I would like to turn on a light of the inspection camera when the product enters the conveyor, but i cannot find a command that it would allow me to do that. How do i change component property from within process modeling?
Hi,
you can use GetProperty for that. Select the camera and then chose the Property. with the assign statement you can then assign a True or False value to this property
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Thank you for a reply. But how do i assign True or False to it.
Neverminded. I didnât realize that once you use GetProperty there is bi-directional link that allows you to assign value to property or variable.
Thank you @Tilma
Hi,
What if I want to increment an integer property in a component?
I can get the property and use it in if statements, etc., but I canât seem to be able to read the property in an expression for assigning.
For example, if I have a PartCount property, I canât assign it a value of âPartCount+1â even though this can easily be done for local process variables. I can assign an explicit value no problem (such as â5â), I just donât know how to assign the propertyâs value to something.
I just get this message:
Error in property âValueExpressionâ. Property âPartCountâ in expression âPartCount +1â is not found.
Ultimately I want to keep a count that doesnât reset after each process routine execution, so it cannot simply be process variables.
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which release are you using?
should be possible since visual components
4.4âŚ
Using VC 4.3 unfortunately.
I know 4.4 introduced new functionalities for the assign variable statement, but Iâm just surprised that I can both read and write a component property, but I cannot write what I read from the component property (hopefully that sentence makes sense).
But no worries, I can work around with python scripts as usual. Sometimes I feel like it would be more efficient to just write the entire project using Python APIâŚ
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