Wednesday 2 February 2011

Adding a New Material on ColorPoint Console

 

This procedure only applies if you don’t have a management PC. To add new materials on systems with ColorPoint Manager see Create a new material on ColorPoint Manager

 

Adding a material direct to a valve

  • Insert an ID key of level 2 or above.
  • Press ‘Material’ on the Main Menu screen.
  • Using the arrow keys clip_image002 clip_image004 scroll up or down to the valve number you wish to assign the material to. The selected valve number row will turn white.
  • Press clip_image006 (bottom of screen).
  • Press ‘Assign Colour’ (right of screen).
  • Using arrow keys clip_image008 clip_image010 scroll up or down to the row you want. Then select the colour by pressing the keys at the bottom of the column your colour is in.
  • Press clip_image012 top right.
  • Press ‘Code’. The text field will change colour, from orange to red.
  • Now you can enter the material code using the virtual keyboard. Using the same method you did when selecting the colour, scroll up and down the rows using the arrow function keys to the right of the keyboard. Once you have the correct row, you can select the character you require by pressing the key at the bottom of the column character is in.
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  • Press ‘Name’. The text field will change colour, from orange to red.
  • Enter the material name using the same method as you did to enter the code.
  • Once complete press clip_image016.

 

Adding a manual material

  • Insert an ID key of level 2 or above.
  • Press ‘Material’ (right of screen).
  • Press ‘Manual Material’ at the bottom of the screen.
  • Then follow the above procedure from Press clip_image006[1].

 

Assigning a manual material to a valve

  • Insert an ID key of level 3.
  • Press ‘Configuration’ (top right of screen).
  • Press ‘Operations’ (second from top on the right of screen).
  • Use the arrow keys on the bottom right to scroll up and down to the valve number required. There are to hidden keys on the bottom row at the right that scroll up and down by 10 valves at a time to make navigation quicker.
  • Press ‘Assign Material’ on the bottom left of the screen.
  • Select a material from the list of manual material to assign to the valve.