Diagrams are ot pictures, but they often contain them. A Symbol can contain a picture.

The picture that is used for a Symbol is initially determined by the object you select to put on a drawing. However, you can change this to any other picture or to one of many shapes.

Use the Picture Selector to select a picture.

ControlDraw provides a large collection of useful pictures in the Pictures Folders, if you need other ones then you can copy them from another application or create your own using the Windows Paintbrush program or any drawing package that can create Windows graphics files (bitmaps, gifs, metafiles, jpg files, icons)

You can also obtain the Symbol Factory which includes a wide range of professionaly designed pictures that are also compatible with several SCADA package. See www.reichard.com

Paste Special includes Paste Picture into selected Object. If you have just one symbol selected then you can paste a picture into it.

As soon As you select a picture file or paste one in it is stored In the ControlDraw file.

You can change the Standard, User, and dynamic picture paths when you are in the picture browser. If you open the picture browser to change an Object picture you can change the Standard or User picture path. If you browse For a dynamic picture from the Object expressions form you can change the dynamic path. Note - If Embed pictures is Set (As per default) In File Properties Options then you can freely change directories and browse for any picture from anywhere On your PC.

You can make the picture in a symbol the Child Page Diagram (or Icon if one has been set) by checking "Use Child Diagram" In the symbol Details.

ControlDraw stores a copy of each picture that is used in a model within the ControlDraw file. If you delete objects from a model their associated pictures are not deleted, since they may be needed by another object. Also pasting pictures in can produce excessive files sizes. The Embedded Picture Manager can be used to resolve this.