Operating Manual English catman® Enterprise MD Client 7.1 System Documentation Part III Hottinger Baldwin Messtechnik GmbH Im Tiefen See 45 64239 Darmstadt Tel. +49 6151 803-0 Fax +49 6151 803-9100 [email protected] www.hbm.com Mat.: 7-2002.0901 DVS: A00901_10_E00_01 HBM: public 04.2018 © HOTTINGER BALDWIN MESSTECHNIK GMBH Microsoft®, MS-DOS®, Windows®, FoxPro®, JScript®, Visual Basic®, Visual C++®, Outlook®, Windows Media®, DirectX®, Direct3D® and ActiveX® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Intel®, Intel Pentium® are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or to their products. HOTTINGER BALDWIN MESSTECHNIK GMBH disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names others than its own. 2 A00901_10_E00_01 HBM: public catman® Enterprise Table of Contents Table of Contents Page A Getting Started . A-7 1 Introduction . .A-8 1.1 What does this documentation contain? . .A-8 1.2 Notes on the documentation . .A-8 1.3 Basic layout of this documentation . .A-9 2 What does the MD Client do?. A-11 3 Operating requirements . .A-13 4 Software installation . .A-15 5 Licensing. .A-16 6 Upgrading MD Client . .A-17 7 Technical support . .A-18 B MD Client Setup. B-19 1 Introduction . .B-20 2 Administration and access rights . .B-21 2.1 Access rights for connecting to a data server . .B-21 2.2 User administration in MD Client . .B-21 3 Active channel number and storage size . .B-24 3.1 Number of channels, channel layout . .B-25 3.2 How to calculate the necessary storage size . .B-26 3.3 Delete database, Auto-recover database on start . .B-26 3.4 Circular buffer mode . .B-26 3.5 Optimizing the speed. .B-27 4 Project settings . .B-28 5 Connecting to a data server . .B-30 6 Pre-select channels . .B-31 7 Defining computations . .B-34 7.1 Online computation (Algebra) . .B-34 7.2 Strain gage rosette computation . .B-35 catman® Enterprise A00901_10_E00_01 HBM: public 3 Table of Contents C Defining Visualization (Panels). C-41 1 Introduction . C-42 2 Creating panels interactively . C-44 3 Available visualization objects . C-45 3.1 Real-time displays . C-45 3.2 Post-process displays. C-52 3.3 Label (text or image). C-52 3.4 Browser . C-53 3.5 VBScript command button . C-53 4 Configuration of visualization objects . C-54 4.1 Channel selector window . C-55 4.2 Analog indicator . C-56 4.3 Bar indicator . C-56 4.4 Browser . C-57 4.5 Channel row graph . C-57 4.6 Client database viewer . C-59 4.7 Digital indicator . C-59 4.8 Label (text or image). C-60 4.9 LED. C-60 4.10 Post-process graph . C-61 4.11 Real-time bar graph . C-62 4.12 Real-time graph . C-63 4.13 Spreadsheet . C-64 4.14 VBScript command button . C-64 5 Creating multiple panels (using panel layouts) . C-65 5.1 Create panel(s) from layout description (CSV) file . C-65 5.2 Create panel(s) from panel layout . C-68 6 Panel options . C-71 4 A00901_10_E00_01 HBM: public catman® Enterprise Table of Contents D Data Acquisition . D-73 1 Introduction . D-74 2 DAQ settings. D-75 3 Data storage settings (local database storage) . ..