Add an Industrial Graphics Symbol in Plant SCADA Studio

Note: AVEVA Industrial Graphics is now deprecated within Plant SCADA and future releases. It will no longer be supported or maintained in future versions, monthly updates or security updates. AVEVA recommends customers cease using AVEVA Industrial Graphics within Plant SCADA runtime systems and decommission any Plant SCADA Industrial Graphics web servers from production and engineering systems. See AVEVA™ Industrial Graphics for more information.

You can use the Libraries view in Plant SCADA Studio's Visualization activity to add a new Industrial Graphics symbol to the active project.

To add a new Industrial Graphics symbol:

1. Go to the Libraries view in the Visualization activity.

2. Select Industrial Graphics from the drop-down menu below the command bar.

   

3. On the command bar, select New. The New Symbol dialog will appear.

   

4. Choose a name for the symbol.

   The name you use needs to be unique within the current branch of the tree. It also needs to adhere to a set of rules (see Symbol Naming Rules below). Based on these rules, you can only enter valid characters.

   If the background of the field is highlighted, it indicates that the current name does not comply with the naming rules. Place the cursor over the field to display a tool tip with a description of the required changes.

   

5. In the library tree, choose a location for the symbol.

   Note: You cannot create a symbol in the root of a project. You need to select a library.

   If required, select New Library (see Add an Industrial Graphics Library in Plant SCADA Studio).

6. Click Create.

   The new symbol will appear in the tree in the specified location.

Symbol Naming Rules

A symbol name needs to adhere to the following rules:

• Needs to be between 1 to 32 characters in length.

• Can contain any letter characters supported by Unicode.

• Can contain any decimal digit (0-9).

• Can only contain the punctuation characters # $ and _.

• Cannot start with a $.

• Needs to contain at least one letter.

• Cannot be one of the following reserved words:

See Also

Browse Industrial Graphics Libraries in Plant SCADA Studio