Table Of Contents - Maple Systems Silver Series Installation And Operation Manual

EZware Sup port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
OIT Mod els Sup ported . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PLCs Sup ported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About Your Doc u men ta tion . . . . . . . 1
Con ven tions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What You Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
OIT Ba sics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
What is a Sil ver Se ries OIT? . . . . . . . 4
List of Fea tures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chap ter 1 - In stal la tion of OITs . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Be fore You Be gin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Un pack ing the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Man ag ing Elec tro static Dis charge . . . 7
CE Com pli ance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
NEMA Rat ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
En vi ron men tal Con sid er ations . . . . . 7
Safety Pre cau tions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Con trol Panel De sign Guide lines . . . . . . 8
Con trol Panel Ground ing . . . . . . . . . 9
Con nect OIT Chas sis Ground to
Con trol Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Power Sup ply Se lec tion . . . . . . . . . . 10
Ca ble Rout ing and Noise Im mu nity . 10
In stal la tion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Con nect the OIT to Power . . . . . . . . 11
Con nect the OIT to the PLC . . . . . . . 12
Panel Prep a ra tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Mount the OIT to the Panel . . . . . . . 14
Con fig u ra tion Wir ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Con nect the OIT to the PC for
Con fig u ra tion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Fac tory Con fig u ra tion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chap ter 2 - Cre at ing Your First Pro ject . . . . . . 17
Be fore You Be gin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Con nect ing OIT to Com puter . . . . . . . . . 17
Start ing EZware-500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Cre at ing a Sam ple Pro ject . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Set ting the Sys tem Pa ram e ters . . . . . 19
Cre at ing a Startup Win dow . . . . . . . 20
Cre at ing a Popup Win dow . . . . . . . . 22
Fin ish ing Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chap ter 3 - Sim u la tor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Sim u la tion Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Trou ble shoot ing Tools Dur ing
Sim u la tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Cap tur ing Sim u la tion Screens to Use as
Doc u men ta tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Wir ing for Nor mal Sim u la tion Mode . . . . 32
Chap ter 4 - Us ing EZware-500 . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Over view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The EasyManager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Com mu ni ca tions Set tings . . . . . . . . . 36
Op er at ing Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
The EasyASCIIFontMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Ta ble of Con tents
Chap ter 5 - Cre at ing Win dows . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chap ter 6 - Cre at ing Graphic Ob jects . . . . . . . 125
EasyBuilder's De fault Text Fonts . . . . 37
Us ing the EasyASCIIFontMaker. . . . . 37
The EasyBuilder Ap pli ca tion . . . . . . . . . . 38
Man ag ing Pro jects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Print ing Pro jects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Ed it ing and Cre at ing Screen Ob jects 42
Gen eral Set tings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Se cu rity Set tings Con fig u ra tion. . . . . 64
Re start the OIT Au to mat i cally af ter a Pro ject
is Down loaded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Au to mat i cally Save and Com pile the
Pro ject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Com pact Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Con nect ing Mul ti ple OITs to one PLC . . . 70
Hard ware Con nec tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Soft ware Con nec tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Shar ing Data Be tween the Mas ter OIT
and Slave OIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Con nect ing Mul ti ple OITs Us ing the
Ethernet Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Shar ing Data Be tween the Mas ter OIT,
Slave OIT and PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Us ing the Aux Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Win dows Fun da men tals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Open ing a Win dow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Cre at ing a New Win dow . . . . . . . . . 80
Set ting the Win dow Se cu rity Level . . . . . 89
As sign ing Un der lay Win dows . . . . . . 90
How to Dis play Un der lay Win dows . . 90
Rules That Ap ply to Un der lay
Win dows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
De let ing a Win dow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Us ing Base Win dows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
How to Dis play Base Win dows . . . . . 92
Us ing the Com mon Win dow. . . . . . . . . . 101
Op tional set tings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Chang ing the Ac tive Com mon
Win dow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Us ing the Fast Se lec tion Win dow . . . . . . 108
Us ing the Fast Se lec tion Key. . . . . . . 111
Chang ing screens us ing the Fast
Se lec tion win dow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Chang ing the Fast Se lec tion Win dow 114
Us ing the Task Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Us ing the Win dow Bar . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Gen eral Set tings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Cre at ing a Mes sage Board . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Op tional Pa ram e ters . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Draw ing Ob jects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Us ing the Draw ing Tools . . . . . . . . . 125
Us ing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Pre de fined Shapes and Bitmaps . . . . . . . 129
Us ing a Pre de fined Shape . . . . . . . . 130