It has now been established that the modern educational process is becoming more effective when using interactive, multimedia-rich educational resources that provide active teaching methods. The best way to meet these requirements are educational resources and virtual reality systems. An example of such electronic resources is virtual laboratory work, which can simulate the behavior of real-world objects in a computer-based educational environment and help students learn new knowledge and skills. This is relevant and already mandatory in the study of scientific and natural disciplines, such as chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science and their combinations. Virtual laboratories contribute to increasing visibility, interactivity, as well as the formation of students’ cognitive and creative activity. In this regard, the development of a virtual model of a physical experiment on laboratory equipment that has a real analogue was the goal of this work. The paper presents data on the creation of the experimental setup interface developed in the laboratory of a pulsed plasma accelerator of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, called the vacuum-arc accelerator (hereinafter VAA-1). At this installation, experiments are carried out to obtain coatings from various materials on a metal base from structural materials in order to create a protective and multifunctional layer on its surface.