Design graphic standards

System Platform provides a set of graphic tools and libraries to visualize data in a ViewApp. You can use these tools within the Graphic Editor to create graphics from basic elements, such as rectangles, lines, and text.

You can also embed pre-built graphics from the Industrial Graphic and Situational Awareness libraries in a template to visualize object-specific information. Embedding a graphic enables you to update one graphic template and cascade the changes throughout all of the instances of the graphic in your application.

Standard Industrial Graphics, available from the Visualization folder, show reasonably realistic views of process objects. You can embed an Industrial Graphic in a template or instance of an object to visualize object-specific information.

The Situational Awareness Library contains protected graphics that include multiple visual and functional configurations. These are enabled by selecting values from a set of Wizard Options associated with each graphic. Incorporating multiple configurations in a single graphic reduces the types and numbers of visualization elements you need to develop for an application.