FluidSIM 4 Hydraulics
Table of contents
- Contents
- Welcome!
- About FluidSIM
- Layout of the Handbook
- User's Guide
- Reference
- Conventions
- Getting Started
- Technical Requirements
- Installation
- Installation and Online Activation
- Import Online Activation Notes
- Installation with license connector
- FluidSIM Full Version: Installation from CD
- How to Install the Student Version of FluidSIM
- Supplied Files
- De-installation of a Single-Position License
- Introduction to Simulating and Creating Circuits
- Simulating Existing Circuit Diagrams
- The Different Simulation Modes
- Reset and Restart of the Simulation
- Single Step Mode
- Simulation to a State Change
- Creating new Circuit Diagrams
- Advanced Concepts in Simulating and Creating Circuits
- Configurable Symbols
- Configure Cylinders
- Configuring Way Valves
- Additional Editing Functions
- Setting the Paper Size
- Undoing Editing Steps
- Multiple Selection
- Right Mouse Button
- Double Clicking with the Mouse
- Copying
- Copying between Windows
- Aligning Objects
- Rotate and Mirror
- Deleting Lines
- Setting Line Type
- Setting Blind Plugs
- Zoom Features
- Background Grid
- Grouping Objects
- Ungrouping Objects
- Additional Simulation Functions
- Simultaneous Actuation of Several Components
- Switching to the Edit Mode
- Editing and Simulating in Parallel
- Linking Components Automatically
- Insertion of T-connections
- Connecting Components in Series
- Current Path Numbering and Switching Elements Table
- Terminal Assignment Diagrams
- Displaying Quantity Values
- Special Features of the Quantity Display
- Displaying State Diagrams
- Functional diagram editor
- Edit mode
- Set up diagram properties
- Table text boxes
- Adjust the representation of the diagrams
- Draw diagram curve
- Insert signal elements
- Insert text boxes
- Draw signal lines and insert signal connections
- Insert additional nodes into signal lines
- Add row
- Delete row
- Additional functions
- Superficial Circuit Checking
- Coupling Hydraulics, Electrics and Mechanics
- Display Styles for Labels
- Operating Switches
- Switches at Cylinders
- Relays
- Coupling Mechanical Switches
- Automatic Switch Altering
- Adjustable Components
- Settings for Simulation
- Simulation Parameters
- Sound Parameters
- Use of the EasyPort-Hardware
- OPC and DDE communication with Other Applications
- Settings for the EasyPort/OPC/DDE communication
- Open-loop and Closed-loop Control by using Continuous Valves
- Open-loop Control
- Closed-loop Control
- Learning, Teaching, and Visualizing Hydraulics
- Information about Single Components
- Component Descriptions
- Component Illustrations
- Selecting Didactics Material from a List
- Tutorial
- Component Library
- Didactics Material
- Presentations: Combining Instructional Material
- Extended Presentations in the Microsoft PowerPoint Format
- Playback of Educational Films
- Settings for Didactics
- Special Functions
- Drawing Layers
- Rectangles
- Ellipses
- Text Components and Identifications
- Embedding Pictures
- Parts Lists
- Inserting a Parts List
- Properties of Parts Lists
- Exporting Parts Lists
- Printing a Window's Contents
- TIFF Export
- DXF Export
- DXF Import
- Displaying the Component Library
- Rearranging a Component Library
- Building New Component Libraries
- Inserting Components Via Menu
- Managing Projects
- Creating a New Project
- Entering Project Properties
- Adding Files to a Project
- Removing Files from a Project
- Opening Project Files
- Saving Settings
- Global Settings
- Circuit Diagram-Specific Settings
- Window-Specific Settings
- GRAFCET
- Steps
- Actions
- Transitions
- Stored effective actions (allocations)
- Linking GRAFCET variables with the electrical part of FluidSIM
- Quick reference for the FluidSIM-relevant GRAFCET concepts
- Initialization
- Sequence rules
- Sequence selection
- Synchronization
- Transient sequence / unstable step / virtual triggering
- Determining the values of GRAFCET variables
- Checking the entries
- Admissible characters for steps and variables
- Variable names
- Access to labels of fluidic and electrical components
- Functions and formula entry
- Delays / time limits
- Boolean value of an assertion
- Target information
- Partial GRAFCETs
- Macro-steps
- Compulsory commands
- Enclosing step
- Action when a transition is triggered
- Help and Advanced Tips
- The Most Frequently Occurring Problems
- Tips for the Advanced User
- Data Formats of the Clipboard
- Media Playback
- Opening FluidSIM files via the Explorer
- Opening FluidSIM Files by Command Line Entry
- Reorganization of the Internal Memory
- Changing the Sound Files
- File Operations via Preview Windows
- Creating Presentation Files
- Network Installation of FluidSIM
- FluidSIM Menus
- File
- Edit
- Execute
- Library
- Insert
- Didactics
- Project
- View
- Options
- Window
- ?
- The Component Library
- Hydraulic Components
- Electrical Components
- Electrical Components (American Standard)
- Digital Components
- GRAFCET Elements
- Miscellaneous
- Didactics Material Survey
- Applications
- Components of a Hydraulic Plant
- Symbols
- Some Physical Fundamentals
- Components of a Power Unit
- Fundamentals of Valves
- Pressure Valves
- Way Valves
- Shutoff Valves
- Flow Valves
- Hydraulic Cylinders and Motors
- Gauges
- Exercises
- Educational Films
- Standard Presentations
- Messages
- Electrical Errors
- Drawing Errors
- Operating Errors
- Opening and Saving Files
- System Errors