Industrial UI Schematic user guide
How to draw schematics, manage devices, terminals, cables and PLC channels, lay out the panel and make reports in Industrial UI Schematic 1.0.5. The same guide is in the program: Help → User guide (F1).
- Getting started
Industrial UI Schematic draws electrical schematics: devices with tags, cross-references, terminals, cables, PLC channels, reports and the panel layout, all…
Start the program · License · The window · Saving · First steps · Mouse and keys · Light or dark
- Pages, title block, paper
A project is a set of pages. Schematic pages hold the circuit, panel layout pages hold the mounting plate or the door, and report pages hold the tables the…
The page tree · Page number, function and location · Title block · Paper · Page types
- Drawing
Schematics are drawn on a 4 mm grid. Hold Alt while moving or drawing for a 1 mm step. The arrow keys move the selection one grid step.
Symbols · Wires · Jumpers (T-node) · Automatic connections · Potentials and interruption points · Location box · Text and graphics · Wire numbers
- Devices and tags
Every device has a tag after IEC 81346: =PS+CAB1-K1.
Tags · One device, several symbols · The Devices tab · Check project · Wires the connection points do not take
- Parts and EDZ
A part is a product you can buy: part number, manufacturer, type, order number, descriptions, technical data, pictures, documents, its functions (coil,…
The Parts window · Import EDZ · Use a part · Update parts from the database · 3D model and front view
- Own parts and symbols
In the Parts… window:
- Terminals and jumpers
Terminal symbols are in the Terminals group of the Symbols tab: a feed-through terminal, a PE terminal and terminals with three and four connections. A…
Terminals and strips · The Terminals table · Jumpers · Parts of terminals
- Cables
A cable is drawn as a line across the wires it carries, with its tag at the end of the line and its type and cores under it, smaller: -W1, under it Motor…
Draw a cable · Cable data · Cores · Length
- PLC and SCADA
A PLC is a device with channels: digital inputs (DI), digital outputs (DQ), analog inputs (AI) and outputs (AO). There are two ways to draw them.
- PLC signal list
A list of the PLC's signals, kept in Excel or written by the process engineer, can draw the PLC pages for you: Import PLC signals (CSV)… (File menu). Save…
The list · Modules and channels · Signal macros · Importing the list again
- Macros
A macro is a piece of schematic kept for use again: a direct-on-line starter, a reversing starter, an emergency stop circuit. It holds the symbols, wires,…
- Panel layout
A panel layout page draws the mounting plate or the door of a cabinet to scale, with the devices of the schematic as their front views.
The page · Rails and ducts · Place devices · Mounting points · Wire lengths · Wire routes · Duct fill · Cable entries and door transition · Dimensions · Text and graphics · Check
- P&ID
A P&ID (piping and instrumentation diagram) shows the plant: tanks, pumps, valves, pipes and the instruments on them, as ISO 10628 and ISA 5.1 draw them. In…
A P&ID page · Pipes and signal lines · Instruments · The same devices as on the schematic
- Fluid power
A fluid power diagram shows pneumatics, hydraulics and vacuum as ISO 1219 draws them: valves, cylinders, pumps, the air preparation and the lines between…
A fluid power page · Directional valves · Symbols · Valve terminals · With the schematic
- Reports and PDF
Project → Reports… chooses the reports of the project and makes their pages:
Report pages · Export PDF · Markers · Wire list for cutting · Tables in the bottom panel
- Projects, versions, import and export
All projects are kept in the database of the program.
- Claude
Claude, the AI assistant of Anthropic, can work in this program: read your projects, draw schematics from a description, insert macros, import signal lists,…
- Keyboard shortcuts
Mod is Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Windows and Linux. Letters work with any keyboard layout (they follow the key, not the character).