Chapter 3 Creating and Editing Screens
Recipe Setup dialog box
After setting length and group number of recipe, the user can click Input
button to edit the recipe data. The memory size for recipe is limited and
the memory size for recipe is 64K. It indicates that the total recipe size
should be less than 64K (The number of Length x Groups should be less
than 65536). If the total recipe size exceeds the limit, the user will see a
warning message displayed on the screen.
Input
The above-mentioned memory indicates the non-volatile memory of HMI,
i.e. SRAM. Some DOP series HMI, which supports USB host function, allows
the user to use more recipe data via this USB host interface. Supporting
USB host function means it has a built-in USB host interface. The user can
connect HMI to a USB disk via this USB host interface and input more
recipe data. However, there is still a limit for the input value of recipe
length and groups. When Recipe Retained (non-volatile area) is selected
as USB disk, the length x groups should be less than 4096K (The number
of Length x Groups should be less than 4194304). The user can change
the non-volatile data location by clicking Options > Configuration >
General.
Open
The user can load recipe data by clicking Open button. The loaded recipes
do not contain the starting address of recipes. Therefore, regardless of
which brand of the controller connecting to HMI, they all can use the same
recipe file. There are two recipe file types provided in Delta DOP series
HMI, one is 16bits recipe file (*.rcp) and the other is 32bits recipe file
(*.csv) that can be opened in Windows® Excel environment. Please pay
close attention to the format of recipe file and make sure that the recipe
file is a 16bits data or a 32bits data. Do not select the incorrect data
format; otherwise the program will not work normally.
Save
When Save button is pressed, HMI will save the editing recipe data as a
file, click When saving the recipe file, the starting address will not be
saved. This lets the user use the same recipe file in the different PLC
brand. The user can save the recipe file as Windows Excel CSV file.
Reset
When Reset button is pressed, all related recipe settings and input recipe
data are deleted. There is no other method to retrieve the recipe except
for using Import function to import the saved recipe data again.
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