# Dynamically adjust parameters of trapezoid

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dynamically-adjust-parameters-of-trapezoid/100537>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dynamically-adjust-parameters-of-trapezoid/100537 "2025-01-07T15:10:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dynamically-adjust-parameters-of-trapezoid/100537/7 "2025-01-29T17:04:51Z")

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When you drag and drop an SVG file on to your view in the designer, you are presented with a dialog which gives you the option to either Save and link or Embed image.

If you choose embed the SVG will be inserted into the view as a drawing object.

Here is a small example of how I do this for small less complex (my definition of complex is probably different than most when it comes to SVG) images.

> [@Drawing Tools in perspective](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/drawing-tools-in-perspective/51407/3):
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> SVG’s are the way to do it (they aren’t the only way to do it, but they are probably the best way). You can copy this into a text file, save it as a .svg file and then drag it onto your view, this will give you a blank SVG. \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?\> \<svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="50mm" height="50mm" viewBox="0 0 50 50" version="1.1"\> \</svg\> From there it is just a matter of understanding how to wor…

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