If you look up in the top left of our Project Browser, it's actually grouped of many different components. Now, with each SVG file you bring in, it's not just one component. So, by them being scalable of course, we can take them on the screen, we can make'em bigger and the graphics still look crisp. Whereas, images as the bigger they get, the more pixelated they become. Now, it's important to note that you can also take AutoCAD drawings and you can export those drawings as SVG files, using certain utility programs and we can bring those as a background of our screen that we can then change colors on. So, working with SVG files, you just simply drag one onto the screen and you can easily you know, apply colors to them, change the way they look and work with them in Ignition, just like you would with any other component. This is where you can actually take pieces out that you didn't like or modify the existing graphic that you had before. I can easily right-click on the graphic Ignition and I can Ungroup it, allowing me to see all the individual pieces. So, I can actually expand the group here and I can see all the individual Paths that make up that particular graphic. So, as you have different resolutions, the graphic will look identical in those different resolutions. Now, we prefer you to use SVG files over images like PNG, JPGs or GIFs because they are scalable. So, when they bring it in, I can actually just resize and make it bigger, so I can then see the graphic.
Now sometimes, the graphic will come in, it will be really, really small, like this one, because SVG files actually, they specify a specific width and height. Take the second one here which is the factory.svg Drag that onto our screen and I'll see it created. I'm going to drag it into my window and you'll see it create an Ignition. I could take any SVG file and I can drag it onto my screen.
svg which stands for Scalable Vector Graphic. So, here in my Documents folder I have two SVG files. It is possible to create your own Vector Graphics also in Ignition as SVG files that you can import into a screen. Of course, we don't have every graphic that you might need. There are over 4000 Vector Graphics in Symbol Factory that you can work with. It is very easy to work with Vector Graphics in Ignition.