Enter Design mode and drag controls onto the page. Left-click to move and right-click to size. Edit control properties in simple and intuitive property pages.
The common WPF controls are all available plus specialized controls for industrial interface such as a strip chart and a file editor with motion program download functionality.
As a MCF-based app, BuilderHMI includes robust communication with industrial motion controls. Simply specify the commands to send or the values to query for each control.
Features
- Multiple project support with a New Project wizard
- Ability to run standalone (Design mode and Run mode)
- Visual Studio WPF/C# project generation from a template
- Undo/redo stack for all UI design actions
- Unlimited UI pages with navigation
- The full set of standard WPF controls
- Nested Grids, Tab Controls, Stack and Wrap Panels
- Stripchart and other specialized controls for industrial HMI
- Motion program file editor control with download
- Choice of styles for
Button,TextBlock,Border, etc. - Save controls and complete pages to a Library for reuse
- Robust communication with industrial motion controls
- Controls send commands to motion control when clicked, etc.
- Alarms, message logging, user login system
- Internationalization support for foreign language users
- Specify styling and color scheme (Skin support)
- Browser-style Ctrl +/- zoom for UI screens
- Live XAML window with direct edit capability
- Customizable via external assemblies (plugins)
Low-Code or No-Code
All but the most basic HMI projects will require some custom C# code to implement machine control logic, incorporate third party .NET assemblies, etc. BuilderHMI offers unparalleled opportunities for customization. Machine control logic can be programmed in C# and loaded via external assemblies (plugins). BuilderHMI can also generate and export complete WPF projects with full C# source code for continued development in Visual Studio.