Groups

Groups are useful for managing bigger machines. You can unite any selection of elements to a named group. All elements of a group can be marked quickly and/or edited. The membership of a group has got no functional meaning - a group just consists of a listing of all elements that are member, nothing else.

Typical applications are:

1.) Creating a multistorey machine the upper storeys cover the lower ones. For each storey a group is created, then it is easy to switch invisible all storeys excepting the one that is worked on at the moment. For this purpose stripes or graphic filters are useful as well.

2.) The minimum necessary speed shall be determined in a machine with lots of similar drives. All drives are united to a group, then a little different speeds can be adjusted to ascertain the effect on the throughput.

For many ranges of use of groups like 2.) it is necessary that the members are as similar as possible. One single LED in a group of conveyors makes the editing of their drives impossible because it is not provided with such one.

The management of the groups happens in two steps:

1.) In the group manager groups can be created and deleted. Here are also the control elements to select all elements of a group at the same time and/or to edit.

2.) In the group editor it is defined which elements a group shall contain.

Groups cannot be printed out.