Variables overview

The Variables tab manages the named values that drive everything in the scene. The sidebar lists every variable with its live value, while simulating, this is your watch window.

Anatomy of a variable

• Name, how you'll find it in every selector; also the key used for PLC mapping. Use PLC-style names (Axis1_Position, Alarm_Active).
• Description, optional, but future-you appreciates it.
• Simulation config, how the value is computed in Simulation mode.
• Online config, how it is computed in Online mode (usually a PLC tag).

The two configs are edited on separate tabs of the properties panel and are completely independent, see Variables as the universal glue for why.

In this section

• Variable modes, Constant, Function, Motion Cam, Input, From Connection
• Function reference, every function with formula and parameters
• Scaling & clamping, the offset/scale/min/max applied to every mode
• Signal trace, walking the dependency graph