Coffee Machine scenario SECTION 3 Advanced Tutorial SECTION 3 Advanced Tutorial This chapter introduces some of the more advanced topics of CX-Supervisor. It is expected the user is already familiar with: • General Windows operation • Software installation • Creating, opening, saving and running of CX-Supervisor projects. • Creating and saving pages • Adding graphical objects and animations This chapter is intended to be a quick guide to the topics, not full step-by-step instructions. For a full description of these areas refer to the related chapters in the User Manual. 3-1 Coffee Machine scenario This tutorial is going to take the form of a simulation of a coffee vending machine.
They all have a familiar User Interface, display functions, control functions and we will be adding alarm, recipe and security functions. Again this tutorial will use Memory points for simplicity, but remember with minimal changes the application could easily be monitoring and controlling a real PLC. 3-1-1 Getting Started Follow the steps outlined, referring if necessary to the User Manual for specific instructions. 1, 2, 3… 1. Create a new Machine Edition Project with the following specifications: Project Name = COFFEE Project Description = Coffee Vending Machine Project Directory = C:\COFFEE 2. From the File menu, create a new page.
Save the created page as "Open.pag" into the project directory, C:\COFFEE 3. Make sure the page is added to the project, if not add it. 4. Run the application and test if the page displays correctly. 3-1-2 Project Editor 1, 2, 3… 1. Create a new page from the File menu 2. Save the new page and name it "Main.pag" 3. Using the Workspace, right click Main.pag to make it Display on Run and make Open.pag not Display on Run by removing the tick. 3-1-3 Graphics Pages 1, 2, 3… 1. Open open.pag 2. Double click the page and set the following properties: Page Title = Open Border Style = THICK Display Mode = REPLACE Top = 0 21