Create seexy looking graphics

2020-02-27T19:06:32.967000Z

Thanks for that I'll give some of it a try.
I think what I am asking needs to be done in some kind of compiler environment. What I am asking is how do you create an object and have a pop window behind it for entering the properties?

Create seexy looking graphics

2020-02-27T19:06:29.410000Z

"2) How do you create things like buttons, meters, dials etc and save them as library components for use in many projects and sharing with colleauges."

You can create your own libraries.
In a library there may be code, variables, and visualization, or only one of those things.
In a visualization you can have only one object (button, valve, ...) and it will be reusable and configurable if you use "placeholder".
See the online help : CoDeSys vizusualisation -> Visualization elements, Configure ... -> Placeholder.

The various objects are then placed in a visualization page like visualization and placeholders and are then replaced by the variables of the current project.

But for _ designs, use your favorite drawing tool : paint, Gimp, ... the list is very long

Create seexy looking graphics

2020-02-27T19:06:28.113000Z

There has to be a way!!!

Create seexy looking graphics

2020-02-27T19:06:24.686000Z

Russell hat geschrieben:
1) How do you drop vector graphics into CoDeSys HMI

I don't believe you can drop vector graphics into CoDeSys HMI. But If you create your graphics in a vector program, you can export them at any resolution for the best look on the device you are using. WMF is one of the graphic types but I haven't been able to get it to work with images layered on top of one another..

Russell hat geschrieben:
2) How do you create things like buttons, meters, dials etc and save them as library components for use in many projects and sharing with colleauges.

There you are on your own again. This is the reason many people prefer to use standard HMI devices which usually have their own software with libraries of the most used things for industrial control.

Create seexy looking graphics

2020-02-27T19:06:23.502000Z

Thanks Norm,

The graphics there do look good. So i guess that my question really has two parts.

1) How do you drop vector graphics into CoDeSys HMI

2) How do you create things like buttons, meters, dials etc and save them as library components for use in many projects and sharing with colleauges.

Create seexy looking graphics

2020-02-27T19:06:22.298000Z

Have a look at the Advanced HMI project at SouceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/advancedhmi/

The graphics there are very nice looking. I don't believe they have a driver for CoDeSys but as a SourceForge project, maybe you could help write one

Other tools I have used in the past for making my own graphics are
inkscape http://inkscape.org/ which is a vector graphics freeware program similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw

and Paint.net which is a freeware bitmap editor like photoshop.

Create seexy looking graphics

2020-02-27T19:06:18.946000Z

Hi There fellow codesys propeller heads...
I really enjoy using the codesys tool. However the visualiation tool is fairly basic looking and a little limited. I was wondering where or how i could create my own buttons icons and graphical elements, for example machine parts that have configurable porperties like colour changes and motions, maybe a part moving on the conveyor or a motor running etc. and then import them in as libraries.
Any ideas, i am sure there is a lot of really smart people in this community that may have the answers here. if so please let me know.

Thanks, Russell

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