Overview

The Block is the most basic of the available components. Along with Images and Icons, 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 color or enter the hexadecimal value for the color you want. You can use the same color for both 2D and 3D view, or choose different colors for each.
• Width: Choose the width of your block component.
• Height: Choose the height of your block component.
• Depth: Choose the depth of your block component.

API

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

{
  "type": "block",
  "id": "76cddb57-6368-4e8b-805f-1306f558812b",
  "mapPos": [3, 9],
  "width": 2,
  "height": 1,
  "depth": 2,
  "color": {
    "isometric": "#ececed",
    "2d": "#4286c5"
  },
  "locked": true,
  "link": "blueprint://34b7a049-e92b-4146-b937-7eee9ae788b5"
}

• type: block: 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.
• width: number: The width of the block component. Defaults to 2.
• height: number: The height of the block component. Defaults to 1.
• depth: number: The depth of the block component. Defaults to 2.
• 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.
• 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.

The block component can be added to VPCs, security groups, and subnets.