# Plant Layout zoom **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81, perspective\ **Created:** [March 20, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944 "2025-03-20T12:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anant_Upadhyayula)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/1 "2025-03-20T12:33:37Z")
I am in a tough situation. I want to add all the E-stops in the plant on one perspective overview screen. When I take a screenshot of the autocad layout then the line names etc are blury because the screenshot does not have enough resolution. I can get autocad file or pdf 36x48" for better resolution, but that won't fit on a screen and I could not find a easier zoom into a area like the map feature in ignition. I read some discussion about floor plan in this forum but could not much progress. Reaching out to for direction. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/2 "2025-03-20T12:38:56Z")
Search pan/zoom on this forum. BIJC has a module you can use: > [@Pan Zoom Container](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pan-zoom-container/75093): > > BIJC is pleased to announce its latest module, a Pan Zoom container for Perspective. There have been a number of outstanding examples of Pan Zoom using an XY container but these are very specific and generally require advanced scripting and CSS skills. BIJC container simplifies this process and allows the XY container to be responsive. In its simplest deployment, a developed XY container can be placed inside BIJCs Pan Zoom container and it will automatically fit to any screen size. If the deve… There are also some on the exchange: > **[Ignition Exchange](https://inductiveautomation.com/exchange/)** > > Discover, share, and download community made Ignition resources in collaboration with your organization or the Ignition community. I would create an SVG for the layout. Inkscape is free and easy to use. ---
**Author:** ![Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anant_Upadhyayula)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/3 "2025-03-20T22:40:44Z")
@jlandwerlen Thank you for the pointers. I used inkscape to create SVG for the plant Layout, the CAD file was 89MB and the resulting SVG turned out 248MB. I am worried that file size will create latency issues. 3,702,514 rows when I checked in notepad 🤦 I would appreciate your help ---
**Author:** ![ryan.white](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryan.white/32/73193_2.png) [@ryan.white](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryan.white)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/4 "2025-03-20T22:43:55Z")
Speaking from experience some CAD software will make a single line element for every line segment in a drawing instead of joining them together into a path or a shape. (Looking at you, AutoCAD). ---
**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/5 "2025-03-20T22:44:28Z")
Did you create a drawing from scratch or import a DWG or similar showing every nut and bolt in the plant? ---
**Author:** ![Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anant_Upadhyayula)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/6 "2025-03-20T22:50:22Z")
The AutoCAD file (89MB) was built over many years by many. So best practices were followed or not I was not sure 🤔 so based on YouTube findings. The autocad file, I flatten, overkill and Purge to remove as much as redundancies etc as I can. Then exported it to pdf and then Imported the pdf (5.5MB) into InkScape -\> Saved as -\> SVG. Selected all objects - Ctrl+A and then tried Path -\> Simplify. The result is 248MB SVG. ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/7 "2025-03-20T22:52:51Z")
How complex is the layout? I usually import the original and then draw on top. You don't have to show every little detail for this to be useful. ---
**Author:** ![Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anant_Upadhyayula)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/8 "2025-03-21T01:08:16Z")
Thank you all, looks like there is no easy fix. I noticed there are over 300 layers, I painfully turned about 290 layers off and still looked like a image that I can use it. Turned out that was still too large for parsing using any tools. Oh well, atleast I tried 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/9 "2025-03-21T02:17:44Z")
Just a thought: try Inkscape's Path | Simplify (Ctrl-L) operation on the selection. It works very well after converting artistic bitmap images to vector (Path | Trace Bitmap) but I don't know how it would work with a technical drawing. You might need to play with some of the other Path menu actions first. ---
**Author:** ![Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anant_Upadhyayula)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/10 "2025-03-21T03:12:50Z")
@Transistor, I tried that. I think the key was to turn off over 290 layers in the CAD file. Also remove all colors print B&W. Now the file size is 197MB. Still too large, I am trying to find other layers that I turn off and bring the file size down even more. What would be SVG file size I should target for a responsive HMI interaction ? ---
**Author:** ![Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anant_Upadhyayula)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/11 "2025-03-21T03:58:02Z")
Finally breakthrough. Now I see the file size as 10 MB. I had to hide all equipment details and just grab the building outline and line names and some minor details I could not hide. However the image when it was brought into Ignition as too big, On 27" monitor I had to zoom out to 33% to see the whole overview page. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/8/18b09a760b0135672bedbf1104927f9e6c485aa4.png) ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/plant-layout-zoom/103944/12 "2025-03-23T13:22:01Z")
IMO that's still way too big. For a building outline just do a trace or draw it again.