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1 Placing Mounting Panels..............................................................................3 1.1 Place mounting panels from parts management.......................................3 1.2 Freely placing mounting panels ................................................................5

2 Placing Items on the Mounting Panel .........................................................7

3 Placing Items Without Schematic..............................................................10

4 Placing Items on the DIN Rail ....................................................................14

5 Plotting Locked Areas ................................................................................16

6 Editing and Displaying Part Placement Properties..................................19

7 Checking the Part Placements...................................................................23

8 Generating Legends ...................................................................................25 8.1 Create page legends...............................................................................25 8.2 Create window legends...........................................................................30 8.3 Prevent window legends .........................................................................33

9 Editing Legend Positions...........................................................................36

10 Updating the Main Elements ......................................................................39

11 Updating the Part Dimensions...................................................................41

12 Using Jump Functions ...............................................................................44

This functionality is only available for certain module packages. Info

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1 Placing Mounting Panels When placing mounting panels on "Panel layout" pages, a distinction is made between placing a part from the parts management system and "free" placement using the properties dialog.

1.1 Place mounting panels from parts management

Preconditions: You have opened a project.

You are in the graphical editor on an "Panel layout" page.

Project data > Devices / parts > Panel layout > Generate mounting panel 1. In the Part selection dialog, in the generic product group Mechanics, open

the hierarchy level Housing.

2. Select the desired housing part.

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3. Click [OK].

The mounting panel symbol is scaled to the entered size (only values larger than 0.0 are accepted!) and hangs on the cursor.

4. Place the symbol.

The Properties : Mounting panel dialog is opened.

5. Enter a device tag in the Displayed DT field on the Mounting panel tab.

6. If necessary, assign further properties to the mounting panel.

7. Click [OK].

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The mounting panel is created.

1.2 Freely placing mounting panels



1. Select Insert > Box / connection point / mounting panel > Mounting panel.

The box symbol representing the mounting panel hangs on the cursor.

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2. Place the rectangle representing the mounting panel.

The Properties : Mounting panel dialog is opened.

3. Enter a device tag in the Displayed DT field on the Mounting panel tab.

4. If necessary, assign further properties to the mounting panel.

5. Click [OK].

The mounting panel is created.


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2 Placing Items on the Mounting Panel When placing items on the mounting panel, a distinction is made between single placement, multiple placement, and the placement of locked areas. For this the installation spacing for every item / device must be stored in the parts data to where the device walls are not on top of each other, but rather next to each other. For multiple placements, the clearances are automatically accounted for, otherwise the single placement and multiple placement interactions are identical.


You have opened the Panel layout - dialog.


You have added a mounting panel.

There are no parts in the tree view with an "Unplaced"part status.

In the Settings: Panel layout dialog, (Popup menu > Settings) you have not selected the Manual input option.

1. Select the items in the tree view that have not yet been placed. (Multiple selection is possible.)

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2. Select Popup menu > Place on mounting panel.

The first part placement hangs on the cursor.

3. Position the part placement on the mounting panel with a mouse click.

4. Proceed in this way for all additional part placements selected in the tree.

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The newly placed parts are removed from the "Not placed" hierarchy level and moved to the hierarchy level of the populated mounting panel.

Notes: Even if you do not move the cursor during placement, the symbols will be placed

from left to right. If a symbol extends over the edge of the mounting panel, an error message will inform you of this.

If you have selected the Manual input option in the Panel layout dialog (Popup menu > Settings) you must first specify the dimensions of the device in the Extension and distance dialog prior to placing the device.


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3 Placing Items Without Schematic In order to support the various working methods of builders and engineers, it is also possible to create panel layouts without an existing schematic.





In the Settings: Panel layout dialog, (Popup menu > Settings) you have not selected the Manual input option.

Popup menu > New device

1. In the Part selection dialog select the desired part.

2. Click [OK].

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The part symbol is scaled to the entered size (only values larger than 0.0 are accepted!) and hangs on the cursor.

3. Place the part on the mounting panel.

The Properties : Part placement dialog opens.

4. In the Part placement tab allocate a device tag to the part.

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5. Edit the other properties of the part placement as required.

6. Click [OK].

7. Proceed in a similar manner for all the parts that you would like to place.

When the part is placed, a check is performed that the current page is of type "Panel layout" and that the part placement is within a mounting panel. If these conditions are not met, the part is not placed and an appropriate message is displayed.

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When generating part placements, the function definition is derived from the part master data (Technical data tab in the Parts management dialog) in the following manner:

Product group Product subgroup Function definition

Terminals Mounting rail Part placement terminal strip Terminals (no preference) Part placement terminal Plugs (no preference) Part placement plug male pin / female pin PLC (no preference) Part placement PLC card (all product groups except terminals / plugs / PLC) (no preference) Part placement normal item

Note: If you have selected the Manual input option in the Panel layout dialog (Popup menu > Settings) you must first specify the dimensions of the device in the Extension and distance dialog prior to placing the device.


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4 Placing Items on the DIN Rail As an alternative to equipping a mounting panel, the items can be placed on a DIN rail. An "Auxiliary function" for performing this is available, with which you must define the position of the items. A DIN rail can currently be represented on a "Line", a "Polyline", a "Closed polyline", a "Rectangle" or a "Spline". Not allowed are "Circle", "Ellipse", etc. The insertion point of the part placement is then placed on the selected object. The clearances defined in the parts management are also accounted for here when placing.





There are no parts in the tree view with a "Unplaced"part status.

In the Settings: Panel layout dialog, (Popup menu > Settings) you have selected the Manual input option.

1. Select the items in the tree view that have not yet been placed. (Multiple selection is possible.)

2. Select Popup menu > Place on mounting panel.

The first part placement hangs on the cursor.

3. Select the object on which the part placement is to be positioned.

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4. Define the dimensions of the part placement using the Extension and distance dialog.

5. Click [OK].

6. Move the cursor along the object to move the part placement.

7. Confirm the position with a mouse click.

8. Proceed in this way for all additional part placements selected in the tree.

The newly placed parts are removed from the "Unplaced" hierarchy level and moved to the hierarchy level of the populated DIN rail. If part placements already exist on the DIN rail, then new placements can only occur in free areas.

Note: Even if you do not move the cursor during placement, the symbols will be placed from left to right. If a symbol extends over the edge of the mounting panel, an error message will inform you of this.


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5 Plotting Locked Areas Areas on the mounting panel can be locked for placement so that no part placement can occur on these areas. Locked areas are independent objects drawn as rectangles.



1. In the graphical editor, select the panel layout page where you would like to draw a locked area.

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2. Select Popup menu > Locked area.

3. Draw the rectangle representing the mounting panel.

The locked area is drawn.

Note: As soon as part placement is attempted in a locked area, the placement is prevented, and an appropriate message is displayed.

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6 Editing and Displaying Part Placement Properties

In the Display of part placement properties, the following point should be noted: Individually placed properties can be docked with each other and made into a single block; when moving, this allows all the (desired) text to be moved at once and avoids overlapping of multi-line text with other text.



You have inserted a part placement or have double-clicked a part placement (or selected Popup menu > Properties; in this way, multiple part placements can be selected).

1. In the Part placement tab, click [...] in the Displayed DT field.

2. In the DT selection dialog, select the DT that is to be displayed on the part placement in the graphical editor.

3. Click [OK].

The DT is entered into the Displayed DT field.

4. Click [...] in the Part field to allocate a part to the part placement.

5. In the Part selection dialog, select the desired part.

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6. Click [OK].

The part number is entered into the Part field.

7. Edit the part placement properties by entering a string of characters into the Value field, selecting a value from a drop-down list, etc.

8. Click (New) on the toolbar above the property list.

9. In the Property selection dialog, select further properities that you would like to set. (Multiple selection is possible.)

10. Click [OK].

The properties are appended to the end of the list in the Property name column.

11. Allocate the desired values to the new properties.

12. Select the properties that you no longer require. (Multiple selection is possible.)

13. Click (Delete) on the toolbar above the property list.

The properties are deleted from the list, i.e., without the values that you previously allocated in the Property selection dialog, so that they may be re-allocated, if needed.

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14. Change to the Display tab.

15. From the Property arrangement drop-down list, select the User defined entry to define your own display layout.

16. In the list of properties, select the property for which you would like to define the display settings.

The default values for the individual fields are taken from the Standard defaults.

17. Define the display settings in the fields.

18. Change to the Format tab.

19. Define the formatting settings for the part placement by selecting entries from the drop-down list, selecting / deselecting check boxes, etc.

20. Click [OK].

The properties display is updated.

Note: Every device can contain several part references with different quantity values. However, a part reference can only be placed with a quantity of "1". This means that several part placements with the same device tags may be placed on a mounting area.

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7 Checking the Part Placements When part placements are placed, the part placement assumes the mounting location of the mounting panel. In the process, a check is performed to see if the part placement has been performed on the correct mounting panel, based on the structure identifier blocks of the mounting panel and the placed device. In addtion to this, you can compare the Mounting site (describing) property of the mounting panel with the main function.

Example:

Mounting panel Devices Status =A1MP1 =A1K1 Correct =A1MP1 =A1K1 Errors MP1 (Mounting location =O1) K1 (Mounting location =O1) Correct MP1 (Mounting location =O1) K1 (Mounting location =O2) Errors


You have selected Options > Settings > Projects > "Project name" > Management > Message management and in the Settings: Message management dialog, in the Check-related settings field you have clicked [...].

1. If required, in the Settings: Messages and checks dialog, select a Scheme for the settings or create a new one.

2. Select the Class "Panel layout".

3. Define the individual errors and messages in the table on the right-hand side of the Category and Type of check dialogs by selecting an entry from the drop-down list for each one.

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4. Click [OK].

Once you have performed this, when making part placements on the mounting panel, these are then checked according to the settings; if disagreement is found, then a suitable message is displayed.


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8 Generating Legends Legends gather and display information, or store information from the graphic in a free area.

If the legends are created on the same page where the mounting panel is located, then we speak of a Window legend; Window legends are freely positionable graphical objects, and have an insertion point and symbol properties, and / or a device tag.

The legend can also be output as a separate form. In this case no legend is shown in the graphical editor on the panel layout page. However, items will display item numbers but no device tags. We call this type of legend a Page legend.

8.1 Create page legends

Precondition:

You have opened a project that contains mounting panels.

1. Select Utilities > Reports> Generate.

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2. If in the Reports - dialog, the enclosure legend is not yet contained in the Pages hierarchy level, select [Settings] > Output to pages.

3. In the Settings: Output to pages dialog, select a form for the Panel layout report type, and if necessary, specify any additional settings.

4. Click [OK].

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5. In the Reports - dialog, click [New].

6. In the Select report dialog, define the Output format and Output project.

7. Select Enclosure legend from the list of available report types.

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8. Select the Manual selection check box if you would like to select the mounting panels for which a legend is to be generated.

9. Click [OK].

10. In the Manual selection dialog, select the mounting panels for which a legend is to be generated.

11. Click [OK].

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12. In the Enclosure legend dialog, define the structure identifier and designation of the pages on which the legends are to be generated.

13. Click [OK].

The page legends are generated.

14. In the Reports - dialog, click [Close].

The page legends are generated according to their settings.

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8.2 Create window legends Window legends are directly placed on creation of the Enclosure legend report type, by defining the following entries in the Report selection dialog:

Preconditions: You have opened a project that contains mounting panels.


The Suppress generation of legend check box (Category "Settings") in the Mounting panel tab is not selected.

1. Select Utilities > Reports> Generate.

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2. If in the Reports - dialog, the enclosure legend is not yet contained in the Embedded reports hierarchy level, select [Settings] > Output to pages.

3. In the Settings: Output to pages dialog, select a form for the Panel layout report type, and if necessary, specify any additional settings.

4. Click [OK].

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5. Click [New].

6. In the Select report dialog, in the Output format list, select the Manual placement entry.

7. Select Enclosure legend from the list of available reports.

8. Click [OK].

The legend hangs on the cursor.

9. Place the legend on the panel layout page.

The program checks which items are on the page and creates a provisional bill of materials with all of the part data for the items positioned on the mounting panel.

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8.3 Prevent window legends For every mounting panel, a Window legend is generated as the standard. To prevent this, proceed as follows:



You have inserted a mounting panel, or have double-clicked a mounting panel (or selected Popup menu > Properties; in this way, multiple mounting panels can be selected).

1. In the Mounting panel tab of the Properties dialog, click (New) on the toolbar above the property list.

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2. In the Property selection dialog, select the Suppress generation of legend property.

3. Click [OK].

The property is appended to the end of the list in the Property name column.

4. Select the check box in the Value column of the Suppress generation of legend property.

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5. Click [OK].

The legend is not generated.


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9 Editing Legend Positions In the case of changes to the equipping of a mounting panel it may become necessary to renumber the legend positions.



In the tree view you have selected the mounting panel whose legend items are to be updated. (Multiple selection is not possible here).

Project data > Devices / parts > Panel layout navigator > Popup menu > Edit legend item

1. In the Edit legend item dialog, use the buttons to move the legends up / down, or to the beginning / end of the list.

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2. Click [Number].

3. In the Number dialog, define the numbering settings.

4. Click [OK].

The entries in the Legend item column are updated.

5. Click [OK].

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The legend items are updated. The updated entries can be displayed in the List of project data (Popup menu > Configure columns in the list and selection of the Legend item check box). This functionality is only available for certain module packages. Info

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10 Updating the Main Elements Once the part placements have been generated, and thereafter the components, alignment problems may occur since different data can exist for the placements. The main function usually thereafter has no part references because there may be one or more placements matching the devices. This menu item allows all of the part references to all of the relevant part placements to be adopted in the main function, where the device to be updated must be selected in the graphical editor or the panel layout navigator.



1. In the Panel layout - dialog, select the part placements that are to be updated.

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2. Select Popup menu > Update main elements.

The elements are updated.


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11 Updating the Part Dimensions The dimensioning of the parts can be subsequently changed, consequently necessitating an update.



1. In the graphical editor, open the panel layout page for which the update is to be performed.

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2. Select Popup menu > Update part dimensions.

3. Click [Yes], to adopt the new part dimensions.

4. Click [Yes] for each further part.

The current part dimensions are added to the part placements. In the process, the current dimensions of the part are internally checked for every part and for every differing value, a message is displayed allowing you to accept or discard the update.

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12 Using Jump Functions Jump functions allow jumping to all cross-referenced "Parts" of a particular item, where the main function is always jumped to.



You have inserted mounting panels and part placements.

1. Select the item to whose graphical representation in the graphical editor you would like to spring to, in the tree or the list in the Panel layout - .

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2. Select Popup menu > Go to (graphic).

The graphical editor forks to the page where the main function is located. The main funtion is optically highlighted in the process.

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