C-more CM5 Series: Software Features

Huge Array of Objects and Customized Parts

Just a few of the more than 50 types of objects in the standard Object List:

Personalize your screens

Object Format options make personalizing your screen objects simple. Select the colors, frames, and background effects with just a few clicks of the mouse. Choose from the default color templates or create and save your own templates to use as often as you like. Backgrounds for many objects support gradient fill effects that make them stand out.

Over 4000 industrial graphics with Symbol Factory

Select from 80 different categories offering vector graphics that can be scaled up and down in size without loss in image quality. Free Cutaway Control is also included for doing tank type fills. If that is not enough, you can always use your own bitmap graphics with the same objects.

Hundreds of pre-configured parts

C-more also provides ready-made "parts" (versions of each default object) that are available to drag and drop into your project. Select any object to see preconfigured parts in the Parts List. Select the one that most closely matches your needs - and customize it even further, if you like. Then save it in the user library for future use.

Create custom objects

Use a combination of C-more objects and parts to create your own objects, or even entire sections of screens.

Don't Wait, Simulate!

Built-in project simulator pays for the HMI in time savings!

The "one click" built-in simulator is one of C-more's greatest features. This feature allows you to fully simulate your entire project (every object, every screen) while it is being developed, without being connected to a PLC/PAC. Simply click on the "Simulate Project" button at any stage of project development. A window will appear over your development screen that contains a pixel-for-pixel representation of how your project will appear on your physical screen along with a simulation control window.

Now the fun begins. Click your mouse on any simulated screen object and it will behave as if your finger is actually touching the screen. For example, clicking on a pushbutton object will activate and deactivate it as if an operator were touching it. The same will be true for thumbwheels, slider switches (simply hold your mouse button down and slide), selector switches, toggle switches, and so forth. Want to see how an analog meter moves based on dynamic data from the PLC? Simply move your mouse to the simulation control window, move to the tag and click on the data you wish to change. Now type in the value that you want to simulate, and watch your meter move on the simulated screen.

And here's the really cool thing - whatever values you modify during simulation, the effect will be propagated throughout your entire project, object by object, screen by screen. That's because this is a true "project simulator".

To stop the simulation, just click on your project development screen and you're back to project configuration. You can go back and forth in a flash. It's that easy! You'll find yourself using this feature every couple of minutes while developing your project which will result in a better looking and more effective project completed in less time.

1. Click the "Simulate" button on the ribbon of the main project page.

2. The simulation screen will open with working objects.

3. The simulation control window shows the list of screens and the tags, with their values, for the highlighted screen in the list.

4. For objects tied to bit or analog data, change actual values here in the tag list, then verify the correct behavior on the simulation screen. You can also change input data on the simulated screen and see the value change in the tag list.

Convenient Recipe and Alarm Functions

Flexible recipes reduces programming effort

C-more provides tremendous flexibility and capacity to applications that require frequent configuration changes. It has a simple recipe button that supports 99 recipe sheets, each with 1000 recipes of 256 possible tags or values. Recipes make it easy to make large numbers of tag changes with the push of a single button. C-more recipe values can also be modified and saved on-the-fly by the operator while the machine is running.

User Libraries and Project Migration

User libraries allow you to re-use your work again and again

C-more provides three user libraries that allow you to efficiently re-use your work throughout your project or for other projects in the future. You can store a custom object, such as your company logo or a group of objects that compose a custom object (see the tank with cut-away and bar graph below). You can also store entire screens, graphics and sound bites. You can access your libraries at any time and re-use your work by merely clicking on the saved item and dragging it from the library into your project. You can even import and export library items to share with other designers.

Versatile Event Manager

Fill-in-the-blank Event Manager makes programming a cinch

C-more provides a powerful yet easy-to-use Event Manager which takes exception handling (including alarms) and scheduling to the next level. The simple fill-in-the-blank manager allows events to automatically trigger several actions without the need for hours of PLC programming.

It only takes 2 simple steps to set up your object actions.

1. Choose the trigger event based on:

• Tag status or value
• A combination of tag statuses or values
• Date or time
• A screen change

2. Select the desired action:

• Create an alarm
• Play a sound
• Write values to tags
• Copy tag values
• Send e-mails (with embedded tag data)
• Force screen changes
• Capture screen image
• Pop-up messages (with embedded tag data)