Method for controlling an automation system

A non-transitory computer program product comprising software code sections which, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• rendering, by a processor, an image from a three-dimensional scene representing at least part of the automation system on the basis of position data and viewing direction data;
• displaying the image on a display unit;
• wherein the automation system comprises a plurality of components, wherein a tree structure is stored in a data memory in which nodes are assigned to the plurality of components of the automation system;
• determining a focus component that is selected through a user input, and from the scene only a portion of the plurality of components of the part of the automation system are loaded into the processor for rendering whose assigned nodes in the tree structure have only a predetermined maximum distance from a node assigned to the focus component.

A control system for an automation system, comprising a processor and a display unit, configured to perform one or more operations comprising:

• rendering an image from a three-dimensional scene representing at least part of the automation system on the basis of position data and viewing direction data;
• displaying the image on a display unit;
• wherein the automation system comprises a plurality of components, wherein a tree structure is stored in a data memory in which nodes are assigned to the plurality of components of the automation system;
• determining a focus component that is selected through a user input, and from the scene only a portion of the plurality of components of the part of the automation system are loaded into the processor for rendering whose assigned nodes in the tree structure have only a predetermined maximum distance from a node assigned to the focus component.