Created Date: August 16,2006

Created by: Lexman

Do you mean Animation Bitmap component?

Do you use the V-memory variables contents to locate the position of droplets? If you are, how fast do you change the contents?

The change must be quite slow to your PLC and HMI port be able to transmit the data and HMI to react. Possibly, you don't use timer its ' period is too small to operate the way you want.

By the way - there are a lot of ways to realise the task - most part of componetnts has the "Advansed " check box, and you can find the same animation features as in the Animation Bitmap.

Created Date: August 17,2006

Created by: a agnone

Yes Animated Bitmap. I do use V memory to insert position. I tried a 1 second timer to load K values. Then I tried using a 1/4 sec timer. It seems communication is so slow between the panel and PLC, positions are missed. I am using 5 points from start to finish. I am thinking of using the 1 sec timer with more points to see how it looks. The points are 0 to 25. I am using 4 droplets randomly spacing so as to look like a continuous flow. Is more better?

Created Date: August 17,2006

Created by: Lexman

Well, 1 sec is very enough period to communicate. By the way, what does it mean - "Just doesnt look right "? And how does it look? http://forum1.automationdirect.com/board/smile.gif

I tried to create such project - averything work correctly.

I 've done folowing:

Created timer TMR0 with 10BCD period and created rung that goes through NO contact T0 (TMR0 contact) and does the folowing:

1. Increments the V-memory var that contains position via the INCB command (I used V2010 for example)

2. Loads K0 value into accumulator via LD

3. Writes the K0 value from accumulator to the TA0 variable to clear the TMR0 counter.

So the following porgram makes the TMR constantly to count from 0 to 10BCD and every time the T0 contact closes, the value in V2010 increments by one.

The dynamic bitmap on the panel (I used S6C) is snapped to the V2010 variable via Axis Animation-X Axis Tag Property.

And the result - the bitmap smoothly flows from left to right.

Created Date: August 16,2006

Created by: a agnone

Tying to simulate droplets dropping from a pipe on the EA7-S6M. Just doesnt look right. Maybe I am going about it the wrong way. There doesn't seem to be any instructions or examples to do it. It involves only the Y axis. I used 4 seperate droplets. Using LD, I load values to each droplet. V2501 is the 1st one, V2502 the second one, etc. I can not get smooth motion or the effect I am looking for. Is there a better way? I tried staggering them but still doesnt look right. Any help would be appreciated.