Overview

The Icon component is one of the basic available components. Along with Images** and Blocks, it can be used to represent cloud components not yet available.

Toolbar

Use the toolbar to configure and customize the component. The following options are available:

• Color: Select a predefined background and icon color or enter the hexadecimal value for the color. Accepts the same color for both 2D and 3D view, or different colors for each.
• Icon set: Select the set of icons containing the icon needed. Available sets are AWS, AWS (Legacy), Azure, and Font Awesome.
• Icon name: Name of the icon used in the diagram. The field can be used to search for available icons as well.
• Toggle 3D/2D projection: Display the icon in a 3D or 2D view when the diagram itself is in 3D view. Not available for 2D diagrams.
• Toggle flat/standing projection: Display the label flat or standing. Not available when 2D projection is toggled or on 2D diagrams.
• Size: Increase or decrease the size of an icon.
• Rotate item: Rotate an icon and change its direction.
• Raise: Raise the icon component above other icons.
• Lower: Lower the icon component below other icons.

API

Use the Cloudcraft API to programmatically access and render your architecture diagrams as JSON objects. The following is an example JSON object of an Icon component:

{
  "type": "icon",
  "id": "a65bf697-3f17-46dd-8801-d38fcc3827b6",
  "mapPos": [4.5, 13.5],
  "iconSet": "fa",
  "name": "firefox",
  "iconSize": 6,
  "isometric": true,
  "standing": false,
  "direction": "down",
  "color": {
    "2d": "#ffffff",
    "isometric": "#ffffff"
  },
  "background": {
    "2d": "#000000",
    "isometric": "#0e141f"
  },
  "link": "blueprint://5dccf526-bb9b-44ba-abec-3b5e7c8076a6",
  "locked": true
}

• type: icon. The type of component.
• id: string. A unique identifier for the component in the uuid format.
• mapPos: [number, number]. The position of the component in the blueprint, expressed as a x,y coordinate pair.
• iconSet: string. Name of the set of icons used. Accepts one of aws, aws2, azure, fa as value.
• name: string. Icon name inside the icon set. Names can be found inside the application using the component toolbar.
• iconSize: number. Size of the icon. Defaults to 3.
• isometric: boolean. If true, the icon is displayed using a 3D projection, while false displays the label in a 2D projection. Defaults to true.
• standing: boolean. If true, displays the icon in a standing position instead of flat. Defaults to false.
• direction: string. The rotation or direction of the icon. Accepts down, up, right, left as value, with down as the default.
• color: object. The fill color for the component body.
  • isometric: string. Fill color for the component in 3D view. Must be an hexadecimal color.
  • 2d: string. Fill color for the component in 2D view. Must be an hexadecimal color.
• background: object. The background color for the component.
  • isometric: string. Background color for the icon in 3D view. Must be an hexadecimal color.
  • 2d: string. Background color for the icon in 2D view. Must be an hexadecimal color.
• link: uri. Link component to another diagram in the blueprint://ID format or to external website in the https://LINK format.
• locked: boolean. If true, changes to the component through the application are disabled until unlocked.