Nematron Pointe Controller User Manual

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Chapter 3: Quickstart Project

Pointe Controller User Guide

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Controller Timeout Interval is a watchdog timer for the chart
execution. If the chart logic solve is greater than this value the project will
stop.

Download Source when checked will send the project source code to
the Pointe Controller. If this is un-checked the source will not be present
in the Pointe Controller and the Pointe Control Monitor will not be able
to view or debug the application.

For our application, a 15 millisecond scan time setting and 250 millisecond
monitor update interval are more than sufficient (actually, in most cases, you’ll
want to increase the monitor interval to 500 to 1000 milliseconds to reduce the
CPU loading caused by the monitoring activities).

5. In the Logic Solve scan interval, enter 15 milliseconds.

6. In the Monitor update interval, enter 250 milliseconds.

7. Controller Timeout Interval to 5000 milliseconds.

8. Download Source must be checked.

9. Click OK to save your changes and close the Preferences window.

Now we can build our project runtime:

10. Click the Build Runtime tool on the toolbar.

When the project builds, messages will come up in the Message Window,
informing you of the progress of the build. The screen shot shown above
illustrates a successful build. Two key message lines are the “No errors found” line
and the “Project build successful” line. Most of the other messages are
informative about the progress of the build.

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