ICON EDITOR🔗
It's a good practice to add an icon to a model. The icon shows up in the package browser and in the model canvas.
Open the icon editor🔗
- Right-click on a model in the package browser
- Click on “Edit Icon” to open the icon editor view
Add an icon🔗
There are two ways to add an icon to a model:
- Create an icon by using the built-in graphical primitives
- Use an existing image
Create an icon by using the drawing tools🔗
Using the drawing tools you can be creative and use graphical primitives like rectangles, ellipse, text, lines and polygons.
Advantages
- Small memory footprint
- Icon can be scaled up and down without any loss of the image quality
- Self-contained - the information is stored in the model
Use an existing image🔗
An alternative to draw your own icon is to use an existing image. To add an image:
- Choose the "Draw Bitmap" tool and pick an image from the image gallery
- Or drag an image directly into the icon editor (doing so automatically uploads the image into the Resource folder)
Advantages
- Quick way to add an icon
Disadvantages
- Larger memory footprint and the icon will loose quality when scaled up and down
- The image is stored outside the model