Glossary

Term

Description

Scope

The Scope forms the highest hierarchical element in a Scope 2 configuration and manages all recording settings, see Scope Settings.

Scope Server

The Scope Server is the logger program of the Scope 2. A Scope connects to one or more servers to record new data or to read out an existing file, see TwinCAT ScopeServer.

Scope View

The Scope View is the front end of the Scope 2. From here, configurations are created or loaded, the display is set and recordings are controlled, see TwinCAT Scope2 Architecture.

Chart

The chart provides a graphic area with time axis. All connected channels are scaled to the same time segment, see Chart Settings.

Axis

A (Y-) axis represents the value scaling for connected channels, see Y-Axis Settings.

Channel

The channel forms the connection of system variable and graph. Therefore there is a setting window for the Acquisiton Window and one for the general settings (Channel Settings).

Target Browser

All connected systems and their devices can be simply scanned for system variables with the Target Browser, see Target Browser.

Object Browser

The Object Browser shows the current configurations and offers possibilities to change them, see TwinCAT Scope2 Architecture.

Cursor

The Cursor serves to display graph and axis values and their differences.

Trigger

Various actions can be triggered with freely configurable Trigger.