Fantastic videos. Do you happen to know a way to use this premise for trends? Such as hitting a button, loading a panel that's aliased to the particular logger? I tried a few things and didn't have much luck, but I'm pretty new to this software and mostly exploring, which your videos have been a great help for.
@@wawelk Pretty much. What I currently do in View SE is use VBA to load pens into the trend display. This was done to avoid making 700+ trend displays. I'm attempting to do something similar in Optix by loading the Model dynamically, but I haven't had much luck doing so.
Sorry for the slow response - I think this should be possible by creating a panel with the trend object. Then add an alias to that panel. The catch is that you may need to create a "model" with variables and assign those variables to the controller variables you want to trend (if your data it not in a UDT (type) already).
After trying some things out, I see that it is fairly easy to use the Alias to pass in values to a Dialog Box with a Trend Object on it - problem is that this seems to work only for real time data, I have not been able to pass the historical data into a popup with an Alias, it will always grab the real time data.
Really appreciate your videos! There is not a lot of examples for Optix projects yet. I create alias's directly to my PLC tags for items like this. Instead of using model items in Optix to link an alias to I would have a UDT in my PLC for the pump type with the name, running, and speed tags then I could place that into an array for however many pumps I have. Finally, in Optix you just have to point the alias node to the correct array element. Not sure If that was what your next video was going to show but it would be good if you could show that as well. Thanks!!
Appreciate the feedback! I will have to demonstrate that method as well. Admittedly I'm not a developer, so glad to get comments from anyone who has been working with Optix.
Amazing video!!, and easy to learn, would you make a video on how make a repport that is editable, and not based on udt just variable that can modifed in runtime and generate a pdf file,
Yes, it is easy to customize the color of the background and objects. Images can be added by just dragging the image file from your desktop to the Optix Studio screen.
Fantastic videos. Do you happen to know a way to use this premise for trends? Such as hitting a button, loading a panel that's aliased to the particular logger? I tried a few things and didn't have much luck, but I'm pretty new to this software and mostly exploring, which your videos have been a great help for.
Thanks - glad these videos have been helpful... you want to use a single trend pop-up window that would pass a different tag into the trend each time?
@@wawelk Pretty much. What I currently do in View SE is use VBA to load pens into the trend display. This was done to avoid making 700+ trend displays. I'm attempting to do something similar in Optix by loading the Model dynamically, but I haven't had much luck doing so.
Sorry for the slow response - I think this should be possible by creating a panel with the trend object. Then add an alias to that panel. The catch is that you may need to create a "model" with variables and assign those variables to the controller variables you want to trend (if your data it not in a UDT (type) already).
After trying some things out, I see that it is fairly easy to use the Alias to pass in values to a Dialog Box with a Trend Object on it - problem is that this seems to work only for real time data, I have not been able to pass the historical data into a popup with an Alias, it will always grab the real time data.
Really appreciate your videos! There is not a lot of examples for Optix projects yet. I create alias's directly to my PLC tags for items like this. Instead of using model items in Optix to link an alias to I would have a UDT in my PLC for the pump type with the name, running, and speed tags then I could place that into an array for however many pumps I have. Finally, in Optix you just have to point the alias node to the correct array element. Not sure If that was what your next video was going to show but it would be good if you could show that as well. Thanks!!
Appreciate the feedback! I will have to demonstrate that method as well. Admittedly I'm not a developer, so glad to get comments from anyone who has been working with Optix.
Amazing video!!, and easy to learn, would you make a video on how make a repport that is editable, and not based on udt just variable that can modifed in runtime and generate a pdf file,
Noted
I don't see an example, or if this feature exists, writing a value in a tag using the virtual keyboard in optixpanel.
Does this feature not yet exist?
Use the Text Box base control object - this lets you click on it and enter a value during runtime.
Hi, can you change color or add images on that HMI?
Yes, it is easy to customize the color of the background and objects. Images can be added by just dragging the image file from your desktop to the Optix Studio screen.