Embedding Graphics

You can embed graphics into other graphics. This lets you split your visualization into modules and re-use already defined graphics. For example, you can create a valve graphic and embed it multiple times into a tank graphic.

When you embed a graphic into another graphic, you are creating a link to the original graphic. Any changes to the original graphic are propagated to all embedded instances.

You can:

• Embed a graphic within another graphic.

• Edit an embedded graphic.

• Restore an embedded graphic to the original size of its source graphic.

• Convert the embedded graphic to a graphic.

• Detect the source of an embedded graphic.

• Edit the source of an embedded graphic.

• Override the custom properties of the source graphic.

• Control the size propagation of an embedded graphic.

• Select an alternate or same graphic of an alternate object instance as source.

• Edit the object that contains the source graphic.

• Create a new instance of the object that contains the source graphic.

  

  You can embed graphics from the Industrial Graphic Editor into other graphics.

  When you embed a graphic, the animation links and scripts are inherited from the source graphic. You can only change the animations and scripts in the source graphic and all changes are propagated to the embedded graphic.

  The embedded graphic appears with its original name appended by a number. The number is increased by one if you embed the same graphic again.

  Note: If you embed graphics that have elements outside of the coordinates (0,0) and (2000,2000), the embedded graphic clips these elements. The name of the embedded graphic cannot be the same as a custom property of the graphic in which it is being embedded. The embedded graphic and the graphic in which it is being embedded cannot include elements that have the same name.

To embed source graphics from the Industrial Graphic Editor

1. On the Industrial Graphic Editor Edit menu, click Embed Graphic Symbol. Your HMI's graphics browser appears.

2. Select a source graphic.

3. Click OK. The pointer appears in paste mode.

4. Click on the canvas to place the graphic.

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Embedding Graphics within Graphics