2D drawings and 3D scenes on a site

A site, building, floor or room can have its own views: a 2D drawing, a 3D scene, or both. The devices placed under it are connected to the symbols and items of the view.

Open a site’s views

1. Open Sites & Assets.
2. Open the site.
3. Select Views. A wide drawer opens.

You can also link straight to it: /admin/iot/assets?asset=<id>&views=1.

Attach a view

In the drawer:

• Choose a drawing to use an existing 2D drawing or 3D design.
• Add a 3D view to add a 3D scene.
• New from this site to start a blank drawing or design named after the site.

A site can hold several views. Each is listed by its kind and drawing name, for example “2D drawing · Ankara pool drawing”.

Connect the site’s devices

1. Select Edit symbols beside the picture.
2. Click a symbol or item.
3. Pick the device. The device search lists the site’s devices first. If the site has exactly one device, it is already chosen.
4. Pick the keys that feed the symbol’s fields, and add a conversion if needed.
5. Save, then Next symbol.

Match everything proposes a device for every unconnected symbol, ranked across the site’s devices.

The steps are the same as for a device. See Binding symbols to live data.

Views up and down the tree

• A device with no view of its own, but read by its site’s view, says “Shown in <site>’s view”.
• A site under a building that has a view says “This site is shown by <building>’s view”, with a link up. It offers no second view.
• A site with no view of its own lists its direct children’s working views. Use Use <part>’s 3D view here to give the site its own copy: the drawing, devices, links, hidden symbols, options and rules. You confirm first.

Status on the scene

A 3D scene can colour rooms and areas by status. It tints each item whose key matches the code of a room or area asset with the worst status of the devices under that asset, and a critical one pulses. Levels are not tinted. The status comes from the devices’ status key; see Site status and the status key and Site views.

From 2D to 3D

On a site’s 2D view, use Make a 3D view of this drawing. Hermetry builds a 3D scene from the drawing and keeps the connections. See 3D views.

Show it on a dashboard

On a dashboard page about a site, a process drawing card or a 3D card draws the site’s view. The Sites template already includes one.

Related

• The SCADA designer and The 3D designer to draw the views.
• One drawing for many places to reuse one drawing on several sites.
• Placing devices: the device search lists the devices placed under the site first.