Transcript Folie 1 - Hard

MachScreen introduction
01.03.2010
MachScreen is an windows application.
Most of the menu commands have icons in the toolbar
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Not all of the icons are always enabled, e.g. paste, print,undo etc.
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For windows standard operations you also can use shortcuts.
Ctrl-A
Ctrl-C
Ctrl-V
Ctrl-Z
Page-Up
Page-Down
select all ctrl-items of the page
copy selected ctrl-items into internal buffer
paste internal buffer into selected page
undo last operation
goto previous page
goto next page
After MachScreen is started, please set the parameters as shown in in picture 1.
Menu: Options -> Settings
Picture 1
Exit this dialog with the OK button.
You can create a new, or modify an existing screen-set. We will start with a new screenset.
Click on icon „New“. A dialog box opens up. In the „page“ box you can specify a page
number from 1 to 100. Page number 0 is special page (persistant page), every ctrl-item
from page 0 will appear on all pages. Set the dimension you want. These extensions
define the size of a frame, that can be shown at design time.
We will use 1024 x 768 an click OK
On the right hand side of your screen you see
the so called property dialog
This dialog is divided in 5 main-groups:
Group Page
Page:
In the box you can select an existing page. Just
click the small arrow. The Combobox will
expand and show all existing pages.
Button New,
Hitting this button, opens a dialog to
select a new page number and the page
size.
Button Delete
Hitting this button deletes the actual page.
Group Position
In this group the position and extensions of
the selected ctrl-item is shown. You can
change these parameters by clicking in the
desired field and edit the value.
When button Position is hit, the item is
moved / sized to the specified data.
Group Control
Combobox on right hand side. You can
select here one of the 12(14) ctrl items.
DRO
Scrollbar
Image
Button
Jogball
LED
Label
Image Button
MDI
G-Code
Toolpath
Slider vert
Slider hor
Image button transp.
Hit the add button, move the mouse-pointer to the
place you want to put the selected ctrl-item.
If you want to place a ctrl-item more often, hold
down the „ctrl“-key click add, at every left mouse
click you can place the ctrl-item.
Group Colour
Depending on the selected ctrl-item the color settings are shown in this group.
To change a color, click in the color rectangle. The changed color is for all ctrl-items
of this type. If you, for example, change the color for the DRO, the color refers to
all DRO‘s in that set-file.
Group property
The listbox shows all parameters of the selected
item.
To change a parameter, select the ctrl-item by
clicking it. Double click the parameter in the value
coloum.