Palette: EasyBuilder View

The Help tab displays the EasyBuilder Help file and updates to reflect the current application step and provides detailed instructions on how to complete the step. Controls and parameters are described and guidelines are provided, where necessary. Links to other Help topics may also be included for more in-depth explanations.

Note: The EasyBuilder Help file can also viewed in the Online Help format. To launch the EasyBuilder Online Help file, press the F1 keyboard, click the Help button on the Help tab, or select EasyBuilder Help from the Help menu.

The Results tab displays the performance of each tool, allowing you to troubleshoot or optimize job settings. In this tab, you can:

• Determine at a glance which tools are passing or failing by monitoring the results, which are also displayed in either the Settings or Range Limits tab in the Locate Part or Inspect Part settings pane.
• Click on a tool and view the dependent relationships among the selected tool (highlighted in orange) and other tools in the job to determine if a tool failure is related to the failure of another tool. A dependency exists when a tool references another tool. Each dependency consists of two parts: a precedent and a dependent, which are connected by a line. The precedent refers to the source of the data (that is, the tool providing the input) and is represented by a circle; the dependent is the destination of the data (that is, the tool receiving the output) and is represented by an arrow. Blue dependency graphics indicate that the selected tool is the destination; green indicates that the selected tool is the source.
• Visually identify the type of tool by its tool icon (for example, Presence/Absence Edge, Identification Read Text, Counting Blobs).
• Identify the tool by name and by type.

• Double-click on a tool if you want to modify it; the Applications Step pane reverts to the Inspect Part step, which displays the selected tool's parameters in the settings pane and its overlay graphics in the display area. Edit the parameters or graphics as needed. You can also right-click a tool in the Results tab to access a short editing menu, whose contents depend on the current Application Step:

  • In Locate Part or Inspect Part, the right-click menu allows you to copy, paste or delete the selected tool or edit it in the Spreadsheet View.
  • In the other Application Steps, the menu allows you to revert to the Inspect Part step to edit the selected tool (by clicking Go to this tool and edit) or edit it in the Spreadsheet View.

After Location and/or Inspection Tools have been added to the job, their properties (their input parameters and output results) can be intertwined using the Links tab. The Links tab allows a tool's output result to be used as an input parameter to another tool. The Links tab displays a tree view of all the Location and/or Inspection Tools currently loaded in the job.

• The tools' properties (input parameters and output results) are referenced with a Symbolic Tag, which is a symbolic reference to the values contained in them. The value has an associated Data Type (either Action, Floating Point, Integer or String). Tool properties are divided into Input and Output properties, and links can only be established from Output properties to Input properties. Output properties can be linked to multiple, separate Input properties, while an Input property only accepts one Output property linked into it.
• To select which tool properties are displayed and can be configured in the Links tab, right-click on a tool property and open the Select Properties dialog. The Select Properties dialog contains a tree view list of all the tools in the job, with all of their associated tool properties, both Input and Output. You can customize which tool properties are displayed in the Links tab by selecting which tool properties you want to appear (use the Add/Remove buttons to add or remove multiple selections after highlighting them).