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I am trying to create the oil temp/ petrol gauges below but I am struggling; heres my settings

I just cannot get the thin white and red line and thick bar graph used to indicate measurement

How are you testing whether it is working or not? Your "Eng Oil Temp" channel isn't linked to an input so it won't do anything in a dash and you won't be able to adjust the value in simulate mode.

Hi Adrian

Correct! I do not have a Dash Display to test , I am just paying with the Software, no way of simulating what I have done I am afraid. I do not think Motec have an emulator to use as a test bench, would be a very nice to have!

But I think I know what I am missing , SWEEPS , I need to add a serious of Sweeps

That should get me close to what I am trying to do

You can simulate changing channel values without any hardware.

Under the simulate tab, after you have pressed the pause/run button (which you've done, since you are posting screen shots). The list of channels is shown on the right side of the screen. Click on one of those, and you can set it's value at the top right corner of the screen.

For example, change "Display Uptime" to get your splash screen to go away, then change "Display Page" to show your different pages (at least in the projects I have worked on). If you will connect a channel to your circular bar graph, you can provide different values and see what the effect is.

If you set the minimum and maximum for a channel (under the Channels and Functions tab), then you can use a slider when simulating to change the value rapidly.

Thanks David

Quick one , to set the splash page/Screen , do I use a Page or set it in the Logo section in the Settings Tab?

It depends on the behavior you want. If you use a page for your splash screen, you may be able to return to it under certain conditions.

My project was created before there was a startup logo feature , so I used the default page for the logo, and made the first page switch when Display Uptime > 10 sec.

Thanks , I just want to display the page for a few seconds on power

Looking at your Lotus Example here, I understand how you are doing it
I can see the Channels in the Simulator now

My project was missing the Communications Tab items , therefore nothing is assigned ; this is what I was looking for via the DBC file , I could not find any info on how to manually create them and the Dash manager would not export them without a physical unit connected

You are wrong. The dash manager saves the DBC file in the same location as the configuration when you do a save. YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE THE HARDWARE ATTACHED TO CREATE AND SAVE CONFIGURATIONS. I rarely do, as most of my customers are located far away from me.

You need to import/link that DBC file from within Display Creator (go under the communication tab, and click the "Import DBC File" icon). It will even watch the file for changes once you've done that and allow you to update the DBC info.

Hi David

Following the Webnair , in Dash manager , I did File New , open DEMO , then selected "Send configuration", pop-up says "no available devices", when I cancel "Error connecting to Dash"

On a side note, I am trying to display a page when RPM > 7500; I set the condition as [EngineRpm]>7500 in the page I want to illustrate when this condition is true, nothing happens when it exceed 7500 rpm

Maybe I am missing something?

Yes, don't click Send Configuration if you don't have hardware.

As for why your page didn't display, are you sure the conditions for the pages are mutually exclusive (ie, do the other pages have the condition RPM <= 7500), if not, then the pages probably display in the page order, so perhaps reversing the order of pages would get the one you want "on top".