The Safety Designer supports the following file formats: BMP, JPG, PNG.
Figure 65: Background image
1.
Click on Edit background image in the toolbar.
✓
The Background image dialog box opens.
2. Click on Search....
3. Select the file for the background image.
✓
Safety Designer displays the background image.
4. If necessary, use the pipette icon to select a color of the image to make this color
transparent.
5. Adjust the size of the image with the scaling tool or by directly entering the dimen‐
sions. Use the scaling tool to move the tips of the blue arrow to two known points
and then enter the distance between the points in the Length field.
6. Enter the X position, Y position and rotation in the field editor’s coordinates system.
You can then freely move or rotate the background image in the field editor.
7. If required, click the option L
ock position of background image.
✓
It is no longer possible to change the background image in the field editor.
7.10.5 Settings for the field editor
You can edit settings for the field editor.
You can open the settings using the tool E
dit field editor settings.
Field calculation
Y
ou specify whether the fields are calculated manually or automatically after drawing.
If you select the Manual option, first draw the areas to be monitored. Then click on Calcu‐
late field so that the Safety Designer calculates the field that the safety laser scanner
actually monitors.
If you select the Automatic option, the drawn areas are immediately converted into
fields.
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