Eurotherm iTools Help
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Below you will find brief information for iTools 7, iTools, controller 2400, controller 2704, controller 3500. This manual provides detailed instructions for configuring and monitoring these controllers. You will learn how to load devices, access parameters, edit values, create recipes, use the graphical wiring editor, and much more.
Key Features
Load devices
Access parameters
Edit values
Create recipes
Use the graphical wiring editor
Flash memory management
OPC Scope interface
Report configuration
Pages: 274 Eurotherm iTools Help Owner's manual
Brand: Eurotherm Category: System management software Size: 3 MB
Languages: English
Table of contents
- 3 Contents
- 9 1. INTRODUCTION
- 9 1.1. CONVENTIONS
- 10 2. RUNNING ITOOLS
- 10 2.1. LAUNCHING THE APPLICATION
- 11 2.2. LOADING DEVICES INTO ITOOLS
- 11 2.2.1. Clone devices
- 11 2.3. LOADING CLONE DEVICES
- 12 2.4. NAVIGATION
- 12 2.4.1. Menu Bar
- 12 2.4.2. Main Toolbar
- 12 2.4.3. Views Toolbar
- 12 2.4.4. Right Mouse Button
- 13 2.5. USING THE APPLICATION
- 13 2.5.1. Panel Views
- 14 2.5.2. Device Browser
- 15 2.6. WIZARDS
- 18 3. PARAMETER EXPLORER
- 18 3.1. THE PARAMETER EXPLORER WINDOW
- 19 3.1.1. Columns
- 20 3.1.2. Parameter Explorer tools
- 20 3.1.3. Editing Parameter Values
- 21 3.2. EXPLORER BROWSING AND NAVIGATION
- 21 3.2.1. Historical navigation
- 21 3.2.2. Vertical navigation
- 22 4. FLASH MEMORY
- 22 4.1. FLASH MEMORY EDITOR
- 22 4.1.1. Message Table
- 24 4.1.2. Message Table Config
- 24 4.1.3. Promote Parameters
- 26 5. DEVICE PANEL VIEW
- 27 6. WATCH/RECIPE
- 27 6.1. WATCH RECIPE EDITOR
- 27 6.1.1. Creating a Watch List
- 29 7. GRAPHICAL WIRING EDITOR (GWE)
- 29 7.1. INTRODUCTION
- 29 7.1.1. Function block type
- 29 7.1.2. Function block instance
- 30 7.1.3. Wire
- 30 7.1.4. Block execution order
- 30 7.2. COMPOUNDS
- 31 7.2.1. Compound creation
- 31 7.3. OPENING THE WIRING EDITOR
- 32 7.4. GRAPHICAL WIRING EDITOR WINDOW
- 32 7.4.1. The Main Window
- 33 7.4.2. The Tree View
- 34 7.5. CREATING AN APPLICATION
- 35 7.5.1. Using function blocks
- 36 7.5.2. Block Appearance (3500 series, EPower and Mini8 controllers)
- 37 7.5.3. Block Appearance (Models 2604, 2704)
- 38 7.5.4. Wiring
- 40 7.5.5. Addition of Comments
- 40 7.5.6. Addition of Monitor Points
- 41 7.5.7. Making selections
- 41 7.5.8. Item Colours
- 42 7.5.9. Wiring Fragments
- 43 8. FUNCTION BLOCK VIEW
- 44 9. TERMINAL WIRING VIEW
- 46 10. TOOLKIT BLOCKS VIEW
- 46 10.1. TOOLKIT BLOCKS
- 47 10.1.2. Analogue operations
- 49 10.1.3. Logic Operations
- 51 10.1.4. Block wiring
- 52 11. ITOOLS WITH THE MODEL 2400
- 52 11.1. PROGRAMMER EDITOR
- 52 11.1.1. Introduction (2400)
- 55 11.1.2. Program Editing (2400)
- 56 11.1.3. Segment parameters (2400)
- 59 11.1.4. The Graph (2400)
- 61 12. ITOOLS WITH THE MODEL 2704
- 61 12.1. PROGRAMMER EDITOR
- 61 12.1.1. Introduction (2704)
- 62 12.1.2. Opening the editor
- 65 12.1.3. Program editing (2704)
- 66 12.1.4. Adding, Inserting and deleting segments
- 68 12.1.5. Segment parameters (2704)
- 73 12.1.6. The Graph (2704)
- 75 12.1.7. Asynchronous Programmer
- 76 12.1.8. Using the editor in asynchronous mode
- 78 12.2. USER PAGE EDITOR
- 78 12.2.1. 2704 User Page Editor
- 81 12.2.2. Promote Parameters
- 82 12.2.3. User List Tab
- 83 12.2.4. Styles
- 97 12.2.5. Go to Menu Control Button
- 98 13. ITOOLS WITH THE MODEL 3500 SERIES
- 98 13.1. DEVICE RECIPE EDITOR
- 98 13.1.1. Introduction
- 99 13.1.2. Recipe creation
- 100 13.2. PROGRAMMER EDITOR
- 100 13.2.1. Introduction (3500)
- 101 13.2.2. Opening the editor
- 103 13.2.3. Program editing (3500)
- 104 13.2.4. Adding, inserting and deleting segments
- 105 13.2.5. SyncStart segments
- 107 13.2.6. Segment parameters (3500)
- 114 13.2.7. The Graph (3500)
- 118 13.3. 3500 USER PAGE EDITOR
- 118 13.3.1. Introduction
- 121 13.3.2. Loop Summary pages
- 122 14. ITOOLS WITH EPOWER CONTROLLERS
- 122 14.1. EPOWER CONTROLLERS
- 122 14.2. FIELDBUS I/O GATEWAY EDITOR
- 123 14.3. TASKS
- 124 14.4. USER PAGES (EPOWER CONTROLLERS)
- 125 14.4.1. User Page Creation
- 127 14.4.2. Styles
- 128 15. THE MENUS
- 128 15.1. CONTEXT MENUS
- 128 15.1.1. Block Wiring context menu
- 130 15.1.2. Chart context menu (OPC Scope)
- 131 15.1.3. Comment context menu
- 132 15.1.4. Compound Context Menu
- 135 15.1.5. Device context menu
- 139 15.1.6. Device Recipe Data Sets context menu
- 140 15.1.7. Device Recipe parameter context menu
- 141 15.1.8. Diagram context menu
- 143 15.1.9. Flash Memory Context menu
- 144 15.1.10. Function Block context menu
- 147 15.1.11. Graph context menu
- 147 15.1.12. List context menu (OPC Scope)
- 149 15.1.13. Monitor context menu
- 151 15.1.14. User Page Editor Context menu (2704)
- 153 15.1.15. Pages context menu (3500 and EPower controllers)
- 154 15.1.16. Segment context menu (2400)
- 155 15.1.17. Segment context menu (2704)
- 156 15.1.18. Segment context menu (3500)
- 158 15.1.19. Terminal Wiring context menu
- 158 15.1.20. Toolbar context menu
- 159 15.1.21. Watch Recipe context menu
- 160 15.1.22. Wire Context menu
- 162 15.2. MENU BAR MENUS
- 162 15.2.1. Device menu
- 165 15.2.2. Explorer menu
- 166 15.2.3. File menu
- 169 15.2.4. Flash menu
- 169 15.2.5. Function Block menu
- 171 15.2.6. Help menu
- 173 15.2.7. OPC Scope menu
- 179 15.2.8. Options menu
- 187 15.2.9. Pages menu (2704)
- 189 15.2.10. Pages menu (3500 & EPower controllers)
- 190 15.2.11. Programmer menu
- 193 15.2.12. Recipe menu (Device Recipe)
- 195 15.2.13. Recipe menu (Watch/Recipe)
- 197 15.2.14. View menu
- 199 15.2.15. Window menu
- 202 15.2.16. Wiring menu
- 204 16. THE TOOLBARS
- 204 16.1. MAIN TOOLBAR
- 207 16.2. VIEWS TOOLBAR
- 208 16.3. DEVICE RECIPE TOOLBAR
- 209 16.4. FLASH TOOLBAR
- 210 16.5. OPC SCOPE SERVER TOOLBAR
- 211 16.6. OPC SCOPE TOOLBAR
- 213 16.7. PROGRAMMER TOOLBAR
- 215 16.8. TERMINAL WIRING TOOLBAR
- 216 16.9. USER PAGE EDITOR TOOLBAR (2704)
- 217 16.10. USER PAGE EDITOR TOOLBAR (3500 & EPOWER CONTROLLERS)
- 218 16.11. WATCH/RECIPE TOOLBAR
- 219 16.12. WIRING EDITOR TOOLBAR
- 221 17. OPC SCOPE
- 221 17.1. OPC SCOPE INTRODUCTION
- 221 17.1.1. Writing New Values
- 222 17.1.2. Adding Parameters to the list
- 222 17.1.3. Removing Parameters from the list
- 222 17.1.4. List Tab
- 222 17.1.5. Chart Tab
- 222 17.1.6. Maximize Chart
- 222 17.1.7. History Page Control
- 222 17.1.8. OPC Menu items
- 222 17.1.9. OPC Tools
- 223 17.2. CHART DISPLAY
- 223 17.2.1. Display parameters
- 224 17.2.2. Chart Configuration
- 228 17.2.3. Review tab
- 229 17.3. DATA LOGGING (OPC SCOPE)
- 229 17.3.1. Data logging configuration
- 229 17.3.2. Log initiation
- 229 17.3.3. Log termination
- 230 17.3.4. Spreadsheet display
- 231 17.4. DDE INTERFACE (OPC SCOPE)
- 233 17.5. GROUP ITEM VALUE WRITES
- 234 18. PORT SETUP
- 234 18.1. ITOOLS CONTROL PANEL
- 234 18.1.1. Access from the Start menu
- 235 18.1.2. Access from within iTools
- 236 18.1.3. Registry Settings window
- 240 19. COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
- 240 19.1. AVAILABLE COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
- 240 19.1.1. /Addall
- 240 19.1.2. /NoPurge
- 240 19.1.3. /NoSplash
- 240 19.1.4. /NoWarn
- 240 19.1.5. /RegServer
- 240 19.1.6. /Scan
- 240 19.1.7. /Server:name or /Server
- 240 19.1.8. /UnregServer
- 241 20. ITOOLS ARCHITECTURE
- 241 20.1. ITOOLS SHELL
- 241 20.2. ACTIVEX CONTROLS
- 241 20.2.1. Series2000Panel
- 242 20.2.2. OPCItemGrid
- 242 20.3. OPC SERVER
- 242 20.3.1. Instrument Descriptor Modules
- 243 21. STAND-ALONE PROGRAM EDITOR
- 243 21.1. PROGRAM EDITING WITHIN ITOOLS
- 243 21.2. PROGRAM EDITING OUTSIDE ITOOLS
- 243 21.2.1. Opening the Programmer Editor
- 244 21.3. PROGRAMMER EDITOR TOOLBAR
- 246 21.4. COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
- 246 21.4.1. /StayOnTop
- 246 21.4.2. /ReadOnly
- 246 21.4.3. /TabbedOpen
- 246 21.4.4. /Device:<device name>
- 246 21.4.5. /ProgNum:<number>
- 246 21.4.6. /Quiet:<filename>
- 246 21.4.7. /LoadFile:<filename>
- 246 21.4.8. Program Download Example
- 247 21.5. CONFIGURING THE RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT
- 247 21.5.1. Configuring the Runtime Environment
- 249 21.5.2. Customising New Program Creation
- 251 21.6. MENUS
- 251 21.6.1. Device menu
- 252 21.6.2. Edit Menu
- 255 21.6.3. File menu
- 257 21.6.4. Help Menu
- 258 21.6.5. Options Menu
- 258 21.6.6. Plot Menu
- 259 21.6.7. Context menus
- 262 22. REPORT CONFIGURATION
- 262 22.1. LISTS TAB
- 263 22.2. COLUMNS TAB
- 263 22.3. ANNOTATE TAB
- 264 22.4. FORMAT TAB
- 265 23. REVIEW MODE ENTRY
- 265 24. SYNCHRONISATION
- 267 Index
- 274 Contact details
Frequently Answers and Questions
What is the purpose of iTools?
iTools is a software application used to configure and monitor Eurotherm controllers.
How do I load a device into iTools?
You can load a device by scanning for devices, adding them manually, or by opening a device view from the Eurotherm network explorer.
How do I edit parameter values in iTools?
You can edit values by clicking anywhere in the parameter's row and typing in a new value or selecting from a pull-down menu.
What is the purpose of the Graphical Wiring Editor?
The Graphical Wiring Editor allows you to visually create and edit application logic for your controller.
What is the purpose of the Flash Memory Editor?
The Flash Memory Editor allows you to manage the flash memory on your controller, such as editing message tables and promoting parameters.
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