Micromod MOD: MODCELL Application Builder Software - Manual (Page 8)

Application Builder
INTRODUCTION
1.3 OVERVIEW OF PRODUCT
The Application Builder is for use with a suitably equipped personal computer
system. Connection of the instruments and a printer completes the system for
support of download and document activities. The interface file of a compiled
data base may then be used with the workstation software for supervisory
control and data acquisition (TIF files support PC-30, MIF files can support other
software packages).
1.3.1 Application Builder Software
The Application Builder software is a graphics based configuration package.
Users are presented with a work area and icons that represent various activities
that can be performed. This interface offers the greatest amount of flexibility in
defining structures for the instruments’ configuration. The software is delivered
on two DOS compatible 3.5-inch disks. The Application Builder includes the
following features:
• Icon based user tools
• Copy, paste and cut (delete) activities
• Libraries of instruments and instrument functions
• Save and load strategy and compound files to disk
• Compounding used to combine function blocks into tasks and applications
• Graphic based connections between functions
• Loop execution order configuration control
• Password protection of strategy, compounds, and instruments
• View controls (grid, gravity, tag, database size, zoom, etc.)
• Export utilities for database reports, AutoCAD (DXF), and graphic printer
• Fill-in-the-blank type configuration fields with defaults and error checking
• On-line instrument status analysis
• Strategy compile and download
• Context-sensitive help screens
• All configured instrument parameters, including tags, ranges and alarm
limits, available to the PC-30 Strategy Builder or other software packages
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