Visual Assistance Support

At any point in a part program or process, this app can instantly display helpful images for the operator. The images assist with machine setup, visual part inspection, and other functions. The machine programmer need only set the value of a pre-determined Common Variable from within a part program. The application monitors the Common Variable and displays a stored image corresponding to any new value that’s read - one image at a time. The display size and position of the image are saved for each use.

The user defines any picture, its size and location and assigns a number to this. By setting a defined user task variable to the corresponfding number, the picture is automatically displayed.

Description

The Variable Picture Application (VPA) provides the user with the ability to automatically display any picture, in .JPG format, on the user screen by setting a variable in the part program. The purpose is to allow the part programmer to provide helpful images to the operator while the program is running. The user simply associates a picture to a numerical value and then when the pre‐defined macro variable is set to that value, the picture is displayed. Only one picture at a time can be displayed and the program remembers both the size and location of each picture so that each time the part program calls an image it is in the same place and of the same size as the last time. This application is freeware and given to the THINC Developers Group to distribute as they see fit.

Details

Updated: 10/10/2014
Available Versions: 1.1.2.0
Size: 1,217 KB

Compatibility:

P200 control or later, THINC API Version 1.9.1 or later; Lathe or Machining Center

About The Developer

Rob Caron
Company: Caron Engineering
Certified Developer?
Phone: 207.646.6071
Email: marketing@caroneng.com

Founded in 1986, Caron Engineering, Inc. is an aggressive energetic company where keeping current with today's emerging technologies is not just a business, it's a passion.

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Caron Engineering offers manufacturing and engineering companies a single source for the custom development, design and assembly of:

  • Tool Monitoring
  • Adaptive Control
  • Laser Tool Setting
  • Machine Tool Probing

You can have the comfort and guarantee of complete satisfaction with the turnkey project responsibility under one highly qualified name: Caron Engineering.

App Feedback

Not all versions of THINC API are currently supported. If you receive an error while running this application, please contact Caron Engineering. We can provide a plug‐in to enable support for you version of THINC API.

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