Micromod Micro-DCI: 53MC5000 Training Manual - Manual (Page 164)

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F-TRAN Programming Lab
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10.4.3 Part III – Display F-TRAN Program
The next step is to make a display for displaying the process parameters.
Requirement: Build a custom display that has both static and dynamic objects. Show the
process variable as a tank level. Show also the output in the display. The completed
runtime display should look like the following figure:
Figure 10.27.
Custom Display
There are two different approaches to this requirement:
1. Build both static and dynamic part of the display in Display F-TRAN.
2. Build the static part of the display using the MC5 Screen Editor. Build the dynamic
part of the display using Display F-TRAN. Combine both the static display and the
display F-TRAN by referencing the static display in the display F-TRAN.
We will use both the approaches in this lab. First let us consider the first option. We will
write a Display F-TRAN program to build the entire display.
The steps involved in programming this display are:
• Build the static parts like the text, empty tank, valves and the flow lines
• Build the dynamic parts like the vertical bar-graph to represent the tank level and
numeric displays to show the process value and output.
3. Create a new Display F-TRAN program: