3/7/2011 10:52 AM | |
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I've been searching around this forum about rotating functionality and I'm quite surprised the lack of this feature in WinCC. In other SCADA software, mostly there's even a mouse pointer with which you can select a point of any self drawn object to rotate it in offline mode (like in Graphics Designer) but in WinCC, it seems rotating is only possible in runtime, playing around with "Rotation Angle", "Rotation Reference X" & "Rotation Reference Y". It tried it this way with a self drawn grouped object (containing polygons, circles, etc... but the group does not rorate as one piece. I attach a sample pdl (V7 SP3 Update 3) in which you'll see "Group 5" which I want to rotate around the point indicated with "Circle 1"... I hope someone would be so kind to check this pdl and tell me if it's possible to achieve this. Is there any way to draw for example a machine, group this and save it as an object and keep the form of it whatever you do with it (rotate, resize,...)? Thanks in advance. AttachmentRotateBlock.zip (1213 Downloads) |
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3/7/2011 1:24 PM | |
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I know these but just try to rotate a self made object (= group of different standard objects, see attach sample pdl above), it seems quite impossible. |
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3/10/2011 1:03 PM | |
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Hi, i can do it. I take some different standard objects, create a customized object an rotate the object. It seems working. |
3/10/2011 2:52 PM | |
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April, can you please try my PDL (used WinCC V7 SP Update 3) as attached above? Thanks for your feedback. |
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3/14/2011 12:15 PM | |
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thanks once again Komi, your feedback has been great so far too bad there isn't a solution for now :( in case of graphical development of screens, I think WinCC still can learn a lot from their competitors. |
Last edited by: SteBo at: 3/14/2011 12:37 PMfor example: Cimplicity already had a "Rotate"-mouse pointer for offline rotating in their "Graphical Designer" (CimEdit) in the year 2000 (maybe even before). Rotating is possible there within the designer, with properties, with scripting, etc. around any point, with any angle AND even with 3D-looks (gradient colors,...) B r g d s , |
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