Rockwell Automation 5370-UPK CVIM USER-PAK Option - Manual (Page 53)

Chapter 7
Creating Custom Runtime Displays
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How do you create custom runtime displays?
You create custom runtime displays using the
Config. Output feature, which
becomes available on the Env. menu with the USER–PAK option installed
(Note: The Setup card must be inserted in the CVIM Archive Memory slot
prior to opening the
Env. menu, to allow access to the Config. Output
feature).
With the Config. Output menus displayed, you select and configure runtime
displays, or “viewports,” as they are called on the Config. Output menu.
Viewports can include a bordered rectangular display area; you define the
dimensions for a viewport and position the viewport using a “pick & place”
capability, similar to that used in positioning inspection windows. You can
select display borders and background color (if applicable). Then you define
the viewport contents.
What types of viewports, or runtime displays, can be created?
You can create three different types of viewports –
Text , Tool and Graph .
Within Text and Tool viewports, you can display text items, which might
include a term, such as “Gage Results,” or tool results, or other inspection
information. You define the
Text and Tool viewport contents by defining
one or more viewport “strings.” Graph viewports depict real–time tracking
of the results of specified tools. You define Graph viewport contents by
defining up to three “variables.”
You can select specific colors for the contents in your displays, or you can
color code them based on corresponding tool results. There are many more
ways of further defining displays which afford a great variety of display
effects.
How do you determine when a viewport is displayed?
In defining a viewport, you also select the display page type and page
number of that viewport when it is displayed. You can define a viewport so
it replaces a normal runtime display. For example, you can assign a custom
display to
Results Page 1 . Then, when Results Page 1 is selected as the
current runtime display during run mode, your custom display appears,
replacing
Results Page 1 . You can place each viewport you define on any
number of different display pages, and you can place several viewports on
the same page.
How many custom runtime displays can be created?
You can define up to 40 different viewports, and up to 340 strings, depending
on how much of the CVIM module’s memory is used for other purposes.