Create and manage industrial graphics

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

You use the Industrial Graphic Editor 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 Visualization folder 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.