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You can underlay the background of the 2-D windows with any graphic. This can be helpful if you take the layout plan in case of a bigger machine.

 

You generate the graphic with a graphics software of your choice. We have provided in TrySim just the modification of the color as an editing. But you have to know which width and length your graphic has in the real machine. Exactly these values (in mm) you enter in the edit mask. You can also use the calculation aid explained below. You can copy the externally created graphic as *.bmp file in the project directory. If you have placed the graphic into the clipboard, for example with the snapshot function in the adobe reader, you can insert it by means of 'load from clipboard' directly into TrySim.

 

 

Calculation aid for size:

You will know the real size of your machine approximately. Firstly enter these values for the two corresponding coordinates and close the mask.
Then search a component as large as possible whose size you know exactly, for example by dimensions, on the picture.
For this component you determine a length as it currently measured in TrySim. The easiest way is to place a temporary box above. The size of this box for example is shown in the status bar of TrySim.
open the edit mask again and enter the real length and the just measured length.
Then click on that 'calculate button' which matches the measured direction.
Now this size is adjusted first, thereafter the other one so that the width/length proportion correspond to the proportion of the bitmap.
You can adjust the size of the machine (white area) via Extras|Options|Machine.

 

It is not possible to modify the background with the mouse intentionally. To change size and position you reach the edit mask via the element tree or the 'ENTER' key while the background is still marked.

 

Important! If there are problems with the calculating time during the simulation you should fade out the backgrounds first.

 

See also:

Common Properties

Static elements of simulation

 

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