User Manual

CM2N8524E / 01.1999 Siemens Building Technologies
10/12 Landis & Staefa Division
The full-graph Picture Editor supplies all the tools necessary for drawing, managing, and
actualising pictures, i.e., for setting up the connections to the plant components.
The following operations with pictures are available:
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Loading pictures (local or from the communication server) in order to, for instance,
change them.
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Saving pictures (locally in any directory or in the server).
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Deleting pictures
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Copying pictures
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Editing the plant description
The Picture Editor can be used to draw the following graphic figures. Most of the figures
can be activated by clicking the appropriate symbols in the "tool bar" on the left of the
Picture Editor window.
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Lines, open straight lines (called polylines)
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Rectangles, rounded rectangles, and polygons
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Circles, ellipses, arcs, and sectors
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Texts in different font sizes
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Bars, markers, buttons, and a clock (showing the current time in the Picture).
A wide scope of operations can be carried out with one or more of the drawn graphic
figures:
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Selection of colour and line width. There are 16 colours and various line widths
available which can be selected even before a figure is drawn.
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Unlimited moving and copying of figures.
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Enlarging and shrinking, both uni- and two-dimensional, whereby in the second case,
the shapes of the figures remain unchanged.
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Mirror-imaging (flipping) along the x- and y-axes, and rotating through an angle of 90
degrees.
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Moving figures to the foreground or background to superpose on other figures.
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Combining several figures into a composite figure and later separating them into their
original component figures.
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Alignment in the x-direction (left, right, or centre) and in the y-direction (top, bottom, or
centre).
The auxiliary tools simplify the drawing process in many situations:
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Zooming a section of a picture by a factor ranging from two to eight.
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Expanding the whole picture by 10 % several times in the x- or y-direction.
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Temporary insertion of gridlines.
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Choice of drawing with or without snapping to grid.
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Choice of displaying the coordinates.
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Free choice of the screen's background colour.
Picture Editor
Picture operations
Drawing graphic figures
Operations with
graphic figures
Auxiliary tools