vCortex 0.1.47 Released – Introducing the New Flow Diagram Component
We’re excited to announce the release of vCortex 0.1.47, featuring a powerful new component: Flow Diagram. This component empowers developers and engineers to create customizable, node-based flow diagrams with full editing capabilities and interactive behavior—all within Ignition Perspective.
The Flow Diagram component allows you to visually build logic, workflows, or systems using connected nodes. Each node:
- Can display an embedded view (Perspective View),
- Supports a custom number of connection handles (input/output),
- Allows interactive linking between nodes.
It’s designed to streamline building complex interactive diagrams that adapt to your specific use case.
Here are just a few applications for this powerful new tool:
- Material Track and Trace Genealogy
- ESD (Emergency Shutdown) Diagrams
- Energy Flow Visualization
- Interactive P&ID Editors
- Logic Diagrams (CFC/SFC)
- Recipe Management Tools
- Automated Workflow Designers
- Business Goals and KPI Tracking
Included: Demo Project (Playground)
To make adoption easy, we’ve included a demo project (playground) alongside the module installation. This gives you hands-on examples and a complete working environment.
For more information please refer to our manual in the designer:
Here are some examples:
Realtime P&ID Editor:
- Draw P&ID base on predefine devices
- Resizing the devices
- Upload and download diagram
- Search on devices on diagram
Applying Layouting Algorithms
Applying different layouting algorithms on nodes when node are generated by code(coming from database) and don't have positions. A good example is Material Genealogy Diagram which lot events comes from database.
**Node Collapse and Expanding
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