Simulating EasyBuilder Pro HMI with Roboguide

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    Hello,

    I am working on a Robot that utilizes the SNPX protocol to communicate with a Maple Systems HMI programed with EasyBuilder Pro. I am doing offline programming and making changes to both the Robot program and the HMI. Does anyone know of a way that I can simulate the HMI and connect it to the robot in Roboguide? It would really help the debugging process as I would be able to test changes in the HMI and Roboguide without needing to install the programs on the physical machines.

    Thanks!

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    Hello,

    First, not sure if this is also work for you, because I use Microsoft Sharepoint 2007, and maybe the things are different, but maybe this can help you

    For a simple explanation, accesses your robot internal folder (mine at least is at "C:\Users\"User"\Documents\My Workcells\"Name"\"Your Robot"), and save the HMI, in the UT1 folder.

    After that in you do MENU>FILE>[UTIL]>UT1, then press load, at the bottom should appear the name of the HMI and if it's loaded, if not something is wrong.

    Now, to open the HMI, I usually do 2 ways:

    1 (in my opinion it's easier and faster): Go on MENU>BROWSER, then click Add a Link, here you put the name of your HMI, and below , /"Your HMI name"."The HMI format" (my example: /HMI.htm)

    2: Go to MENU>SYSTEM>VARIABLES and then find the "$TX_SCREEN" variable, press enter and select a slot, then put ,/"Your HMI name"."The HMI format", and below the name of the HMI,

    (Every time you do some change in your HMI you need to load then again, to save the changes, and then it's already ready to use)

    If the HMI don't appear, do a load of files again, either if something went wrong, just send some messages with what happened, I'll be happy to assist you,

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