Software Manual

TM SmartEdge
Includes Application software/add-ons

Original Instructions

Software Version: 1.82

Document Version: 1.00
Release Date: 2021-01-06

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Contents
Revision History............................................................................................................................................4
1. TM SmartEdge .........................................................................................................................................5
Overview ................................................................................................................................................5
Hardware Requirements .........................................................................................................................5
Personal Computer（designated） ...........................................................................................5
TM Dongle（included in the package） ....................................................................................5
IO Expansion Card（tethered） ................................................................................................6
Industrial Camera（tethered） ..................................................................................................6
Use TM SmartEdge .........................................................................................................................6
Software Installation ..................................................................................................................6
Software Activation....................................................................................................................7
Operation Interface ..........................................................................................................................7
Switch Mode ....................................................................................................................................8
View ................................................................................................................................................8
Project .............................................................................................................................................9
TM SmartEdge Setting ....................................................................................................................9
System Setting ..............................................................................................................................10
2. TMvision ................................................................................................................................................. 11
Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 11
Camera List ...................................................................................................................................12
Vision Job ......................................................................................................................................13

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Revision History
Revision Code Date Revised Content

1.00 2021-01-06 Original release

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1. TM SmartEdge
Overview
TM SmartEdge is a hardware-independent of visual-only edition TMflow to install on personal/industrial
computers with TM Plug&Play industrial cameras and officially designated expansion IO cards
supported. Users can program tasks of communication, logic, and vision in TM SmartEdge that comes
with the same interface as TMflow.

Note:
 TM SmartEdge will install and start the RAM disk software of 1 GB RAM occupancy as a
virtual hard drive to ensure the image storage stability to external network devices for
visual jobs. After stopping the software, the system releases the RAM space.
 In this software, the naming rules for custom names and paths are restricted to use:
letters (both uppercase and lowercase letters), digits, and underscore.

Hardware Requirements
The following introduces the required hardware equipment of TM SmartEdge.

Personal Computer（designated）

Item Requirement
Operation System Microsoft Windows 10 x64 (1809 or above)
CPU 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processors or above
GPU Intel HD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or above
RAM 16 GB at least
Storage Device More than 2.0 GB of available space

Monitor Resolution 1366*768 recommended

Connection Port USB ports, Ethernet ports

1. 2010Redistributable_vcredist (x64) 10.0.30319 or above
2. 2013Redistributable_vcredist (x64) 12.0.30501 or above
3. 2015Redistributable_vcredist (x64) 14.0.23026 or above
4. Microsoft .Net framework 4.7.2 or above
5. Balser Camera driver (ver.4.2.1.485)*
Software Environment
6. FLIR Camera driver (ver.1.29.0.5)*
7. GPU driver (latest version)
8. DIO card driver (DAQNavi 4)

*Version restricted. Refer to Software Installation.

TM Dongle（included in the package）

Used for activating TM SmartEdge.

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 IO Expansion Card（tethered）
Advantech IO Expansion Card（PCIE-1750U*）comes with 32ch of DIO（16 for DI / 16 for
DO）and suffices to switch DO type to Sink (NPN) or Source (PNP) with its setting interface.

*It is favored to use with Advantech distribution board (ADAM-3937) and connection cable (PCL-10137)

Industrial Camera（tethered）
Use with TM Plug&Play industrial camera to capture real-time images to perform visual jobs.

Note:
It is favored to connect up to 4 industrial cameras to the system based on the hardware
requirement as listed in 1.2.1 Personal Computer（designated）.

Use TM SmartEdge
Software Installation
Before using TM SmartEdge, users must download and unzip the TMflow installation file from
the official website, execute Setup64.exe in the unzipped folder, and follow the installation
instructions of the executable file to complete the installation.

Before using the TM Plug &Play industrial camera, download the TM SmartEdge camera driver
package.zip from the official website, and install the driver of the specified version of the camera
in the zipped file to connect the industrial camera during visual job editing. During the installation
of the Balser industrial camera driver, it is required to perform the steps below.

 In the Custom Setup

window, set GEV
Filter Drive to not
available, and click
Next to continue the
installation.

After the installation, in the Windows system, click in the sequence: Control Panel> System>

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 Advanced System Settings> Environment Variables, add an environment variable
PYLON_GIGE_ENABLESOCKETDRIVER, and fill in the value with 1.

Software Activation
To launch TM SmartEdge, a TM Dongle must be inserted into a USB port of the computer. Click
the TMflow icon at the desktop to launch TM SmartEdge.

Operation Interface
The operation interface of TM SmartEdge and TMflow on the TM Robot are identical, but some
functions are unable to operate in TM SmartEdge due to the absence of the robot. The comparison
table between TM SmartEdge and TMflow is as below.

TM Variable ○ ○
Item TMflow
SamrtEdge EditBlock ○ ○
Login/Logout ○ ○ Current Base ○
Connect ○ ○ Current Tool ○
View ○ ○ Display ○ ○
Run Setting ○ ○
Project ○ ○ System Function
○ ○
Tool bar ○ ○ Menu
Step Run ○ Operation Space ○
Diagnose ○ ○ ModbusDev ○ ○
Point Manager ○ Set IO while
○ ○
Base Manager ○ Project Error
Controller ○ ○ Set IO while ○ ○

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Project Stop Global Variable ○ ○
Stop Watch ○ ○ Text File Manager ○ ○
F/T Sensor ○ Motion Setting ○
View ○ ○ TM AI+ ○ ○
Serial Port ○ ○
Path Generate ○ System ○ ○
Joint Loading ○ Language ○ ○
Network Device ○ System Update ○
Group ○ ○
Setting ○ ○ User Account ○ ○
Wizard ○ Network ○
Vision Setting ○ ○ Import/Export ○ ○
TCP Setting ○ Date Time ○
IO Setting ○ ○ Administrator
○ ○
Safety ○ Setting
Controller ○ ○ Network Service ○ ○
Speech ○ Backup/Restore ○
End Button ○ Input/Display
○
Component ○ ○ Devices
Operation Space ○ Auto Remote Mode ○ ○
Command ○ ○
Connection ○ ○ Shutdown ○
Posture Setting ○ Leave ○
TMmanager ○ ○

Switch Mode
Use the mode switch button at top to switch TM SmartEdge to Auto mode (for execution only) or
Manual mode (for project editing).

View
In the view page, it consists of Display Board, Flow, IO, and Action Viewer, and goes with the start,
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pause, and stop buttons for project operations. Refer to Software Manual TMflow for details.

Project
The project page comes with the node menu consisting of Set, Vision, Stop, Wait for, Gateway, If,
Pause, Goto, Display, Subflow, Network, Warp, Command, Log, Listen, and M-Decision. The
project editing tool bar at top includes Diagnose, Controller, Variables, EditBlock, and Display
Manager. The project function menu at right contains Modbus Device, Set IO while Project Error,
Set IO while Project Stop, Stop Watch, View, Serial Port, and Network Device. Refer to Software
Manual TMflow for details.

TM SmartEdge Setting

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The TM SmartEdge Setting includes Vision Setting, IO Setup, Controller, Component, Command,
Connection, TMmanager, Global Variable, Text File Manager, and TM AI+. Refer to Software
Manual TMflow for details.

System Setting
The system setting of TM SmartEdge includes Language, Groups, User Account, Import\Export,
Administrator Setting, Network Service, and Auto Remote Mode. Refer to Software Manual TMflow
for details.

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2. TMvision
Overview
TM SmartEdge comes with the same capability as TMvision built-in in terms of hardware and software.
For hardware, with TM Plug&Play industrial cameras, users can experience complete visual software
functions. For software, TM SmartEdge goes with standard and add-on functions. The standard
supports most applications. For special AI-related application requirements, users can purchase AI
add-on modules by required as well.

Note:
Users who purchase AI add-on modules can download the TM SmartEdge AI+ demo project
from the official website for performance testing. After loading the sample project and images,
perform the test sample. The downloaded sample project must be put in a flash drive labelled
TMROBOT, and insert the flash drive into a PC or the industrial computer with TM SmartEdge
installed.

Step 1: Launch TM SmartEdge，Click ≡ > System > Import/Export.

Click Export at top left, and click Project at the left.
Click the demo project in the left list to add it to the right list. Click Import at bottom
right.

Step 2: Put the sample images in the TMflow installation folder.

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 Step 3： Execute the sample project
After executing 50 images for each of the 7 AI+ Classification & Detection vision
jobs (additional AI add-on purchase required), the system compares the execution
time with the requirement specifications as recommended and displays the
hardware performance level.

Camera List
Before connecting the camera physically, users can use the Folder in the camera list to select the path
of the images stored in the device to read the images in the path to edit and execute visual jobs.

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Vision Job
TM SmartEdge comes with AOI and Vision IO applications, among which the add-ons of AI+ Detection
and AI+ Classification require TM dongle to use. Refer to Software Manual TMvision for details

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