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Thecontentsofsomepropertiesfields suchasthePagedescriptionfield aredeleted. TheautomaticallysuggestedFullpagenameandthe prepopulatedPagetypearekept. TheAddpagetype dialogopens. InthePagedescriptionfield, enterthetextCoversheet. FortheFormnameproperty,clickintheValuefieldnexttoit,andthenclick thebuttonthatappears. Novalueneedstobe enteredforthePlotframenameproperty.

Theplotframeusedforapageisalreadypredefinedinthe projectsettings. Theotherdisplayedproperties,ScaleandGrid,arealreadyprepopulatedwithcorrect entries. ThecoversheetisshowninthetreeviewofthePagenavigatorandopenedinthe Graphicaleditor. ClosingapageSinceyoudon’t immediatelyneedthesecondschematicpage,closeitagain. The page3ControlET1isclosed.

InthetreeviewofthePagenavigator,selectthepage2 Coversheet. The coversheetoftheprojectisshown. Thisisthecase,ifinthe Viewmenu,youactivatedthemenuitemWorkbook. InthePagenavigator,youcanrecognizetheopened pagefromthefactthatthepagenameanddescription 2Coversheet arenowinbold. Tip:Toopenapage selectedinthePagenavigator,youcanalsodoubleclickonthepageorpressthe[Enter]key.

Openthe page1inthesameway. Thiswillautomaticallyclosethefirstpageanddisplaytheemptyschematicinthe Graphicaleditor. Forinstance,selectpage2again,thenfromthepopupmenuofthePagenavigatorselectthemenu itemOpeninnewwindow. Forevery openedpage,atabisshownbelowthegraphicaleditorwindow. Youcanquicklyswitchbetweenpagesby clickingthesetabs. Inthefollowingsection,wedescribehowyoucanassign theidentifierbyeditingthepageproperties. InthetreeviewofthePagenavigator,selectthecoversheet page2Coversheet.

Todothis, clickthe[ Here, youcanenterthestructureidentifierandthenameofthepage e. EnterthevalueANLinthe Higherlevelfunctionfield. InthePagename field,changetheentryfrom2to1. Thestructure identifiersareacceptedforthefieldofthesamenameinthePagepropertiesdialog. InthePage propertiesdialog,click[OK]. Forthe”Higherlevel function”structureidentifierlevelwiththeidentifierANL,theiconwillbeusedandforthe”Mounting location”levelwiththeidentifierDBT,theiconwillbeused.

Repeatthisactionfortheschematicpage page1and3. IntheFullpagenamedialog,asthestructureidentifierfortheHigherlevelfunction, enterthedesignationANLagain. FortheMountinglocation,enterthedesignationSCPfortheschematic pages. Nowallpages intheprojecthavestructureidentifiers. YoumayfirsthavetoenlargethePagenavigator windowalittlebeforeyoucanreadallthepagedescriptions. Note:Ifyouhavemadeachangeduringpage editing forinstance,changedpageproperties,insertedgraphicalelements,etc.

Thereisnoseparatesavenecessary,andsothereisnocorrespondingmenuitemin theprogram! Youwillalsolearnhowtoopenandcloseaproject,andyouwilllearnafewbasic commandsforviewingandeditingaproject. Here,theprojectsareshownwhicharelocatedinyourpredefinedproject directorybydefault. Thepagedescriptionis displayedinthePagenavigator.

First, pagethroughthepagesofthisextensiveproject. Thecurrentlyselectedlevelinthetreeviewwillbeopenedor closed. Forinstance,ifyouwantto showallthepagesofaprojectinthetreeatonce,thenselectthe closed levelwiththeprojectname,and pressthe[X]keyonthenumericblockofyourkeyboard. Foralargerproject,thisprocesscantakesome time. PagingThroughtheProjectPagesUsingtheappropriateprogramfunctions,youcanlookatthe pagesofaprojectoneaftertheotherintheGraphicaleditor. Repeatthisactionafewtimesandlookatthecontentsofthepagesinthe Graphicaleditor.

Ifthetreestructureinthe Pagenavigatorwasnotyetcompletelyopened,thiswillbedonewhilepagingthroughthepages. Thepage nameandthedescriptionofthecurrentlyopenedpagearehighlightedinboldinthePagenavigator.

TurningonthegriddisplayAglanceatthetwo menuitemsViewandOptionswillshowyouthatinEPLANtherearenumerousprogramfunctionswhich makeiteasierforyoutodrawschematics.

Youcanworkwithagridtomakethepositioningofelements easier. Ifthisoptionisactivated, thegraphicalelementsandsymbolsarepositioneddirectlyonthegridpointsofthegridduringthe drawingprocess. Inthegraphicaleditor,youcan modifythegridsizesetbydefaulttotherespectivepagetype. UsingthetobuttonsintheViewtoolbar, youcanswitchbetweenfivedifferentgrids,forwhichdifferentgridsizeshavebeenstoredintheuser settings.

PleasekeeptheSnaptogridoptionactivatedduringthesubsequentschematicgenerationanduse GridCwiththedefaultgridsize4. The”ON”or “OFF”textinthestatusbarinfrontofthegridsizeindicateswhetherthesnaptogridisactivatedornot seeexampleregardingstatusbaronpage Theuseofgridsnapisindependentofthegrid displayoptions.

Ifthisviewbothersyoulaterwhencreatingtheschematic,thenturnthegriddisplayoffin thesameway. Forschematicediting,itisoftena goodideatoenlargeacertainscreensegmentinordertobeabletoseedetailsbetter. Forinstance,youcan usethe”windowzoom”inordertoshowacertainwindowsegmentinanenlargedview. In additiontothemousepointer,amagnifyingglasswillalsobedisplayed.

Leftclickthemouseinthe upperleftcorneroftheschematic,andusethemousetoopenanareawhichincludesaboutaquarterofthe schematicpage. Clicktheleftmousebutton again. Bydefault,duringscrollingthemousewheel actsinthesamewayyouarefamiliarwithfromotherCADprograms.

Inthesettings,youalsohavetheoptionofchangingthe scrollingbehaviorsothatitmatchesthebehavioroftexteditingprograms. Inthiscase,whenyouscroll withthemousewheel,thevisiblesectionofthepageismovedupwardsordownwards. Theelementisdisplayed inadifferentcolor. Belowthesymbol,asmalltextwindow Tooltip isdisplayedwithinformationabout theelement. Youcan,however, usetheUndocommandtoreinserttheelement.

Note:When editingelementsintheGraphicaleditor,besidestheusualWindowsoperatingmethods firstselect elements,thencallcommand ,inmostcasesthereverseorderofoperation firstcallthecommand,then selectelements isalsosupported. Thebox withtheredXisthesymbolassignedtothedeletefunction,andtheboxwiththedashedlinestandsforthe areatobeselected.

Leftclickthemousebutton ontheupperleftoftheelement,andusethemousetodragaframearoundQ1. TheelementQ1is removed. IfyourcursorisinthePagenavigator,thentheprojectforwhichyouhaveselectedone ormorepagesisclosed. Note:PleasenotethatthemenuitemCloseinthepopupmenuPagenavigator onlyclosesthepagecurrentlylocatedintheforeground. Tip:In theProjectmenu,beneaththemenuitemPrint,alistofthelastprojectsopenedisdisplayed.

Youcanuse thislisttoopenacorrespondingprojectwithoutneedingtousethemenuitemOpen. Nowthatyouhavelookedatthecomplicateddemoprojectinthischapter,inthenexttwomainsections youwillcreateamuch”simpler”schematic. By default,symbolsdonotcontainanylogicaldata.

Whatisa component? Itconsistsofthe functionandsymbol. A componenthasadevicetag,connectionpointdesignations,andsoon. Devicesare logicalelectronicorfluidtechnicalunitsthatworktogether. Dependingonthepagetype,acertaincoordinatesystem willbethedefault. Onelectricalengineeringschematicpages,thecoordinatesystemisofthetype, Electricalengineering.

Thecoordinates areindicatedingridincrementsRXandRYanddisplayedinthestatusbar. Anglesandotherelements Tnodes, interruptionpoints,etc. The Coordinateinputdialogisclosed. Youcanimmediatelyinsertmore angles. Notes:Intheentire sampleproject,weplacethedifferentschematicelementsintopreciselydefinedpositionstomakeit possibletocomparetheresults.

Thiskindofdeterminationofinsertioncoordinatesisnotabsolutely necessarywheneditingyourownschematics. Todothiswheninsertingasdescribedaboveyoucan useCoordinateinputorpositiontheelementsatthegivencoordinatesusingthemouseorthecursorkeys.

IfyouusetheCoordinateinputdialogtodothis,eachelementisdirectlyplacedafterconfirmingthe coordinateswith[OK]. Ifyoupositiontheelementusingthemouseorkeyboard,thenafterpositioningyou muststillleftclickorpress[Enter]inordertoplacetheelementonthepage. Pleasenotethatwhen insertingtospecificcoordinatesoutsideofthecoordinatesystemsinuse,thegridsizebeingusedwill alsoplayarole.

If, forexample,inthePagepropertiesyouchangedthedefaultGridfrom”4. Oncetheconnectionpointsoftwoanglesymbolsaredirectly horizontally orvertically alignedintheschematic,theyareautomaticallyconnectedwithaconnection line. Thisiscalled”autoconnecting”,inwhichtheconnectionlinescreatedthiswayarecalled “autoconnectlines”. Onlytheseautoconnectlinesarerecognizedandreportedaselectricalconnections betweensymbols. Autoconnectingisalwaysperformediftheconnectionpointsoftwosymbolsarealigned horizontallyorvertically.

Wheninsertingandmovingsymbols,apreviewoftheautoconnectlinesis shown. InsertingPotentialConnectionPointsThepotentialsintheschematiccanbedefinedbypotential connectionpoints. Thesymbolforthe potentialconnectionpointhangsonthemousepointer. TheProperties components : Potentialconnectionpointopens. OnthePotentialdefinitiontabinthe propertiesdialog,fortheNameofpotential,enterthevalueL1.

Thepropertiesdialogis thenclosed. Afterthesymbolsareplaced,adifferentsymbolvariant mustbeselectedinthepropertiesdialog. Tip:Iftherearedifferentvariantsofa symbol suchasforapotentialconnectionpoint ,thenyoualreadyhaveseveralpossibilitiesduring positioningtoselectbetweenthedifferentvariants. Forinstance,ifthesymbolishangingonthemouse pointer,youcanpressthe[Ctrl]keyandmovethecursorinacircle. Onceyouhavedecidedonavariant,firstreleasethe[Ctrl]key,thenclicktheleftmousebuttontoplace thesymbol.

Adifferentwaytopagebetweenthevariantsavailableconsistsofpressingthe[Tab]keywhile inserting. Foreach direction,therearethenfourvariants. Theinsertionpointsofallplacedschematicelementsare shownintheschematicas”blacksquares”. TheT noderightdialogopens.

Tips:Forfastdisplayandhidingoftheinsertionpoints,youcanalsousethe[i] key. Bydoubleclickingtheinsertionpoint,youcanalsoopentherespectivepropertiesdialogandthen editthepropertiesforothersymbols,textsandgraphicalelementsthatareplacedinthegraphicaleditor.

Therectanglehangson themousepointer. Clicktheleftmousebuttonto determinethestartingpointoftherectangle. This document or parts of this document may not be copied or reproduced by any other. The software described in this document is subject to a licensing agreement.

The use and reproduc-. All other product names and trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective. The source code of 7-Zip and. Interface Elements Creating Projects Creating Pages Opening Pages Opening a Project Creating a View Closing a Project Creating a Schematic Selecting Parts Assigning Parts Generating Reports Printing a Project KG is pleased to welcome you as a new user.

Since this documentation is designed as an introduction to EPLAN, many of the more complicated functions and relationships will be ignored. These details are covered in our trainings, where you can also find help with your own individual and company-specific tasks. You should defi-nitely take part in our training program in order to make the best use of the functionality and possibilities of the system. In the program itself, we provide you with an extensive online help sys-tem.

In addition to conceptual information and dialog descriptions, here you will also find “step by step” instructions for most program functions. The “Proceed as follows” section of the operating information gives you step by step instructions for using the program. Once you have started the program and require information on a particular dialog, you can then call up the appropriate help by simply pressing the [F1] key.

We hope that the beginner’s manual will give you a thorough insight into the many different options and features of your EPLAN software. Italic text provides particularly important information that you should definitely pay attention to. Directory names and direct entries among other things are displayed in a non-proportional font. Function keys, keyboard keys, and buttons within the program are shown in square brackets e. In order to find a particular program function, the menus and options shown in a menu path must be selected in the sequence shown.

The operating information provides step-by-step instructions for reaching specific targets, and in many places, after the right-arrow symbol you’ll also find the reaction of the program to your action. In combination with settings or fields e. In the following chapters, you will gradually create and evaluate a small sample project. So that you can successfully follow the instructions, we assume that you have already installed EPLAN and have the required software protection dongle and license.

While writing this guide, we used the fully licensed program with its entire scope of functionality. If you have not licensed all the modules, this docu-mentation or some figures in this documentation may possibly go be-yond the scope of functionality of the software you have purchased, that is, functions are also described which may not be available to you.

The user interface of your EPLAN application may differ from the figures presented here if, in the Select scope of menu dialog, you selected the Advanced or Expert user mode when you started the program. That is the mode we used when creating this manual. All settings can be made in a central location in the program in the Options menu under the menu item Settings.

For the sample project, we almost exclusively used the default settings of the project template being used. Don’t change these settings while working with the sample project; otherwise you may see different results.

Since a list of the different call-up options would make this guide much larger, we usually use the mouse controls in the action instructions. During program installation, a program icon is created on the Windows Desktop.

Here, you specify the user mode in which you would like to define the displayed scope of the menu. In this informational dialog, which is automatically shown every time you start the program, you are shown useful information on program functions. Deselect the Show tips at startup check box if you do not wish this dialog to appear every time the program is started.

Before you create a project, you will first see a little more information about the user interface in the next chapter. In the Select scope of menu dialog, if you activated the Do not show this dialog again check box, this dialog will no longer be shown when you start EPLAN, and the currently specified menu scope will be used.

In this chapter, you will learn about the most important elements of the program interface. You will also learn how to change the interface easily. Be-sides various other interface elements, you see the Page navigator and the Graphical preview on the left side of the main window. When you first start the program, these two windows are empty. The area on the right side with the background image will be used later as a working area for the opened pages.

The main window is the entire working area of the program; its size and position can be changed. For many other interface elements e. You can attach “dock” these ele-ments to the window edges inside the main window. What is the Page navigator? You can choose between two representation types. In the tree view, the pages are displayed hierarchically by page type and iden-tifier such as higher-level function, mounting location, etc.

In the list view, this information is shown arranged in a table. You can switch be-tween the two views by clicking on the corresponding tab. In the Page navigator, you can edit the pages of one project, for instance, copy pages, delete them, or change page properties.

Multiple pages from different projects can not be edited at one time. What is the Graphical preview? The Graphical preview is a preview window for the minimized display of highlighted pages, symbols, image files, macros, forms, etc. For exam-ple, if you have highlighted one or several pages in the page navigator, they will be displayed in a minimized window in the Graphical preview. Using this window, you can quickly search through all the pages of a project. The horizontal bar at the top edge of a Windows application is the title bar.

It contains the program icon with the system menu, the program name, and the buttons controlling the size setting of the window. If you have opened a project page, the name of the opened page will also be shown in the title bar by default. The menu bar is located below the title bar.

It contains the most impor-tant commands and dialog calls. In order to show all the menu items of a menu, left-click on the corres-ponding menu. Until you have opened a project and a page, you will not be able to select many of the menu items. These menu items are shown in a grayed-out view. Some menu items work like a switch, that is, they can be turned on or off. This applies particularly to the View menu for the Graphical preview menu item.

If the option is switched on, then this is indicated with a pre-. In the Graphical preview, the pages you have selected in the Page navigator are shown in a reduced view. Using this window, you can, for instance, quickly search through all the pages of a project.

In many places in the program in fields of windows or dialogs, in an opened page you can open up a popup menu by right-clicking. The popup menu shows the most commonly used menu items for the object in question. If menu items are present in the popup menu of a field which go beyond the standard functions, you can see that from a “popup menu button”.

This button is located above the corresponding field. As standard, the toolbars are located below the menu bar and consist of buttons allowing you to directly call up the most important EPLAN func-tions. Here, too, you do not initially have all the buttons available. The status bar is located at the lower edge of the window. When you point the mouse at a menu item or a button in a toolbar, a brief informa-tive text relating to the action called by this command is displayed here.

If you have the cursor in an opened page, the status bar shows you information about the cursor position, grid, and logical status, along with data about the currently selected element, in some cases.

On logic pages such as this schematic page , the coordinates are entered in grid increments; and on graphics pages, they are entered in millimeters or inches. The ability to modify the size of the EPLAN main window and also other dialogs is indicated by three diagonal lines in the lower right-hand corner of the window.

In the maximized view of the main window, the diagonal lines are not shown. To show them, the window must be reduced in size, for instance using the button. You can change the view of the user interface to fit your own work habits. Many dialogs, such as the Page navigator, which you often use for editing your data, can be permanently positioned on your screen while working with EPLAN and undocked from the EPLAN main window in the same manner as independent windows.

You can position any of these “Windows” in an undocked state , and every other dialog, by pulling the title bar of the dialog to the desired position while holding down the left mouse button. Some user interface control elements, such as the menu bar, the tool-bars or various windows like the Page Navigator, can be positioned inside or outside of the EPLAN main window.

Next click the title bar of the Page navigator with the left mouse button and keep the button pressed. Press [Ctrl] to avoid docking, and pull the Page navigator to a free position on the Windows Desktop. If the borders of the respective control element are displayed with a thick line, EPLAN positions the control element as an independent, undocked element on the Windows desktop. Repeat this procedure for additional control elements. To do this for a toolbar or the menu bar, click on a “free” spot within the bar.

To do this, click the title bar of the desired undocked control element e. You can recognize this by the border of the element being displayed as a thin line. This will be a horizontal or vertical line, depending on whether you wish to position the control element at the top, bottom, left, or right. You can recognize the orientation from the thinly drawn pre-view rectangle. When the program is exited, EPLAN saves the last settings of these elements docked, undocked, size, position and restores them the next time the program is started.

The following illustration shows the EPLAN user interface reconfigured by docking and undocking control elements. Moreover, another toolbar “Symbols” has been hidden and two more moved around inside the main window “Graphics”, “Connection symbols”. To avoid unnecessarily reducing the size of your EPLAN user interface, you have the option of hiding the toolbars you don’t need. Select the Standard toolbar, for instance, and click the check box in front of the toolbar name.

Practice displaying unhiding toolbars too. To do this, call up the popup menu again and click on the name of a hidden toolbar e.

For the hiding and displaying of toolbars, you also have the Customize dialog available. You can also use this dialog to customize and extend the predefined toolbars and create your own toolbars. Once you have changed the EPLAN user interface to suit your needs, you can save this arrangement as a “workspace. We provide you with a few predefined workspaces which you can use as templates for your own workspaces.

The interface changes you made disappear. Besides the Page naviga-tor, the main window now also contains the two windows Potentials and Connections. In these special navigators, all the potentials and connec-tions of a project are shown. EPLAN now shows the view displayed when it first started up. Using this action, you can reset an EPLAN user interface that you may have changed back to the original state. You can find more detailed information about the user interface for instance, how you can define your own workspaces in the EPLAN online help.

Now that you have learned something about the operation of the user interface in the last chapter, you will learn how to create a project quickly and easily using the “Project Wizard”.

What is a project? In EPLAN, schematics and attached documents such as lists and over-views are created as pages within projects. A project consists of a collec-tion of different types of documents. Projects are stored and organized in a special database “Project Management”. What is a project structure?

In EPLAN, “Project structure” means the combination of all identifier structures used in the project for objects, pages, devices, and functions. All objects in a project pages, devices, and functions must be identified and placed in a hierarchical structure within the project. In a hierarchical-ly arranged project structure, for instance, you can store and find pages and devices more easily.

The identifiers for project structure are called “structure identifiers”. What is a project template? In order to create a new project, you always need a template. When using the project template, you create a project in which some settings are already predefined.

For instance, the structure of page identifiers and device tags are stored in a project template. Even as a beginner, you can use the Project wizard to quickly and easily get results. In the dialog of the wizard the Create project Wizard dia-log you can enter all the principal data for a new project step by step. In the Project name field on the first tab, enter the name for your first project.

Select a storage location for the project. To do this, click [ By default, your projects are managed in the Projects directory in a “company folder” created during installation in the illustration, the.

A new folder is created below the currently selected “company folder”, whose temporary name New Folder is highlighted with an. Select a Template for the project. To do this, click the [ If you don’t select a template here, you will not be able to perform any more steps in the Project wizard.

The Open dialog is closed, and the name for the project template is accepted for the Template field. The template and location now being used will then be the defaults next time the Project wizard is started. The Importing project dialog opens. The Project wizard copies the template into the new project. This procedure may take some time. Projects form the. This parameter should then be switched of by deselecting the option check box.

This parameter should also be switched of for performance reasons if project editing becomes very slow EPLAN must constantly update the data in the background and then update the report as soon as it is opened — this requires a fast computer. This also applies to the Update connections when switching pages setting. The Update connections throughout the project manually setting has the following efect: If this setting is active, the connections will be updated throughout the entire project.

If the setting is inactive, only the selected connections one or several pages or selected devices, etc. The workspace can be changed at any time during project editing. Workspaces will be handled in more detail later in section 2. Some of these entries are used for the page or project properties, and others are used for system messages, for example when a conlict with another user occurs during project editing.

These entries are also useful for forms, plot frames, etc. The Reactivate suppressed messages setting is interesting. If this is set, then dialogs whose displays have been deactivated are once more displayed. Apart from this, there is also the Display in title bar setting. Here you can deine what information is to appear in the title bar: only the current page, only the project name and the current page, or the project name including project path and the currently open page.

I have found the 4; 2; 1; 0. These entries remain empty until a change of standard has occurred. This area is only illed with data when a change of standard has occurred. Similar to project master data, if no change of standard has been performed then this area is empty. The inter- face settings are deined in this area.

These settings are adopted as default values if no other settings are used during the direct output. These settings afect a number of diferent areas, such as functions, pages, and connec- tions. This can also be an external PPC sys- tem.

The shortcut keys can be individually assigned or deleted here, or the keyboard assign- ments can be restored to the default settings.

You can also use your own schemes to change all the directories in a single step. The source language is the language for which trans- lations will be later generated.

The foreign lan- guages available in the database are displayed simultaneously. The parameter also allows default settings for importing new translations and deines the behavior when texts are entered AutoComplete or AutoCorrect. Company settings Fig. These ten diferent fonts allow you to later switch from one font to another in the entire project without any problems, provided the afected object uses one of the global fonts.

You can create your own schemes for comparisons. EPLAN can be started as oten as desired. One of the practical beneits of EPLAN multiple starts is that you can have parts manage- ment and the dictionary open at the same time, allowing you to enter missing entries without having to interrupt your work on open projects.

When you are inished editing, for example in parts management, you of course should and must synchronize this data with the project and decide where these parts are to be stored. This can be done automatically on each subsequent start. Here too, you must care- fully consider whether automation at this point is actually useful. EPLAN lets the user decide. This logical information must be speciied for the symbols, forms, or properties in EPLAN plot frames so that it is visible.

This is done by assigning properties. Every property has a property name and an associated property number known as an ID, and possibly also an index that is only valid for this speciic property. You can use the property number to gain an approximate idea of the area that the property belongs to project, page, etc. The property value assigned to each property is unique to the property.

EPLAN generally distinguishes between several diferent types of properties. There are Project properties relevant project information such as the project name; , Page properties properties of a page in the project itself, e. The Special text — Pro- ject properties dialog will open. Here you can select the desired project property and accept it by clicking oK.

The project property is loaded into the Property ield of the Special text — Project properties dialog. When you have inished entering data, you con- irm by clicking oK. The project property Fig. Placing project Project properties can be added to the pro- properties ject via the graphical button in the project properties. Now click the button to open the Property selec- tion dialog. Select the conFigure command in the popup menu.

The Prop- erty arrangement dialog opens. The graphical buttons can be used to arrange the properties as you wish. Page properties can also be used everywhere. In the Property ield, you can use the button to open the Property selection dialog. When you click oK, the selected property is loaded into the Property ield of the Special text — Page property dialog.

Ater formatting the text if necessary, on the Format tab , you close the Spe- cial text — Page properties by clicking Fig. The special text now hangs on the Placing a page cursor and can be placed as desired. Some symbol properties, such as connection point designations or device tags, can be accessed directly. You click the graphical button on the Property device type tab. Here you can select the desired property or proper- ties to be used in the symbol properties and conirm by pressing oK.

The property has now been added. It is also possible to adjust the sequence in which properties are displayed in a symbol. To do this, you either right click and use the popup menu or click the button. Select the conFigure entry in the menu that opens up. Here you can now use the familiar graphical buttons to move or sort the properties.

Forms reports are distin- guished by report type. Some properties are shared by all types of forms, but there are also properties that apply only to speciic report types.

Form properties can only be edited in the form editor. An example of this is the Path areas property and its size. Plot frame properties can only be edited in the plot frame editor. This is not unusual in such an extensive program. At this point, I would like to draw special attention to a number of dialog elements that occur repeatedly in many dialogs. It is there- fore important to know what they mean and how they can be used. Graphical buttons play an important role because they provide easy access to most of the functions and procedures in EPLAN.

This means that they always have the same structure, regardless of whether it is a device dialog for a motor overload switch or a transformer or any other component. EPLAN uses diferent buttons in difer- ent tabs to simplify operation. Here is a list of the most commonly used buttons and what they mean.

The number of buttons can vary here. Move the selected entries to the start of the list Move the selected entries to the end of the list Swap two selected entries swap positions In contrast to the graphical buttons in the device dialog, multiple entries can be selected here.

The functions provided by the other graphical buttons have already been described. Additional buttons in the Filter or Sorting dialogs: Edit entry Copy entry 2. Clicking the button itself displays the same popup menu. It is very useful in dialogs that open iles or directories. Here you can quickly set the default directories, without having to click all the way through to the default directory. The default setting is deined in the symbol struc- ture and cannot be changed here.

To change these default settings, you have to edit the symbols. You can also change these property arrangements.

Once they have been changed, they initially appear in the property arrangement with the designa- tion User-deined. This returns all manually changed settings on a symbol back to the default values deined for the symbol.

This user-deined arrangement can also be saved via the button and then called up or set at similar symbols. You can assign a descriptive name to the property arrangement. Ater you click oK, this property arrangement is saved, entered into the selection ield and is then avail- able to all symbol variants. The Use as default option allows EPLAN to immediately the next time you insert the same symbol and automatically use your own property arrangement.

Though the dialogs may be somewhat diferent, the basic principle always remains very similar. A normal text dialog is used as an example here. To format the text according to your personal wishes, you need to switch to the Format tab. You can freely format the text you just entered. You can edit all selection ields or select default values.

These schemes are then always available for new versions, other projects or other workstations depending on the installation. This way, during an import, only those scheme types that can actually be imported into the current scheme are displayed.

System master data is stored in the directories with the associated user directory that were set during installation. In addition to the user-speciic system master data, the origi- nal EPLAN system master data is also installed in the EPLAN original master data directory depending on the directory selected during the installation.

In case of a new installation or instal- lation of an update, the user-speciic system master data is not overwritten or updated. In the following dialog, you can then update your own system master data accordingly. System master data contains data such as symbol libraries with the associated symbols, function deinitions, forms and plot frames. Project master data is the other type of master data.

Project master data, ater initial use, is moved from the system master data and stored in the project; ater it is stored it is independent of the system master data.

However, to increase your own working speed, EPLAN is very lexible in allowing functions accessed with the mouse to also be accessed via deinable keyboard shortcuts. Normally functions can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut if they are also accessible in the main menus, such as Page, Project etc. This function can be assigned a keyboard shortcut because it is a normal menu command.

It is possible, but not recommended. Here are a number of recommended keyboard shortcuts that have proven useful in prac- tice. Admittedly, many menu items are easier to reach with the mouse than with cryptic key combinations that one usually can- not remember. This makes it possible to always call up your own user interface coniguration when you start up EPLAN on the same computer. EPLAN allows you to create separate work- spaces for particular areas that contain exactly these desired toolbars, views or dialogs.

A new workspace is created via the button. You should enter a name in the empty Name ield and a sensible description for the workspace in the Description ield. EPLAN has a number of difer- ent dialog representations in the navigators to ensure information is clearly displayed. Similar to Windows Explorer, all information is displayed in a tree with small symbols. No changes to the form and content of the tree view are possible.

EPLAN provides no options for this here. This is where you can deine how devices should be shown in the tree view, for example, by identiier or by the page preix.

This representation type ofers many more customization options to suit your working habits. As with the tree view, EPLAN shows all devices here as well again depending on the navigator that was selected.

The cable navigator shows only cables, the terminal navigator shows only devices with the terminal function type, etc. To add more information, you right click to call up the popup menu or press the button and then select conFigure coluMns. You can now select or deselect columns and change their order. Click the oK button to save the settings. You now have a personalized list view. Here it is possible to preselect, for instance by selecting the Cable node.

In the lower area, the preselected parts are shown in a clear list with additional speciic information. Edit in table is usually accessed from the tree view by right clicking to access the popup menu or via the button.

Unlike the previous representations tree or list view , only the devices and their func- tions that were previously selected in the navigator are displayed.

All editing functions, such as Copy, Paste and Edit, can be used when editing tables. The only limitations are the nam- ing conventions of the Windows system being used. When the page and device structures are deined, a project has all the properties it needs, such as the device structure the structure identiier, e. Page structure of a project Fig. Data added later, such as forms, is also stored in the project.

This ensures that this project can later be edited with exactly the same data used when the project was created, or which was generated at the beginning of project editing, or was later stored in the project.

A macro project is used for creating and automatically generating window macros, and for managing macros. Logical functions such as cross-references or connection information are not supported in a macro project nor are they displayed. Master data e. And of course the system master data can also be manually synchronized with the project master data.

It is also possible to synchronize in the other direction, to synchronize the project master data with the system master data. If EPLAN inds inconsistencies in the master data at this point, then a message is generated and EPLAN cancels the synchro- nization because incompatible master data cannot be used to overwrite existing master data.

Explorer by double clicking the Projectname. Another possibility is to drag Projectname. EPLAN then opens the project. EPLAN manages dife- rent project types as schematic projects. EPLAN distinguishes between the project types described in the following section.

All other types of projects e. A project template contains preconigured values. Later, when using the template for a new project, the project and page structure can be changed one time. Opening a projekt template Fig.

But project templates can also contain pages. You can, however, easily overwrite an existing project template that has in- correct or changed properties with a new project template.

In the page navigator, you irst use Fig. In the Create project template dialog that is displayed, you need to deine the storage location and the name of the new project template. It is a good idea to create a project templates directory below the root directory, possibly with separate folders for each cus- tomer.

Basic projects are, for example, projects preilled with appropriate customer values such as a predeined page structure, sample pages, graphical report templates, various master data, and much more.

EPLAN then executes a number of functions to create the basic project. Aterward, the Create basic project dialog opens and this is where you deine the directory and the project name of the basic project to be created.

Here too it is a good idea to create a basic projects folder below the root directory, possibly with separate customer folders. Once basic projects or project templates have been created, they cannot be later changed i. However, they can be overwritten with new or modiied data. There are two ways of doing this directly from project editing.

EPLAN comes with several basic projects and project templates. The third way to create a new project is via the optional project management. A new project based on an existing basic project or project template can be created here just as fast as via the project menu. Of course it is also possible to simply copy a project and give it a diferent name. This can be a project template or a basic project.

You simply click the More button. In this example, the basic project Handbook. You can select the relevant project type in the File type ield.

EPLAN then returns to the Create project dialog and imports the selected basic project or the template project into the Template ield. Now, you only have to conirm this dialog by clicking oK and EPLAN will generate the new project in the speciied directory.

The new project is created from the selected basic project. This may take a while depending on the hardware and the storage location server, local. You do not necessarily need to edit these at the moment. This can be done later during project editing. The project proper- ties can now be adjusted or completely changed on the Properties, Structure etc. There is one limitation: The structure of the pages, located in the Structure tab, can no longer be changed grayed out.

It is ixed because the page structure was deined in the basic project. The project can now be edited. This dialog contains several tabs Project, Structure or Numbering and Properties. You must enter data into at least the Project tab the PPE tab is only visible when you have a license for this. The extrAs button allows you to view a summary of the project in the browser. How- ever, this only functions ater the irst Project tab has been successfully completed.

The bAcK button returns you to the previous tab. Here too, this only functions when all necessary information has been entered in the Project tab and EPLAN has created the project, or if you can move to the next tab by pressing next.

Once all necessary entries have been made on the current tab, the next button becomes enabled and you can switch to the next tab. The FinisH button has a special function. It allows the project creation to be inished without making any further manual entries. The cAncel button is used to stop and exit the New project wizard at any time. Back to the tabs: The Project tab is the main core of the project wizard. The information required on this tab is mandatory for creating a new project.

These tabs can be edited or changed later Exceptions: the Structure tab and the Pages selection ield cannot be changed at a later point in time. NOTE: The project name is not checked to see if it already exists until a template project template or basic project has been selected and the NEXT button has been clicked. The action can then still be cancelled.

This can, of course, be changed to any other name. The usual range of templates and basic projects are available for selection. Any storage location can be selected using the button. EPLAN requires no information other than these three entries.

When you click the FinisH button, the wizard can immediately create the new project. In this case clicking the FinisH button , EPLAN would just use the settings on the other tabs for the new pro- ject, generate the project, and close the project wizard.

You can, but do not have to, ill in the information under Specify creation date and Specify creator. NOTE: These ields cannot be changed later on.

It is therefore very impor- tant to make sure you enter the correct data. When you click next, EPLAN gener- ates the basic elements of the new pro- ject based on the selected template.

The Import project dialog is displayed. The Fig. Information on crea- Depending on the amount of data, the tion date and creator import may take a while. You can still select, for instance, a difer- ent template project or storage location by clicking the bAcK button. On the Structure tab, you deine the subsequent page structure and the structure of the individual device groups for the project.

NOTE: Once you have saved the structure set for the pages, it cannot be changed. This applies only to the structure settings of pages. All other structure settings, such as general devices, can be changed later. Example: The Higher-level function and mounting location scheme was set for interruption points.

The Superior option was also set. If an interruption point in the schematic is designated with —L12, EPLAN assigns the device tag the higher-level function and mounting location in the schematic if present based on the deined Higher-level function and mounting location scheme.

The possible changes, structures however, depend on the page scheme set. Certain preconditions exist here for the nesting of devices. NOTE: Apart from the page structure, which is the most important prop- erty, all other settings can be changed at a later date. It is a good idea to select at least the Higher-level function and mounting location scheme. When such a scheme is set, EPLAN does not necessarily expect a higher-level function or mounting location this is also true for other structure identiiers.

Therefore, you can also use this scheme to create schematics with consecutively numbered pages. If you later discover that one of the two identiiers is to be used ater all, the pages can still easily be changed to the desired higher-level function or mounting location structure. The Synchronize master data dialog opens. The standard plot frame can be selected from the system master data pool and is then stored by EPLAN in the project automatically.

The path numbering can be globally set as page-based here default value Page-oriented: every page then begins, for example, with path 1 and ends with path 10 , or the path numbering is to function across all pages. Across pages default value Project-oriented means that the paths are numbered across all pages. For example, path 1 starts on page 1 and path 30 ends on page 3. NOTE: All these settings can be modiied as desired later on in the project settings.

On this tab, you can also use in the drop-down ield to specify a predeined DT number- Deining numbering ing scheme for how new devices are to be numbered online when they are inserted. Here too you can select existing schemes from the selection list. You can also use the button to select a scheme from the selection list.

They can be applied or changed at this point. You use the new button to create new schemes and later assign them to the project. You should use a uniied directory structure to make exported schemes easier to ind. All ields on the Numbering tab have now been entered. Clicking the next button takes you to the Properties tab, which contains general, non-essential descriptive information about the project.

For example, to ill the plot frame with information, such as customer name or the name of the person responsible for the project, from the project properties, this information must be entered in the project properties. This is not essential at this point because this is only descriptive information about the project that can be entered at a later date. When you click the FinisH button, the project is generated and can be opened in the page navigator the page overview.

The graphical editor contains all the functions you need to edit a project. To provide a certain level of clarity and make it easy to edit the page properties, EPLAN has a page navigator. The small symbols preceding the names graphically diferentiate identiiers and pages. The sorting of the identiiers is deined in structure identiier management, i. EPLAN distinguishes between logical and gra- phical pages.

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KG is pleased to welcome you as a new user. Since this documentation is designed as an introduction to EPLAN, many of the more complicated functions and relationships will be ignored. These details are covered in our trainings, where you can also find help with your own individual and company-specific tasks. You should defi- nitely take part in our training program in order to make the best use of the functionality and possibilities of the system. In the program itself, we provide you with an extensive online help sys- tem.

In addition to conceptual information and dialog descriptions, here you will also find “step by step” instructions for most program functions. The “Proceed as follows” section of the operating information gives you step by step instructions for using the program. Once you have started the program and require information on a particular dialog, you can then call up the appropriate help by simply pressing the [F1] key.

We hope that the beginner’s manual will give you a thorough insight into the many different options and features of your EPLAN software. Tip: Useful tips to facilitate your interaction with the program are presented after this image.

Example: Examples are highlighted by this symbol. In order to find a particular program function, the menus and options shown in a menu path must be selected in the sequence shown. So that you can successfully follow the instructions, we assume that you have already installed EPLAN and have the required software protection dongle and license. While writing this guide, we used the fully licensed program with its entire scope of functionality. If you have not licensed all the modules, this docu- mentation or some figures in this documentation may possibly go be- yond the scope of functionality of the software you have purchased, that is, functions are also described which may not be available to you.

The user interface of your EPLAN application may differ from the figures presented here if, in the Select scope of menu dialog, you selected the Advanced or Expert user mode when you started the program.

That is the mode we used when creating this manual. All settings can be made in a central location in the program in the Options menu under the menu item Settings. For the sample project, we almost exclusively used the default settings of the project template being used. Don’t change these settings while working with the sample project; otherwise you may see different results. Since a list of the different call-up options would make this guide much larger, we usually use the mouse controls in the action instructions.

During program installation, a program icon is created on the Windows Desktop. Here, you specify the user mode in which you would like to define the displayed scope of the menu. In the Select scope of menu dialog, select Expert. Click [OK]. In this informational dialog, which is automatically shown every time you start the program, you are shown useful information on program functions.

Deselect the Show tips at startup check box if you do not wish this dialog to appear every time the program is started. Click on [Close] to close the Tip of the day. Before you create a project, you will first see a little more information about the user interface in the next chapter.

Note: In the Select scope of menu dialog, if you activated the Do not show this dialog again check box, this dialog will no longer be shown when you start EPLAN, and the currently specified menu scope will be used. You will also learn how to change the interface easily. Be- sides various other interface elements, you see the Page navigator and the Graphical preview on the left side of the main window.

When you first start the program, these two windows are empty. The area on the right side with the background image will be used later as a working area for the opened pages. The main window is the entire working area of the program; its size and position can be changed. For many other interface elements e. You can attach “dock” these ele- ments to the window edges inside the main window.

What is the Page navigator? You can choose between two representation types. In the tree view, the pages are displayed hierarchically by page type and iden- tifier such as higher-level function, mounting location, etc. In the list view, this information is shown arranged in a table.

You can switch be- tween the two views by clicking on the corresponding tab. In the Page navigator, you can edit the pages of one project, for instance, copy pages, delete them, or change page properties. Multiple pages from different projects can not be edited at one time. Tip: To show and hide the Page navigator quickly, you can use the [F12] key. What is the Graphical preview?

The Graphical preview is a preview window for the minimized display of highlighted pages, symbols, image files, macros, forms, etc. For exam- ple, if you have highlighted one or several pages in the page navigator, they will be displayed in a minimized window in the Graphical preview. Using this window, you can quickly search through all the pages of a project. It contains the program icon with the system menu, the program name, and the buttons controlling the size setting of the window.

If you have opened a project page, the name of the opened page will also be shown in the title bar by default. Menu bar The menu bar is located below the title bar. It contains the most impor- tant commands and dialog calls. In order to show all the menu items of a menu, left-click on the corres- ponding menu. Until you have opened a project and a page, you will not be able to select many of the menu items.

These menu items are shown in a grayed-out view. Some menu items work like a switch, that is, they can be turned on or off. This applies particularly to the View menu for the Graphical preview menu item. If the option is switched on, then this is indicated with a pre- ceding check mark. Tip: In the Graphical preview, the pages you have selected in the Page navigator are shown in a reduced view. Using this window, you can, for instance, quickly search through all the pages of a project.

Popup menu In many places in the program in fields of windows or dialogs, in an opened page you can open up a popup menu by right-clicking.

The popup menu shows the most commonly used menu items for the object in question. If menu items are present in the popup menu of a field which go beyond the standard functions, you can see that from a “popup menu button”. This button is located above the corresponding field. Toolbars As standard, the toolbars are located below the menu bar and consist of buttons allowing you to directly call up the most important EPLAN func- tions. Here, too, you do not initially have all the buttons available.