Description

WinCC flexible already has a large number of scalable basic and extended objects and graphics, that can also be dynamized and that you can use in your displays. The supplied symbol library, for example, contains a host of general and industry-specific illustrations in various shades of color.

In addition, you can assemble faceplates from simple graphic objects on a projectspecific basis and store them in a library.

Advantages of faceplates:

The dynamic properties of the graphic elements of a faceplate, such as shape and visibility can be interconnected with tags. This means, for example, at runtime it is possible to show or hide individual graphic elements of the faceplate, but also the complete faceplate, depending on a tag value. You can make changes to these faceplates from a central location. The faceplate is then automatically changed in all displays of the project in which it is has been used.

Faceplates can be used without any need to spend a lot of time wiring them, if they are linked with structured data types. If this faceplate is used in ascreen, a structure tag of the same type must be assigned to the faceplate for the complete connection.