Product specifications

Process Graphics
3BDS011222-510 B 73
Process Graphics
Typically you build a graphic display per process function modelled by an object in
Functional Structure.
The principal steps, corresponding to workflow steps Design / Build Graphic
Displays and also to Download and Test Application Software, are:
1. Create a Graphic Display aspect.
2. Edit it with Graphics Builder.
3. Draw / adapt the background picture.
4. Insert and configure the Graphic Elements provided with the instances of the
Process Objects and Signal Objects. (Typically these are inherited from the
corresponding object types.)
5. Test the Graphic Display In the Graphics Builder, test the graphic display and
save it.
6. Test the Graphic Display with downloaded an running application software on
the controller.
How to build and use Graphic Displays, Graphic Elements and Faceplates is
described in detail in System 800xA Engineering, Process Graphics
(3BSE049230*).
Faceplates
The object types of the AC 800M Connect libraries contain default faceplates. The
following steps show a solution to change the default faceplate in the released
libraries of AC 800M:
Change of default faceplate aspect
1. Create the desired new faceplate in the Object Type Structure. Set the default
view for this faceplate and call it MyFaceplate.
2. Add a key object in the Admin Structure (Admin Structure/Inventory
Objects/Keys/Key Aspect Type) and call it for example, MyKey.
3. Add the same key into the Aspect Default Precedence List. This list defines
what aspects will appear at a left-click on an object in for example a process