Icon Editor

Each and every Frame and object in Plant Simulation has to have at least one icon. Plant Simulation displays the object in the Class Library, the Toolbox, and in the Frame with this icon.

Plant Simulation uses icons to animate the parts, the transporters, etc. that the material flow objects process during a simulation run.

You can modify the icons representing the simulation objects and the animation structures, i.e., the animation points and animation lines, that define the animation of your simulation model, in the Icon Editor.

By default Plant Simulation shows the state of the material flow objects and of the Frame itself during your simulation runs as one or more colored dots in the LED display along the top border of the built-in icon of the object in the Frame.

You can also use the setting State Icons/LEDs to display the state of operation of an object, such as failed, paused, etc. during a simulation run. You can modify the built-in icons or design new icons in the Icon Editor.

When a user-defined object class has an icon named ClassLibrary, Plant Simulation shows the objects of this class in the Class Library with this icon. Note that the size of this icon should be 16 by 16 pixels.

To edit the icon of an object, right-click it in the Frame and select Edit Icons on the context menu.

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