Feature highlights

Apply login to IQANdesign

Login previously defined for IQANrun/IQANgo users is now required also for IQANdesign. This modified functionality is applicable to projects where an access level is defined on any of the properties: 

• Update project 
• Remote access
• Send settings (IQANdesign clear settings)

IQANdesign will give a warning if an access level is not defined for Update project. 

Support for MC4x/XC4x-M24 

Support for new hardware versions of

• MC4x-M24, 
• MC4xFS-M24 and
• XC4x-M24.

Applications updated to 7.03 will run on both original and -M24 versions of MC4/MC4xFS hardware.

XC4x Firmware is updated to 2.02, this version supports both original and -M24 version of the XC4x expansions.

More updates and details, see  Release notes - IQANdesign 7

IQANrun updates

• Improved keyboard navigation and shortcuts
• Right click popup menu added to graph
• New command line arguments

See Release notes - IQANrun 7

Request to allow images to be used as gauge needles to allow for creation of more complicated gauge needles. In particular ones that don't go back to the base. (See picture 1) Current solution is to use a complicated mask system to fake the needle shape. Think this would also allow for gauges to be made where the gauge rotates around the needle (IE compasses with machine orientation stationary). (see picture 2) Not needed for my application but, might be useful to someone.

I have been working on a customers test rig that tests different components at various pressures.

When carrying out extensive testing of various components it has become quite frustrating to adjust the pressure test value on a constant basis. I have inserted a parameter that allows the customer to adjust using the built in keypad, and although I can make a button to raise and lower this parameter on screen, this too can be annoying as the range of pressure values is quite large. They need a 1psi resolution and it can be between 0 and 15000 psi.

The easiest solution was to insert the parameter as an adjustable and use the built in keypad as shown, but I have found its quite laborious to press the delete button for each digit on screen before entering in a new one, and with it being an MD4 its not as responsive touch as the new MD5, sometimes missing button presses. If I'm going from 15000 psi to 3000 psi, it involves deleting the whole existing number manually digit by digit before entering in the complete new number. Without any way of just removing the 15 and replacing it with a 3, can there be a delete button (or cross for example) to 'clear' the whole number instead of just a digit by digit delete as illustrated below rather than just the single delete button? 

 The current keypad with single digit delete button:

The ideal setup with modified keypad:

There may be an easier way around this issue that I'm not aware of!

It would be very nice to be able to open/import TXT files (inverse operation of IQANdesign.exe ProjectFile.idax -saveas ProjectFile.txt).

This would multitudes of options for code maintenance, quality control, and version management that don't exist in the current panacean GUI-as-IDE paradigm.

With the release of IQANDesign 7, there's a new warning for implicit value type conversion.

There are lots of cases where we use Dual objects to enable and disable features because it's a cleaner (less lines of code and easier to read) than using And Or and Not math objects.

When we use these dual functions we have used 0 or 1 in a lot of these dual objects which creates an implicit value type conversion warning because it is converting 0 or 1 to a bool.

Since it's possible to already add digital channels to the Dual Object, we think it should be possible to put True or False in them as well. This would allow us to continue using the Dual Object in this manner without the nuisance warnings.

Thanks

Hello,

It would be extremely beneficial to have GitHub "capabilities" with design files for version control. Great example would be to link IQAN with COPIA.

Cheers  

Just an idea: It would be helpful for me if iQanDesign could generate a QRcode with information about the system on a display page which a user can scan with his phone and email/app this information. All information that is important (serial number, software version, date of system, etc.) can be send in one message (information for the code must be selectable  by the programmer). Also for documenting/testing could this be useful.

Request to add new line feature (\n or _ notation used in QCode would work) for IMSGs and CMSGs.

Hi There

Is it possible to add a Look Up Table to Adjust Items? Or Adust Groups?  I want to edit the table with IQANrun in real time and see response etc. 

If this is not possible, it should be added to the ideas list please.

Many thanks

Julian