Plate and door pages
A panel layout page draws a mounting plate or a door of the size you give, at 1:1, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10 or 1:20 — the largest scale that fits the paper is offered. Everything on it is in millimetres of the plate; texts and lines keep their size on paper at any scale.
DIN rails and cable ducts
Draw rails and ducts by their start and end and drag their ends to change the length. With a part they go into the parts list with their lengths. A rail carries its devices: move or turn it, and they come along.
Devices as front views
- The Devices tab lists what is not placed yet; drag a device onto the plate and it snaps onto the rail by its mounting point, at a free place against its neighbour. Several devices dragged together — the terminals of a strip — snap as one.
- A device is drawn by the front view of its part: from the 3D model, else the manufacturer's 2D view, else a rectangle of its dimensions.
- Each part of a device is placed on its own: end covers and end brackets of a strip, the auxiliary block of a contactor. Parts that sit on another — a marker carrier on an end bracket — take their place by the mounting points in the part data.
- From a device on the plate go to its symbols in the schematic, and back.
Wire routes and lengths
From the layout the program lays every wire: out of the device on the side it is drawn in the schematic, into the nearest duct, along the ducts and out to the other device; to the door through the hinge loop. With a reserve at each end this gives the length of each wire in the connection list and the wire list for cutting. Show wire routes draws the ways on the plate in the colours of the wires. Drag a segment of a route — or of a cable — from one duct into another, and its length follows the way you laid it. Devices on one potential are wired one after another in the order you choose, or each to a bus such as a PE bar.
Cable glands, dimensions and checks
Cable glands go on the plate with their parts, and each cable comes in through the gland you choose and runs along the ducts to where it is stripped. Dimension lines catch the corners and centres of the plate, rails, ducts and devices. The project check reports devices placed twice and devices that overlap one another or a duct.