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Open Discussion / Re: Where is admin posts

« Last post by Godra on April 12, 2024, 04:16:15 PM »

If those posts don't make any sense then delete them.

You can always give them a chance to make sense by responding to their posts.

Just my opinion.

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Support Questions / Graphic indicator

« Last post by stephen.crouch on April 11, 2024, 12:41:11 PM »

I have multiple statuses for equipment, stored in my compactlogix as DINT variables (0=stop, 1=run, 2=trip).  The PLC stores the DINT data as booleans (eg. if Conv2_Stat is 2, then Conv2_Stat.0=False and Conv2_Stat.1=True). 

O am trying to get these variables to drive graphicindicator blocks.  I can get them to work if I specify individual boolean variables, but won't work when I use Conv2_Stat.0 as PLCAddressValueSelect1 and Conv2_Stat.1 as PLCAddressValueSelect2.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this just not going to work?

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Open Discussion / Where is admin posts

« Last post by dmroeder on April 11, 2024, 09:50:42 AM »

What's up with all these posts like:

Where is admin ?
[some other words]

Thank

Seems highly likely the people are bots or spammers but they don't seem to be posting anything else.  Should I just delete them?  Seems like Archie has been.  Not sure what the angle is.  The recent one joined March 17th, made the first post over night.  Odd.

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Support Questions / Re: How to Avoid PLC and PC timeouts

« Last post by paintman on April 02, 2024, 12:58:56 PM »

Hey Archie, I know this is an old thread but I had to take a step back for other projects.

I don't think I fully understand the way the elements, plcaddressitems, and e.values would work. Does e.values report single values based on the elements?
So we have 85 carriers on our line that pass through a scanner to tell us which one it is (they are not in order)
So in my code it would be Carrier_Info[Stop_1.Carrier_Number] as the main tag and then the elements follow would be paint_color, name, oven_cycle and so on.

So would I need to just define 85 plcaddress items each with 8 elements and then still use the carrier number variable to define the e.value?

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Support Questions / Second monitor

« Last post by stephen.crouch on April 02, 2024, 09:26:00 AM »

Hello, I've got the 17" Industrial panel, and I'm trying to set up a second monitor for a process overview screen.  How do I do that - create the second screen that is.  I have a TV attached as the monitor, but I don't know how to get the second form in VB created.

I have not dealt with VB much at all, and all of my HMI experience is Allen-Bradley PanelView and older PanelMate controls.  This seems to have a steep learning curve, hopefully I'll figure it out before our go-live date, but the lack of documentation is frustrating.

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Support Questions / Re: Change colors on Chart with logging

« Last post by Archie on March 28, 2024, 06:31:40 PM »

It does not appear there is a way to change the default colors.

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Support Questions / Change colors on Chart with logging

« Last post by stephen.crouch on March 27, 2024, 12:02:44 PM »

Is it possible to change the plot and background colors on the chart with logging?

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Open Discussion / Re: Microsoft Visual Studio with TwinCAT 3 interfering with Advanced HMI execution

« Last post by Automatikai on March 27, 2024, 10:14:05 AM »

I'm using full 2017, shell is also available. I managed to get it to run without adding the console, but still having some problems with communications. I am using OpcDaCom1 driver to talk to the AB Emulator, messages appear when monitoring in RSLinx, but it says item doesn't exist in processor. I don't think the problem is with AHMI or VS, probably something with the tag address format. It worked on my other computer without Beckhoff integration, but doesn't work on this (IT managed) computer.

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Open Discussion / Re: Microsoft Visual Studio with TwinCAT 3 interfering with Advanced HMI execution

« Last post by Archie on March 26, 2024, 09:16:21 PM »

Are you using the XAEShell or full Visual Studio? If full VS, what version?

I have been using the XAEShell to work with TwinCAT projects and VS 2022 without TC integration for AdvancedHMI.

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Open Discussion / Microsoft Visual Studio with TwinCAT 3 interfering with Advanced HMI execution

« Last post by Automatikai on March 26, 2024, 02:12:44 PM »

Hi All,

I originally installed my Visual Studio to run TwinCAT 3 from Beckhoff. As such, there are a lot of TwinCAT specific tabs on my toolbar. I didn't think this would interfere with developing with Advanced HMI, but it seems to. The software installed, I can create screens, but when pressing Start to test the application it says you can't start it directly as it is a Class library. I have attempted to create a separate console application and reference the Advanced HMI project as advised, but it creates hundreds of errors. Many of the errors point to the Root namespace of MfgControl.AdvancedHMI, which is apparently the default. Are there any simple fixes for this, or can it be run on my Beckhoff-ized Visual Studio at all?