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 program makes for you.

The page tree

The Pages tab on the left shows the pages grouped by function (=) and location (+), then the Reports. A click shows the page in the active tab, a double click opens it in a new tab; a page already open in a tab is shown there. Drag the tabs above the drawing to put them in another order; the middle mouse button or × closes one. PgUp and PgDn go to the previous and next page.

The list above the tree shows the pages in another way:

The view is kept with the project and is the order of the document: the PDF, the contents and PgUp/PgDn follow it.

Ctrl-click (⌘ on the Mac) adds a page to the pages picked, or takes it out; Shift-click picks the pages up to it; Ctrl-click on a group picks all its pages. Esc lets them go. Export PDF… in the right-click menu then has these pages ticked; the menu of a group has Export PDF… for its pages.

• New page… adds a page after the current one.
• Page properties… changes its number, title, structure, type and paper. The same fields are in the Properties panel when nothing is selected.
• Page → Move page up / Move page down change the order; Delete page… removes it (Undo brings it back).
• Right-click a group (=PS, +CAB1): Move group up / Move group down put it before or after the group beside it. The order of the groups is the order of the pages everywhere: the tree, the PDF and the contents. Locations keep one order in the whole project, under every function.

The PDF and the contents have the cover and the contents first, then the pages in the order of the tree, then the other reports.

Page number, function and location

A page has a number (1, 2a, 10) and a title. It may also have a function (=PS, what the equipment does) and a location (+CAB1, where it is). Devices drawn on the page take these codes unless they have their own, so a page of =PS+CAB1 names its contactor simply -K1, and its full tag is =PS+CAB1-K1. See Devices and tags.

Pages are shown as =PS+CAB1/3: the structure, then the number. A cross-reference /3.4 means page 3, column 4.

Title block

The frame has numbered columns along the top and the title block in the bottom right corner (ISO 7200 style). It is filled from:

• Project properties…: name, project number, customer, company, drawn by, approved by, original, replacement of / replaced by, description, logo and the revisions (rev, change, date, name; the last ones are shown in every title block);
• the page: title, number, function and location with their descriptions, the date it was changed;
• the number of pages of the project.

Descriptions of function and location codes (=PS "Pump station") are entered once in the page properties and shown wherever the code is used.

Paper

The paper of the project is set in Project properties…: A3 or A4, landscape or portrait. A page can have a paper of its own (Paper in the page properties, "As the project" by default): a panel layout in A3 portrait inside a landscape project, for example.

A page of its own paper has its own frame, title block and columns; cross-references count its columns; the PDF gives it its own page size. Report pages always use the paper of the project.

Page types