Rapid Screen Creation

Vuniq includes an integrated screen designer for rapidly designing and editing screens. Screens can be edited any time with a single keystroke. There's no need to switch to a different application or even a different window. An extensive, customizable symbol library gives you a head start with hundereds of elements from standard plant equipment such as valves, pumps and motors to schematic symbols and text boxes. All symbols come with links included, so the only thing you need to provide is a variable address. To add these symbols to your screen, simply drag & drop them in the desired location.

State-of-the-Art Drawing Tools

The vector-graphics based screen designer lets you draw anything from rectangles, ellipses or bezier curves to complex, multi- colored symbols comprised of hundereds of shapes. The concise, easy to use appearance and property panels let you make changes to visual appearance, and see those changes immediately reflected in your screen, without needing to hit an OK or Apply button. Unlimited undo/redo with a detailed history panel lets you revert any changes. The screen designer includes tools to align, rotate, group, flip, duplicate and otherwise arrange elements with ease. You can also use bitmap images in your screens and create layout guides for aligning elements.

Easy Linking

In Vuniq, links are the glue that connects real-time values to screen elements, letting you create rich animations to reflect the process as it unfolds. With Vuniq links you are not limited to changing colors or texts. By tying values to specific properties, links let you change any attribute of any element in any way you wish, and you can use as many links as you'd like on a each element. You can also specify actions to be performed on mouse-clicks or keystrokes, such as changing values, switching screens, opening floating panels or performing complex scripts.

Straight-Forward Addressing

Vuniq lets you reference any valid item in the PLC address space, without having to define it in advance. A simple, easy to use aliases table lets you separate the screen addressing from the PLC. You can also specify complex expressions and formulae to further facilitate the visualization of complex calculations.

Maximum Object Reuse

Vuniq takes the concept of object reuse to the maximum. With relative addresses you can define complex object behavior and then reuse objects with only a single change of address for each object. This concept can be taken further by designing detail screens for each kind of element in your process, for example pumps, or valves, and then reusing these as floating panels, entering addresses only once for each instance.

Instant Search & Replace

The property panel lets you find any address, element name or value by simply entering the search term in the search box. You are immediately presented with a list of all objects contaning the search term. To replace all instance of the term, just click the Replace button and enter the replacement string.