Description

Simple and convenient user interface

The software contains a series of editors and tools for different configuration tasks. You can configure, for example, in level technology using 32 screen levels. For the configuration of displays, various convenient functions are available, such as zoom in/out, rotate and align. In WinCC flexible you can setup your working environment according to your needs. In the engineering, a working environment oriented toward the respective configuration task appears on the monitor of the configuration computer. Here you will find everything you need to make your work more convenient:

The Project Wizard for example enables you to create a basic project with navigation and system screens with minimal user input. In various dialog boxes you are guided through the navigation, select the required objects and have the project created at the touch of a button.

It goes without saying that, if necessary, you can also make subsequent manual changes to the settings that have been made initially with the project wizard.More complex configuration tasks such as the definition of motion paths of display objects or the setup of the display hierarchy or operator prompting system are simplified by means of graphical configuration. User-friendly configuration of a motion path: The motion path for a screen object comprises the start point and the end point, which you can simply determine using the mouse. You then assign a tag to this motion path. At runtime, the tag value then determines the relative position of the object on the motion path.

Table-based editors simplify the generation and processing of similar types of object, e.g. also for tags, texts, or alarms. You can exploit the advantages during configuration of a host of objects, e.g. when creating and editing tags. If you create a number of tags with process links that are set up consecutivelyin the memory of the PLC, you can have the address area incrementedautomatically for each tag. You can, however, also change identical settings for several tags at once, e.g. the tag type or the connection.

User-friendly search and replace functions allow project-wide searching for objects, centralized rewiring of tags and the searching and replacing of texts. In addition, the cross reference list permits direct access to all objects in the project.

All configuration data can also be compiled and printed out conveniently in one project document.

The handling of graphics in different formats is very easy. Supplied graphics and the user's own screens can be displayed by means of a graphics browser and integrated into the project display by means of a drag-and-drop function. If a picture is to be edited, the associated external editor is started automatically.The placing of objects by dragging and dropping in the work area generates a graphic display in the open window or permits the labeling of a button or softkey.