2.2.0 is out today. Most of it is the device and alarm screens, the Commands tab and live IoT data on boards, and Buğra and Sema are posting about those. One change is in SCADA.
Conveyors now have a belt width and a height, and their connection points are bound to them.
Docs: The SCADA designer for placing and sizing symbols, Pipes, cables and connections for how symbols are joined.
Good timing, I am drawing a sorting line this week. Can a conveyor be stretched or only scaled? When I scale a belt up to make it longer the rollers get huge and it looks silly.
Select it and look under Position and size. Pipes and conveyors have Length (cells), from 1 to 3. Own size (0.2 to 4) scales the whole symbol, which is what made your rollers grow. For a long run I put two or three conveyors end to end.
Length (cells). Missed it completely, thanks.
Can the belt animation follow the real line speed? Our drives report speed in Hz, not percent.
Speed is one of the fields symbols draw, in % of nominal. Click the conveyor under Edit symbols on the device’s Views: the Symbol data panel lists the fields that symbol draws. If Speed is among them, connect it to the drive’s value and convert in the expression box, for a 50 Hz nominal something like:
value / 50 * 100The same goes for Direction (Forward or Reverse) if the belt can run backwards.
Rebuilt our palletising screen with the belt widths set to match the real belts. Works for us.
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