I’ve seen several presentations/articles on “High Performance HMI” that include the use of radar style plots on overview displays. But, every example I have seen was built on a non-DeltaV system. Has anyone built radar type plots for use with DeltaV? If so, would you mind sharing how you accomplished this?
In reply to AdrianOffield:
hi guys,
you could allways use Excel if you have it installed or then you could use a activeX component e.g. MSchart
"A powerful feature of the DeltaV automation system is the capability to add ActiveX controls (OCXs) to your pictures. ActiveX controls provide functionality to your pictures without your having to write complex code. Because of its open architecture, DeltaV Operate allows you to drag and drop any third-party object (OCX) into your displays."
here is some VBA code for excel radar control: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/VBAdrawradar.html
Excel already have a lot of ActiveX control, propably you could use them as well or download from e.g. MS??
just remember to introduce the control in vba code...
There are some ready made components on the market witch you could use...
Niklas Flykt
Klinkmann Oy
Key Account Manager safety products
nikfly@gmail.com
In reply to Niklas Flykt:
I believe there might be some mileage in Niklas' activex suggestion, but I thought it wouldn't be too tricky to perform this in iFix, so I set myself a challenge of getting something usable together. Now I read back Scott Thompsons and Adrian Offield suggested pretty much what I've produced. And yes the effort to get to four values (mentioned by Adrian) as per my first attempt is fairly easy, but with a bit of trig it wouldn't be too tricky to increase to other factors of 360degrees.
I think it answers most of the concerns above. I've put a short (5 min) video together to show the fruits of my days work, if anyone is interested in taking what I've produced and using as is or developing further then please get in touch.
To use my simple four value radar charts you'd need the IES_RADAR shown in the video and the dynamo set i've placed the Radar plot into also called IES_RADAR. I produced this in version 11.3.1, but would work in pretty much any DeltaV version based on iFix. v5 onwards or was it 6?.
Anyway
Here is the link to the video.
I believe there might be some mileage in Niklas' activex suggestion, but I thought it wouldn't be too tricky to perform this in iFix, so I set myself a challenge of getting something usable together. Now I read back Scott Thompsons suggested pretty much what I've produced.
(Please visit the site to view this video)
In reply to Ben Bishop:
Thanks for everyone's input. After reading Scott Thompson's post and watching the video from IntuitiveNeil , I was able to quickly create a crude prototype. It obviously needs some work before it's ready to use, but at least I now know how to do it.
In reply to David Nelson:
Consider it Solved. Thanks so much for the input everyone!
Best Regards,
Rachelle McWright: Business Development Manager, Dynamic Simulation: U.S. Gulf Coast
In reply to Scott Krejci:
One example is the temperature profile around a water jacket of an oxygen lance going into a copper smelting furnace. It let the operator see there was a hot spot developing anywhere.
This was done using the animated start and end XY coordinates method mentioned by Scott for 12 sensors around the lance in DeltaV v10.
Gareld Butler
In reply to IntuitiveNeil:
Please share with me modules of radar plot? Thank you.
Sincerely,
Badraa
In reply to dave_marshall: