FactoryStudio has great features to improve the productivity on creating graphical displays to your application. The drawing tools allows you to easily manage symbols, image files, import objects from a 5000 objects gallery, create your own symbols with dynamic properties, and map tags and templates to its default graphical user interface.

There are three main repositories for reusable components, the Images, the Symbol Factory library, and the Local Symbols Gallery. Let’s explore each one.

Images: Used to insert an external image file from your computer into the project configuration, like an icon, wallpaper, object, or background image. You can manage the imported images at Edit-Displays-Resources. After the image is imported, you no longer need the original file. Images can be used are color brush to any drawing object, even be used as “color” or the ColorFill dynamic attributes.

Symbol Factory: This is an extensive library of elements, with more than 5000 symbols, all using vector graphics, that you can use for creating your displays or use as a template to create your own custom symbols. Those object can be applied statically, just as an image or icon, or you can add Dynamics and save them to the Local Symbols library.

Local Symbols: The local symbols are the most frequently used symbols, it includes also the symbols you create in the scope of a project. The symbols in this library can be kept synchronized with the library, in this way, when you change a symbol in this library, it will be automatically be applied to all displays using that symbol. The Local Symbol also can have dynamics properties that you can easily map to tags at displays; they can also be defined to be the default graphical representation of tags.