The Flexible Animation Builder is a powerful tool for the interactive, direct design, which offers the following graphical elements:

	Lines and polylines
	Circles, ellipses, rectangles and rounded resp. shaded rectangles
	Triangles and parallelograms (rotating)
	y-t- and x-y-graphics
	Tables with several columns
	Bitmaps and Windows metafiles
	Bitmap status displays and bitmap sequences (animated bitmaps)
	Video for Windows files (AVI files)
	Sound support (WAV files)
	Static texts and text messages
	Time and date fields
	Numerical output fields
	Horizontal and vertical bar graphs, progress bars, thermometers
	LED displays (round or rectangular) and LCD panels
	Analog instruments (scalable)
	Switches and buttons (alternatively with text and/or graphic) as well as bitmap buttons and button groups
	Buttons for special functions (e. g. for the control of the simulation)
	Edit fields
	Check boxes
	Horizontal and vertical sliders
	Horizontal and vertical pipes (animated)
	Tank systems (animated)
	Valves, hydraulic cylinders, pumps and motors (animated)

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The FAB kernel is a DLL of the BORIS User DLL standard. Therefore the FAB can be used as a tool within BORIS as well as a completely independent stand-alone process visualization for other applications (e. g. user programmed applications). To visualize outputs of his own program or to generate inputs for his own program in an easy and convenient way the user only has to integrate the corresponding interface functions of the FAB DLL in his program.

Compared with version 4 the release 5 offers the following improvements and add-ons:

	Optional window manager for a comfortable management of several FAB visualization windows at runtime
	Management of keyboard commands (allows the triggering of events via keypress)
	Input controlled showing and hiding of the visualization window
	Selection and editing of element groups (via <Ctrl>-resp. <Shift>-key or by a selection rectangle via mouse within the visualization window)
	Optimized window management in the design mode (via the context menu of the visualization window)
	Extended selection of graphic and control elements
	Modified configuration dialog with separated element and property tables
	Controllable element colors and fill patterns
	Changeable element sequence via drag & drop
	Insertion of new elements at any position via drag & drop
	Copying and pasting of elements
	Optional design grid within the visualization window
	Selecting and moving of elements with the mouse (drag & drop) in both operation modes
	Special buttons for simulation control (e. g. print etc.)
	Via button click visualization windows of variable size and control windows
	Integrable online help
	Use of constants
	I/O control windows
	Bitmap libraries (standard and user defined)

Product information "Flexible Animation Builder" (German/English)

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The following animations show some possible applications of the FAB module. To start the original animations (most of them animated) just click the corresponding graphic preview.

Graphic preview	Short description
	Picking system of the University of Applied Sciences Hamm
	User interface for vehicle simulation
	Chassis simulation example I (source: FH Cologne/FB Fahrzeugtechnik Prof. Gundlach, Dipl.-Ing. Hochrath, Dipl.-Ing. Zimmermann)
	Chassis simulation example II (source: FH Cologne/FB Fahrzeugtechnik Prof. Gundlach, Dipl.-Ing. Hochrath, Dipl.-Ing. Zimmermann)
	Visualization and user interface of a polymerisation system (here not animated!)
	Visualization of a ratio control (Warsteiner Brewery) (here not animated!)
	Two tank system control with set point specification (here not animated!)
	Climate room with control of temperature and humidity as an example for a multivariable system (here not animated!)
	Climate room with multi temperature measurement as an example for a system with distributed parameters (here not animated!)
	Simulation of a tank control. The simulation of the tank control is completely and in connection with a SPS runnable. The valves are controlled and the filling levels recorded by a sensor. (here not animated!) (source: Robert-Bosch-Schule Ulm, Dipl.-Ing. Günter Zieher)
	Simulation of a bending machine. If the pressure is activated the pneumatic cylinders can be controlled so that the metal material is bended to an U-shape. The position of the cylinders is again transmitted to the SPS by sensors. (here not animated!) (source: Robert-Bosch-Schule Ulm, Dipl.-Ing. Günter Zieher)
	Part of a mine simulation (Fa. Controltechnology Engineering, Herten)
	Part of a mine simulation (Fa. Controltechnology Engineering, Herten)
	Simple spring mass oscillator
	Simple process visualization example I
	Simple process visualization example II
	VBAR and HBAR demo
	Mobile inverse double pendulum
	car sunroof control
	Colored temperature visualization - an example for the application of dynamic fill colors
	y-t-graphic demo: simple example for the application of the YPLOT element
	Tank system with in- and outflow (here not animated!)
	Assembly line (here not animated)
	Long running temperature recording (realized with a CONRAD-measuring instrument) (here not animated!)
	Limited pendulum
	Seesaw with ball
	AVI demo "Rock around the clock..."
	Analog real time clock, realized by simple graphic basic elements
	"Dog chases ball" - an example for the application of animated, transparent bitmaps
	"Witch on a broomstick" - an example for the application of animated, transparent bitmaps at different layers
	Slot machine
	Pair of dice
	Roulette-game with the possibility to place a tip and displaying the result
	Simple shooter with joystick-control