Commissioning Manual
270 01/2017
Other frequently used functions
13.1
The control system has the function of playing a slide show. By default, the slide show of Siemens product information is
provided.
You can press this key combination on the PPU to play a slide show and press the key combination
again to exit the slide show.
Playing the machine manufacturer's slide show
You can create your own slides and play them on the control system. The control system supports the slide show of images
in ".png" or ".bmp" format. To achieve the best display effect, the recommended image size is 800*600 pixels for PPU161.3
and 640*480 pixels for PPU160.2/PPU141.2.
Proceed through the following steps to playing your own slide show:
Prepare the images for the slide show and name each image according to the following
syntax:
, or
" stands for the number sequence starting with "1". For example, slide1.png,
slide2.png, slide3.png ...
include both PNG-format images and BMP-format images, number them sepa-
rately. During the slide show, the PNG
-format images will have a higher priority over the
Store all the images in a folder on a USB memory stick, and name the fol
der with the corre-
sponding language code, for example, "chs" for Chinese, "eng" for English. For more info
r-
mation about other available language codes, see Section "
Loading system languages
147)". Note that a slide show in a non-standard language works only if this language
is loaded on the control system.
Insert the USB stick into the USB interface on the front panel of the PPU.
Select the system data operating area.
Locate the folder(s) containing the slides under the USB direc
tory through the following
Select the folder(s) and press this softkey to copy.
Press this softkey to open the window of system data.
Select the HMI data folder and press this key to open it.