The Picture View Object will automatically resize a picture to fit within its borders. There is an option for “Display with original size when a picture is smaller than the object size” on the Outline tab in the Picture View Object’s Properties: If the size of the picture is smaller than the Picture View Object,…
To display historical trend data within the Trend Display Object, you will first need to configure the indexed Data Sampling Object to enable the saving of the sampled data to History Files. The Sampled Data can be saved to HMI memory or USB disk. Once the indexed Data Sampling object has been configured to save…
These products are discontinued. Contact [email protected] for upgrade information. The Utility Manager application that comes bundled and installed with EBPro, features a Firmware upgrade utility for the cMT-iV5 and iV6. The Utility Manager application is located in the root of the EBPro installation directory. By default, it is installed in C:Maple SystemsEBProUtilityManagerEx.exe. You will need…
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The Enhanced or Basic security feature can indeed be used to control object visibility, as select objects can be hidden for different access levels. Object visibility an also be controlled based on the status of a bit, which can be configured on the Security tab in the object attributes window.
If you are wondering how you can assign tags for dynamic limits in a Numeric Object, take note of the “Usage…” note in the Object Properties window. The Numeric Object uses the tag assigned in the object properties as the Device Low limit, and uses the next sequential address as the Device High limit. For…
When creating a New Meter Display Object for a cMT Series HMI, you may not be able to assign a negative value for the minimum or maximum values when using REAL, DINT, or INT signed data types. Solution: First, select a Local Word (LW) register for the Read Address in the Meter Display Object Properties…
When compiling a project that was originally created in an older version of EBPro, this error will occur if the model that was selected when the project was originally created does not support SD cards. This is due to a change that was implemented in EBPro: Version 6.05.01. With this change, if the originally selected…
This depends on the driver. Some drivers will allow you to configure the word order globally for the driver. This would be done from a Data Conversion button on the Device Settings window. In EBPro go to <i>Home > System Parameters > Device > Settings… > Data Conversion. The Modbus driver has options to swap…
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When you want to read 32-bit register using a word addressed protocol like Modbus all you have to to is set the format to a 32-bit format (32-bit signed, 32-bit unsigned, 32-bit float) on the format tab of your object. The HMI will take care of reading the correct number of registers.
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The Word Lamp Object is used as an indicator to represent the value in a PLC register, or the value in a register in the HMI local memory (LW). Creates a graphics object to reflect the current state of a multi-state PLC data register. It can display a different shape or picture depending on the…
There was an issue that cropped up in older versions of EBPro that caused the UNICODE selection in ASCII objects to not work. This has been fixed in EBPro v6.04.02.552 or later versions. The latest version of EBPro can be downloaded from our website at: EBPro Full Version
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Yes. In order to use different colors or backgrounds exceeding two states in a Multi-State Object, a custom picture or shape must be created and then assigned to the word lamp. See Tech Note 5108, “Multi-State Picture/Shape” for more information.
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