node Open polygon About Tool Insert mode adds a node between the current node and the next node in a counter clockwise direction Append mode adds a node between the current node and the next node in a clockwise direction Delete mode removes the selected node Open polygon removes the line segment between the current node and the next node in a clockwise direction Removing a segment from a polygon converts it to a polyline This menu option appears when you select a polygon and changes to Close polygon when you are working with a polyline Close polygon adds a line segment between the ends of a continuous polyline to form a polygon This menu option appears when you select a polyline and changes to Open polygon when you are working with a polygon About Tool is an information box about the polyline tool Panel Editor GFK 1855 Polyline Tool e 145 Sizing a Polyline Object To select the entire object for sizing click on the object to select it then cli
153. e of the protocol on the bottom of the display NOTE If the Initial Screen name does not match a name in the drop down list box the display screen will go black after the panels are downloaded Choose the initial screen name from the list box to insure you have the correct name Panel names are case sensitive Screen Saver Timeout The screen saver feature will turn off the screen after a selected time period Simply touch the screen to turn the display back on The first touch will not affect panel objects Enter the timeout period in minutes The range is 0 to 255 minutes A value of 0 O default will force the screen to remain on Touch Button The Touch button brings up the Touch Screen Configuration dialog box QUICERARE DL p Doeech Soren Con egquation xj Agent l Eaphaani atheros Le amet et Disable Beeper The beeper sounds each time an active screen operator is touched You can disable the beep by checking the Disable Beeper checkbox If you are developing a project in an office environment it would be courteous to turn the beeper OFF Keyboard Attached If you have installed an optional keypad such as the HMI KPN 201 click this checkbox If the display type you are using does not have an available keypad option this dialog box message will appear disabled greyed out 36 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Print Button The Print button brings up the printer setup dialog box Select the printer type fr
154. e the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the Goto Panel button Release the mouse button and the Goto Panel button is sized The following Goto Panel Button Settings dialog box will appear Goto Panel Button Settings Panel Hame OF Cancel Previous Screen Make Default Advanced i Bezel Legend Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Goto Panel Push Button e 211 Panel Name Use the drop down list box or type the name of the panel you want to Goto when this push button is pressed Each panel you design must be saved with a unique file name This file name is the only name that is valid for the Goto panel name You can see a list of current panel names when you select File Open or File Save There is a dilemma in creating a Goto panel button when the panel you intend to go to has not been created yet For example if you are working on your very first panel and you create a Goto push button that will be used to go to the next panel what name will be used in the Panel Name field The name you pick must be exactly the same name as the panel you intend to go to For example assume that you intend to go to the panel called MAIN You must enter the panel name as MAIN You cannot use main When you create the panel called MAIN make sure you save it using the name MAIN Previous Panel The Goto Panel button can be used to select the previous panel without havi
155. ect Quick Designer also supports grouping objects You can select multiple objects that will act as a single object for moving sizing and other editing operations The grouping can be temporary as when you select multiple objects with the SHIFT key or by drawing a box around objects with the mouse Objects that are temporarily grouped can be made permanently grouped by selecting Group Objects from the Edit menu Grouped objects can also be stored and retrieved in the Library Panel Editor GFK 1855 Library Tour e 135 Library Browser Quick Designer Library Window Selecting Library Browser from the Options menu will display the Quick Designer Library window The tool bar contains icons for creating new libraries and opening an existing library There are icons for cut copy and paste The window displays the contents of the current folder You can select a different folder and any item within the folder with drop down list boxes Quick Designer Library Library Edit View Browser Folder Object Library ADATANDEMO MDB 2 Folder lt Unassigned gt H obiect amp Library ee New Creates a new Library database Enter the file name and select the destination drive and directory The default library file name extension is mdb Click OK to complete the operation NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 136 e Library Browser Panel Editor GFK 1855 Create Library
156. ect to be created sized and placed on the panel The grid and snap system allows the user to create objects whose edges align and vertices intersect Drawing Grid The drawing grid is a series of equally spaced horizontal and vertical dots used to assist the user in placement of objects on the display Each grid point is a single pixel The default setting is 10 x 10 which is a dot every ten pixels in both directions The grid appears only in the editor but not on the target display Object can overlap the points as they are only a drawing aid 106 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Drawing Snap System The drawing snap system uses the drawing grid for locating snap points When creating a draw object a grid point nearest the mouse becomes the snap point For example if the grid is set to 5 x 5 and the mouse is located at position 4 4 the nearest snap point is 5 5 The snap feature and drawing grid can be turned off Grid Settings Dialog Box You can change the size and style of the tiling grid in the Grid Settings dialog box The tiling grid can be dots lines or boxes and can be turned off The drawing grid is always dots The drawing grid can also be turned off The snap option can be turned off for both the tiling and drawing grids Grid Settings Tiling Grid Drawing Grid Width Height Width Height Options Display Options EJ Display tiling grid O Dots EJ Display drawing grid EJ Snap position to grid O Lines EJ Snap p
157. ed with the password level of Operator will allow all of the users with Operator passwords to access the panel Users with Supervisor and Master passwords may also access the panel A panel set to Supervisor level will allow access to users with Supervisor and Master passwords but will not allow access to any users with Operator passwords A user with a Master password can access any password protected panel 128 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 In the following sample password file there are three users assigned Operator passwords two users assigned Supervisor passwords and one user assigned the Master password Level Password User Name Operator 12345 Bob Operator 456 Dave Operator 7778 Nick Supervisor 9034 Susan Supervisor 27752 Chuck Master 911 Max To set the password for a single panel go to the Settings menu and select Panel The Panel Settings dialog will appear From the Password Level list box select No Password Operator Supervisor or Master To define the passwords for each password level you must exit Panel Designer and return to Quick Manager Click the SETUP button then click the SYSTEM button Pressing the Define Passwords button will display the Password Setting dialog box See Define Password Button on page 40 Grid Settings Dialog Box You can change the size and style of the tiling grid in the Grid Settings dialog box The tilihg Jerid can be dots lines or boxes and can be turned off The dra
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159. efore consider the size of objects before you begin creating states To ensure all states are the same size you may want to consider using a common graphic element for each state First create an unfilled rectangle Place all elements within the rectangle Copy the rectangle and all elements to the clipboard or library then paste them to a state Do the same procedure for each state When you size the Local Image Display the smallest size will be the size of the rectangle and all states will be exactly the same When creating images for the Local Image Display it is important to remember that the Local Image Display tool draws the graphic associated with each state whenever the variable it is linked to changes 202 e Local Image Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 The graphics from the previous states will be erased when the new graphic is drawn if you select ERASE PREVIOUS STATE If you do not select ERASE PREVIOUS STATE then the new state is pasted on the old state Erase State With the Erase previous state feature off unchecked only active states are compiled That is only states with images become active states Active states remain on the display until a new active state is triggered Here is a chart to show what is appearing on the display State Desired Image Visible Image 0 Image 1 Image 1 l Image 1 2 Image 2 Image 2 3 Image 2 Note that when state 1 occurs Image 1 is still displayed In some cases this is not desired To
160. elect Keyboard Attached in the Touch Screen Configuration dialog in Setup Clicking the Advanced button will display the Advanced Settings dialog box The Goto Panel Button operation can be assigned to an external keypad See Keypads page 262 and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information Once a keypad is assigned you can disable the touch screen by checking the Touch disable box If you leave the touch disable box unchecked then the touch screen and the keypad can both operate the button Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Goto Panel Settings 214 e Goto Panel Push Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Numeric Data Display Creating a Numeric Data Display A Numeric Data Display consists of a numeric readout and a legend plate The data display requires a PLC tag variable for the numeric data LEGEND PLATE NUMERIC READOUT NUMERIC DATA DISPLAY MOTOR MOTOR SPEED SPEED 123 45 123 45 i Xe Click the Numeric Data Display icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair and the Numeric Data Display image to the top of the two cells where you want the Numeric Data Display to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the Numeric Data Display immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the Numeric Data Display Release the mouse button and the Numeric Data Display is sized
161. elector Switch e 207 Number of Positions You can select the number of positions that the selector switch will have by clicking one of the Positions option buttons The default setting is two positions The following drawing shows the three options LEGEND LEGEND a 1 Post POS 2 POS 2 POS 3 2 POSITION 3 POSITION 4 POSITION SELECTOR SWITCH SELECTOR SWITCH SELECTOR SWITCH Position Selector The current position selector Next and Previous buttons allow you to choose which position of the selector switch you are editing When you choose a position the tag and states for that position can be edited To edit other tags and states change the current position selector The following drawing shows Position and Position 2 of a two position selector switch Position Position 1 Tag Positions cere i Ea has 3 Next _ POS2 c Previous Position 1 States Fosition 1 States A Position Position 2 Tag Positions a Se Position Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to each position of the Selector Switch These tags will be a single discrete bit in the PLC memory that the target display can control If you have selected a 2 position Selector Switch then you must define a tag bit for position 1 and another tag bit for position 2 If position tag bit is ON and the Selector Switch is pressed position tag bit is turned OFF and position 2 tag bit is turned ON Each time the Selector Switch is pre
162. ent a counter Style The style list box is used to select the style of the push button Select Standard Circular Simple or None Standard Push Button The elements of the standard push button are shown below The standard push button consists of a bezel and legend plate The bezel is the frame around the legend plate The bezel can be one color when the button is idle and a different color when the button is touched The bezel color the touch color and the bezel outline color can be changed The legend plate contains the text and the background The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are three text sizes available LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND LEGEND PLATE TEXT BEZEL OUTLINE s 1294567 BEZEL COLOR TOUCH COLOR s 0 160 e Push Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Simple Push Button The elements of the simple push button are shown below The simple push button is similar to the standard push button except it has no bezel The simple push button is a legend plate and text The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are three text sizes available The simple push button has more room for text characters than the standard push button LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND gt LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE v 123456729012 LEGEND PLATE TEXT Circular Pus
163. er logic for proper operation 22 e Quick Tour Panel Editor GFK 1855 Pressing the Define Passwords button will display the Password Setting dialog box You can password protect one or more panels in a project You can setup passwords for up to 16 users The password is a numeric value from 0 to 65535 with up to three levels of security For each protected panel in a project a security level of Operator Supervisor or Master is selected During run time when a protected panel is selected a numeric data entry panel is displayed prior to accessing the panel A proper numeric password must be entered which is equal to or greater than the assigned security level otherwise access is denied The Master level can access all panels To assign a password select an unused line enter the password and optional user name select a password level then click the Change button Edit the password by selecting the line making required changes and clicking the Change button Remove password assignments by selecting a line select Unassign and click the Change button Pater Beji To set the password for a single panel open the panel then go to the Settings menu and select Panel The Panel Settings dialog will appear From the Password Level list box select No Password Operator Supervisor or Master More information about assigning passwords can be found at Define Password Button on page 40 and Password on page 128 You are now done with thE Proj ect S
164. ermine the size of the bitmap Monochrome Bitmap Width 8 x Height Example 80 x 80 mono bitmap 80 8 x 80 800 bytes 16 Color Bitmap Width 2 x Height Example 80 x 80 16 color bitmap 80 2 x 80 3200 bytes To determine the size of your bitmap open Paintbrush and select View Cursor Position Move the cursor to the corner of the bitmap and note the coordinates Example 80 80 Use the equations above to calculate the approximate size of the bitmap Notes Using bitmap pictures in your QUICKPANEL application may require a lot of application memory As the number and size of bitmap graphics increase in your application the amount of memory left for other objects will quickly disappear The amount of memory that a bitmap requires 1s dependent on its size and type For example a monochrome bitmap will require 1 4 the memory of the same sized 16 color bitmap Also the draw time of the panel will increase with bitmap usage Creating a Bit Map To create a bitmap select the bitmap icon and place the object on your panel The initial size of the bitmap is one cell When the Bitmap Settings dialog box appears click the Cancel button Size the bitmap object to the estimated final size for the panel Double click on the bitmap to reopen the Bitmap Settings dialog box Bitmap Size To determine the actual image size of a bit map load the file into Paintbrush and select the File Save As option Click on the Info button
165. essed each bit position in the binary byte that was a 1 will toggle the associated output bit For example the binary byte 00100101 will toggle bit 0 bit 2 and bit 5 Auxiliary Port Pin Assignments Pin Pin Name Description TSWO Touch Switch Output 0 Bit 0 TSW Touch Switch Output 1 Bit 1 TSW2 Touch Switch Output 2 Bit 2 TSW3 Touch Switch Output 3 Bit 3 TSW4 Touch Switch Output 4 Bit 4 mA B WN Re 254 e Jog Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 TSW5 Touch Switch Output 5 Bit 5 TSW6 Touch Switch Output 6 Bit 6 TSW7 Touch Switch Output 7 Bit 7 9 RUN ON During RUN 10 ALARM Alarm Output Note 1 1 BUZZ Buzzer Output 12 DC24V Output Common DC24V 13 AIN C Input Common DC24V 14 AOUT COutput Common GND 15 RESET Reset Input Note 1 Hardware Alarm Screen Memory Checksum Error or Software Alarm System Error onan INPUT CIRCUIT cone COM k RA y T 560 Ohm U DIN _ 5 6K Ohm OUTPUT CIRCUIT 12 DC24V x i 1 DOUT co LOAD y M 330pF ae 14 COM ji DAY 22 Ohm Pin 8 Pin 1 ooo l O Pin 15 Pin 9 Button Style The Button Style list box is used to select the style of the button Select Standard Circular Simple or None For more information see the button styles in the Related Items section at the bottom of the help window Standard Button The elements of the standard button are shown below The standard button consist
166. et display QUICKCOURIER has the ability to read the display device status and determine which protocol has been loaded Once QUICKCOURIER reads the status it can automatically download a new application including a new display device executable file if necessary The QUICKCOURIER dialog box is shown below Quick Courier Project Project ibancel Filename GPC A Exit ca Communications port CTS RI Help d COM I DSR cD Connection established Event Log Determining display device state Connection established Update Display Device Executable You can force QUICKCOURIER to download a display device executable file by checking the Update display device executable box Downloading a new display device executable file is generally handled by QUICKCOURIER because it can determine the state of the display and load any necessary files See Target Display Condition for more information Communications Port The first time you use QUICKCOURIER you will have to select an unused communication port on your computer QUICKCOURIER will look for and display unused ports but you must make the final choice Once you select the port QUICKCOURIER will attempt to use the port to connect to the target display The status of some of the signal lines from the target display are shown next to the comm port list box The dialog box will expand to show additional information about the target display See the example dialog
167. etup dialog so flick the OK button to return to the QUICKMANAGER dialog Panel Editor GFK 1855 Quick Tour e 23 QUICKDESIGNER The project now has a title and the necessary configuration information The next step is to design the panels for the project Click the Panels button to open the QUICKDESIGNER panel editor window You can also click the panels icon on the toolbar F Panel Designer Uate PAQJECTT Ek Ea Yes mere po be Ckck icy paieti dkaibke cich iy rahe Cer ie eee XKHEYS ME The panel editor window opens with a new panel ready to edit The panel size depends on the type of display you selected in the setup dialogs It is a good practice to save the panel as soon as you start working on it The first time you open the QUICKDESIGNER panel editor menu the Tools menu may be placed on the grid Place the cursor over the title of the tool box Tools click and hold the left mouse button to move the Tools menu off the grid Create a Panel Click the illuminated push button icon on the Tools menu or select the illuminated push button from the Tools pull down menu The status line at the bottom of the screen will indicate which tool you have selected The illuminated push button is a combination push button and pilot light 24 e Quick Tour Panel Editor GFK 1855 Move the arrow cursor into the grid area A cross hair will appear with a small image identifying th
168. ext Text Size 5x F O74 Cancel 1116 16 x 32 Scale Range Number Size ox m 1116 Digits Dec Pos Ticks 16242 e iit Ee K Scale Color Laas Flashing _ Help 232 e Bar Graphs Panel Editor GFK 1855 Simulate Simulate allows viewing the graph as the data value is changed between the minimum and maximum values with the scroll bar Simulate al ox CI Cancel Help OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings menu and close the menu Cancel Cancel all changes to the Bar Graph Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all bar graphs appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Bar Graph Settings menu The current settings in the Bar Graph Settings menu will be saved The next time you create a bar graph the saved settings will automatically be applied Advanced Clicking the Advanced button brings up the Alarm Settings dialog box The bar graph can be divided into different sections based on the range value and color The bar graph can therefore show different colors for different alarm variable values The following dialog shows a single color for a range of 0 to 20 Alarm Settings Value Color Flashing Alas 1 fE L i a Soa e To add more alarm ranges click the up arrow button to the right of the Alarms number box Each increase will add another Value box and Color selection button In the fo
169. ferent directory and use it instead Use the QUICK MANAGER s menu DATABASE Open to select your alternate database routing file Note Some versions of the QUICK MANAGER require you to close the Projects window followed by closing the current database before you have access to the DATABASE Open feature You may use the MS Windows Notepad to view the database routing file For more information about the MS Windows Notepad consult your MS Windows documentation Panel Editor GFK 1855 Installation e 17 Reinitializing your data files If for some reason the database becomes unstable you will see error message boxes with the RAIMA caption you MAY need to reinitialize the database WARNING Reinitializing the database will permanently delete all your Projects Panels and Tags The procedure for reinitializing the database is as follows 1 Change directory to where you installed the QUICK DESIGNER cd QUICK lt cr gt 2 From there change directory to the DATA directory cd DATA lt cr gt 3 Execute the batch file called Clean200 BAT Clean200 lt cr gt WARNING The 3 steps above will reinitialize the database and permanently delete all your Projects Panels and Tags 18 e Installation Panel Editor GFK 1855 Quick Tour Overview The Quick Tour section is designed to take you through a simple project using a Modicon PLC and a QUICKPANEL jr as the target display This project cont
170. file will be sent through Port 2 to the local modem then to the remote modem to the QuickPanel Once the project is loaded the QuickPanel should restart with the new project 96 e Download and Upload Files Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER QUICKDESIGNER Window The QUICKDESIGNER window is used to create and edit panels for each project To open the QUICKDESIGNER window select Panels from the Components menu click the Panels button in the QUICK MANAGER window or click the Panels icon on the toolbar A QUICKDESIGNER window similar to the one below will appear E Panel Derner ried Paoectt File Edt Toole View Oriwa Eating iio BAnZE m E k Ae E 2 fe Bena B Dict to saci oabi chok bo anaes on reikia Pireba HEE YTS Ns Menu Bar Windows commands are listed on menus Menus are represented by names in the menu bar at the top of each application window In Windows you select a menu and then choose a command from that menu Choosing the command carries out the action The menu bar for the QUICKDESIGNER window is shown below File Edit Tools View Options Settings Help The items listed on menus are most often commands that represent actions you can tell the application to carry out Some menu items appear dimmed some have check marks next to them some may have ellipses after their names and others may have key combinations listed across from them Windows applic
171. files of type Drives Local Message Files 7 1 c pittsburgh 188 e Local Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Export File Layout Setting The format and layout of the export files are defined in the Export File Layout Settings dialog Export File Layout Setting Default Fields Selected Fields Sample Contents I State MV Text Size IY Text Justify I Text Color IM Text Flash I Lens Color I Lens Flash M Outline Color I Outline Flash M Text Cancel Save To Default Restore Default Define Yalues Delimiter comma F Help Sample Output In File C QUICK34 TEST1 LMD 05x7 CC WHITE OFF BLACK OFF WHITE OFF STATE 0 Default Fields Default Fields MV State V Text Size V Text Justify I Text Color V Text Flash I Lens Color I Lens Flash W Outline Color i Outline Flash M Text Select which fields will be specified in the export file format Fields not specified will be set to the default values shown in the table below You can change the default values by using the Save to Default button Use the Restore Default button to reset the default values to the original settings Default values are Text Size 5x7 Text Justify Center Text Color White Text Flash Off Lens Color Black Lens Flash Off Outline Color White Outline Flash Off Color Selection Originally the QuickPanel supported only eight colors BLACK RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE
172. floppy disk ipia q gett Paige Pub Lit es od hps Props Fikes spa NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 Project Export This feature will allow exporting project prj files These files contain the entire project information including target display type PLC setup and all panels Files can be exported to floppy disk Do NOT export projects for use in early versions of QuickDesigner software For example exporting projects from 3 1 will NOT work in 2 3 CAUTION O NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 42 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 EL Pipe i ile Project Print The print function allows printing summary information and panel images for all or part of a selected project Selecting Print from the File menu or clicking the Print icon will display the following dialog box Select the parts of the report you want printed by clicking the checkbox next to the item To save the report in RTF format click the Report to File option When you click OK a Save Report dialog will open and you can enter the file name and select a destination path for the rtf file Check the Save Report Settings option to save the checked selections The next time you select the Project Print option your custom selections will appear FHampnt abs a ee Click OK and a Print dialog box will appear The dialog box will display
173. from the display device list This example assumes you are using the QUICKPANEL jr 5 color display Click OK and the Project Setup dialog will appear Project Setup The project name will appear in the project name text field at the top of the dialog box You can change it by typing a new name If you click the More button the Additional Project Setup dialog box will appear The Additional Project Setup dialog box is used to enter the Author name and project notes The next section of the Project Setup dialog box is labeled Display Device The model selected is shown in the Model list box You can change the display device by clicking the down arrow button and picking a new target display The Initial Screen is the first panel displayed when the power is cycled Leave this blank for now The Display button brings up the Display Configuration dialog box which is used to select the initial screen and the Screen Saver timeout The initial screen is the one that appears after a power cycle Screen saver timeout is a timer that starts after someone touches the screen If the screen is not touched again before the timeout period the screen goes blank A setting of 0 will keep the display on constantly Click Cancel The Touch button brings up the Touch Screen Configuration dialog box You can turn the beeper ON Enable and OFF Disable You may want to turn it OFF when using the display in an office environment Click OK The Touch button is al
174. g The Var name is for internal use and cannot be changed 58 e Tags Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tag Attributes Type This section of the Tag Attributes dialog box indicates the type setting and other attributes of the tag variable The default setting for tags is Integer Set the type to Float when reading Floating Point variables Set the type to String when reading ASCII characters The Text Display object will display text characters only when the tag type is set to String Selecting the String type will activate the Size entry box The Size is used to select the number of words to be read from the PLC For example if the starting address is DM100 and the length is 5 then the last address read will be DM104 If the tag variable type in your PLC is not a string type you may get only one character for each register location PLC s that support string types will generate two characters for each register location A data file is automatically created when you create a Block Transfer file for Allen Bradley Remote I O applications The Number of Elements in the data file is the same as the number of words selected for the Block Transfer Tag Attributes Ranges This section of the Tag Attributes dialog box indicates the ranges of the variable The ranges are automatically set for each tag type By changing the scale ranges you change the ratio of the input value to the displayed value In the following example if you changed the Scale low to O an
175. g sine Om at UNS e Tag State Tag ee a present missing tag PO PE PIF O extra operation SPO LOP P S emmm ooer extra bit state E PrP PIa present missing operation E PP Pn present hanging operation Additional Errors Message present without TagO present improper message State without previous state missing state OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Trigger Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default The Make Default button saves a copy of the current TMD in a def file and this copy becomes the default TMD Each time a new TMD is created it will have the identical state setup as the one saved to default 196 e Triggered Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Import The Import button is used to import the tmd text files that contain the logic message color schemes for the TMD The import file must have the tmd file extension Each line of text denotes a defined state for the TMD and contains the following items in order An example of the file format for TMD files is shown below tmd file extension 0 5x7 UL INDRED ON PURPLE ON TURQ ON Message0 OFF BITO AND ON BIT1 AND OFF BIT2 AND ON BIT3 1 7x9 UC DKRED OFF LWNGRN OFF INDRED OFF Message1 ON BITO AND OFF BIT1 AND ON BIT2 OR OFF BIT3 2 11x16 UR RYLBLU ON SPRGRN ON FUSCH ON Message2 OFF
176. gered message display immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the triggered message display Release the mouse button and the triggered message display is sized Panel Editor GFK 1855 Triggered Message Display e 193 The following Triggered Settings dialog box will appear Trigger Settings Text Size Justify K Hert z aR eee Cancel Previoue r ee oe fier eee Hake Default Trigger Number o 16 x 32 Import Bit OFF are Hone C I Flashing L M Lens Color Add Tag C E s PFZ None F Dutline Color Text Color l Flashing r kerite Entering a Message Each message is numbered as shown in the Trigger Number display box Type the message in the message field You can change the Text Size by clicking one of the Text Size radio buttons Justify text by clicking one of the Justify buttons Select a solid or flashing color for the text lens and outline Note the Next and Previous buttons are greyed out Assign one or more Tag variables for each message If you select two or more bit tags for a message the tags can have an AND OR or XOR logical Operation Example The user may wish a certain message to be shown if BitO AND Bit1 OR Bit2 XOR Bit3 is TRUE In addition the user may wish to consider the OFF conditions of bits Example The user may wish a certain message to be shown if Bit0 AND Bitl OR NOT Bit2 XOR NOT Bit3 i
177. h title Panel Editor GFK 1855 Video Display e 259 No Title Click on the No Title checkbox to remove the title from the legend plate Touch Input Off Click on Touch Input Off to turn off the touch screen in front of the video display This does not effect objects around the video display window Legend Plate Settings You can change the background and outline colors of the video display legend Click the Legend button to display the following dialog box l id Lode Selling teete Contin r The background and outline sections are shown in the next drawing VIDEO DISPLAY 0 a A OUTLINE COLOR BACKGROUND COLOR BUTTON 0 BUTTON 1 Titles Click the Titles button to display the Title Settings dialog box The number of buttons selected will determine the number of legend plates Tithe Settings 260 e Video Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 In the next drawing two buttons have been selected Pressing button 0 will display legend plate 0 and button 1 will display legend plate 1 You can customize the title for each legend plate VIDEO DISPLAY 0 a wae a OUTLINE COLOR BACKGROUND COLOR TITLE BUTTON 0 amet BUTTON 1 Buttons Click Buttons to display the Control Button Settings dialog This dialog is used to setup the buttons that appear below
178. h Button The elements of the circular push button are shown below The circular push button consists of a bezel and legend plate The bezel is the circular section in the center of the button The ring around the bezel is the touch indicator The touch indicator can be one color when the button is idle and a different color when the button is touched The bezel color the touch color and the bezel outline color can be changed The legend plate contains the text and the background The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are three text sizes available LEGEND PLATE TEXT LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE P LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND BEZEL TOUCH A BEZEL lt BEZEL OUTLINE None Push Button The None style push button has no bezel or legend plate which makes it invisible on the panel When you select the None style both the Bezel and Legend buttons are greyed out Panel Editor GFK 1855 Push Button e 161 Bezel The simple push button has no bezel so the bezel dialog box should be ignored The bezel on a standard push button serves both as a bezel indicator and a touch indicator When using a standard push button the bezel portion of the push button can change color when the button is pressed A circular push button has a separate bezel and touch indicator The bezel on a circular push button is the center area of the button The ring around the center is the touch indicator The be
179. he Goto button to work properly Pressing the Goto button causes the target display to write the Panel ID number to the Panel Trigger Tag The target display will then read the Panel Trigger Tag register and when it sees a change in value it will trigger the designated panel You must have a good communication link to the PLC for the Panel Trigger Tag to work correctly To reach the display device configuration dialog box go to Projects and click Setup In the Project Setup dialog box click the Setup button for the display device The target display Configuration dialog will appear 212 e Goto Panel Push Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bezel The Bezel portion of the Goto Panel push button presents a visual indication to the operator that a new panel will be displayed when it is pressed The bezel outline and touch color can be modified to enhance the visual impact of the Goto Panel push button When the push button is not pressed the bezel color is displayed but when the Goto Panel push button is pressed the touch color will be displayed The outline color remains constant whether the Goto Panel push button is pressed or not Press the Simulate button to observe the action of the bezel color change See Appendix D for Color Information Bezel Settings BEZEL OUTLINE Se Bezel Color C_I Flashing I BEZEL COLOR GOTO PANEL Outline Color a Flashing sce edad OOR 7 Simulate LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE a Touch Color GE Flash
180. ide of the rectangle See Appendix D for Color Information Panel Editor GFK 1855 Rectangle Tool e 155 OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings menu and close the menu Cancel Cancel all changes to the Rectangle Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Rectangle objects appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Rectangle Settings dialog box The current settings in the Rectangle Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Rectangle the saved settings will automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Rectangle Settings Moving a Rectangle To move a rectangle move the cursor over the object click and hold the left mouse button and move the object to the desired location Sizing a Rectangle To select an object for sizing click on the object and sizing handles should appear on the corners To size an object move the cursor over one of the sizing handles and observe that the pointer changes into a double end arrow Click and hold the left mouse button and adjust the size k 156 e Rectangle Tool Panel Editor GFK 1855 Legend Plate Creating a Legend Plate A legend plate is a core component that can be placed on the target display to supply text information to the operator No variables are monitored or con
181. iew is 100 Select unselect changes moves objects eT ra 100 Right Mouse Button If you click the right mouse button while the cursor is in the empty window space the Options menu will be displayed The options menu allows removing or replacing the button bar status bar or tool box Button Bar Status Bar Tool Box Library Browser 98 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 If you click the right mouse button while the cursor is in the grid area a combination menu is displayed The options in this menu include Undo Redo Paste View Panel Grid and Preferences Undo paste object Alt BkSp Bedo change object Shitt 4lt bkSp Paste Ctrl View i Fanel Grid Preferences If you click the right mouse button while the cursor is over an object a menu with most of the Edit options will be displayed Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 99 Creating a Panel Tool Box When the QUICKDESIGNER window opens you are presented with a blank panel and the Tool box The Tool box contains the icons for each type of available tool You can also select a tool from the Tools drop down menu The Tool buttons are shown below Pointer Bitmap sger E Ea E fete cree El Soc el By Trend FM es Ha Selector Bote By emetic m Rumer ei Burt Text Display Display ere Alarms e Dea Polyline lO Circle mj Rectangle Text E Dea Message ASCII Data Entry E Hardwired Jog Mint Tool Box If you select the
182. ify the contents of the alarm queue The Up and Down buttons move the cursor Remember that the alarm management page may only show a portion of the messages in the queue The Up and Down buttons allow scrolling the alarm queue messages to the alarm page Move the cursor to a message line and use the Ack button to Acknowledge the alarm or use the Del button to delete the message Use Ack All to Acknowledge all messages or Del All to delete all messages in the associated queue Return to the panel where the alarm window is located by pressing the DONE button HISTORIC ALARMS 09 19 13 30 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 1 09 19 13 25 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 2 13 26 09 19 13 20 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 3 13 21 13 23 Up Down Ack Del ae ri MODE DONE 80 e Alarms Panel Editor GFK 1855 NOTE To activate the small buttons on the bottom of the alarm management page touch the MODE button only ONCE The DONE button is always active The small buttons on the bottom of the alarm management page can also be used to set a bit in a PLC so the PLC is notified when an alarm is acknowledged or erased See Advanced Button in the next section NOTE If you have installed the optional HMI KPN 201 keypad the alarm management page will appear with an additional row of keypad assignments See Keypads for details Advanced Button The Advanced button is one of the option buttons in the Alarm Configuration dial
183. ill automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Pilot Light Settings 178 e Pilot Light Panel Editor GFK 1855 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Pilot Light e 179 Local Message Display Creating a Local Message Display A Local Message Display consists of a two or more stacked lenses Each lens display is a different message Only one message is visible at a given time The local message display requires a single PLC variable The messages can be controlled by a bit variable or word variable MESSAGE 0 MESSAGE 1 MESSAGE n TEXT TEXT TEXT The local message display can be used to show multiple messages or conditions by assigning each message to a variable word or bit The local message display can be expanded to cover several cells so that the local message display becomes a simple alarm message center Click the local message display icon on the Tools menu rach Move the cross hair and local message display image to the top of the two cells where you want the local message display to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the local message display immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the local message display Release the mouse button and the local message display is sized The following Local Message Display dialog box will appear Local Message Display
184. in menu will still support the standard compile and download operation See also Download from File on page 42 Download Operation C Click the Download icon or the Download from File icon in the toolbar You can also select Download or Download File from the Project menu Setup for a Download Upload 1 Apply power to the target QuickPanel See the Hardware Reference manual for details 2 Connect the download cable HMI CAB C49 between the serial comm port on your computer and the QuickPanel download port See the example in the Download Cable section 3 Make sure the settings in the Setup dialog boxes are correct for your serial port Make sure you have at least one panel with valid operators 4 Turn on the power to the QuickPanel Click the download button and note the operator prompt messages If you run into problems see the Communication Problems and Download Trouble Shooting Guide in a later section Target Display Condition QUICKCOURIER software has the ability to read the display device status and determine which protocol has been loaded Once QUICKCOURIER reads the status it can automatically download a new application including a new display device executable file if necessary NOTE If you are upgrading to a new version software you MUST download a new display device executable file Panel Editor GFK 1855 Download and Upload Files e 91 New factory units do not have a display device driver installed When you apply p
185. ine how it is displayed A sample alarm window is Shown below ESS sD TET ESGEsT O O O Touch the alarm window to bring up the alarm manager page and the Active Alarm queue ACTIVE ALARMS 09 19 13 28 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 1 09 19 13 40 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 2 Ack Del MODE DONE Up Down Ack Del qi ay MODE DO The alarm manager page looks different when you are using a keypad option See Keypads page 262and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information You MUST touch the MODE button to activate the small buttons on the bottom of the panel The E button is always active aie Ack button to Acknowledge the alarm and the acknowledge stamp will appear If there are iple alarms you can acknowledge all of them by pressing the Ack All button You can delete individual or all of the alarms in the queue by using the Del or Del All buttons Use the Up and Down keys to move the cursor to different alarms Press the DONE button to return to the alarm panel The alarm window will show if the alarm has been acknowledged If the alarm is cleared or deleted the Active Alarm window will not show the alarm However the alarm message is stored in the Historic and Logged alarm queues Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms Guided Tour e 89 Download and Upload Files Introduction to QUICKCOURIER QuickCourier is a software module that is responsible for sending or receiving da
186. ing 7 Heip LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND LEGEND PLATE TEXT Legend Plate The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator about what panel will be displayed when the Goto Panel push button is pressed This text is constant and will not change when the Goto Panel push button is pressed The text size can be changed and the text can be justified by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons The text color background color and outline color can be modified in appearance to enhance the application See Appendix D for Color Information Legend Plate Settings Text Text Sze Justify TEI 5xF7 CCC Pena CEC Cancel CAixis tt 16 3 Text Color Background Color Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Goto Panel Push Button e 213 OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the Goto Panel Button Settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Goto Panel Button Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Goto Panels appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Goto Panel Button Settings dialog box The current settings in the Goto Panel Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Goto Panel the saved settings will automatically be applied Advanced Button NOTE The Advanced Button is enabled when you s
187. ings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Numeric Data Displays appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Numeric Data Display Settings dialog box The current settings in the Numeric Data Display Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Numeric Data Display the saved settings will automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Numeric Data Display Settings Panel Editor GFK 1855 Numeric Data Display e 217 Numeric Data Entry Creating a Data Display with Keypad Entry A numeric data display with data entry consists of a bezel data display and a legend plate The data display also requires a variable that it will read and display the current value When the bezel is touched the screen will display a data entry panel BEZEL LEGEND PLATE DATA DISPLAY NUMERIC DATA ENTRY MOTOR SPEED 123 45 Click the Numeric Data Entry icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair and the Numeric Data Entry image to the top of the two cells where you want the Numeric Data Entry to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the Numeric Data Entry immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the Numeric Data Entry Release the mouse button and the Numeric Dat
188. ings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Selector Switch the saved settings will automatically be applied Advanced Button NOTE The Advanced Button is enabled when you select Keyboard Attached in the Touch Screen Configuration dialog in Setup Clicking the Advanced button will display the Advanced Settings dialog box The Selector Switch Button operation can be assigned to an external keypad See Keypads page 262and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information Once a keypad is assigned you can disable the touch screen by checking the Touch disable box If you leave the touch disable box unchecked then the touch screen and the a both operate the button Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Selector Switch Settings 210 e Selector Switch Panel Editor GFK 1855 Goto Panel Push Button Creating a Goto Panel push button A Goto Panel push button consists of a bezel and a legend plate The Goto panel push button will allow changing from the currently displayed panel to another selected panel BEZEL LEGEND PLATE GOTO PANEL BUTTON Goto Panel Goto Panel Ea Click the Goto Panel button icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair and Goto Panel button image to the top of the two cells where you want the Goto Panel button to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the Goto Panel button immediately mov
189. is also connected to the PLC a Check the communications cable part number to the part number specified for the PLC protocol that is in the Communications manual The communications cable that is being used may not be the correct part number Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide e 277 b The communications cable that is being used was not built correctly Check the cable pin outs with the corresponding cable diagram in the Hardware manual or the Communications manual under the corresponding PLC protocol section c Check the communications settings for the QuickPanel in the Port section under the Setup menu Sometimes the baud rate parity or data bits are set different on the PLC port versus the SIO CN1 port on the QuickPanel The QuickPanel s communication port settings can be found under the Setup menu then under Port 2 When changing from one screen to another a PLC communications error message appears PLC Comm Error 02 xx This typically happens when a tag on the QuickPanel screen contains a PLC address that does not exist in the PLC Create ladder logic in the PLC that contains the addresses used in the QuickPanel application For some PLCs the addresses can be added directly to the memory area of the PLC 3 The QuickPanel screen has a message at the bottom of the screen that reads PLC Not Connected 02 FF but the communications cable is connected to the QuickPanel and the PLC a Make sure th
190. ject menu or click the New button The New Project dialog box is shown below New Project Name Enter the project name then use the TAB key to move to the Display device list box Display Device Select a target display device by clicking the drop down list box and selecting the target display type Click OK to continue Flores Port Meret ppi myers PRET Targets Diapliy deve PUICEPAREL ji 3 PI Cobo OE c je Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 33 Project Setup The Project Setup dialog box can be selected in three ways click the Setup icon in the tool bar select Setup from the Project menu or click the Setup button QUICEPAHEL jv 5 OPS Coki A E SOAN Fig i O O Coe etn Project Name The Project Setup dialog box will display the name of the project to remind you of which project you are working on You can change the name of the project by deleting the old name and entering a new name 34 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 More Button If you click the More button the Additional Project Setup dialog box will appear This dialog box is used to enter the Author name and project notes hLittinnal Propel helup ace Model The Display Device section will indicate which target display model you selected for the current project You can change the display device model by clicking the arrow button and picking a new target display The following is a sample of the di
191. l be removed Status Bar The status bar is displayed at the bottom of the window It gives you information about the selected menu option and displays the current project name You can remove the Status Bar from the window by clicking the Status Bar option When the check mark in front of the menu is removed the status bar is removed Buttons The large buttons shown in the QUICK MANAGER window can be removed to provide more room for project names When the large buttons are removed you will have to use the toolbar or menu selections to perform the desired operation The New Setup and Download functions are found in the Project menu The Panels Tags and Alarms functions are found in the Components menu See Tool Bar for a description of the toolbar functions 50 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Active Window The bottom section of the Windows menu shows the current active window Help Menu The on line Help system gives you quick easy to use information about the QUICK MANAGER and QUICKDESIGNER features To request Help e Choose a Help category from the Help menu Some categories take you directly to the information while others select the topic you want from a list of topics about the category you chose e Press F1 and choose an item from the main Help Index You can also search for a topic using the Search command e Click the Help button you ll find in many dialog boxes Once you enter the help system from any point
192. l port for printing alarms or you can select None to disable printing alarms The parallel port selection will only appear when a display model that has a parallel port is selected in the Project Setup dialog box The Tool CN3 port is an 8 pin mini DIN style connector The Tool CN3 port also known as the download port has two functions The primary use is to download application files from a computer to the target display The secondary use is to print alarm messages to a serial printer The Tool CN3 port uses TTL signal levels and requires conversion to RS232 The HMI CAB C105 cable will convert the TTL signals to RS232 This cable is equipped with a 9 pin D connector that is AT compatible The download port connector is an 8 pin mini DIN style The port settings are fixed at 9600 Baud 8 bits no parity The pin assignments are shown in the following drawing TD 1 gt TIL lt 3 TXD Np lake TO pd RxD PROPRIETARY INFORMATION GND 2 RS232 r 5 GND THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS A CONVENIENCE lt CONVERTER 6 DSR TO OUR CUSTOMERS YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO CTS 6 ean Oe au gt crgo CONSTRUCT THIS CABLE UNAUTHORIZED CABLES ARE DSR 7 i 8 NOT SUPPORTED BY TOTAL CONTROL DTR 5 7 RTS 1 DCD HMI CAB C1 5 8 C C105 TO PC TO 8 PIN DIN 9 PIN FEMALE D The parallel port is a 14 pin Centronics compatible connector The H
193. lation Panel Editor GFK 1855 Pethuct Aua a stent A summary of the authorization information is displayed Click Finish to transfer the authorization to the target machine A confirmation message is displayed Panel Editor GFK 1855 Installation e 13 Starting QuickDesigner 3 To start QuickDesigner click 4 Navigate through the Programs folder to the Total Control Products folder or the folder where you installed Quick Designer and select the Quick Designer v3 xx from the list After the software starts up the Quick Manager appears Quick Manager helps you set up and track projects for your QuickPanels For a tutorial see the Quick Tour in the next section Help Menu The Help menu now has selections for Product Authorization Web support pages Knowledge Base documents user manuals and links to troubleshooting guides Product Authorization The Product Authorization procedure requires that you authorize QuickDesigner for full use on your computer Unauthorized versions can be used to create projects but they cannot be downloaded to a QuickPanel display You can authorize the software via Phone FAX or the Internet QuickDesigner Support Web Page QuickDesigner support home page on the Total Control Products web site You must have a web browser installed to view these pages If the Users web browser is not IE or the path to the web browser is not correct the following error dialog will be shown Faded to tate ave
194. le SNF used to pass Tag Names mnemonic references to Series 90 70 PLC reference table locations among various applications such as PROCESS 90 Logicmaster and CIMPLICITY HH amp amp Creator PROCESS_90 amp amp CreateDate 1 JUN 1994 amp amp ProgDate 31 MAY 1994 amp amp FileType I O HH PT_ID ADDRESS DESCRIPTION PT_TYPE IN_OUT ENG_UNITS HH BSO_PB I1 Boiler shutoff pushbutton BOOL IN OVTEMP Q1 Boiler overtemp warning BOOL OUT STEMP R1 Scaled boiler temperature REAL IN DEG_C Tag Export Save the tag information in a file using the tag or tcs format NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 64 e Tags Panel Editor GFK 1855 Close Close the tag window and return to the QUICK MANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tags e 65 Internal Tags Introduction to Internal Tags Review of Tags Tags are the names of control elements in your host device either words or bits Every panel operator that is active requires a tag The tag is usually a legal tag name for the selected PLC type These tags are external to the display which means the display will have to read the tag information from the PLC You can create internal tags which are variables that are controlled and contained within the display There are internal tags with specific names such as the internal clock with the tag name System_Clock Internal Tags In certain projects you
195. lect a file name from the list or type in the file name Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms e 71 File Save Saves the current alarm file with all the option settings You must have an alarm file saved for alarms to work The Save Alarm File As dialog box appears Enter a new file name or select an existing file name to overwrite NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 File Save As Saves the current alarm file using the specified file name The Save Alarm File As dialog box appears NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 File Delete Delete an existing alarm file The Delete Alarm File dialog is displayed Select the filename from the list or type in the filename Once you delete the file it is gone File Import Import an existing alarm file After the file is imported Open the file to view the alarm table NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 File Export Export the current alarm file using the alm file extension NOTE When using the export file feature ALL alarm files are included in the export file File Configuration Displays the Alarm Configuration dialog box See Config Button on page 77 Alarm neha Bierc g Farmal Date Time Format E Tipsi Time Hamp Cokin dicka Time Stamp Cobaan kikik 72 e Alarms Panel Editor GFK 1855 File Close Close the current alarm fil
196. lid PLC tags can be found by clicking the QUICK HELP button and locating your PLC type in the PLC Drivers section The ASCII Data Entry tool has the option of displaying several ASCII characters Each PLC word variable can store two ASCII characters Therefore if you are going to read write more than two characters you must ensure there are additional PLC registers available to accommodate the extra characters For example if you intend to use 10 characters you must make 5 word registers available in the PLC The tag variable described above is the starting address of the 5 word registers Tags can be edited by clicking the panel object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu This will display the Modify Tag Address dialog box Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field For more information about changing tag attributes click the Quick Help button to jump to the main help screen Follow the path from QuickDesigner Menu commands Edit menu to Change Object Tags 250 e ASCII Data Entry Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bezel The Bezel portion of the ASCII Data Entry is used to give a visual indication to the operator that the button was pressed The Bezel Color changes to the Touch Color when the button is pressed The outline color remains constant whether the push button is pressed or not pressed The bezel outline and touch col
197. ll be displayed when the download is done If no default panel is selected the panel with ID number 1 will be displayed Download Trouble Shooting Guide 1 Are you using a C49 cable manufactured by TCP The C49 cable converts RS232 form your PC to TTL levels that the QUICKPANEL can accept through the download port C50 cables will not work with QUICKPANELs Solution Acquire TCP C49 cable 2 Is your PC at least a 386DX 25 with 4M of RAM If you are using anything less it is possible that it is taking too long for your PC to respond to the QUICKPANEL when downloading the executable The executable download is very timing dependent Solution Try a faster computer 3 Are you using the Standard Windows communication driver Open your C WINDOWSI SYSTEMLINI file Look for a line that starts out comm drv If you are using the standard Windows comm driver the line will say comm drv comm drv If this line says anything else you are not using the standard Windows comm driver and this driver may not be directly compatible with all windows applications Solution Comment out this line with a semicolon and insert another line that reads Ccomm drv comm drv Now restart windows and try the download again 4 Are you using a laptop If you are using a laptop it is possible that power management is probably shutting down certain devices in your PC during a download Solution Turn off all power management and try again Consult your PC man
198. llowing example there are four ranges selected and each range has a different color and value setting The ranges are 0 to 5 5 to 10 10 to 15 and 15 to 20 The minimum and maximum range values cannot be changed in this dialog box You can change them in the Scale Settings dialog Alarm Settings Value Color Flashing Alarms Eo Cancel Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bar Graphs e 233 Use caution when selecting the value for the alarm range A short review of Bar Graphs is necessary before we discuss alarm values You can set the Min and Max scale values to show the full value of the tag variable or some portion of it For example if the tag variable has an actual value of 0 to 65535 you can go to the Scale Settings dialog box and set the Min to 0 and the Max to 65535 to display the full variable range See Figure 1 If you set the Min to 0 and the Max to 200 then the bar graph will display only the range of the variable from 0 to 200 See Figure 2 Variable 65535 Variable 65535 200 O O1 Ol ie ol 200 __ Variable 0 Figure 1 Figure 2 l Variable 0 The bar graph is divided into 100 segments which represent 1 percent of the range value For example if the Min and Max scale range is 0 to 200 then each increment of the bar graph is 1 percent or 2 Each time the variable increases by 2 the bar graph will show a change The alarm values operate b
199. lt setting is Left justify which forces the bitmap to the left side of the frame Vertical Justify Select Top Center or Bottom to justify the bitmap to the frame The default setting is Top which forces the bitmap to the top of the frame Options To stretch the bitmap to fit the frame size click the Stretch fit checkbox The screen size is 320 x 240 for 5 displays 640 x 400 for 9 displays 640 x 480 for 10 5 displays and 800 x 600 for 12 1 displays Bitmaps that exceed the screen size can be displayed by clicking the Stretch fit checkbox Bitmap Statistics The statistics for each bitmap are presented in the Bitmap Settings dialog box The statistics include the Width Height Colors and Size QUICKDESIGNER supports up to 256 color bitmaps NOTE If you import a 256 color bitmap to a display that supports only 8 colors the colors will be mapped to the RGB Color map found in Appendix D Each object on a panel requires a small amount of memory The panel can contain any combination of panel objects Bitmaps that take a lot of memory will limit the number of objects you can place on a panel NOTE As bitmaps are enlarged on the panel more memory is used The width of a bitmap must be divisible by 4 for color bitmaps and divisible by 8 for monochrome bitmaps If not QuickPanel will cut off the remaining excess pixels when displaying the bitmap on the panel Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bitmap e 151 Import You can import a bit
200. m the Edit menu or use CTRL G to maintain the grouping Once you have grouped objects you can use move delete library file copy etc When objects are grouped using the Group Objects selection they remain grouped until they are ungrouped by the Ungroup Objects selection Ungroup Objects Cirl U Objects that are temporarily grouped are ungrouped by selecting another object When objects are grouped using the Group Objects selection they remain grouped until they are ungrouped by the Ungroup Objects selection Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 123 Tools Menu The Tools pull down menu allows selecting Parts pilot lights buttons etc Drawing tools Polyline Circle Rectangle etc or the Select tool w All of the Parts and Drawing tools in the tools pull down menu are available as icons in the Tools pop up menu box The Keypad Assignments selection is used with the Keypad option See the Keypad section for additional information Farts Drawing w Select Keypad Assignments Parts Parts include all the objects shown in the following list Draw Draw tools include any tools used to create static pictures You can use the drawing tools to create a picture of an operation process or function Pictures in BMP format can be added to panels to further enhance the graphic image Dynamic parts can be added to create a true interactive operator interface LinePolylinePolygon Text Bitmap Circl
201. map image from any program that generates bitmap images These sources include paint icon editors and capture programs You can import bitmap images from any directory or drive Click the Import button to display the Import dialog box Import Graphic File Name Directories c quikdesg bitmap bmpsetg bmp pntbrsh bmp gt winword gt quikdesg E gt bitmap List Files of Type Sinan Fies boo E Rane Export You can export a bitmap image from a panel to any directory or drive Click the Export button to display the Export dialog box Export Graphic File Name Directories c quikdesg bitmap E gt c gt winword gt quikdesg gt bitmap Save File as Type Bitmap Fies bee E Eemo OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Bitmap Settings dialog box and exit the dialog Make Default If you decide that you want to have all bitmaps appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Bitmap Settings dialog box The current settings in the Bitmap Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a bitmap the saved settings will automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Bitmap Settings 152 e Bitmap Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bitmap Size Before you attempt to place a bitmap on a panel use the following approximations to det
202. may want to have an internal storage register to store some values or act as a temporary counter You can create an internal tag by entering a tag name that is not valid for the assigned PLC For example if you entered the name COUNT as a tag name the tag editor would display the following prompt COL T1 Yas invaded marny clace derciiptar fer Medicon Modbus Hin Create 2b dete tag Hm Click the Yes button to create the internal tag You can read and write the internal tag in the same manner as external PLC tags System Tags The target display has several support functions designed into the hardware such as the clock One of the tools available to the panel designer is a Clock operator The method used to connect the Clock operator to the hardware clock is a series of internal tags called SYSTEM tags The Clock operator is connected to three SYSTEM tags which supply the data for seconds minutes and hours The tags are called System_Second System_Minute and System_Hour respectively Note the names of the tags that are designated SYSTEM tags all begin with a tilde and the word System Note also that there is an underscore symbol between the word System and the name of the tag In order to use a SYSTEM tag you must always specify the name of the tag exactly as it appears in this reference section To display system seconds you can select a Numeric Data Display operator and 66 e Internal Tags Panel Editor GFK 1855
203. ment describes how to select and configure a printer for operation with a QuickPanel Printer Select The first step is to select a printer This is done in the Project Setup dialog box The Project Setup dialog box can be selected in three ways click the Setup icon in the tool bar select Setup from the Project menu or click the Setup button Project Setup Project name EE O oe Display Device Hodel QUICKPANEL jr 5 QPJ Color Initial Screen EJ Display fe Touch at Print PLC amp Protocols SIO CN1 i PLE lt No Protocol gt M fe Port i Protocol System cones Meo Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix B Print Options e 269 From the Setup dialog box click the Print button The Print button brings up the printer setup dialog box Select the printer protocol or driver type from the list box The current selections are NEC PR201 24 DOT Dot Matrix EPSON ESC P 24 Pin High Quality Dot Matrix EPSON ESC P 24 Pin High Speed Dot Matrix HP LaserJet II Laser Other printers may work if they are compatible to one of the printer drivers in the list box Printer Setup Printer Type NEC PR201 24 DOT M Color Control Gray Scale Color M Black White Reversed Serial or Parallel The next step is to determine if you are going to use the serial port or the parallel port The selection depends on the type of printer you have See the selection t
204. mory 3 Design ladder logic to eliminate empty states Uses PLC resources 4 Create a project so invalid states don t matter 182 e Local Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Import Import Local Message Display files lmd These files are text files saved with the Imd extension A sample file is shown in the Import Local Messages dialog box Selecting a file to import will display the Import File Layout Settings dialog box Import Local Messages File name Folders test Imd Ege Gare E quick3 List files of type Drives Local Message Files 7 1 c pittsburgh Import File Layout Settings The format and layout of the import files are defined in the Import File Layout Settings dialog A sample text file is used for illustration Import File Layout Setting Default Frelds Selected Fields Current Contents I State Cancel W Text Size M Text Justify Text Justify Save To Default M Text Color Text Color eee M Text Flash ben ee Restore Default I Lens Color L ens Flash M Lens Flash Outline Color M Outline Color Outline Flash EF I Outline Flash Text M Text Define Yalues Delimiter comma Help Tst Line In File C QUICKS4TEST1 LMD 0 5x7 CC BLACK OFF WHITE OFF WHITE OFF State 0 Sample Text File The following text file contains all of the default fields The file is comma separated into fields which correspond to the field
205. most often commands that represent actions you can tell the application to carry out Some menu items appear dimmed some have check marks next to them some may have ellipses after their names and others may have key combinations listed across from them Windows applications all follow certain conventions when listing items on a menu These conventions signal that extra information about the menu commands will follow 30 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 MENU CONVENTION DESCRIPTION Dimmed command name The command is not available at this time An ellipsis after the name A dialog box will appear A check mark next to the name The command is active A key combination after the name A shortcut for this command A triangle at the right side The command leads to a cascading menu To choose an item from a selected menu click the item name Tool Bar The tool bar contains icons relating to frequently used commands found in the menu bar By clicking an icon you gain instant access to commands The QUICK MANAGER tool bar is shown below BLIEIE ei S New i Sed B Help Delete Upload Project prj Compile Download Download File cmp Print Compile File cmp Panel Editor Store Project in QuickPanel Tag Editor Alarms Menu Buttons The large menu buttons perform the same functions as the icons in the tool bar except the buttons are easier to locate and identify their fu
206. mulated Pont Screen Simulated Numeric Data Entry Panel Editor GFK 1855 Keypads e 265 The first operation is to select which keypad will be assigned to the simulated panel operator Click the down arrow in the Key list box then click an unassigned keypad Next select one of the operators to simulate by clicking a button in the Key Assignment area When you click one of the simulate keys the rest of the buttons will be grayed out Keypad Key Assignments Rey OK AO Simulated Goto Panel gt Cancel Attributes Key Assignment Unassign Simulated Goto Panel Simulated Word Posh Hutton Simulated Hush Button Simulated Selector switch Simulated Pont Screen Simulated Numenc Data Entry Click the Attributes button to open the settings dialog for the selected item In this example clicking the Attributes button will open the Goto Panel settings dialog Enter the Panel Name and click the OK button Now when you press the AO keypad the panel name you selected will be displayed This is the same operation as the Goto Panel Button but without the panel operator taking up screen space Keypad Assignments You can view all the keypad assignments by going to the Tools menu selecting Keypad assignments then selecting the Key list box You can change the attributes of any simulated operator by selecting the keypad from the list then clicking te Attributes button Note that simulated operators are marked as Sim
207. n Aa 69 a E We ie Wi Ai2 255 Magenta eo aa 2 AG Nine 255 White a a _ a a a a a ee ae Nie We 0 a 60 1 69 a o MWO a eS ke D M0 NG eG Cyan Oso SL o Ee Se ee og POL ae a Gesem NO eos aa 53 54 1255 1176 176 White 100 69 44 561255 1176 112 Yellow 100 69 44 57 o ae NIG ve yam aa Go L 44 Pag Ere ie Person Aa ede aa ae 2 ae Magenta 69 aa 62176 176 _ 176 White _ 69 _ 69 _ 6S ae A a Red GO aa of IG ire a2 ve itow ree A 3 ha Export The Export button is used to export the logic message color schemes of the current TMD to a comma delimited file format The text file will have the tmd file extension Add Tags After the tags are entered click the Add Tags button to enter the tags into the state table Click the Add Tags button to enter the tags for each message Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Numeric Data Display Settings Panel Editor GFK 1855 Triggered Message Display e 201 Local Image Display Local Image Display A Local Image Display consists of a two or more states Each state can contain graphic elements such as polylines or rectangles a bitmap text or combinations of graphics and text The local image display can be used to show a single state from a group of states by assigning each state to a PLC word or bit The following drawing shows some examples of states STATE 0 STATE
208. n be changed There are several text sizes available LEGEND PLATE TEXT n LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND BEZEL OUTLINE 168 e Print Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bezel The simple button has no bezel so the bezel dialog box should be ignored The bezel on a standard button serves both as a bezel indicator and a touch indicator When using a standard button the bezel portion of the button can change color when the button is pressed A circular button has a separate bezel and touch indicator The bezel on a circular button is the center area of the button The ring around the center is the touch indicator The bezel outline and touch color can be modified to enhance the visual impact of the button The outline color remains constant whether the button is pressed or not Press the Simulate button to observe the action of the bezel color change See Appendix D for Color Information Bezel Settings Bezel Color id Flashing l Cancel Outline Color a Flashing Simulate Touch Color C Flashing Help Legend Plate The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator on the action that will occur when the print screen button is pressed This text is constant and will not change when the button is pressed The text size can be changed and you can justify text by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons The text color background color and outline color ca
209. n be found at a local Radio Shack under the part number 278 254 Also many computer stores sell BNC cables for use in networks These cables can be used to connect video signals that require BNC style connectors Video Display To add a video operator to a panel select the video icon from the floating tools menu Move the cursor to the panel area where the video will appear and click the mouse The video will be displayed in a 300W x 200H area along with operator buttons and legend data A sample video display with two buttons is shown below VIDEO DISPLAY 0 BUTTON 0 JESEN BUTTON 1 258 e Video Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 The following Video Display Settings dialog is displayed Video Display Settings ft of Buttons Transparency Modes Video covers all obje Video shows only in objects of this color Objects of this color appear through video pant l No Title Touch Input Off Legend Titles Buttons Transparency Modes Three modes are available for displaying the video The options allow for a wide range of display options and panel design functionality In the Video covers all objects mode the video appears over all objects You can hide a button behind the display When you select Objects of this color appear through video or Video shows only in objects of this color mode the Video Display Se
210. n be modified in appearance to enhance the application There is more room for text on a simple button than on a standard button See Appendix D for Color Information Legend Plate Settings Text Text Sze Justify pen do OCC err sige CAixie i tt 16 x 32 Cancel Text Color Background Color di Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the dialog box and exit the dialog box Panel Editor GFK 1855 Print Button e 169 Make Default If you decide that you want to have all the settings in the dialog box the same way every time the dialog box is opened you can click the Make Default button The current settings in the dialog box will be saved The next time you open the dialog box the saved settings will automatically be applied Advanced Button NOTE The Advanced Button is enabled when you select Keyboard Attached in the Touch Screen Configuration dialog in Setup Clicking the Advanced button will display the Advanced Settings dialog box The Print Button operation can be assigned to an external keypad See Keypads page 262 and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information Once a keypad is assigned you can disable the touch screen by checking the Touch disable box If you leave the touch disable box unchecked then the touch screen and the keypad can both operate the button
211. n between the number in the Value field and the PLC word register XOR Perform the logical XOR operation between the number in the Value field and the PLC word register Action Panel Editor GFK 1855 Word Button e 173 Mode The mode pull down list box is used to select the number base for the Value field The default setting is Decimal The available options are Hode Decimal Value This field contains the number value used in the modes of operation The base number system for the value represented in the field is selected in the Mode list box You can use the up and down arrows to increment or decrement the value in the field You can also enter a value directly in the number field by clicking anywhere in the field Bezel The Bezel portion of the word button is used to give a visual indication to the operator that the button was pressed The bezel outline and touch color can be modified to enhance the visual impact of the word button When the word button is not pressed the bezel color is displayed but when the word button is pressed the touch color will be displayed The outline color remains constant whether the word button is pressed or not pressed Press the Simulate button to observe the action of the bezel color change If you load a color project into a monochrome unit Red Green and Blue will be converted to Black and Yellow Magenta and Cyan will be converted to white Bezel Settings Bezel Color id Fla
212. n create If checked the selected object will be a fixed size when created For example a push button would be 80 x 80 Otherwise the size of the selected object will be determined by the grid size settings Some objects have a minimum size push buttons are 40 x 40 and cannot be made smaller Size also depends on whether the snap size to grid option in the grid dialog box is checked Tool de select after use when you are done using an object the cursor will change to a pointer If this box is not checked the cursor remains the same as the last object selected Check panel on save The panel design is checked for errors when SAVE is selected Warning Overlap Check warns that objects are overlapped on the panel Panel settings on New displays the Panel Settings menu when a New file is started Allows selection of black or white panels Change after object create When an object is placed on the panel a dialog box will appear The dialog box is used to change settings for the object If the box is not checked the object is placed on the panel without the dialog box Object de select after use When you are done working with an object it remains selected indicated by a dashed line around it Checking this box will de select the object after using it Auto move on object select You can select and move an object by clicking it and holding down the mouse button as you move it Object to fore after move Places the object in the foreg
213. nction The menu buttons also resize when the window is resized The QUICKDESIGNER menu buttons are shown below Project File List The Project File List contains all the projects available to the QUICK MANAGER You can create multiple projects each with a different target display and PLC type Projects can use panels from other projects by using the copy and paste functions Status Bar The status bar displays operator prompts to aid you in using the manager and designer tools Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 31 Project Menu The project menu contains options for creating new projects changing the setup for existing projects deleting unwanted projects and downloading projects to target displays The import option allows you to use projects created on another system while the export option allows saving an entire project There are several new tools which are designed to make the process of compiling and downloading files easier and more flexible The tool bar buttons have corresponding entries in the Project menu You can exit the project menu by clicking the exit option or by clicking the exit icon in the tool bar Note that you can quickly exit the project menu by using the ALT F4 key combination New Setup Delete w Store Project in Panel Download Upload Compile to File Download from File Import Esport Print Ctrl P Print Setup E xit Alt F4 Project Menu Overview New Allow
214. nel A proper numeric password must be entered which is equal to or greater than the assigned security level otherwise access is denied The Master level can access all panels To assign a password select an unused line enter the password and optional user name select a password level then click the Change button Edit the password by selecting the line making required changes and clicking the Change button Remove password assignments by selecting a line select Unassign and click the Change button Fiii Seji To set the password for a single panel start the panel editor then go to the Settings menu and select Panel The Panel Settings dialog will appear From the Password Level list box select No Password Operator Supervisor or Master Project Delete This option will delete the selected project from the QUICK MANAGER project list The name of the project appears in the information box Select OK to delete the project or Cancel to abort the delete operation 40 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 NOTE Once you delete a project it is GONE Be careful when deleting projects Delete Propet Project Store Project in QuickPanel The Store Project in QuickPanel button on the toolbar is normally enabled When you open the Project menu you will notice a check mark next to Store Project in QuickPanel This is the default setting and indicates the option is enabled A project is a collection of information such as
215. ng The panel name is shown in the Name box and the panel identification number is shown in the Panel ID box If you entered a description of the file when it was saved the text will appear in the Description field Open Panel Hame Panel ID Panel Hame 2 Cancel Panel Name 3 Description Panel Name 2 Panel Name 1 Close Close the current file Save Click the Save icon or select Save from the File menu to save the current panel using the file name already assigned Error checking is automatic each time you save a panel For error information see Check on page 118and Resource Manager on page 118 Save As Save the current papel sing a new file name Enter the ame in the Name field Move the cursor to the Description field and enter a description The Panel ID is the identification number that can be used by a PLC to select a panel When the ID number is written to the Panel Trigger Tag register in the PLC the associated panel will be displayed The Panel Trigger tag is selected in the Quick Panel Configuration dialog box See the QUICK MANAGER section The system will automatically assign the panel ID when the panel is created You can change it to any number up to 8999 Panel ID numbers must be unique within a project Error checking is automatic each time you save a panel For error information see Check on page 118and Resource Manager on page 118 Save Panel Panel ID Cancel Description Panel Editor GFK 1855
216. ng to select a panel name Click the Previous Panel checkbox and the Goto Panel button will display the previous panel Previous panels are tracked in a stack so you can go back 32 times You cannot go back farther than the original panel you started on If you start at panel 1 and go to panel 2 you can back up to panel 1 If you press Previous Panel again while on panel 1 you will not go to panel 2 Previous Screen does not go to the last panel you were on but to the last panel on the stack Using Goto Panel Buttons The Goto Panel button has two modes of operation In the local mode pressing the Goto Panel button will display the designated panel or if the Previous Panel option is checked the previous panel is displayed No connection to the PLC is required In the PLC mode a register in the PLC is used to trigger the desired panel The Goto button writes the Panel Id number to the PLC register When any new Panel Id is written to the PLC register the target display reads the value and the new panel will be triggered The mode is determined by the Panel Trigger Tag option in the display device Configuration dialog box If the Panel Trigger Tag is left blank then the Goto button works in the local mode When you press the Goto button the selected panel will be displayed You do not have to be connected to a PLC for the Goto button to work properly If you designate a Panel Trigger Tag the target display MUST be connected to the PLC for t
217. not bleed through Other Editing Features The panel editor is designed to operate so that you can quickly design panels Once you are familiar with the methods used to add objects and create panels you may want to change the way the editor operates For example you may not want the panel tested for overlapped objects You may not want to see the grid displayed while editing objects The Settings menu allows changing the panel background color the settings of the grids and three levels of user preferences See Settings on page 128 Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 115 Menu Commands File Menu The File menu is shown below Most File menu options have corresponding icons in the tool bar Open Close Save Save As Check Delete Import Export Exit New Click the New icon or select New from the File menu to start a new panel editing session Selecting New will display a blank panel ready for editing The panel size is determined by the type of display device you selected in the Setup dialog F Panel Designer Untitled Project File Edit Toole View Options Settings Help Jim Fes EP PV Vico FSF Ve Fs PE TESTE Tools Ea TATE Ol Oe 8s Eea oaaae Denema Click to select double click to maximize or restore window size And w204 1004 T16 QUICKDESIGNER aaa el Editor GFK 1855 Open Click the Open icon or select Open from the File menu to open an existing panel for editi
218. not convert your old data files to the new format You will simply have to install the new QUICK DESIGNER in a different directory In order to run your old QUICK DESIGNER please see section on Understanding your data files in this file Q QUICK MANAGER thinks that a PROJECT is in use even though it is not A On occasion the QUICK MANAGER will not allow you access to certain projects even though you are certain that itis not so It will either gray out the all the controls or complain that the projects are in use See the Warning Message section of QUICK MANAGER in the user manual or the Help file Q The QUICKPANEL does not communicate to my PLC what should I check A Make sure that the QUICKPANEL s serial port is set up correctly Note that each PLC manufacturer has their own unique comm ports setups See the section for your PLC in the communications chapter in the QUICKDESIGNER User Manual for correct setups Q How can I get my company logo to appear on a panel A Refer to QUICKDESIGNER User Manual on bitmaps 16 e Installation Panel Editor GFK 1855 Understanding your data files All your data files are stored in the subdirectory called DATA below the directory where you installed the QUICK DESIGNER For example if you had C QUICK as your installation path your data would be stored in the C QUICK DATA directory This directory is known as the data directory The QUICK DESIGNER identifies the location of your
219. nt screen when the PLC tag bit goes high This operation will be invisible to the user The printer tag is set to zero after a print is completed Watchdog Tag The Watchdog tag selection is a register in the target PLC that is written to in intervals determined by the Timeout setting The target display will write this register in the selected time period Your PLC requires additional logic to examine and test the data in order to determine if a communication fault has occurred A common technique is to set the watchdog register to 0 then examine it after the timeout period has elapsed If the communication link is good the watchdog register will have a value other than 0 Continue the cycle of setting the PLC register to 0 and testing the register At any time after the timeout period the register is still set to 0 then there is a possible communication link problem The target display will attempt to write an FF to the PLC watchdog register Define Password Button Pressing the Define Passwords button will display the Password Setting dialog box You can password protect one or more panels in a project You can setup passwords for up to 16 users The password is a numeric value from 0 to 65535 with up to three levels of security For each protected panel in a project a security level of Operator Supervisor or Master is selected During run time when a protected panel is selected a numeric data entry panel is displayed prior to accessing the pa
220. o J em TO T1 T2 T3 Ura Jp T5 ia Jia a as B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 LSI Keypad installation information can be found in the Hardware Reference manual part number 800 1000 082 The Keypad option must be installed in order to use the keypad assignments The following panel operators ones with a bezel can be assigned to external keypads e Push Button e luminated Push Button e Numeric Data Entry with external numeric keypad e Selector Switch e Word Button e Goto Panel Button e Print Button e Alarms The addition of external keypads to the standard touch screen allows several options For example a Push Button can e work normally without using an external keypad e be assigned to an external keypad e work normally and with an external keypad e be simulated by a keypad but not appear on the touch screen 262 e Keypads Panel Editor GFK 1855 Keypad Layout The diagram below shows the physical layout of the keypads The keypad designations are PERMANENTLY assigned but the physical legends can be changed to suit your application That is L3 will always be in the same location but the legend for L3 can be changed Some of the keypad designations do not appear on the keypads They are included in the drawing for reference The unmarked keypads are TO BO T5 B5 and AO through A7 QUICKPANEL jr 13 Ra
221. o correct any information Press the Authorize button to send the Email to Total Control Products Meteor Boulton ith CP di a Rp cs alee sae ea Cece thee baloney E bo erat Bed F Dok E mok ho maka ohg LEO Migare bo erie thee re bo obs Loni Products Fort Hamr Dhari Copr T ode onia Products Ire Th A at che H amei Slate Premera Cri Eet 2p Poda Code Atii Fae E ra gerich araka ga com Peete See LE Sie Coke 3407 A confirmation dialog will appear This lets you know that the Email is in the process of being sent or has already been sent and you should open the Email reply to complete the authorization process ICP Firu Autheraten Engel a my i Sater creel ries thart kaiean E Tha i bu i ih Hea micii por Note that the Close button is disabled until the email is sent Panel Editor GFK 1855 Installation e 7 Product Authorization via Web Site To authorize the software via Web Site select the Internet option and click Next To authorize through a Web Site click the Finish button You must have Internet access and be configured properly for this option to work The default web browser will then open to the TCP Authorization web site The web page will contain a data entry page see the sample in the Product Authorization using Email section After the form is submitted you will be told that your key code will be sent to you through Email 8 e Installation Panel Editor
222. og box Adya ed Alum Otiraa Hohicatan T Button OF T O T B inhali E razn Mode Notification Tags The small buttons on the bottom of the alarm management page ACK Del etc can also be used to set a bit in a PLC so the PLC is notified when an alarm is acknowledged or erased To activate the buttons for PLC notification assign a tag variable to the button function The notification tags are configured in the Advanced Alarm Settings dialog box HISTORIC ALARMS 09 19 13 30 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 1 09 19 13 25 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 2 13 26 09 19 13 20 ALARM TEXT MESSAGE 3 13 21 13 23 Ack Del MODE DONE All All 7 z Up Down Ack De The notification tag buttons are Individual Acknowledge ACK Global Acknowledge ACK ALL Individual Erase DEL and Global Erase DEL ALL Assign a notification tag the same way you assign other tags For example the Allen Bradley PLC 5 has bit addressing available in the format B3 00 00 If you assign Individual Acknowledge ACK to B3 00 00 the bit will be set when the ACK button is pressed and reset when the button is released Button Off The buttons on the bottom of the alarm management page have two functions The first function is to allow you to scroll up and down through the alarms acknowledge alarms and delete alarms The second function is to set bits in the PLC if the button is assigned a notification tag variable
223. om the list box Other printers may work if they are compatible to one of the printers in the list box See the Print option on page 43 and the printer information in Appendix B Printe Tepe WEC PR2DI 24 DOT Coin Camiin Goa Scale C Coles heck White Heverced Port Selector The port selector is a list box that indicates which port is currently being setup This list box has only one entry now but may have more in the future The main serial port is generally called the CN1 or SIO port PLC Type The PLC Type list box shows which protocol you selected for the current project Click the down arrow on the right side of the list box to view the entire list of protocols Select a new protocol by clicking on the desired name If you select a protocol different from the current protocol shown in the PLC Type list the following prompt is displayed The prompt reminds you that the protocol you have just selected must be setup after the change Click Yes to acknowledge the prompt dias ki Monger z E p E o Dieng han iho Poo Vou War saup the 26 oon ale change Proosed wath ohsage a a Port Button The Port button will display the Serial Parameters dialog box Select RS232 or RS422 485 Half or Full Duplex protocol for the target display serial port Make sure the communication settings are the same as those for your PLC The settings shown in the dialog box are default settings and may not be correct for your
224. on e Invalid Tag Types e Invalid attempts to use arrays These warnings will result in an error log being generated c QDTagImp txt An example of the log file is shown below Address M00401 is not supported as type UNSIGNED for this device Tag RSBIT_1 could not be created Tag BPTCRD has length 25 Arrays are not supported Creating first element only Versa Pro Tag Import The following rules which differ from the normal tcs text import will apply when importing an SNF file 62 e Tags Panel Editor GFK 1855 e Files must have the SNF extension e Comment lines begin with Since normal text files use a single there is no conflict e Header section will be ignored e Any line beginning with a double colon sequence is considered a continuation of the records started on the previous line e Records continued over several lines may not have intervening comment lines e Fields that contain commas must be enclosed within quotes e To include leading or trailing spaces for a field enclose the field within quotes otherwise leading or trailing spaces for a field are ignored Field Names Section Rules e May contain only one record e The first non comment line in the file e PT_ID must be the first field e No empty fields are permitted e The following items will be considered valid PT_ID ADDR PT_TYPE BOOL BYTE WORD LENGTH Size e Any non supported fields will be
225. on computer The tags that are used in the panels will be automatically placed in the tag database b Another alternative would be to export each individual panel from the original project Create a new project Setup should be same as original project then import each panel into the new project To export panels go to the Panels area then open the panel to be exported Select File then Export from the top menu The export will ask you for a panel name 8 characters or less and give it a pnl extension To import panels go to the Panel areas and select File then Import Select the directory where your panel files are stored Then select the panel you wish to import and click OK This procedure will ask you to save the panel when exiting 5 After importing a project that has an alarm file some or all alarms no longer appear in the alarm window when triggered The alarm tags did not get created in the tag database Alarm tags must be created manually in the tag database with the same syntax as the alarm addresses example Alarm database tag TODD the address in the tag database must be TODD also and not Todd todd etc 6 When importing a bitmap image onto a panel the error message appears saying Bitmaps with more than 16 colors are not supported Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide e 273 a The bitmap that is being imported was saved as a 24 or more color bitmap Go back to the bitma
226. on from a selected alarm buffer If the operator touches the alarm window the alarm manager screen is displayed This screen allows the operator to acknowledge one or all alarms clear one or all alarms or view any alarm message stored in the alarm buffer This chapter is designed as a reference section Before attempting to configure alarms you should follow the procedures in the Alarms Guided Tour on page 83 This chapter will describe how to Open the Alarms window Add a new word or bit alarm file e Assign words or bits in your host device as alarm elements Setup the alarm message format Configure the alarm manager so the Acknowledge and Del buttons set bits in the host e Connect a serial printer for printing alarm messages Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms e 69 Bit and Word Address Tags The alarm manager is the control center for alarm operations The alarm manager must read the PLC address you have assigned as the alarm bit or word The read operation will cycle very quickly if you have only one bit or word to read If you try to read alarm bits that are scattered throughout the PLC memory the response time will tend to become slow The best method of reading alarm bits or words is to read consecutive PLC bits and words When you first add an alarm table you select a starting address and then enter the number of consecutive bits or words The alarm table is built automatically This is the fastest and most efficient way of
227. ons in a folder or panels from a project You can copy objects from one folder to another and copy the entire contents of one folder to another Enter the folder name and click OK Add Folder Hame Cancel Transfer Transfer is used to move the contents of the current folder to another Select the library destination and the folder name and click OK Transfer Folder Objects Source Destination Library Select Library Library ADATASDEHMO MDB ADATASDEMO MDB Folder Folder lt Unassigned gt lt Unassigned gt C Delete source after successful transfer 140 e Library Browser Panel Editor GFK 1855 Delete Folder Deletes the selected folder A confirmation dialog is presented Click Yes to delete the folder Delete Confirmation Q Are you sure you want to delete library folder Legends AND all of its objects Folder Properties The properties are arranged in a file box format The name tab allows changing the name of the folder Folder Properties Hame Library ADATASDEHMO_MDB Folde Object Transfer Object Moves the selected object to a new destination Select the destination library and folder enter the name of the object and a description and click OK to complete the transfer This is the same operation as an Edit Paste Transfer Library Object Source Destination Library Select Library ADATA DEMO_MDE Folder Legends Hame First legend plate O Delete source after su
228. or GFK 1855 Alarms e 73 For example if you enter IR3 BO as the starting address and the number of bits as 5 the alarm processor will create the following alarm table The first entry is IR3 BO with the State set to ON That means when IR3 BO goes to a 1 ON an alarm will be generated You can change the State condition by double clicking the State field to change the ON to OFF Adding Word Alarms When adding word alarms enter the word address and the number of words The alarm processor will automatically create the alarm table using the specified word address Each table entry will show the word address with a different value based on the initial and step settings The number of table entries is based on the number of words selected Values Initial is the value given to the first word alarm in the file The default is 0 Step is the number added to the initial value and each succedding table entry The default is 1 NOTE It is more efficient to create alarms in a contiguous order When alarms are scattered through different areas of memory the response time of the QuickPanel gets slower 74 e Alarms Panel Editor GFK 1855 For example if you enter DM100 as the starting address and the number of words as 5 the alarm processor will create the following alarm table Initial 0 Step 1 E Dueck Manages Alun MEDUSA IMIR ceec ty Pe Es The first entry in the above table is DM100 with a value of 0 Tha
229. or a particular PLC type can be designated as internal tags which are described in the Internal Tags section You can create a contiguous group of tags that have a common name by entering the number of tags in the Count field In the following example the Count has been set to 5 The following tags will be created DM200 DM201 DM202 DM203 DM204 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tags e 57 aay lma Delete Tag You can delete a tag by first clicking the tag to highlight it then selecting Delete from the Tag menu or clicking the Delete button UnDelete You can UnDelete a previously deleted tag by selecting UnDelete from the Tag menu Purge To purge ALL tags from the project list click the Purge button or select Purge from the Tag menu Use caution with this button since the operation will remove all tags NOTE Purging ALL tags from a project will remove all tags Tag Attributes Tags can have attributes such as type and range Assigning attributes to a tag allows you to customize the tag to a particular application For example you can scale a tag so that when the data is displayed a scaled range is displayed You can view the attributes of a tag by selecting Attributes from the Tag menu or by double clicking the tag name The three sections of the tag attributes menu are Names Type and Ranges lag Sth Herbert cements i Tag Attributes Names This section of the Tag Attributes dialog box shows the name of the Ta
230. or can be modified to enhance the visual impact of the ASCII Data Entry button Press the Simulate button to observe the action of the bezel color change BEZEL amp TOUCH BEZEL OUTLINE Bezel Settings Bezel Color ide Flashing Cancel Outhne Color a Flashing Simulate Touch Color ee Flashing Help Legend Plate The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator about the meaning of the current ASCII characters being displayed You can change the Text Size by clicking one of the Text Size radio buttons Justify text by clicking one of the Justify buttons Select a solid or flashing color for the text the legend background and the legend outline Click OK to apply the changes and return to the settings dialog Legend Plate Settings LGND TEXT Text Text Size Justify OK LEGEND BSCIL DATA ENTRY Poe Sr ee Gee BACKGROUND Fuad Cee 1116 ee e 16 x 32 Background Color es Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help LEGEND OUTLINE Data Format Settings The data format window allows setting up the display information Text Size Font Size of the text characters expressed as pixels Smaller text allows more characters in the text field Justification Determines if the text characters are forced to the Left Right or Center Length Selects the number of characters to display in the data field You must have sufficient registers in your PLC to store the ASCII characters E
231. osition to grid EJ Snap size to grid Bores EJ Snap size to grid Text Justify You can justify text in legends states data displays and Alarm windows Previously the text was automatically centered within the text field To change the justification of the text click the appropriate radio button in the Justify box The following dialog box shows Justify set to the center position The dialog box also shows the color selection bars Legend Plate Settings Text Text Sze Justify veel do E T ee Cec Cancel s mos 16 32 Background Color di Flashing Outhne Color Flashing Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 107 The following pictures show how text can be justified in a Legend Plate Note how the radio buttons correspond to the text position LEGEND LEGEND LEGEND PLATE PLATE PLATE Oo OOo OOo LEGEND GEN cane ae je OOo OOO OOo LEGEND LEGEND LEGEND OOo PLATE S OO Text Size The four text sizes are 5 x 7 7 x 9 11 x 16 and 16 x 32 The text size options will appear in the Text Size section of many dialog boxes Text Cutoff When entering text for legend plates lenses etc you must allow for proper sizing of the text and the panel object You can change the text size and the size of the object to accommodate the desired text display In the following example a legend plate on the left appears with 7 x 9 text The center picture shows the text enlarged to 11 x 16 and the obje
232. ote that the polyline tool is still active and you can continue to draw additional line segments or add segments to existing lines You can add segments to existing lines ONLY when the nodes are visible To add additional segments to the line shown above move the cross hair over a node click and hold the left mouse button move the cursor to a new point and release the mouse button You can continue to add line segments to create a polygon A true polygon is a closed figure bounded by three or more sides The last leg of a polygon must connect to the node of the first leg so that the figure is closed The drawing shows the sequence of adding segments to create a filled polygon To exit the polyline drawing mode click on the pointer tool 144 e Polyline Tool Panel Editor GFK 1855 Moving a Polyline Object To move a polyline object point to the object then click and hold the left mouse button The object nodes will appear Move the object to a new location and release the mouse button This method of moving polyline objects is the same for all objects You can also move an object when the sizing handles are visible by moving the cursor inside the object so that crossed arrows appear Click and hold the left mouse button then move th
233. ou to Turn the unit off again then on again then off again etc a Check the cable that is being used for downloading The cable should be HMI CAB C49 b Check the Com port that is being used Make sure that it is not being used by some other software package Also check the comm port s IRQ interrupt settings Some other installed device may be using that comm port s setting Com IRQ 4 and Com 2 IRQ 3 This can be done under the Windows Control Panel then select Ports c The HMI CAB C49 download cable may be damaged Try another download cable to see if the download will continue d Make sure that the incoming power to the QuickPanel unit is sufficient This is usually an issue with the 24 VDC unit e Exit out of the download then exit out of QuickDesigner software Go to Windows Notepad then open the file Courier ini that is found in the directory where QuickDesigner was loaded usually c quick Change the Autobaud from the 38400 default to 9600 3 When downloading the Courier gives the message Error changing baud rate a Select the Update Device Executable box Then de select it to restart the download The software may not have been able to change the baud rate correctly during the initial download b Exit out of the download then exit out of QuickDesigner software Go to Windows Notepad then open the file Courier ini that is found in the directory where QuickDesigner was loaded Change the A
234. ower to a new unit it will display a message indicating it is ready to receive a display device executable file Download Cable Connect the HMI CAB C49 cable from your computer port to the target display The following drawing shows a QUICKPANEL jr and a HMI CAB C49 cable connected to the download port R O a SIO CN3 H i J TO SERIAL PORT Coo i O O q HMI CAB C49 NOTE Use ONLY an HMI CAB C49 cable for downloading Compiler When the download operation is selected a compiler program starts automatically This program checks the panel designs for possible errors then assembles the panel information for the download operation All of the other files required for a download except a project file are included in the compile A sample compile operation information box is shown below If the compiler finds an error it will stop and display the name of the panel and the error condition Click the Cancel button to exit the compiler program See the Appendix for more information about the compiler Gurded Tau DLSCEPAMEL ji Ciki Upang pangrect 92 e Download and Upload Files Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKCOURIER When the compiler completes assembling the files it hands the compiled file over to QUICKCOURIER which will handle sending all files to the targ
235. p editing software where the bitmap was created or edited Paintbrush can be used as well Open the bitmap that is to be imported into QuickPanel Then select the Save As feature of your software package Under the List Files of Types box select bmp 16 colors or bmp monochrome Now the bitmap picture can be imported into QuickDesigner This is a limitation of QuickDesigner versions 3 32 and below 7 How do I save my Projects to disk In Quick Manager select the project you wish to save Then select Projects from the menu bar From the Projects menu select Export You will then be prompted with an export dialog box where you would specify the name of the project you want to export it to prj name must be 8 characters or less and the directory to where you want to store it NOTE When you export a project make sure you give it a name that is not currently being used in the directory where you are exporting it 8 A Raima Data error Oerr0 occurs during the development and or downloading process of a QuickDesigner application This indicates that there is some corruption in the Quick Manager s database The database should be restructured to eliminate the Raima data error a If there are other projects in the Quick Manager list besides the application that caused the error try to export each project one at a time If the project that is causing the problem allows access to the panels then open each panel and export them out
236. play e 187 Define Values You can further define the attribute values of the text file by clicking the Define Values button In the Color section the basic 8 colors are shown with their common default names Only the basic 8 colors are supported You can change BLACK to BK or any other attribute The 5x7 Text Size can be changed from 5x7 to SMALL Any attribute changed in this dialog box must match attributes in the text file That is you cannot use 5x7 in the text file if you change the attribute to SMALL The dialog box shows the default settings for the Color Color Flashing Text Justification and Text Size attribute values Define Attribute Yalues Color Text Justification Text Size Weck y l zag 7x8 Mereen o frenow me Wee lexa 16x36 m E f Color Flashing E Save To Default On Save to Default Saves the current selections in the Define Attributes Values dialog box as the new default values Restore Default Changes all selections in the Define Attributes Values dialog box to the default values Export Export Local Message Display files lmd These files are text files saved with the lImd extension The format and layout of the files are defined in the Export File Layout Settings dialog When you enter a file name and select a location to export a file the Export File Layout Setting dialog is displayed Export Local Messages Ed File name Folders test Imd Ee ee E quick3 List
237. ple form This form has no active elements and can be covered with a bitmap The Print Screen button the Push Button and the Word Button all have a Simple form The following table shows panel object PDO elements and the status of each element Object Alarm Tool Ascii Data Entry Auxiliary Port Button Bitmap Tool BarGraph Tool Panel Editor GFK 1855 Legend Alarm Que Touch Object T tag Alarm Object A tag Ascii Screen Ascii Trigger Legend Touch Object T tag Text Display Object S tag Legend Bezel Touch Object T tag Image Library Legend Bargraph Object G tag Status Static Invisible Active Invisible Active Bleeds Invisible Invisible Static Active Invisible Active Bleeds Static Active Bleeds Active Invisible Static Static Active Bleeds QUICKDESIGNER e 113 Circle Object Goto Panel Button Illuminated Push Button Standard Illuminated Push Button Circular states identical Illuminated Push Button Circular states different Local Image Display Legend Plate Tool Meter Graph Tool Local Message Display Numeric Data Display Numeric Data Entry Pilot Light Standard Pilot Light Circular states identical Pilot Light Circular states different Print Screen Button Standard Print Screen Button Circular Print Screen Button Simple 3 Polyline Tool 114 e QUICKDESIGNER Circle Object Legend Touch Object T tag Image Library Lo
238. ppears The 360 degree meter can be selected to have the starting point min setting at the top of the meter or the bottom The bar on the meter face moves clockwise from the min value to the max value TEMP 212 0 0 0 0 0 212 0 TEMP FILLED FILLED BOTTOM TOTOP TOP TO BOTTOM 246 e Analog Meter Panel Editor GFK 1855 To add a Meter to a panel click the Meter icon 5 in the floating Tools menu Move the mouse cursor to the panel and observe that the cursor is a cross hair with a meter symbol Move the cross hair to the cells where you want the meter to appear and click the mouse The meter face appears on the panel and the Meter Settings dialog appears Heter Settings Tag EEES ee Cancel Bar Color Flashing Take Default Shape 180 Meter 7 Face plate Scale Simulate Help Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the numeric meter operator This tag will be a word in the PLC memory that the target display can read NOTE Any variable assigned to a Meter MUST be a 16 bit integer type variable Bar Color The movable portion of the meter is the bar color similar to a bar graph Click the Flashing checkbox for flashing colors Filled The movable portion of the meter is set to be a single line similar to the needle on a pressure guage Clicking the Filled checkbox will fill the area from the minimum value to the current value The fill color is same as the bar color
239. ppendix D 64 Colors Panel Editor GFK 1855
240. r a description of the tag The prompt will appear in any settings dialog box where the tag is used You can edit the Prompt text the same way you edit the Address text The example shows the Prompt text in the Pilot Light Settings dialog box 122 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Modify Tag Address Address Promp 0R100 Pump 1 ON Cancel Pilot Light Settings Tag Pump 1 ON ox 0R100 You can also enter a new tag prompt by double clicking in the area above the tag field Enter the prompt and press return Pilot Light Settings Pilot Light Settings Tag Tag Pump 1 ON om E Hake Default Hake Default nee nee Delete Del Delete the selected object from the screen Object is not placed on the clipboard to Background Ctrl B Selected panel objects can be moved from the foreground to the background to Foreground Ctrl F Selected panel objects can be moved from the background to the foreground Group Objects Cirl G Two or more objects on the panel can be grouped together so that they will act as a single object You can use select all to select all objects for grouping You can select several objects by clicking and holding the left mouse button as you draw a box around the objects You can select multiple objects by holding down the SHIFT key and clicking the objects you want grouped Items remain temporarily grouped only until the next object selection Select Group Objects fro
241. r can be changed The legend plate contains the text and the background The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are several text sizes available LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND s LEGEND PLATE TEXT BEZEL OUTLINE s 1294967 BEZEL COLOR af TOUCH COLOR Simple Print Button The elements of the simple print button are shown below The simple button is similar to the standard button except it has no bezel The simple button is a legend plate and text The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are several text sizes available The simple button has more room for text characters than the standard button LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE 128456789012 LEGEND PLATE TEXT fH Circular Print Button The elements of the circular print button are shown below The circular button consists of a bezel and legend plate The bezel is the circular section in the center of the button The ring around the bezel is the touch indicator The touch indicator can be one color when the button is idle and a different color when the button is touched The bezel color the touch color and the bezel outline color can be changed The legend plate contains the text and the background The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors ca
242. r index number The index numbers are laid out on a grid that corresponds to the color palette The index number grid is shown below The index numbers can be cross referenced to the 64 color grid so you can match Color Index numbers to a Color name C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 RI 121 314 5 6 7 8 WHITE CoIR1C8 R2 9 10 11 12 131 1411516 TURQ ColR2C8 R3 17 18 19 20 21 22 2324 WHEAT CoIR3C8 R4 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 PALGRN CoIR4C8 R5 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 ORANGE ColR5C8 R6 41 42 43 44 4514614748 GOLD ColR6C8 R7 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 TAN ColR7C8 R8 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 KHAKI ColR8C8 WOOD CoIR8C7 Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 109 64 Color Grid The Color Grid shows the Color Index number and the Color Name The help files contain sample colors however you must have a display capable of showing 64 colors The colors in the grid can be referenced in two ways when preparing an import file for a Local Message Display lmd or a Triggered Message Display tmd Use the names shown in the 64 Color Grid Use the Row and Column numbers shown in the Color Index Numbers table ie BLACK ColR1C1 KHAKI ColR8C8 Color Color Color Index Index Index BLACK 23 YEL2 PRPL2 Broe 24__ WHEAT GREEN 25 Pro cyan 26 Drum PRED erm MAGENTA 28 MNTG
243. r of a tiling cell The remaining corners of the object attempt to come as close as possible to the snap points of the other cells The object is restrained from snapping to the other cells in order to remain within the cells they occupy Snapping to grid points forces the object to be sized to the dimension of the cell In some cases the object may cover up the tiling grid Objects that are associated with touch areas will first attempt to size themselves to complete touch regions If the tiling grid is not an even multiple of the touch grid part objects associated with touch areas will size differently than other part objects Remember that touch areas are 20 x 20 pixels and touch objects must occupy a minimum of four touch areas 40 x 40 NOTE All input objects pushbuttons Numeric Entry etc are forced to the touch area grid whether the snap function is enabled or not Objects on the panel can be aligned to the grid using the snap feature When moving an object the nearest grid line will be the snap point If you turn off the snap position option objects can be placed close together and in some cases overlap Default Settings The default settings for the tiling grid and snap are selected with the novice user in mind These settings make it easy to quickly design a panel The user selects a part object from the tool box and places it on the panel The part snaps to a cell location and is drawn automatically One mouse click for a part obj
244. r to the first empty space in the Message column and click the mouse The space is highlighted indicating that you can now enter message text Type in the alarm message and use the Enter key to complete the operation Enter the alarm messages shown in the next picture F ink Maree eels mi JHEGUGSA UH TG hiad To IO Ea T li ir am F Am my Tt Ta H Alarm Configuration The next step is to select the configuration options that determine how the alarm message is displayed in the alarm window Click the Config button to display the Alarm Configuration dialog box Alarm l mgran Selecting the Message Format The QUICKPANEL jr Color display can show 49 5x7 characters in one line of the alarm window The alarm message date stamp and time stamps must fit in the forty nine character space The next drawing shows how a forty nine character alarm window message might be formatted The beginning of each column is indicated Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms Guided Tour e 85 Trigger Date Stamp Column Trigger Time Stamp Column Acknowledge Time Stamp Column Message Column Clear Time Stamp Column 1 10 16 37 44 10 12 95 13 00 Alarm Text 13 02 13 05 The Message Format section of the Alarm Configuration dialog box is used to select the starting column number of each portion of the alarm message If you leave the settings in the default condition the alarm message will appear on the display like the example
245. rd or bit to make them active These objects are called Dynamic Objects Some objects are for internal use such as the GOTO panel text legends bitmaps etc These objects are called Static Objects The pointer is a special tool used to select objects already on the screen I Pointe Bitmap E page O 648 el eRe Illuminated W tal Pilot Push Button Buton Light Me F5 Display Selector al Goto Numeric Numeric m n Print g Switch H Panel ta Display E Entry E Panel Text Display o a Alarms E T M Polyline Ol Circle mj Rectangle Text E bigs he Message ASCII Data Entry i Hardwired Jog In the beginner mode the editor draws the object in a two cell field The objects can be resized to suit the panel design In the following drawing a Pilot Light object has been placed on the panel Once the object appears on the screen an edit dialog box appears In the case of the Pilot Light you can change the text size and color change background and outline color and assign a discrete bit in PLC memory to control the light Each type of object can be customized to fit a wide range of applications It therefore becomes very easy to place an object on the screen modify it for your application and load the project into a target display 2 e Introduction Panel Editor GFK 1855 Installation Installing QuickDesigner Basic Requirements 1 Windows 95 98 or Windows NT 4 0 Operating System 2 Pentium 133 MHz processor 32Meg of R
246. re modules The first file 1s a configuration file used to configure a target display for operation with your PLC The configuration information includes the name of the panel that appears after a power cycle screen saver timeout the serial port parameters and other option settings Without the proper configuration information the target display will not communicate with your PLC Other files include panels that will be displayed on the target display Panels contain objects such as push buttons pilot lights and bar graphs For each PLC there is a unique protocol driver file You must have the correct protocol driver loaded into the target display in order to communicate with your PLC During the download operation the target display is tested to determine if the protocol file in the display is the same version and type as the one you selected during setup Additional files including alarm files may also be included in the compiled download file There is one last file type that can be downloaded which is not part of the compiled download file This file is called a project file and contains all the project information in raw format It is similar to an exported project file This file can later be uploaded and used like an imported project file 90 e Download and Upload Files Panel Editor GFK 1855 Selecting Project Store Project in Panel is the same as clicking the Store Project in Panel button The Store Project button is used to creat
247. re project The number of pens available for the current trend and the number of total pens used is displayed in a status box at the bottom of the dialog box NOTE You can have up to eight pens for each trend display up to a maximum of 20 pens for an entire project To add a new pen click New and the next available default pen name appears Remember that the name can be changed Select the line style and pen color then click OK i CAUTION You can edit the values for the ranges by clicking the Edit button These H values represent the Min and Max values for the tag variable assigned to the 238 e Trend Panel Editor GFK 1855 pen Once you edit these values they are changed for any other panel object that may use the same tag variable However if you change the tag attributes through the Tag editor you will not change the Input Range and Scale Range settings in the Pen Setup Pen Setup Current Pens ag Name ee Line Style Pen Color Flashing Hin Har I T more pens available in this trend Cancel a Help OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Trend Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Advanced The Advanced button will display the Trend Graph Advanced Settings dialog box Clicking the Enable Trend Control checkbox will enable the Tag list box The Tag variable can be a bit or word If you select
248. reading alarm data from the PLC When you are done creating the alarm address table and entering the alarm messages the alarm table is saved to an alarm file There are several examples of the alarm table in this section If for some reason you are unable to create a consecutive alarm table you can still enter a single alarm address by setting the number of bits or words to 1 You can also set the number of bits or words to the maximum size of the alarm table and let the alarm manager build the alarm table Go to the Edit menu and click the Free Form Address option which will allow you to edit any address in the table You must be careful to enter only valid PLC addresses Entering a name like JOE will create an invalid address The alarm file is sent to the target display during the download operation Alarms Configuration To configure Alarms click the Alarms button or select Alarms from the Components menu Panels Taos dP Download 9 Alarms Selecting Alarms will open the Alarms window and the New bit alarms dialog See New bit alarms in the Edit Menu section The Alarms window is used to create and edit alarm files and configure the alarm message and buffers The Alarms window appears below Aarne T ETT alams HEDUSA IHI Paogecit I ai Fir Hap pare ce FI QUIK ANEL jr 5 Ot 70 e Alarms Panel Editor GFK 1855 The default setting for the window is Bit Alarms Bit alarms are controlled by a bit
249. red and saved open QuickDesigner and re download the application NOTE This change will disable all internal QuickPanel screen changes numeric entry screen alarm screen and GoTo buttons from being sent to the Panel trigger tag address Compiling 1 When downloading an application the compiler stops then gives the error message GPC LockG STOP Null GMB OK a This is usually caused by some object on a panel that requires some text characters but does not have any usually Text object Check the panel name and the object type where the compiler stopped This usually indicates the where and what of the problem Once the panel name and the object have been identified click OK Then cancel the compiler Go to the panel and delete the object or double click on the object and type in some text characters b Sometimes the actual text object that is causing the problem is difficult to find because the panel is completely covered with operator devices If this is the case then individually select each object hold 280 e Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide Panel Editor GFK 1855 down the shift key as you select each object and then group them Edit Menu Once the objects have been grouped Cut Edit menu or Scissors icon the entire grouped object Go to the Edit menu and choose Select All This should identify any Text objects that may have been hidden Delete the empty Text box Then Paste Edit menu or Glue jar icon the grouped object an
250. rizontal by 240 vertical pixels Each dot has a unique address specified by a horizontal and vertical coordinate The origin is located in the upper left corner of the display and is designated 0 0 The opposite corner is the maximum pixel position designated 319 239 This drawing shows the two corners of the display with the pixels greatly enlarged 0 0 H V PIXEL oo a Ko N io 104 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Touch Grid The touch screen is made up of cells that are 20 pixels on a side The touch cells share the same coordinate system as the display The first touch cell uses the pixels from coordinate 0 0 to 19 19 There is no physical display of the touch grid You cannot change the number of pixels in a touch cell The drawing shows the first touch grid with only the outline pixels 0 0 TOUCH CELL 19 19 Part Objects There are two types of part objects those associated with touch regions and those not associated with touch regions A push button is an
251. rocessor is So fast the system screen appears before you get a chance to see the touch color Click OK to accept the color selections See Appendix D for Color Information Bezel Settings Bezel Color id Flashing l Cancel Outline Color Flashing Simulate Touch Color Sees Flashing Help Legend You can change the title of the Alarm Window by clicking the legend button and entering the new title You can change the text color background color and size of the title text You can justify the text by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons See Appendix D for Color Information Legend Plate Settings Text Text Sze Justify Leo Oo ee oe CEC Cancel C4ixis i CE 16 x 32 Background Color di Flashing T Outline Color Flashing Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarm Window e 243 Text You can select the color and text size of the alarm message as it will appear in the alarm window A common practice is to display the active alarm in red the acknowledged alarm in yellow and the cleared alarm in green Remember that the active alarm queue will not contain any cleared alarms Click the text button to display the Text Settings dialog box See Appendix D for Color Information Text Settings Text Size C l Trigger Text Color Flashing l BS Trigger Background Color Flashing Acknowledged Text Color Flashing Acknowledged Background Color Flashing T Cleared Text Color Flashing
252. round after it is moved Help The Help file contains most of the information found in the user manual except it is in electronic format and in easy reach Contents Getting Started Learning Panel Designer 10 Addressing Guide About Panel Designer Contents If you click on Contents the QuickDesigner help screen is displayed 130 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER el Es File Edit Bookmark Options Help et ei QuickDesigner QUICKDESIGNER Window Creating a Panel Menu Commands Getting Started Getting started has been reduced to provide only a message box about the best way to get started using QuickDesigner gt QUICKDESIGNER iols File Edt Bookmark Options Help Getting Started The best place to get started is to read the Quick Tour section of the user manual Learning QUICKDESIGNER A message box describing the tools available to learn QuickDesigner software gt QUICKDESIGNER _ OF x File Edit Bookmark Options Help Learning QUICKDESIGNER There are several tools available for learning GuickDesigner The user manual contains a Quick Tour which will guide you through the steps of creating a simple project The user manual also contains a quided tour of Alarms and Library These files are available on the distribution CD and they are added ta your system during installation The files are in POF format and can be read online and printed Online help is alway
253. rsor to the clipboard Transfer Object Transfers the object below the cursor to the selected library and folder Displays the Transfer Library Object dialog box Delete Object Deletes the object below the cursor from the folder The object is NOT placed on the clipboard The Delete Object Confirmation dialog box is displayed Properties Displays the Object Properties dialog box Right Mouse Button Options for Folders Browser Properties Clicking the right mouse button when the cursor is located in the gray area of the object window will display the following options menu If you had placed an object on the clipboard the Paste option will be active Inactive menu selections are greyed out Paste will copy the object on the clipboard to the open folder Selecting Properties will display the Browser Properties dialog box Panel Editor GFK 1855 Library Browser e 143 Polyline Tool Creating a Polyline Drawing The polyline tool is used to draw single line segments multiple line segments and filled unfilled polygons Click the polyline icon on the tool bar Z To create a line segment move the cross hair to the point where you want to begin drawing a line Click and HOLD the left mouse button Move the mouse so that the cross hair is now at the second point of the line Release the left mouse button to complete the line A small box appears on each end of the line This small box is called a NODE NODE N
254. rt binaarne cuit haer a eet bei makaj be eee Uh heip rt Fine mods the Waaa bee i the ODHELP JIPA fks be peter be ate eth Decree The ODE LP ip iaie es COMI E 14 e Installation Panel Editor GFK 1855 QuickDesigner Home Page QuickDesigner home page on the Total Control Products web site You must have a web browser installed to view these pages See the warning in Tech Support Web Page Online Knowledge Base The Help menu has a selection for the Online Knowledge Base page on the Total Control Products web site You must have a web browser installed to view these pages Offline Knowledge Base The Knowledge Base files may have been added to your system during installation The Help menu has a selection for the Offline Knowledge Base You must have a web browser installed to view these pages These files can be found in the default directory Quick Qd_kb Panel Editor Manual If you selected the Typical installation user manuals in PDF format along with Acrobat Reader were added to your system The Panel Editor manual contains all the information about Installation Software Authorization QuickManager QuickDesigner QuickCourier Tags Alarms etc When you click on this link the manual is opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader This manual can also be found on the installation CD Hardware Reference Manual If you selected the Typical installation user manuals in PDF format along with Acrobat Reader were added to your system
255. s 9600 Baud 8 Data Bits No Parity 1 Stop Bit Flow control None Click Ok to enter parameters HyperTerminal is now in command mode If your modem does not have dipswitches you can enter AT commands to change the settings of the modem Modem Setup The next step is to setup the modems so that they will respond properly when Courier starts the download process The modems used in this application note are from Multi Tech Systems Model MT1932ZDX These modems are capable of 19 2Kbps The modems must be set to 9600 Baud Auto Answer DTR Forced High Ignore DTR The modem used in this note required sending command codes to the modem using HyperTerminal Your modem may have dipswitches for changing parameters Here is a list of the commands used in setup These commands may be different for your brand of modem AT MB9600 Originate call at 9600 bps AT SB9600 Set serial port to 9600 bps AT amp S1 Let DSR follow CD AT amp DO Modem ignores DTR signal Dial the remote modem using an AT command such as ATDT9 4862807 Once the modems are connected a message similar to the following one should appear CONNECT 9600 LAPM COMPRESSED Use the Disconnect button on the HyperTerminal tool bar to disconnect HyperTerminal The modems should stay connected If they do not you must use modem commands to change the communication parameters Run QuickDesigner Start QuickDesigner Select the project and click the download button The
256. s available by clicking one of the Help buttons From any help topic you can jump to the main QUICK help file by clicking the QUICK HELP button QUICK Help is a help file designed to allow easy access to any help topic IO Addressing Guide Clicking the IO Addressing Guide will display the Tag variable table for the PLC protocol selected in Setup You will also be able to get to the Tag table if you enter an invalid tag name for any panel tool A Tag Name Error dialog box will appear and remind you that the tag name is invalid Click the Help button in the Tag Name Error dialog box to display the tag table Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 131 About QUICKDESIGNER Clicking the About option will display the splash screen for QuickDesigner This screen will show important information about the software The System Info button is used to display information about the QuickDesigner software or Windows Master Help Once you enter the help system from any point you can gain access to any other help topic by clicking the Quick Help button which will jump to the main Quick Help screen This main screen has links to all other help topics inlcuding protocol drivers alarms and all panel tools 132 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Library Tour Library is a feature that allows storing an object or group of objects in a database Each library you can have more than one contains folders of neatly stored objects and groups of
257. s TRUE After the tags are entered click the Add Tags button to enter the tags into the state table Click the Add Tags button to enter the tags for each message If you enter an incomplete state an error message will appear when you click any of the following buttons OK Make Default Export Next Previous The TMD will show the given message on the panel screen if at any time a logic statement comes true Tag Variable Tag A tag variable name up to four tags must be assigned to each message This tag will be a bit in the PLC memory that the target display can read After the tags are entered click the Add Tags button to enter the tags into the state table Bit Off The tag variable can be set to bit off condition for single bits multiple bits and logical functions Operation For each displayed message the user can choose to relate up to four Bit variables with three different logic functions AND OR XOR Note For most panel design tools tags can be edited by clicking the panel object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctr1 T from the Edit menu The Triggered Message Display tool does not support this feature There are no tag prompts available for the Triggered Message Display 194 e Triggered Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Message Field The message field is used to enter text for each message contained in the Triggered Message Display Each message is numbered as shown in the Trigger Number display box
258. s of a bezel and legend plate The bezel is the frame around the legend plate The bezel can be one color when the button is idle and a different color when the button is touched The bezel color the touch color and the bezel outline color can be changed The legend plate contains the text and the background The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are several text sizes available Panel Editor GFK 1855 Jog Button e 255 LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND LEGEND PLATE TEXT I 494567890 BEZEL BEZEL OUTLINE Simple Button The elements of the simple button are shown below The simple button is similar to the standard button except it has no bezel The simple button is a legend plate and text The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are several text sizes available The simple button has more room for text characters than the standard button LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE 1128456789012 LEGEND PLATE TEXT Circular Button The elements of the circular button are shown below The circular button consists of a bezel and legend plate The bezel is the circular section in the center of the button The ring around the bezel is the touch indicator The touch indicator can be one color when the button is idle and a different color when the button is touched The bezel color the
259. s shown in the Import File Layout Settings dialog box A comma separated file is easy to create but you can use any of the delimiters shown in the Delimiter list box 0 7x9 UL RED OFF CYAN OFF RED OFF State 0 1 7x9 UL GREEN OFF CYAN OFF RED OFF State 1 2 7x9 UL BLUE OFF CYAN OFF RED OFF State 2 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Local Message Display e 183 Default Fields Default Frelds W State IM Text Size V Text Justify I Text Color MV Text Flash I Lens Color I Lens Flash W Outline Color M Outline Flash M Text Select which fields will be specified in the import file format Fields not specified will be set to the default values shown in the table below You can change the default values by using the Save to Default button Use the Restore Default button to reset the default values to the original settings Default values are Text Size 5x7 Text Justify Center Text Color White Text Flash Off Lens Color Black Lens Flash Off Outline Color White Outline Flash Off In the following text file only the STATE and TEXT fields are used The default values are used where no field is specified 0 Stave 0 i Stace 1 2 Stace 2 Color Selection Originally the QuickPanel supported only eight colors BLACK RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE With the addition of the Series 3 QuickPanel Quick Designer will now support 64 colors That means when you are using a Series 3 Q
260. s you to start a new project This functions the same as the icon and the NEW button on the Quick Manager screen Setup Allows you to edit project information such as screen saver initial display screen PLC protocol panel passwords etc See Setup for more information This functions the same as the Setup button on the Quick Manager screen Delete Allows you to delete the selected project from the project list This functions the same as the trashcan icon on the toolbar Store Project in QuickPanel This feature when selected allows you to store a compiled copy of your QuickDesigner project into your QuickPanel This file is needed to use the Upload functionality Download This selection compiles the selected QuickDesigner application then downloads the application to the QuickPanel using Quick Courier Upload This feature allows you to upload receive from the QuickPanel a project file You must use the Store Project in QuickPanel option when downloading to send the project file to a QuickPanel Compile to File Creates a compiles file of the QuickDesigner application and allows you to store it for later use Download from File Allows you to download a previously compiled file This saves time because you do not have to wait while the file is compiled 32 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Project New There are three ways to start a new project click the New icon in the tool bar select New from the Pro
261. shing l Cancel Outline Color a Flashing Simulate Touch Color Sees Flashing Help 174 e Word Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Legend Plate The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator on the action that will occur when the word button is pressed This text is constant and will not change when the word button is pressed The text size can be changed and you can justify text by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons The text color background color and outline color can be modified in appearance to enhance the application See Appendix D for Color Information Legend Plate Settings Text Text Sie Justify Peel do we Fag CEC Cancel Cqixte jf oe 16 3 Text Color Background Color di Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Word Button Settings dialog box and exit the dialog Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Word Buttons appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Word Button Settings dialog box The current settings in the Word Button Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a word button the saved settings will automatically be applied Advanced Button NOTE The Advanced Button is enabled when you select Keyboard Attached in the Touch Screen Configuration dialog in Set
262. so used to enable the operation of the external keypad The Print button sends the panel image to a printer Leave this alone for now 20 e Quick Tour Panel Editor GFK 1855 Prepect Fep Ei Preci pama arai Mere Hardel QUICERAREL p 5 FJ Coki aal PLE kProlotHi puc nn rm OO E Pot Protocol PAETOS o Camel Hein The next section of the Project Setup dialog box is labeled PLC amp Protocols This section is used to select the PLC protocol and setup the communications for the display There is only one choice for the main serial interface port which is designated SIO CN1 Click on the down arrow located on the right side of the PLC Type field to display a list of PLC types Click on Modicon Modbus When you change protocols the following prompt is displayed The prompt reminds you that the protocol you have just selected must be setup after the change Click Yes to acknowledge the prompt FIT k Manges _ ET E So Chang him ihia Paotacol T Mite Mexican Moan chaege Pronsed wath chaege Click the Port button to setup the main serial port CN1 on the display The Serial Parameters dialog is displayed This dialog box is one of the most important because it defines the communication settings between the display and your PLC Sarnal Pamer Panel Editor GFK 1855 Quick Tour e 21 The settings MUST match those of your PLC The settings shown in the dialog box are default settings and may not
263. splay list The list changes for different versions of software HILAR ARE O05 Loker UFA GiINLEPAREL 10 5 Coder IFI iur GINCEPAHEL 1057 Cola Weira OMCKEPAHEL 10 5 LCD Monecheone OWICKEPAHEL 12 17 Coia TFT JMCEFAHEL E7 Handy eki LHir ILE PARE E Hanit ek Haritha QIHCEPAHEL 3 PL Wirmo OPi cces LCE PAE 8 FEL Hima UFI Jea OUICEPAHEL p POPI Coki DUICKPAHEL ji Y POPS H irri hii is QUICKER ARE ir E7 pU FE H iriiri mas CEP AME He K Pru E i Jimi alake NOTE The QuickPanel Mini 6 Monochrome display has a limited set of tools in the panel design toolbox See Tool Box on page 100 Initial Screen The Initial Screen is the first panel displayed When the power is cycled See Initial Screen in the next section Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 35 Display Button The Display button brings up the Display Configuration dialog box which is used to select the initial screen and the Screen Saver timeout HMWILEPAHEL r ioa Lorian Initial Screen This is the panel that will appear after a power cycle has occurred on the target display When you first begin a project this list box will be empty If you know the name of the power up panel enter it now You can come back to this dialog box after all your panels are completed If you leave the Initial Screen entry blank the panel with ID 1 will be displayed If no panel in the project has the ID 1 then the screen will be blank except for the nam
264. splay the OFF state and when to display the ON state Click the Pilot Light icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the Pilot Light to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the Pilot Light immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the Pilot Light Release the mouse button and the Pilot Light is sized The following Pilot Light Settings dialog box will appear Tag Ce Goel a M Style Standard Hake Default States Legend Help 176 e Pilot Light Panel Editor GFK 1855 Tag Variable The Tag is a single discrete bit in the PLC memory that the target display can read to determine the ON OFF status A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl1 T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field Style Select either the Standard or Circular style Pilot Light If you select the Standard pilot light the Legend button will be greyed out inactive If you select the Circular pilot light both States and Legend buttons will be active Pilot Light Settings x Style Make Default States Legend Help Cancel
265. ssed the current position tag bit is turned OFF and the next position tag bit will be turned ON A list of valid PLC tags can be found by locating your PLC type in the Communications User manual Tags can be edited by clicking the object and selecting Change Object Tags Ctrl T from the Edit menu Tag prompts can be added in the Modify Tag Attributes dialog box You can also add or edit tag prompts by double clicking above the tag field 208 e Selector Switch Panel Editor GFK 1855 States The States button will display the State Settings menu Each position of the Selector Switch has two states ON and OFF You can change the text size and appearance of each state You can justify text by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons Use the Next and Previous buttons to select a different state The last state selected will be the one displayed when you click the OK button See Appendix D for Color Information State Settings Text Size Justify ox OLTE sos Cancel Previous i fxg a 2 z 1116 Bev 16 x 32 Outline Color EE Feshing T Herp Bezel The Bezel portion of the Selector Switch is used to give a visual indication to the operator that the button was pressed The bezel outline and touch color can be modified to enhance the visual impact of the Selector Switch When the Selector Switch is not pressed the bezel color is displayed but when the Selector Switch is pressed the touch color will be displayed The ou
266. t means when DM100 is equal to 0 an alarm condition exists Registers in a PLC are often reset to 0 during power cycles You may not want a value of 0 to produce an error condition To prevent this situation change the Initial setting in the New Alarms dialog box to 1 Maximum Alarms in a Project The maximum number of alarms for a project depends on the display model For QPJ models the maximum is 512 alarms consisting of two files of 256 alarms For QPI models the maximum is 768 alarms consisting of three files of 256 alarms When you first create an alarm the first file of 256 is allocated When you exceed 256 the next file is opened Edit Delete To delete an alarm first select the alarm or multiple alarms by clicking the number buttons next to the alarm In the following picture alarm has been selected Bit Alarms lt untitled gt Sei el Add Delete Next click the Delete button or select Delete from the Edit menu which will display the Delete Alarms dialog box Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms e 75 Click OK to delete the selected alarms Entering and Editing Alarm Messages The alarm table is created without any alarm messages You must enter an alarm message for each entry in the alarm table To enter text in the Message field move the mouse pointer to the field and click The field is selected and you can begin to type the alarm message See the Message Format description on page 77 to determine the prac
267. t on the panel When the Word Button Settings dialog box appears enter the tag name as System_Contrast You must type the tag name exactly as shown including the tilde at the beginning Select the Action as Add and set the value to 1 Remember to enter the desired text in the legend plate to identify the operator Place a second Word Button on the panel with the same tag name and select the Action as Subtract and the value as 1 You can adjust the screen contrast offline by simultaneously touching the top left and top right corners of the QuickPanel touch screen This will bring up a contrast bar on the bottom of the screen The contrast bar is divided into different shaded sections Pressing a lighter section will lighten the screen pressing a darker section will darken the screen If you press the black section the screen will go black To accept the screen contrast change touch the screen anywhere outside the shaded sections Be careful when using this adjustment A blank screen could indicate a serious malfunction of the display or an accidental contrast change to black 68 e Internal Tags Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms Introduction to Alarms Alarms are messages that appear on the display in response to a specific condition in the host control system The alarm message informs the operator of a condition that requires immediate attention A typical alarm message is shown below DATE TIME MESSAGE ACK CLEAR 09 18 22 48 HIGH TEMPERAT
268. ta between your computer and a QuickPanel display A download is defined as sending a file from the computer to the display When you start a normal download all panels are tested for proper format Any errors in the panels must be corrected before a download operation can begin The panels the alarm file the PLC setup file the display setup file and any other files necessary to create the project in the display are compiled into a download file The file is then handed over to QUICKCOURIER which is responsible for communications with the display You can download a previously compiled file which will be discussed later QUICKCOURIER sends a message from the selected COMM port to see if it can communicate with the display Once the communication link is established it will determine the state of the display and if it is ready to receive the download file It checks for the correct type of display and identifies files that were previously loaded The QUICKCOURIER dialog displays prompts for the operator indicating the current operation or problems The download operation should begin automatically and continue without manual intervention When complete the display will prompt the operator to select a panel or automatically display a selected panel QUICKCOURIER will detect the end of a successful download and automatically terminate Download Files A download file is compiled from several other files which are created by different softwa
269. ted to Black and Yellow Magenta and Cyan will be converted to white Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix D 64 Colors e 285 Color Index Numbers The Local Message Display and the Triggered Message Display allow importing and exporting text files that contain color descriptions Colors can be specified by their color name or by their index number The index numbers are laid out on a grid that corresponds to the color palette The index number grid is shown below The index numbers can be cross referenced to the 64 color grid so you can match Color Index numbers to a Color name C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 R1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 R3 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 R4 R5 R6 R7 25 26 2 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 54 55 56 R8 286 e Appendix D 64 Colors 57 58 59 60 62 63 64 WHITE ColIR1C8 TURQ ColIR2C8 WHEAT ColR3C8 PALGRN CoIR4C8 ORANGE CoIR5C8 GOLD CoIR6C8 TAN CoIR7C8 KHAKI CoIR8C8 WOOD CoIR8C7 Panel Editor GFK 1855 64 Color Grid The Color Grid shows the Color Index number and the Color Name The help files contain
270. th more than one PLC on a network protocol tag PLCNODE and one or more PLCs are not on the network Check the your PLC address es and make sure that QuickDesigner application is setup appropriately d The QuickPanel is connected to the PLC however one or more communication parameters are not set correctly baud rate parity data bits etc Make sure the PLC communications port is set up the same as the QuickPanel s communication port QuickPanel parameter can be checked by going to Setup and Port and or Protocol in the QuickDesigner software e This means that there are one or more Tag addresses on the currently displayed screen that does not have a reference in the PLC For example your PLC ladder program only has variables up to 15 but the push button on the QuickPanel screen is trying to send receive information at address 25 The PLC program has to be changed to accommodate addresses up to 25 278 e Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide Panel Editor GFK 1855 5 After downloading an application some or none of the screen objects pushbuttons pilot lights numeric entry etc appear to be communicating with the PLC The tags for these non communicating objects appear to be internal does not look for a PLC connection To resolve this issue the tag variables for the project must be validated To validate the tag addresses go to the Tags database Select the menu item Tools which is located at the top of the screen along the menu bar
271. that is being compiled is missing or the compiler is looking for the PDO files in an incorrect directory Re install the software to recover the files 5 During the compile stage of a download the compiler stops and gives the message Maximum tag count exceeded for this panel This means that there are too many object resources being used on the panel Go to the panel where the compiler stopped Click the medical bag icon and check the resource count The resource count for each panel type is described in the Resource Manager section of this manual Downloading 1 When downloading an application to a QuickPanel Quick Courier prints the message Your project has not been compiled for this display device Go to the project Setup press the System button to change the Compilation setting If using QuickDesigner Advanced software the compilation section does not exist under the Setup menu s System button It automatically assumes you are downloading to a Qpx 2 QuickPanel If the model number of the QuickPanel begins with QPx 1 then you must either use the QuickDesigner Standard software package or use a QuickPanel model number QPx 2 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide e 281 2 During the download the Quick Courier message box says Determining display device Then after some time the software asks you to Turn the Unit Off Then after turning unit back on the compiler goes on to ask y
272. the current Windows print driver for your system Use the Setup button to configure your printer See the printer information in Appendix B Project Information Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 43 A sample Project Information page is shown below PROJECT NAME PROJECT INFORMATION PROJECT ABSLC500 Author name Created date Last Modified date notes TARGET DEVICE QUICK PANEL jr Color Default Panel Name name Panel Trigger Tag tag name Screen Saver Timeout 1 00 minute s Save to FLASH ROM No Beeper Enabled Watchdog Tag None Watchdog Timeout 1 00 second s Communication Setting RS422 485 Full duplex Baud Rate 9600 Data Bits 8 Parity None Stop Bits 1 Handshake None PROTOCOL AB SLC 500 Source ID 0 Destination ID 1 Maximum ID 31 Timeout sec 1 00 44 e QUICKMANAGER Panel Editor GFK 1855 Panel Image A bitmap image of the panel will be printed at the top of each panel information sheet Panel Information The name of the panel the panel ID and all panel objects are listed with their attributes A sample is shown below PANEL name Panel ID 1 Panel Size 320 x 240 Grid Size 80 x 40 Grid Display Boxes notes Push Button Position Size Tag Style Action Bez Botl Tch Ltxt Lbkr Lotl LFont Legend Text 240 160 320 240 N7 100 Standard Momentary wht blk grn yel blu wht 7x9 Motor 0 80 80 80 B3 20 7 Circular Toggle red wht wht blu gm blk 11x16 Light Pilot Light
273. the desired character keypad then the Enter keypad Use the cursor keypads lt lt and gt gt and the Del keypad to edit the character string Use the Clear keypad to remove all characters from the Enter Value field When all characters are entered press the Done keypad The first keypads to appear are the caps from A to K ASCII DATA ENTRY Current Value ABCD Enter Value ABCD lt lt gt gt Del Clear Prev A B C D Next E F G H Enter J K SP Done As you press the Next and Prev keypads the panels will present different sets of characters Here is a panel with small characters and some numbers 252 e ASCII Data Entry Panel Editor GFK 1855 lt lt gt gt Del Clear Prev S t u V Next Ww X y Z Enter 1 2 3 SP Done The following drawings are for displays larger than 6 The default selection is all CAPS You can select lower case a z symbols SYM or numbers NUM As you press a keypad the ASCII characters will be displayed in the Enter value field Pressing the Done keypad will move the ASCH characters to the Current value field and to the PLC register A B C D E F G a Z H J K L SYM M N O P Q NUM R S T U V Enter w xX Y Z BK Done This is a picture of the numeric keypad NUM 1 2 3 4 A Z 5 6 7 8 a Z 9 0 SYM Enter lt gt
274. the format allows for 25 characters in the message text column 13 to column 37 25 characters Message Column 13 Start of Alarm Message Trigger Date Stamp Column 1 Enter a 0 if you do NOT want a Trigger Date stamp Trigger Time Stamp Column 7 Enter a O if you do NOT want a Trigger Time stamp Acknowledge Time Stamp Column 38 Enter a 0 if you do NOT want a Acknowledge Time stamp Clear Time Stamp Column 44 Enter a 0 if you do NOT want a Clear Time stamp Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarms e 77 DATE TIME MESSAGE ACK CLEAR 09 18 22 48 ALARM MESSAGE TEXT ZAC OO 22252 COL1 COL7 COL13 COL 38 COL 44 Date Format The date format can be mm dd yy or mm dd format Each character in the date stamp requires a space in the alarm message Therefore mm dd yy will take 8 spaces plus an additional space for separation between columns The mm dd format requires only 5 spaces plus one for column spacing See the Internal Tags section for information about setting the date Time Format The time can be displayed in 12 hour or 24 hour format In 12 hour format the lowest number is 1 00 and the highest number is 12 59 AM or PM In 24 hour format the clock starts at 00 01 and counts the hours and minutes up to 23 59 The 24 hour format is sometimes referred to as military or international time See the Internal Tags section for information about setting the time Printer Port The Printer Port combo box allows selection of a serial or paralle
275. the same way as an imported project The project can then be edited using QuickDesigner software The file can be compiled and downloaded back to the QuickPanel or saved for other purposes Project Compile to File Selecting Compile to File is the same as clicking the Compile File button T The Compile File button will compile the current project and allow saving it to a selected directory This allows saving compiled files without having to download to a connected QuickPanel You can then use the Download File button to send a compiled file cmp to one or more QuickPanels You can add the current Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKMANAGER e 41 project file to the compile file by clicking the Download Project button before clicking the Compile File button NOTE Long file names are supported beginning with QuickDesigner version 3 50 Project Download from File Selecting Download from File is the same as clicking the Download File button The Download File button allows the user to select a compiled file cmp and send it to a QuickPanel You do not have to compile a file prior to a download if a compiled version of the project is available The current download button will still support the standard compile and download operation Project Import This feature will allow importing project prj files These files contain the entire project information including target display type PLC setup and all panels Files can be imported from
276. the tag information from the PLC You can create internal tags which are variables that are controlled and contained within the display There are internal tags with specific names such as the internal clock with the tag name System_Clock Internal tags are explained in the next chapter on page 66 Selecting Tags To select Tags click the Tag icon al or select Tags from the Components menu The tag icon is found in the tool bar and on the Tags button Selecting Tags will open the Tags window This window allows adding new tags viewing tag attributes and deleting tags Tags are the names of PLC variables and special internal variables Each PLC supported by QUICKDESIGNER has a dedicated chapter in the Communications manual NOTE Tag names are case sensitive OR100 and or100 read the same data from the PLC but each is a separate and distinct variable in the QUICKPANEL 56 e Tags Panel Editor GFK 1855 O Gusk Barney Tage HEDUSA IH F iige i Ms E Tag Buttons Some of the selections in the Tag menu have been duplicated in large buttons You can use the large buttons or select the option from the Tag menu ees O ee O e Delete Purge Attributes Add Tag You can create a new tag by selecting Add from the Tag menu or clicking the ADD button Enter the tag name in the New Address data entry box Tag names are tested to insure they are valid for the PLC you selected Tags that do not fit the format specified f
277. the video display The buttons select which video source channel is being displayed You can customize the buttons for your application Control Button Settings Buttons No Channel No l Cancel Text Size Justify Nen a 5x7 OCT Simulate CFx9 Previous r ei T or CH ae ee 16x 32 Text Color Flashing Lens Color Flashing UL Outline Color Flashing Bezel Color Flashing Touch Color Flashing The Buttons No information box displays the assigned button number The Channel No list box selects the video source for the assigned button Each button can select from CHO CH1 or CH2 Although the spin controls allow selection of CH3 it is not used in this product Panel Editor GFK 1855 Video Display e 261 Keypads Keypads Overview The keypad option adds external keypads that surround the touch screen The keypads are used in place of the touch screen or along with the touch screen For example instead of touching the QuickPanel screen to activate a Push Button you can press an external keypad You can also assign an external keypad to simulate a push button selector switch goto panel button numeric data entry print button or word button Simulating operators saves screen space QUICKPANEL jr 13 R3 oo a TZU L2 R2 4 5 6 se 7 8 9 ENTER J
278. tical limit to the number of characters in the message NOTE The maximum number of characters for the alarm message is 80 You can enter text in a blank message field by clicking on the field and typing While typing you are in the text edit mode You can use DEL BACKSPACE and cursor Keys to edit the text If you double click a message field that has text in it or select a field and press F2 you will be in the text edit mode Use ESC to undo typing errors Edit Cut Message To cut all or part of a message double click the message field select the part of the text to cut and use CTRL X or select CUT from the Edit menu Edit Copy Message To copy all or part of a message double click the message field select the part of the text to copy and use CTRL C or select COPY from the Edit menu Edit Paste Message Messages copied or cut can be pasted to other alarm text message fields Double click the message field move the cursor to the starting point and use CTRL V or select PASTE from the Edit menu Edit Free Form Addressing When checked free form addressing allows you to edit the address field of the alarm table Make sure you enter a valid PLC address When unchecked you cannot edit the address field 76 e Alarms Panel Editor GFK 1855 Config Button Selects the Alarm Configuration dialog box Alam mehr bm bocce acqe Farmal Date i Tome Foma nE Date mmidi F Dims 2000 itt Message Format
279. tline color remains constant whether the Selector Switch is pressed or not pressed Press the Simulate button to observe the action of the bezel color change See Appendix D for Color Information Bezel Settings Bezel Color C i Flashing l Cancel Outline Color a Flashing Simulate Touch Color ee Flashing Help Panel Editor GFK 1855 Selector Switch e 209 Legend Plate The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator on the action that will occur when the Selector Switch is pressed This text is constant and will not change when the Selector Switch is pressed The text size can be changed and the text can be justified by clicking one of the Justify radio buttons The text color background color and outline color can be modified in appearance to enhance the application See Appendix D for Color Information Legend Plate Settings Text Text Sze Justify Tesi Oo ote C749 CEC Cancel s se C 16 x 3 Background Color C_i Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Selector Switch Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Selector Switches appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Selector Switch Settings dialog box The current settings in the Selector Switch Sett
280. to delineate the meter into equal segments Select the number of tick marks for the meter Select the Scale Color and click OK to complete the meter Scale Settings Text Text Size EF C7ayxg Cancel 1116 16 x 32 Scale Range Number Size ox E 1116 Digits Dec Pos Ticks 1632 e leit Ee K Scale Color Lass Flashing Help 248 e Analog Meter Panel Editor GFK 1855 Simulate Simulate allows viewing the meter as the data value is changed between the minimum and maximum values with the scroll bar Colors BACKGROUND COLOR RM TEMP OUTLINE P lt q SCALE COLOR BAR COLOR 0 0 212 0 Panel Editor GFK 1855 Analog Meter e 249 ASCII Data Entry ASCII Data Entry The ASCII Data Entry tool is used to enter and display ASCII characters using word registers in a PLC NOTE The following protocols do NOT support ASCII Data Entry Profibus Interbus S DeviceNet and CANOpen Click the ASCII Data Entry icon on the Tools menu Move the cross hair and the ASCII Data Entry image to the cells where you want the ASCII Data Entry to appear and click the mouse The following ASCII Data Entry Settings dialog box will appear ASCII Data Entry Settings x Tag OF Hake Default Bezel Legend Data Format Help Tag Variable A tag variable name must be assigned to the ASCII Data Entry This tag will be a word in the PLC memory that the target display can read and update A list of va
281. ton was assigned to keypad A2 Once a button is given a Key Assignment the Touch disabled checkbox becomes active A button object can be connected to the touch screen and the keypad simultaneously If you check the Touch disabled checkbox the touch screen will be disabled for the button and the button will only work with the assigned external keypad A list of all keypad assignments can be displayed by going to the Tools menu and selecting Keypad Assignments Advanced Settings Key Assignment ee Touch disabled Keypads and Numeric Data Entry When a keypad is assigned to a Numeric Data Entry button the data entry keypad on the touch screen and the external numeric keypad operate the same If you disable the touch screen the data entry keypad no longer appears on the touch screen Only the legend text data entry fields and the min max fields appear as illustrated below You must use the external numeric keypad to enter data Legend Text mazimum minimum If you disable the touch screen for the Numeric Data Entry operator you cannot activate the Numeric Data Entry button by touching the screen The only way to activate the button is by pressing the assigned keypad The shortened version of the data entry screen is displayed The external numeric keypads are used to enter data 264 e Keypads Panel Editor GFK 1855 Keypads and Alarms When an alarm is triggered the alarm message appears on the panel in
282. tor GFK 1855 Numeric Data Entry e 221 Data Format Settings The data format window allows setting up the display information Text Size Font Size of the text characters expressed as pixels Smaller text allows more characters in the text field Justification Determines if the text characters are forced to the Left Right or Center Signed Number sign if the PLC supports signed values Fill With Zeros Check to display leading zeros Format Decimal binary hexadecimal octal or floating point Digits Number of numerical characters displayed equal to or less than the maximum allowed because of the text size selected Decimal Positions Number of digits that will be displayed to the right of the decimal point A decimal point is counted as one of the Digits positions See Appendix D for Color Information Data Format Settings Text Size Justification Options Cox Left Signed Number CFx Center Cancel 1116 Right 16 x 32 Eormat Digits Decimal Pos Text Color id Flashing Background Color a Flashing Help LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND e LEGEND PLATE TEXT es BEZEL OUTLINE L DATA TEXT BEZEL COLOR 1234 DATA BACKGROUND TOUCH COLOR 222 e Numeric Data Entry Panel Editor GFK 1855 Data Entry Panel When the Numeric Data Entry push button is pressed a data entry panel keypad
283. touch color and the bezel outline color can be changed The legend plate contains the text and the background The text color legend plate background color and legend plate outline colors can be changed There are several text sizes available LEGEND PLATE TEXT i PUSH BUTTON LEGEND PLATE OUTLINE LEGEND PLATE BACKGROUND BEZEL TOUCH N BEZEL OUTLINE None Button The None style button has no bezel or legend plate which makes it invisible on the panel When you select the None style both the Bezel and Legend buttons are greyed out Bezel Settings The simple button has no bezel When using a standard button the bezel portion of the button will change color when the button is pressed A circular button has a separate bezel and touch indicator The bezel on a circular button is the center area of the button The ring around the center is the touch indicator The outline color remains constant whether the button is pressed or not 256 e Jog Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 Press the Simulate button to observe the action of the bezel color change BEZEL amp TOUCH BEZEL OUTLINE Bezel Settings Bezel Color id Flashing l Cancel Outline Color a Flashing Simulate Touch Color ee Flashing Help Legend Plate Settings The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator about the action that will occur when the button is pressed This text is constant and will not change when the
284. trolled by a legend plate Note the shape of the legend plate symbol STOP Click the legend plate icon on the tool bar Move the cross hair to the top of the two cells where you want the legend plate to appear and click the mouse If you want to size the legend plate immediately move the cross hair to the desired cell click and hold the mouse button and drag the mouse to size the legend plate Release the mouse button and the legend plate is sized The following legend plate dialog box will appear Legend Plate Settings Text Text Size Justify Liah PLATE ie Ra C E E Cancel 7x3 Cet Cilie CE Make Default 16 32 Text Color Flashing Background Color Flashing Outhne Color Flashing Help The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator The legend plate differs from the text tool in that the legend plate allows multiple lines of text and options for outline and background color The justify radio buttons justify text to any area of the legend plate Panel Editor GFK 1855 Legend Plate e 157 OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Legend Plate Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all legend plates appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Legend Plate Settings dialog box The current settings in the Legend
285. ttings dialog changes to show a color selection option Video Display Settings remnant Modes E ERN K C Objects of this color appear through video 4 3 More Cean Seleted Color a i a 4 l Ho Title l Touch Input Off En Legend Titles Buttons ae Help In the Video shows only in objects of this color mode the video will be seen only when an object of the selected color is in front of the video display the object must be placed in the foreground For example if you create a push button with a red legend plate and the selected color is red then the video will only be shown on the legend plate The video will not appear on parts of the push button that have a different color In the Objects of this color appear through video mode any object of the selected color will appear on the video display For example if you create a push button with a green bezel and the selected color is green then the bezel part of the button will be seen on the video display NOTE In order for objects to work with transparency they must be placed in the foreground or in front of the video display Number of Buttons Select the number of buttons that will appear in the video display legend The buttons are located below the video display and will size as the legend plate is sized The video display will always remain 300x200 pixels The buttons select different video sources Each button has its own legend plate wit
286. tton is not pressed the bezel color is displayed but when the push button is pressed the touch color will be displayed The outline color remains constant whether the push button is pressed or not pressed Press the Simulate button to observe the action of the bezel color change See Appendix D for Color Information OUTLINE Bezel Color J Flashing LENS gt l Cancel TEXT i Outline Color M Flashing T Simulate BEZEL OUTLINE 4 1294867 Touch Color EEE Flashing Help BEZEL COLOR TOUCH COLOR Panel Editor GFK 1855 Illuminated Push Button e 165 States The States button will display the State Settings menu An illuminated push button has two states ON and OFF You can change the text size and colors for each state Click one of the Justify radio buttons to justify text Use the Next and Previous buttons to select a different state The last state selected will be the one displayed when you click the OK button See Appendix D for Color Information State Settings Text Size Justify ox Next ee OLET Cancel a me ea eee C1116 aawe CB x 32 OUTLINE LENS 1234567 Outline Color Flashing Help BEZEL COLOR a TOUCH COLOR y Previous OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Illuminate
287. tyle e ae Filled yr Cancel Line Color Flashing l Hake Default Fill Color Flashing l Help Line Style Solid dashed dotted dash dot dash dot dot none Filled Unfilled Check the Filled box to fill the polygon with color Line Color Select the color of the polyline and polygon outline See Appendix D for Color Information Fill Color Select the color for the inside of the polygon See Appendix D for Color Information OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings menu and close the menu 146 e Polyline Tool Panel Editor GFK 1855 Cancel Cancel all changes to the Line Polyline Polygon Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Line Polyline Polygon objects appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Line Polyline Polygon Settings menu The current settings in the Line Polyline Polygon Settings menu will be saved The next time you create a Line Polyline Polygon the saved settings will automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Line Polyline Polygon Settings Panel Editor GFK 1855 Polyline Tool e 147 Text Tool Creating Text The text tool is used to add text to a panel Click the text icon on the tool bar aly To add text move the cross hair cursor to the desired cell and click the left mouse button The Text Settings dialog box appears The Text
288. ufacturer for details 5 Has your hard disk been damaged At DOS Prompt run chkdsk exe If it reports any problems areas of your disk may have been damaged These may include the QUICKPANEL Editor Solution Run chkdisk with f option or scandisk to repair then reinstall the QUICKPANEL Editor try again If still unable to down load reinstall Windows then try again 94 e Download and Upload Files Panel Editor GFK 1855 6 Try downloading from another comm port on your PC 7 Try downloading from another PC 8 Try a different C49 cable 9 Try a different QUICKPANEL If all of the above fails or if you are unable to complete any of the above steps call TCP QUICKPANEL Product Support Services at 800 GE or connect to the web support site at http www ge ip com Downloading QuickPanel Files with a Modem This application note describes a method of connecting a QuickPanel to a modem so that files can be downloaded from a remote location A diagram showing the configuration is shown below N U LL QUICKPANEL M Modem Port 2 Modem mema e HMI CAB C49 Cable On one side of the modem link a PC is connected to the modem through a serial port In this example Port 2 is used A communications program called HyperTerminal is used to establish modem connections QuickDesigner Panel Editor Software is used to send the project file to the modem On the other side of the modem link a QuickPanel is connected to a modem
289. uickPanel and you click on one of the color options a 64 color palette will appear EEn le 184 e Local Message Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Color Index Numbers The Local Message Display and the Triggered Message Display allow importing and exporting text files that contain color descriptions Colors can be specified by their color name or by their index number The index numbers are laid out on a grid that corresponds to the color palette The index number grid is shown below The index numbers can be cross referenced to the 64 Color Grid so you can match Color Index numbers to a Color name R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Panel Editor GFK 1855 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 21 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 WHITE CoIR1C8 TURQ CoIR2C8 WHEAT CoIR3C8 PALGRN CoIR4C8 ORANGE CoIR5C8 GOLD CoIR6C8 TAN CoIR7C8 KHAKI CoIR8C8 WOOD CoIR8C7 Local Message Display e 185 64 Color Grid The Color Grid shows the Color Index number and the Color N
290. ulated Keypad Kep Assignments Key OK AO Simulated Goto Panel g Cancel AQ Simulated Goto Panel Al Simulated Push Button A Simulated Print Screen AZ Simulated Word Push Button Ad Simulated Selector Switch A5 Simulated Numeric Data Entry AGB Push Button AY Illuminated Push Button Print Screen Word Fush Button qrararcatt d Posh Button lector Swatch Viewing Keypad Assignments To view the keypad assignments go to the View menu and click the Object Key Display The keypad tag display is similar to the object tag display PUSH BUT TOM The keypad tag is displayed in the bottom left corner of the operator and provides a quick visual check to see which panel operators have keypads assigned 266 e Keypads Panel Editor GFK 1855 Appendix A Character Map Character Map The QuickPanel has a built in character set Many of the special characters available in the character set cannot be entered directly from the keyboard To enter a special character locate the character and the associated code in the table below The Code column shows which key or key combinations to use to insert the associated character For example if the Code is Alt 0129 then press and hold the Alt key while entering 0129 from the Numeric keypad Make sure the NUM LOCK key is ON so the keypad functions as a Numeric keypad The following table shows the character map for a QP2 This table has emb
291. up Clicking the Advanced button will display the Advanced Settings dialog box The Word Button operation can be assigned to an external keypad See Keypads page 262 and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information Once a keypad is assigned you can disable the touch screen by checking the Touch disable box If you leave the touch disable box unchecked then the touch screen and the keypad can both operate the button Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Word Button Settings Panel Editor GFK 1855 Word Button e 175 Pilot Light Creating a pilot light A Pilot Light is an indicator that shows the ON or OFF condition of a variable The Pilot Light tool allows you to create a square Standard or circular pilot light The standard pilot light consists of two square lens each with its own color and text options Each lens can have a different text message OFF LENS TEXT ON LENS TEXT STANDARD PILOT LIGHT POWER POWER POWER OFF ON ON The circular pilot light consists of two round lens and a legend plate The legend plate contains a text message The lens can be different colors and the legend text can change in sync with the lens The legend plate background color and outline colors are selectable but do not change OFF LENS ON LENS LEGEND PLATE CIRCULAR PILOT LIGHT The Pilot Light requires a PLC variable that will be monitored to determine when to di
292. ure the project contains a panel with a panel ID of 1 If there is no panel ID 1 the screen will appear blank c If the application was designed to communicate with a networking protocol DH Modbus Plus GE Genius RIO etc make sure the appropriate communication module is installed on the QuickPanel d If using the PLC to control screen changes 1 e Panel Trigger tag make sure that the Panel Trigger tag address contains a panel ID number that exist in the project Make sure the backlight of the QuickPanel is not blown this would not include the QPI 2xxxx E2P Press a few areas on the screen to see if the touch buzzer if enabled functions when pressed 2 After downloading a project the screen buttons are not completely drawn and or the pilot lights do not show up or they appear as white squares a The QuickPanel is not communicating with the PLC Make sure the QuickPanel is connected to the PLC b Make sure you are using the correct communications cable for the PLC protocol that your project specifies c Check the Port settings under the Setup menu and make sure they agree with the PLC s port settings 3 How do you change the screen contrast The contrast of the target display can be changed to suit different viewing conditions The contrast can be adjusted offline or online To adjust the contrast online the system variable System_Contrast must be set to a value from 1 to 7 This can easily be done by using two
293. use outside the dashed lines to deselect the object 102 e QUICKDESIGNER Panel Editor GFK 1855 es MES DEES fa PUSH BUTTON When sizing objects the selections you make in the Grid Settings and Preferences dialog boxes will affect how you can size objects Changing the size of an object may affect the appearance of the text within the object Making objects too small may cut off or clip some of the text See Text Cutoff on page 108 To make a small pilot light turn off the snap size to grid option in the Grid Settings dialog box All ei except draw objects have outlines for resizing When you select an object the outline first changes to a dashed outline and sizing handles appear When you touch one of the sizing handles the object outline changes to solid lines The solid outlines aid in sizing the object exactly the way you want it Editing the Object When you created an object a dialog box for that object appeared You can change the attributes of the object by double clicking the object which will display the dialog box You can also display the dialog box by selecting the CHANGE option in the EDIT menu You can delete the object by clicking it then pressing the DEL key or selecting the DELETE option in the EDIT menu If you use the CUT option in the EDIT menu the cut object is placed on the clipboard and saved until a new item is placed on the clipboard You can delete a group of objects by pressing and holding the left
294. utobaud from the 38400 default to 9600 4 When downloading Quick Courier comes up with a message that says that There are no comm ports available for download and or there are no comm port selections available in the drop down list a Close down any software packages that may be using the comm port for communications Allen Bradley s INTERCHANGE software is a usual suspect in this instance If INTERCHANGE has been loaded on your computer disable or remove the driver that is using your comm port DF1 or DH485 Reboot the computer then try downloading to QuickPanel again HINT Make sure you properly close down QuickDesigner software before you reboot the computer b Check the system ini file found in the C Windows directory and check the boot section for the appropriate comm port driver Standard comm port driver Ccomm drv comm drv should be used for QuickDesigner downloads If there is a non standard com port driver comm drv place a semi colon in front of that line and create a new line that reads comm drv comm drv Also check the 386Enh section of the file and make sure that any reference to the com ports contain the correct IRQ settings i e COMI IRQ 4 and COM2 IRQ 3 5 The application load portion of the Quick Courier download fluctuates between two percentage values i e 99 94 99 then gives the message Application Download Aborted a This usually means that the application that is
295. utomatically displayed You can force the operator to view the Alarm window by using the procedure below 1 Place an Active Alarm window on a panel Save the panel and note the panel ID number 2 Go to the Project Setup menu and click the System setup button Locate Panel Trigger Tag in the Options section The Panel Trigger Tag is a register in your PLC that will control which panel will be displayed This register should contain the ID number of the panel you want to display 3 Connect the QUICKPANEL to your PLC The QUICKPANEL will read the PLC register that you assigned as the Panel Trigger Tag register Move the panel ID number of the alarm screen into the panel trigger tag register and the QUICKPANEL will display the alarm panel Panel Editor GFK 1855 Alarm Window e 245 Analog Meter Analog Meter The new Meter tool allows creation of two analog meters Since the meters share several common dialog boxes they are combined into one tool The default shape for a meter is the 180 degree meter shown below You can click the filled checkbox to fill the area from the min value to the current value TEMP TEMP 0 0 212 0 0 0 212 0 UNFILLED FILLED The 360 degree meter is shown below You can click the filled checkbox to fill the area from the min value to the current value 212 0 0 0 212 0 0 0 TEMP TEMP UNFILLED FILLED When you select the 360 meter the Orientation list box a
296. volves some calculations The general rule of thumb is One resource will be consumed for every three addresses referenced in a TMSD T18 e QUICKDESIGNER aaae el Editor GFK 1855 Most QuickPanels will support the following TMSD usage 3 full TMSD per panel 16 states each 4 addresses per state The user can increase the number of TMSD on their panel by reducing Number of states used per TMSD Number of addresses referenced per state A more accurate resource usage calculation is the sum of the following two items Resource Usage 2 Number of States in TMSD 2 ResourceUsage 2 3 Total Number of Address Referenced in the TMSD Each complete panel in a project is limited to a maximum number of resources The type of QuickPanel you are using for the project will determine the maximum number of resources allowed for each panel A list of QuickPanel models and maximum resources 1s listed below QUICKPANEL Type Max Allowed Resources Per Panel QUICKPANEL 10 5 Color QPI 2xxxx 256 QUICKPANEL 10 5 Color QPI 3xxxx 256 QUICKPANEL 10 5 Color Video 256 QUICKPANEL 10 5 LCD Monochrome 256 QUICKPANEL 12 1 Color TFT 256 QUICKPANEL 6 HandHeld Color 256 QUICKPANEL 6 HandHeld Monochrome 256 QUICKPANEL 9 EL Mono QPI 2xxxx 256 QUICKPANEL 9 EL Mono QPI 3xxxx 256 QUICKPANEL jr 5 QPJ Color 128 QUICKPANEL jr 5 QPJ Monochrome 128 QUICKPANEL jr 6 QPK Monochrome 128 QUICKPANEL jr 6 Color QPK 2xxxx 128 QUICKPANEL jr
297. will be displayed The legend text from the Numeric Data Entry button will be displayed on the top of the panel as the keypad title You can delete the keypad title by checking the KeyPad Title Off box in the Numeric Data Entry Settings dialog box The data entry panel will look different if you are using an optional keypad See Keypads page 262 and Keypad Assignment page 125 for additional information The current variable value is displayed in the Current Value field The min and max entry values displayed Press the numeric b and the ENTER button to enter a new value If the value is mae range or otherwise incorrect th play will beep and a warning message will flash If the data is valid when you press the ENTER button the value will be sent to the PLC Press the DONE button to return to the normal display NUMERIC DATA ENTRY Current Value 55 Current Value 55 55 55 1 2 3 ep 2 T 4 5 6 Enter 5 Enter 7 8 9 0 Done 8 0 Done OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Numeric Data Entry Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all numeric data entry buttons appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Numeric Data Entry Settings
298. will depend on the type of object selected When the dialog box for a selected object is active a dashed box appears around the object In the previous example a Legend Plate object was placed on the screen The dialog box for the Legend Plate allows selecting the legend plate text text size and color background color and outline color Dialog boxes may contain buttons that open additional dialog boxes Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 101 When the dialog box selections are completed click the OK button and the dialog box is removed pes Uire Ps CIO OSTE a es Es ba E e Ele Denam a Dich ao ee ed ee ete es en aii K 0 1H Sizing an Object You can make objects larger or smaller by following the procedures below 1 Move the cursor over an object and click the left mouse button Dashed lines around the object indicate it is selected Moving the cursor inside the dashed lines will change the cursor into a move symbol Press and hold the left mouse button to move the object BEMNBEE 2 Move the cursor to one of the sizing handles small boxes on corners and centers of edges Sizing handles in the centers of the edges allow sizing vertically or horizontally while corner handles allow diagonal sizing The cursor will change to a double ended arrow when you are on top of a sizing handle EES ee 3 Click and hold the left mouse button and drag the sizing handle in the direction selected Click the mo
299. will then appear as a different shade or a dimmed version of the corresponding color Options Menu The options menu allows removing or replacing the button bar status bar or tool box You can display this menu by clicking the right mouse button when the cursor is outside the panel design area Button Bar Status Bar Tool Box Library Browser See RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON for more information about using the right mouse button to display other menus Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 127 Library Browser Selecting Library Browser from the Options menu will display the Quick Designer Library window See Library Tour on page 133 and Library Browser on page 136 Quick Designer Library Libry Edit View Browser Folder Objept Help Diz Library ADATASDEHMHO HDE Folder Unassigned gt Object Settings Menu The Settings menu has three options Panel Settings for changing the color of the panel Grid for selecting the grid type and Preferences for changing object preferences Panel Setting You can change the background color of the QUICKDESIGNER panel The default setting is black Click on the Color bar to display the color palette Panel Settings Password Level ini M Eril l aT Password A panel can be assigned a password level as Operator Supervisor or Master For example several panels are password protected to allow only authorized personel to change settings A panel protect
300. wing grid is always dots The drawing grid can also be turned off The snap option can be turned off for both the tiling and drawing grids See Tiling and Drawing Grids on page 104 for more information about grids Grid Settings Drawing Grid rid Width Height Width Height Options Display Options M Display tiling grid C Dots M Display drawing grid M Snap position to gid Lines I Snap position to grid MV Snap size to grid Boxes I Snap size to grid Cancel Hake Default Help Preferences The QUICKDESIGNER is set up to allow the novice user to quickly design panels Some of the operations appear automatically such as deselecting a tool after using it and automatically checking the panel when the file is saved Some of the automatic operations can be turned off If you are a beginner most of the automatic operations are turned on The intermediate level turns off a few of the automatic operations The Advanced level allows you to pick the automatic operations you prefer Panel Editor GFK 1855 QUICKDESIGNER e 129 Beginner Cancel Intermediate ened Advanced Help M New at startup Panel settings on New M Tool de select after use V Change after object create M Check panel on save T Object de select after use M Warning Overlap Check M Auto move on object select Object to fore after move Preference Options New at startup opens a new panel when QUICKDESIGNER starts Auto size o
301. ws 3 1 3 11 Press Ctrl Esc keys to bring up the Task List Select those programs that are currently running then press the End Task button 2 During the installation from the CD a message appears stating This movie requires the following Xtras DirectOS Rx32 Sound import exportx32 MIX32X32 This message may then be followed by another message that reads Script error handler not defined read a If this issue occurs manually load the software by selecting the CD drive then double click the install folder Select the disk 1 folder from the install folder and click the Setup exe file This will launch the InstallShield for the QuickDesigner 3 x installation 3 After installing the software QuickDesigner is launched from the icon and the message The following database cannot be found c directory name Medusa ini Unable to open database c directory name Medusa in1 a The QuickDesigner directory name that was given during the installation was more than 8 characters long The software should be reinstalled under a directory name that is 8 characters or less ex c Quick or c xxx Quick3 b If the complete path name given during the install was more than 47 characters then this error will occur ex c develop projects plc interface programs tcp software quick 272 e Appendix C Troubleshooting Guide Panel Editor GFK 1855 Software Issues 1 When trying to open a project for editing the message
302. y as shown including the tilde at the beginning Remember to enter the desired text in the legend plate to identify the Numeric Data Entry tool as system hour Set the Input Range Min and Max values 1 to 12 for 12 hour display or O to 23 for Military display For System Minute set the tag name to System_Minute and for System Second set the tag variable to System_Second Remember to enter the desired text in the legend plates to identify system minute and system second Also remember to set the Input Range Min and Max values for minutes and seconds For System Month set the tag name to System_Month for System Day set the tag variable to System_Day and for System Year set the tag variable to System_Year Save the panel and download it to the target display Use the data entry operators to set the Time and Date for your display The target display maintains the system time and date between power cycles Make Default If you decide that you want to have all Time Displays appear the same way you can click the Make Default button in the Time Display Settings dialog box The current settings in the Time Display Settings dialog box will be saved The next time you create a Time Display the saved settings will automatically be applied Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Time Display Settings Panel Editor GFK 1855 Time Date e 229 Bar Graphs Creating a bar graph A bar graph consists of a legend pl
303. y changing colors at the 1 percent points In the previous example the alarm values can change colors at 2 4 6 8 etc If you set the value for changing colors to 5 it will not work since the changes can only occur at the 1 percent increment points The bar can change color at 4 and 6 but not at 5 The range value must be divided by 100 to arrive at the true change points For example if the Min is set to O and the Max is set to 500 then 1 percent of the range is 5 The alarm values in this case can be set to change at increments of 5 Help Click the Help button to gain access to help files relating to Bar Graph Settings 234 e Bar Graphs Panel Editor GFK 1855 Examples The following examples illustrate the variety of bar graphs you can easily create Experiment with different size text changing the number of ticks min and max values and other settings to make the desired graph Remember that you can resize the bar graph to fit more than two cells NOTE When you download a bargraph the background fill color is always black Panel Editor GFK 1855 Bar Graphs e 235 Trend Creating a Trend Display When you read a variable from a control device you have one piece of data that can be displayed in a panel operator such as a Numeric Display When you read the same variable over a period of time and save the data you have collected a data set When you show all the points in the data set you have a trend display If you read a
304. y will duplicate the contents of the state to the clipboard Paste will copy the contents of the clipboard to the current state If the image you paste to the current state does not fill the entire window it will be forced to a position determined by the Justify selection Remove will remove the selected state The Library button opens the library browser Select an object from the library and copy it to the clipboard or drag it to the current state Use the library to store state images prior to creating the Local Image Display The Erase previous state checkbox allows you to choose if the state displayed in the local image display is erased when a new state becomes active In effect each state is a separate picture The Erase previous state checkbox is used to compile all empty states into black rectangles with a black outline When this feature is checked it will use a lot of panel memory See the Erase State section for details Library The Library button opens the library browser Select an object from the library and copy it to the clipboard or drag it to the current state Use the library to store state images prior to creating the Local Image Display Panel Editor GFK 1855 Local Image Display e 205 OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Local Message Display Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Help Click the Help button to gain access to
305. ye i ilp M Hiisie C Down 0 Log You can select the outline and bezel colors for the Alarm Window by clicking the Bezel button The touch color appears when the operator touches the alarm window You can change the alarm window title by clicking the Legend button You can select the text color text size background and outline colors You can select the text color background color and text size of the alarm message as it will appear in the alarm window by clicking the Text button I will leave the color selections up to you When you are done click the OK button to accept the changes and close the dialog box 88 e Alarms Guided Tour Panel Editor GFK 1855 The alarm window that is now on your panel is too small to be of any use Click on the alarm window and use the sizing handles to enlarge the window over four cells This will allow you to see 49 characters across the display Your alarm window should look like the one below ALARM WOIMOOM Select File Save to save the panel using any name you like Select File Exit to exit the QUICKDESIGNER program and return to the Project Manager Download the panel to the QUICKPANEL jr When the download is complete select the alarm panel My test PLC has a row of switches wired to inputs that correspond to the address settings in the alarm table When a switch is thrown an alarm bit is set ON and the alarm message will appear in the alarm window The format of the alarm message will determ
306. zel outline and touch color can be modified to enhance the visual impact of the push button The outline color remains constant whether the push button is pressed or not Press the Simulate button to observe the action of the bezel color change See Appendix D for Color Information Bezel Settings Bezel Color id Flashing l Cancel Outline Color a Flashing Simulate Touch Color ees Flashing Help Legend Plate The legend plate allows you to provide text information to the operator on the action that will occur when the push button is pressed This text is constant and will not change when the push button is pressed The justify radio buttons justify text to any area of the legend plate The text color background color and outline color can be modified in appearance to enhance the application There is more room for text on a simple push button than on a standard push button See Appendix D for Color Information Legend Plate Settings Text Text Sze Justify el Oo we C l Pau ocr e s se 16 x 32 Text Color Background Color id Flashing Outline Color Flashing Help 162 e Push Button Panel Editor GFK 1855 OK Click the OK button to apply the information in the settings dialog box and close it Cancel Cancel all changes to the Push Button Settings dialog box and exit the dialog box Make Default If you decide that you want to have all push buttons appear the same way you can

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