Own parts and symbols
Your own parts
In the Parts… window:
- New part… starts an empty part.
- Create based on… copies the selected part, a manufacturer's one too, as a part of your own to change.
- Edit… changes a part of your own. Manufacturer parts are not changed in place: make a copy first.
The part editor has the tabs:
| Tab | Holds |
|---|---|
| General | Part number, manufacturer, type, order number, letter, descriptions in any languages, dimensions. |
| Technical | Technical data as name and value. |
| Functions | The function template: one row per function (coil, main contact, NO, NC, terminal, PLC channel…) with its connection designations. Add group adds a set of rows at once. |
| Pictures & docs | Photo, drawings, documents. |
| Panel | The front view with its mounting points: the point it sits on a rail with, the point it sits onto another part with (and that point's name, e.g. KLM), points other parts sit onto, and where the wires go onto it: Connection with a connection of the part, then a click on the view (the next connection is offered at once). Places the EDZ package gives are shown in grey; a connection put by hand wins. Click the view to set a point, or type its numbers. Points set here win over those of the EDZ package; Use the points of the 3D model goes back. |
| Symbols | The drawings of the part (variants). Draw a new one or edit one with the symbol editor. |
Projects take the changes only with Update parts from database….
The drawing of a part
A part is drawn by, in this order: the drawing you chose for it, the standard IEC symbol of its functions, or a box made from its function template. In the part card:
- Choose symbol… picks one of the drawings;
- Edit drawing… changes the manufacturer's drawing (your version is kept apart, Reset to default brings back the original).
Your own symbols
The Symbols tab has a New symbol button. Right-click a symbol of the library for Copy to my symbols…; right-click one of yours to edit, duplicate or delete it.
The symbol editor draws with the same tools as a page (lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, texts) and has:
- connection points with designation and direction;
- the anchor for the device tag;
- the symbol's name, group, letter (
K,Q,S…) and kind (main or auxiliary function).
Step in its toolbar sets the grid the drawing goes by: 4, 2, 1 or 0.5 mm (1 mm at first; the one chosen is kept). Lines, shapes, texts and the tag's anchor go by it; hold Alt to place without the grid, to 0.1 mm; the arrow keys move the selection one step. Connection points stay on the 4 mm grid whatever the step, so that wires on a page meet them and symbols placed one under another connect: a selection with a connection point moves by 4 mm.
In the drawing of a part, each connection point is bound to a connection of the part (a drop-down list, or Assign in order).
A project keeps a copy of each of your symbols it uses, so it opens complete on another computer.