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SIMATIC WinCC flexible Engineering SW 
Highest configuration efficiency
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The engineering software is based on the latest
software technology and contains a range of editors and tools for different
configuration tasks.
On this page:
Configuration tools
Simple and convenient user interface
When using WinCC flexible Engineering Software you carry out configuration
using up to 32 screen layers. For configuring the screens, you have
available convenient functions for zooming in and out, for rotating and
aligning objects, as well as a range of intelligent tools.
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Using the Project Wizard, for example, you can create a basic
project, including navigation and system screens, using just a few user
default settings. The system uses dialogs to navigate you through to choose
the desired objects and to create the project at the push of a button..
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Fig. Selecting Hardware componets of a project using the project wizzard
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Graphic configuration makes it easier to carry out complex configuration
tasks like defining motion paths or creating screen navigation.
Fig. Graphic configuration of a motion path with WinCC flexible ES
Table-based editors make it easier to create and edit objects of the same
type, e.g. for variables, texts or messages
Convenient find and replace functions allow you to carry out a
project- wide search for objects, to carry out central rewiring of variables
and to find and replace texts. Apart from this, the cross reference list
gives you direct access to all the objects in the project.
Handling graphics in different formats is much easier. Using a
graphics browser, you can display supplied graphics and your own pictures,
process them and integrate them in a project screen using Drag & Drop. If
you want to process the image, the system automatically starts the
associated external editor.
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Faceplate technology
WinCC flexible has a large number of basic and enhanced objects and
graphics that are scalable and can be dynamized;you can use these objects in
your pictures. The Symbol Factory, for example, contains a large number of
general and vertical market representations with different colour depths.
Apart from this, you can combine project-specific faceplates from simple
picture objects and store them in the library.
You can now use tags to interconnect the dynamic properties of a faceplates
picture elements, e.g. the design and visibility.
This means that at runtime you can, for example, hide and display individual
components of the faceplate or of the complete faceplate in dependence on a
tag value. You can carry out modifications in the entire project from one
central location and the system then changes the module at the same time in
all the screens of the project where it is used.
Fig. Interconnection dialog for faceplates
You can use faceplates without needing to invest a lot of time and effort
in wiring, since they can be linked with structured data types. Each time
you use the faceplate in a picture, you only need to configure one structure
variable of the same data type on the faceplate to establish the complete
link.
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Scripting
As standard, WinCC flexible offers a large number of dynamic options for
objects. However, if you want to be even more flexible, in projects with 270
Series Panels and above you have available VBScript, which is a powerful and
easy to learn script language based on Visual Basic. You can
immediately leverage your Visual Basic knowledge. The IntelliSense function
allows you to quickly program accesses to runtime objects and to simply
establish control sequences within the script. Script debugging is possible
during engineering using the Simulator and, if required, at runtime.
Fig. Integrating scripts into the function list
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