A drawing device includes: a display unit that displays an editing screen for creating a plurality of screens to be displayed on a programmable display device; a screen data generation unit that generates screen data configured by the plurality of screens and including an object that is a display element arranged on the editing screen; a screen script generation unit that generates a screen script that is a processing program to be executed only when a specific screen out of the plurality of screens to be displayed on the programmable display device is displayed; and an association management unit that manages an association between the object and the screen script. When the object is copied from a source editing screen to a destination editing screen, the screen script generation unit registers, with the destination editing screen, the screen script associated with the object to be copied.