Design by Description
Type what you want in plain English — "a pump control card with start/stop and a status lamp" — and Designer Assistant generates a fully functioning Perspective view: components, layout, and props.
AI Copilot for Ignition 8.3
Describe the screen.
Describe the screen.
Ship the view.
Designer Assistant turns plain-language prompts into fully functioning Perspective views — components, layout, and live bindings — inserted right into your open Ignition Designer project.
14-day free trial · No credit card required · Runs inside your Designer
You › Build a pump control card — start and stop buttons, a running status lamp, and a flow-rate readout bound to the pump tags.
Generated 6 components into selected container
Bound lamp → Pumps/P101/Running
Bound readout → Pumps/P101/FlowRate
Inserted as one undoable edit
8.3+
Native Ignition module
100%
Undoable Designer edits
0
JSON copy-paste steps
14-day
Free trial, no card
What It Does
From idea to wired-up screen
Everything you need to go from a plain-English description to a working Perspective view — without leaving the Designer.
Inserts Directly, Fully Undoable
No JSON to copy and paste. Generated components land in the container you have selected as normal Designer edits — and every insert sits cleanly on the undo stack.
Real Bindings, Not Just Layout
Tag, property, and expression bindings are generated for you — the part that actually wires a screen to live data. This is the work that used to eat your afternoon.
Schema-Grounded Accuracy
Designer Assistant introspects the components installed in your Designer at runtime, so output always matches your real palette — third-party and custom modules included. No hardcoded list to fall out of date.
Your Model, Your Rules
Run on our managed models out of the box, or bring your own on Team / Studio — a local model with Ollama, vLLM, or LM Studio, or your own OpenAI or Claude endpoint. API keys are stored gateway-side, masked, and never exposed to the Designer or your repo.
Runs Where You Work
Designer Assistant is a dockable panel inside the Ignition Designer — right alongside the Tag Browser and component palette. No context switching, no external tools, no leaving your project.
From Prompt to Panel
How it works
Four steps, all inside the Ignition Designer you already use.
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Describe
Open the Designer Assistant panel and tell it what you need — a control card, a data table, an overview dashboard. Reference your tags and process in plain language.
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Generate
Designer Assistant drafts the view, validates it against your live component schemas, and runs an auto-repair loop so you get valid output even from mid-tier models.
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Insert
The finished view drops into your open project at the selected container — a normal, undoable Designer edit. The canvas repaints instantly.
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Refine
Undo, tweak, or ask for a change: "make that chart bigger," "wire this lamp to the running tag." It stays your edit, on your undo stack, start to finish.
Built for Production
Made for real plants, real integrators
Industrial environments have rules. Designer Assistant was built to respect them from day one.
Keys stay on the gateway
Cloud provider keys are stored gateway-side only, masked in the UI, and never exposed to Designer scope, your project repo, or logs.
Air-gap friendly
On Team / Studio, point Designer Assistant at a fully local model with Ollama or vLLM and nothing ever leaves your network — built for plants where the internet stops at the fence line.
No lock-in, ever
Generated views are ordinary Perspective resources living in your project. Cancel anytime — everything you built stays yours, exactly as if you had drawn it by hand.
Stop hand-building screens.
Start your free trial today and generate your first working Perspective view in minutes — right inside the Ignition Designer you already use.