Installation and Commissioning

RobView 3.1The layout drawings of the production-cell are made with a standard drawing programlike Windows PaintBrush, or a drawing coming from for example AutoCad. Thesebitmap drawings are displayed in each view in RobView as a “background” for therobot boxes, buttons, data fields, etc.The screen is split in two parts: the main part and the project part. The user can designhis own controls in both parts of the window. The “main” part of the window containsone view that is active all the time. The “project” part of the window can have up to 32different “pages” or views (screens), where one is visible at a time. The user can switchbetween the views by selecting them from a list or at the push of a button (the user canspecify which button to press for which view). A view can also be selectedautomatically, based on a variable or I/O in a robot.Controls are defined in easy to use dialogue boxes wherethe user selects how the controls will look on the screen.The same dialogues (under the Triggers tab) are also usedto link the controls to variables in the robot.ShapeBy simple click-and-select, the user can define a rectangle, square, oval, circle, roundedrectangle, etc., set it to be filled or transparent, set the thickness of the border, set thecolours, etc. More importantly, the shape can be linked to variables or digital I/O in therobot and made to change its colour, become invisible, etc., dependent on the value inthe robot. The shape can even be made to move on the PC screen, dependent on thevalue of variables in the robot.LabelA label can be a lot of different things: It can be as simple as plain text on the screen,or it can be an edit field displaying a value from the robot with the ability for theoperator to edit the value and send it back to the robot. The user can define labels in anyview.The label can be linked to a variable or digital I/O in the robot to display the value (bethat numbers or text) and can also change its fill colour, text colour or become invisible.The user-input on a label (edit-field) can be protected, so that only qualified users areallowed to change data in the robot.Command buttonA command button can be used for a lot of different things: set or reset I/O’s, clear avalue of a variable, start a program, start a file transfer - its up to the imagination of theuser.The user can define command buttons in any view and specify one or more actions thatis to occur when the button is operated. Command buttons can be protected, so that onlyqualified operators are allowed to operate them. A button can have a text and/or abitmap.70 Product Specification RobotWare for BaseWare OS 3.1