Reports and PDF

Report pages

Project → Reports… chooses the reports of the project and makes their pages:

The connection list gives the length of each wire of the cabinet and the metres of wire by cross-section and colour (wire lengths).

Report pages are listed under Reports in the page tree, in the paper of the project. A table longer than a page goes on over more pages. They are not edited by hand: change the schematic and run Reports… → Update reports again. Entries link to their places: click a page reference in the PDF to go there.

Export PDF

Export PDF… (Mod+P) saves the pages as a PDF:

• the pages ticked in the tree of the window, in the order of the Pages tab: a group at once or page by page; All, None, Current page;
• the boxes of the functions (=), locations (+) and page types above it tick the pages they take, e.g. only =FN, the drawings of a function added to the cabinet; then a page can still be ticked or not by hand;
• Also pages with devices of the chosen = / + adds the pages of other codes those devices are drawn on, such as the PLC pages of =PS+CAB1 with the sensors of =FN+FIELD;
• pages picked in the Pages tab are ticked when the window opens;
• in colour or black and white;
• open it after saving, if you like.

A PDF of some of the pages gets reports of its own; the project does not change. Its contents list its pages. The parts, device, terminal, cable, connection and PLC I/O lists have the devices of the chosen functions and locations (a connection when one of its ends is such a device), or, when the pages were ticked by hand, the devices drawn on them; a list that would be empty is left out. The title block counts the pages of this PDF; page numbers and cross-references stay as in the project.

The PDF has the pages in document order (cover, contents, schematic, panel, reports), a bookmark per page, and links on cross-references and report entries. Each page has its own paper size. Report pages that no longer fit their tables are updated first.

Markers

Export markers… writes the markers of the project for the software of a marker printer: a CSV with ; between the cells (UTF-8), which Excel opens as it is. One row is one marker, in the order they are put on:

The columns are Kind; Text; Count; For; Where; Part; Page: Where is the function and location (=PS+CAB1), so the markers of one cabinet can be picked out; Part gives the size of the marker (the cross-section of a cable, the type of a terminal, the part of a device); Page is where it is drawn. Choose which markers to export, and the tags as on the pages (-K1) or in full (=PS+CAB1-K1).

The markers of the wires are not here: they are in the wire list (below), with each wire, as Marker A and Marker B.

Wire list for cutting

Export wire list… writes the wires of the cabinet to cut, as a CSV like the markers: No.; Wire; From; To; Cross-section; Colour; Length, mm; Marker A; Marker B; Ferrule A; Ferrule B; Page.

• The wires are those of the Connection list: device to device, devices on one potential one after another (wire lengths). Cores of cables and wires to devices outside the cabinet are left out.
• They come in batches to cut: by cross-section, colour, then length. Wires without a length (a device not placed on a panel layout) come last.
• The markers are written as on the pages for the wire numbering of the project.
• Ferrules (1.5 mm² × 8 mm: 8 mm up to 2.5 mm², 10 mm up to 6 mm², 12 mm above) are given when it is on in Project properties… → Wires and cables (Ferrules on the wire ends).

The cross-section and colour of a wire are its own, else those of its potential (set them in the properties of the potential point).

Tables in the bottom panel

The tables at the bottom are live: Devices, Connections, Terminals, PLC I/O and Parts list. Click a row to go to its place. The parts list can be saved as CSV.

Rows are selected like files: a click, Ctrl/Cmd+click to add one, Shift+click for a range. A click on a row of a selection of several keeps them all selected.

In the Connections table, double-click Colour, mm² or Length to change it, for that row or, on a selected row, for all selected rows:

• Colour and cross-section: a drawn wire takes them itself; an automatic connection becomes a drawn wire between the same two points on the schematic (it looks the same). A row via +24V is the connection of a device to the potential point.
• Length: a length in mm, used as it is; empty to work it out again (wire lengths). Wires through a potential get theirs on the panel layout (wire routes).

Right-click selected rows for Colour and cross-section… (one window for all; a list left at As they are changes nothing) and Length worked out again.