Terminal strips
Terminals placed in a row on a page make one strip, such as -X1: the first terminal shows -X1:1, the next ones only their numbers. A terminal placed next to the row joins the strip and takes the next number.
- The Terminals table lists every strip like a terminal diagram: number, cable and target outside, jumper, target inside, part and position. Type new numbers in it, or renumber a whole strip.
- Jumpers bridge terminals of a strip — side by side, for example the 0 V terminals of several sensors, or every second or third terminal as a comb jumper for L, N and PE of one motor after another, on one page or several. The bridged terminals become one net.
- Each terminal can have its own part — feed-through, PE or fuse terminal — and the strip its accessories: end plates, end clamps, markers. The parts list counts them all.
Cables and cores
A cable is a line drawn across the wires it carries, with its tag and data beside it: -W1 Motor cable 4G1,5. Every wire it crosses becomes a core.
- From the cores field the program makes the core names:
4G1,5gives 1, 2, 3 and GNYE, and the PE wire gets the green-yellow core. - One cable can be drawn on several pages — to a level switch and back, or on the page of each sensor — and stays one cable.
- The project check reports a cable with more wires than cores and a core used twice.
Lengths of wires and cables
With the devices placed on the panel layout, the program follows each wire along the cable ducts and gives its length with a reserve at both ends. A cable gets its route outside the cabinet from you and the run inside from the panel: its length goes into the cable list and the parts list counts it in metres.
Reports and files for the workshop
- Terminal diagram — one per strip, with the cable and core at each terminal.
- Cable list — every cable with type, cores, cross-section, from and to, route and length, and the metres of each cable type.
- Connection list — every wire with its length, and the metres of wire by cross-section and colour.
- Markers — a CSV file for the software of a marker printer: terminal, device, cable and core markers.
- Wire list for cutting — wires in batches by cross-section, colour and length, with their markers and, if you use them, ferrules.
Report pages are made by Project → Reports and exported with the other pages to one vector PDF with bookmarks and links — the whole project, or only chosen functions, locations or page types, with lists of just their devices.