Tutorial: Building a Simple Project Placing an animated tank This part of the tutorial shows how to select an animated tank from the Symbol Library and place it on the screen (similar to how you selected and placed the "Exit" icon), then associate some project tags with the tank's properties. 1. In the Graphics tab of the Project Explorer , expand the Screens folder. 2. Double-click synoptic.scc . The synoptic screen worksheet is reopened for editing. 3. On the Graphics tab of the ribbon, in the Libraries group, click Symbols . 4. In the Symbols menu tree, open the System Symbols folder and then open the Tanks sub-folder. 5. Browse the tank symbols and choose one.
You may choose any tank symbol that you like; they all function basically the same. Choosing a tank symbol 6. Click the symbol. The mouse cursor will change to show that the symbol is ready to be placed in a screen. 7. Switch back to the screen where you want to place the symbol and click in it. The symbol is placed as a Linked Symbol object. Page 71