Create Industrial Graphics

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.

Industrial Graphics are graphics you can create to visualize data in an HMI/SCADA system.

The Industrial Graphic Editor is used to create Industrial Graphics from basic elements, such as rectangles, lines, and text elements. You can also use the Industrial Graphic Editor to embed and configure an Industrial Graphic from the Graphic Toolbox library of graphics.

After you create an Industrial Graphic, you can embed it into another graphic or an HMI system window and use it at run time.

You can embed an Industrial Graphic in a template or instance of an object providing several ways to visualize object-specific information quickly and easily. Embedding a graphic in a template means that you can update one graphic and cascade the changes throughout your application.

Depending on your development requirements, you can select where and how to store industrial graphics.

• Create and store graphics as a standard set that you can re-use, such as a generic valve graphic.

• Store graphics as templates if you want to use the graphics in multiple instances at run time.

• Store graphics for use in a specific application.

In This Chapter

The Industrial Graphic Editor

Embedding Graphics