User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- E-Designer Reference Manual
- 1 Installation
- 2 General
- 3 Configuration with the Configuration Tool
- 3.1 Starting the Configuration Tool
- 3.2 Selecting Menu Language
- 3.3 Creating a Project
- 3.4 Saving a Project
- 3.5 Updating Drivers
- 3.6 Changing Project Properties
- 3.7 The Project Manager
- 3.8 The Block Manager
- 3.9 Showing Operator Panel around the Working Area
- 3.10 Configuration of Blocks
- 3.11 Using Text Blocks
- 3.12 Static Symbols
- 3.13 Changing I/Os
- 3.14 The I/O Browser
- 3.15 Changing BDTP Station
- 3.16 I/O Cross Reference
- 3.17 Other Managers/Editors
- 3.18 The File Menu
- 3.19 The Edit Menu
- 3.20 The View Menu
- 3.21 The Functions Menu
- 3.22 The Setup Menu
- 3.23 The Block Manager menu
- 3.24 The Object menu
- 3.25 The Layout Menu
- 3.26 The Project Menu
- 3.27 The Transfer Menu
- 3.28 The Window Menu
- 3.29 The Help Menu
- 4 Graphic Presentation and Maneuvering
- 5 Text-based Presentation for Printouts and Reports
- 6 Trends
- 7 Message Library
- 8 Alarm Management
- 9 Recipes
- 9.1 Calculation of Recipe Size
- 9.2 Recipe Properties and Recipe Directory
- 9.3 Creating a Recipe with the Operator Panel
- 9.4 Appending Recipes
- 9.5 Transferring Recipes to the Controller
- 9.6 Deleting Recipes
- 9.7 Using Recipes in a PC
- 9.8 Creating and Transferring Recipes with the Controller Program
- 9.9 Saving Individual Recipes on an External Memory Card in Runtime
- 10 Data Logger
- 11 Passwords
- 12 Printouts from the Operator Panel
- 13 Time Channels
- 14 Language Management
- 14.1 Unicode in the Operator Panel
- 14.2 Creating Additional Application Languages
- 14.3 Translating/Editing Texts in the Configuration Tool
- 14.4 Properties for the Application Language
- 14.5 Export
- 14.6 Import
- 14.7 Show Index
- 14.8 Cross Reference
- 14.9 Reuse Index
- 14.10 Font Templates
- 14.11 Unicode in E1012 and E1022
- 15 System Monitor
- 16 Index Addressing
- 17 Communication
- 18 Network Communication
- 19 Network Functions in the Operator Panel
- 20 LEDs
- 21 Function Keys
- 22 Macros
- 23 Project Transfer
- 24 Transfer of Controller Program and Parameters
- 25 Updating the Operator Panel
Configuration with the Configuration Tool
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3.10 Configuration of Blocks
Double-click on a block in the Project Manager. The working area for the block and
the Objects Toolbar are now shown. The working area is the Graphic Block Manager
or the Text Block Manager, depending on whether a graphic block or text block is
opened. All objects that can be created in the block are available from the Objects
To o l b ar.
The Objects Toolbar
The objects available differ depending on the selected operator panel and on the block type.
An object is selected by clicking on it in the Objects Toolbar and placing the object
in the working area using the cursor. Click to open the properties dialog for the se-
lected object. Fill in the parameters, and click OK. The object is now shown in the
working area. Static text or graphics are drawn directly in the working area.
The static graphic objects line, arc, ellipse, rectangle, symbol and text are used to
draw background graphics. When static graphic objects are created signals can be
linked to the objects under Dynamics, and in so doing make them dynamic.
The dynamic objects are linked to signals to create control and monitoring functions.
General parameters for the objects are described in the chapter General. The chapters
Graphic Presentation and Maneuvering and Text-based Presentation for Printouts and
Reports describe graphic and text objects.
In addition to the different objects, a button for selecting symbols and a marking
pointer are also available, located to the very left on the toolbar.
See also section Static Symbols.
The Alignment Toolbar
The Alignment Toolbar makes it easy to arrange multiple objects on the screen neat-
ly. Objects can be aligned vertically and horizontally, and their size can be adjusted
according to the last selected/created object (the reference object). Objects can also
be distributed evenly, and tiled, using the buttons in the toolbar. When placing the
cursor on a button in the toolbar, a short description is displayed as a tooltip, as well
as a closer description in the Status bar at the bottom left of the screen.