Table of Contents
Introduction - Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
BlueLeaf Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
OIT Models Supported . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PLCs Supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About Your Documentation . . . . . . . . . . 1
Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What You Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
OIT Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What is a Blue Series OIT? . . . . . . . . 4
List of Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 1 - Installation of OITs . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Unpacking the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Managing Electrostatic Discharge. . . 7
CE Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
NEMA Rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Environmental Considerations . . . . . 7
Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Control Panel Design Guidelines . . . . . . 9
Control Panel Grounding . . . . . . . . . 9
Connect OIT Chassis Ground to Control
Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Power Supply Selection . . . . . . . . . . 10
Connect the OIT to the PLC . . . . . . . 12
Panel Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Mount the OIT to the Panel . . . . . . . 14
Configuration Wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connect the OIT to the PC for Configura-
tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Factory Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 2 - Creating Your First Project . . . . . . 17
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting OIT to Computer . . . . . . 17
Starting BlueLeaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Creating a Sample Project . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Selecting the PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Creating Two Screens. . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Creating a Startup Screen . . . . . . . . 20
Creating a Second Screen . . . . . . . . 23
Finishing Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 3 - Using BlueLeaf Software . . . . . . . . 29
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The BlueLeaf Application . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Managing Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
System Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Editing and Creating Screen Objects 32
Basic Editing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 4 - Basic Operation of the BLU300 . . . 47
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using the Left, Right, Top and Down Keys48
Local Setup Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Accessing the Local Setup Menus . . . 48
Downloading a Project to the
BLU300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Uploading a Project from the BLU30049
Transferring a Project Between Two
BLU300s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
HMI Setup Menu for the BLU300 . . . 51
HMI Configuration Settings . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 5- Creating and Displaying Screens . . 63
Creating Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Opening a Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Creating a New Screen . . . . . . . . . . 66
Deleting a Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Creating a Herald Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Configuring the Herald Screen . . . . . 67
Writing the Screen Number to a PLC
Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
How to Display Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Jump to Screen Feature . . . . . . . . . . 69
Displaying screens using function
keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Displaying screens using the up/down
arrow keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Displaying Screens Using the System
Parameter Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 6 - Creating Graphics Objects . . . . . . 73
Drawing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Using the Drawing Tools . . . . . . . . . 73
Using Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Predefined Bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using a Predefined Bitmap . . . . . . . . 81
Creating Custom Bitmaps. . . . . . . . . 82
Chapter 7 - Using Dynamic Objects . . . . . . . . . 83
Representing PLC Coil Registers . . . . . . . 83
The Bit Lamp Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
The Word Lamp Object . . . . . . . . . . 84
The Multi-State Bitmap w/Label
Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
The Clock Display Object . . . . . . . . . 89
The Dynamic Messages Object . . . . . 92
Chapter 8 - Entering/Displaying Numeric and
ASCII Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Representing PLC Data Registers . . . . . . 95
The Numeric/ASCII Display Object . . 95
The Numeric Input Object . . . . . . . . 97
Displaying and Using the Numeric Entry
Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Chapter 9 - Using The Function Keys . . . . . . . . 105
The Button Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Using the Button Object . . . . . . . . . . 105
The Function Key Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Using the Global Function Key Editor 107
Using the Local Function Key Editor . 109
Chapter 10 - Bar Graphs, Meters, Trends and XY
Plots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Creating Bar Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
