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Section 4.4.4 · Chapter 4: Designing Screens

Setting up Objects - Scale Settings

This section describes how to set up the scale for the following types of objects:

Scale, Slide Switch, Bar Graph, Circular Bar Graph, and Meter.

The following are examples of scales used in different kinds of objects.

You can use the Scale page in an object's property sheet to set up the scale of that object. The following is an example of the Scale page of the bar Graph.

The following table describes each property in the Scale page.

Property Description
Display Check this item if you want the object to have a scale.
Position Specifies the position of the scale in the object. The position is relative to the part of the object that displays the monitored variable. There are six positions shown below:
Position Example Position Example
Top Bottom
Left Right
Inner Outer
Color The color of the scale. To specify the color, click the corresponding Color icon and select a color from the Color palette.
Number of Major Ticks The number of major ticks. The minimum you can specify is two.
Number of Sub Divisions The number of divisions between two adjacent major ticks. The minimum you can specify is one.
Axis Check this item if you want the scale to have an axis.
Marks Marks Check this option if you want the scale to have marks.
Font The font of the marks. You can select a fixed font or a font from the font templates.
Dynamic Range Check this option if you want the minimum and maximum of the marks to be controlled by the dynamic range parameter block of the associated object at runtime.
Minimum The minimum of the marks. It is a 32-bit integer.
Maximum The maximum of the marks. It is a 32-bit integer.
Total Digits The total digits to be displayed for the marks.
Fractional Digits The number of fractional digits for the marks. For example, when the Maximum = 5000, the Total Digits = 4, and the Fractional Digits = 2, the mark for the Maximum will be 50.00.

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Source.Section 4.4.4 of the PM Designer Software User Manual, Edition 2.0, © Cermate Technologies Inc. (www.cermate.com, service@cermate.com). Reproduced online, with the manual's own figures, by TSL Automation Solutions, authorised Cermate distributor, for users of Cermate HMI panels. PM Designer and PanelMaster are trademarks of Cermate Technologies Inc.

Text and figures are the manufacturer's and may describe features your panel or software version does not have. For a plain-language introduction read the PM Designer guide; for help with a specific panel contact TSL Automation.