CADELEC 2000
IEC Tutorial
SISCAD Ltd.
17, Chemin de la Chavanne
CH-1196
C_2000 / 20000404
Table of Contents
TOC \o "1-2" \t "Heading
5;3" Introduction.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. PAGEREF
_Toc484605984 \h 7
1.1 Installation and configuration.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... PAGEREF _Toc484605985 \h 7
1.2 Cadelec Modules.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF _Toc484605986 \h 7
1.3 Networking.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. PAGEREF _Toc484605987 \h 8
Creating the Demo Project.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... PAGEREF
_Toc484605988 \h 9
2.1 Starting up Cadelec.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. PAGEREF _Toc484605989 \h 9
2.2 Creating the demo project.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. PAGEREF _Toc484605990 \h 10
Creating and drawing Schematics.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... PAGEREF
_Toc484605991 \h 15
3.1 Create a new page.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ PAGEREF _Toc484605992 \h 15
3.2 Drawing the Schematic.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... PAGEREF _Toc484605993 \h 18
Adjust Snap interval.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. PAGEREF
_Toc484605994 \h 19
Set Voltage Rating to 400V.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... PAGEREF
_Toc484605995 \h 19
Draw 3-phase wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... PAGEREF
_Toc484605996 \h 20
Set Nodes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
_Toc484605997 \h 21
Insert elements in the power
circuit.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ PAGEREF
_Toc484605998 \h 22
Set Voltage rating to 230V.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484605999 \h 25
Draw 1-phase wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... PAGEREF
_Toc484606000 \h 26
Set Nodes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
_Toc484606001 \h 27
Insert elements in the control
circuit.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. PAGEREF
_Toc484606002 \h 27
Set Voltage rating to PE.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... PAGEREF
_Toc484606003 \h 29
Draw PE wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ PAGEREF
_Toc484606004 \h 30
Insert elements in PE circuit.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ PAGEREF
_Toc484606005 \h 30
Set Terminal Strip ID.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
_Toc484606006 \h 31
Number Components.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
_Toc484606007 \h 32
Set cross-reference functions.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ PAGEREF
_Toc484606008 \h 33
Compute cross-references.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. PAGEREF
_Toc484606009 \h 34
Cross-reference errors.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... PAGEREF
_Toc484606010 \h 35
Set wire Marks.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ PAGEREF
_Toc484606011 \h 36
Number wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. PAGEREF
_Toc484606012 \h 38
View Counters.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. PAGEREF
_Toc484606013 \h 39
Set Equipotential cross-reference
points.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... PAGEREF
_Toc484606014 \h 40
Compute Equipotential
cross-references.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... PAGEREF
_Toc484606015 \h 41
Set wiring zone.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484606016 \h 42
Define parts.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. PAGEREF
_Toc484606017 \h 43
Set User definable annotations.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... PAGEREF
_Toc484606018 \h 46
Set Cables.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w PAGEREF
_Toc484606019 \h 47
Save.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484606020 \h 48
Creating and drawing Cabinet
Layouts.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... PAGEREF _Toc484606021
\h 49
Issue the Cabinet layout report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... PAGEREF
_Toc484606022 \h 50
Create new page.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... PAGEREF
_Toc484606023 \h 52
Place components in cabinet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... PAGEREF
_Toc484606024 \h 54
Draw Terminal Block.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w PAGEREF
_Toc484606025 \h 57
Draw cable routings.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. PAGEREF
_Toc484606026 \h 58
Save.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484606027 \h 58
Generating the Terminal Pinout
drawing.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ PAGEREF
_Toc484606028 \h 59
Enter Terminal Editor.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... PAGEREF
_Toc484606029 \h 60
Generate Terminal Pinout drawing.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ PAGEREF _Toc484606030
\h 63
View Terminal Pinout drawing.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... PAGEREF
_Toc484606031 \h 64
Save.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484606032 \h 64
Results.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... PAGEREF
_Toc484606033 \h 65
6.1 Plot Project.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... PAGEREF _Toc484606034 \h 65
6.2 Bill of Material.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF _Toc484606035 \h 70
6.3 Parts Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... PAGEREF _Toc484606036 \h 72
6.4 Cross-reference Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... PAGEREF _Toc484606037 \h 73
6.5 Connections Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. PAGEREF _Toc484606038 \h 74
6.6 Terminals Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. PAGEREF _Toc484606039 \h 75
6.7 Cabling Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... PAGEREF _Toc484606040 \h 76
6.8 Cables Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... PAGEREF _Toc484606041 \h 77
Further functions.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... PAGEREF
_Toc484606042 \h 79
7.1 Modifications on schematics.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF _Toc484606043 \h 79
Create a new page.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... PAGEREF
_Toc484606044 \h 80
Replace Cross-reference function.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... PAGEREF
_Toc484606045 \h 81
Reset wire numbers / Number wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ PAGEREF
_Toc484606046 \h 83
Reset elements.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. PAGEREF
_Toc484606047 \h 84
Number elements.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ PAGEREF
_Toc484606048 \h 85
7.2 Cost project in advance.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... PAGEREF _Toc484606049 \h 86
Create a new project.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. PAGEREF
_Toc484606050 \h 86
Pre-defined Bill of Material.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... PAGEREF
_Toc484606051 \h 87
Project costing estimate.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ PAGEREF
_Toc484606052 \h 90
Draw the wires of the power
circuit.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ PAGEREF
_Toc484606053 \h 90
Draw wires of the control circuit.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w PAGEREF
_Toc484606054 \h 91
Insert elements from pre-defined
Bill of Materials.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484606055 \h 91
7.3 PLC functions.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... PAGEREF _Toc484606056 \h 94
Create a new project.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. PAGEREF
_Toc484606057 \h 94
New Page.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
_Toc484606058 \h 96
Erase control circuit.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. PAGEREF
_Toc484606059 \h 97
Insert PLC element.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... PAGEREF
_Toc484606060 \h 98
Draw Input Wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ PAGEREF
_Toc484606061 \h 98
Draw Output Wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... PAGEREF
_Toc484606062 \h 99
Set Nodes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... PAGEREF
_Toc484606063 \h 100
Insert Elements.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... PAGEREF
_Toc484606064 \h 101
Set wire marks.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... PAGEREF
_Toc484606065 \h 102
Number PLC Pins.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... PAGEREF
_Toc484606066 \h 104
Address PLC channels.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ PAGEREF
_Toc484606067 \h 105
Set PLC channel descriptions /
Edit Addresses.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. PAGEREF
_Toc484606068 \h 106
Number Components.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... PAGEREF
_Toc484606069 \h 108
Set Cross-reference functions.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... PAGEREF
_Toc484606070 \h 109
PLC Master - Slave
cross-referencing.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... PAGEREF
_Toc484606071 \h 110
Compute cross-references.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484606072 \h 111
Set Equipotential cross-reference
points.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... PAGEREF
_Toc484606073 \h 112
Calculate Equipotential
cross-references.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... PAGEREF
_Toc484606074 \h 112
Number the wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... PAGEREF
_Toc484606075 \h 114
Export PLC Import-Export List.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
_Toc484606076 \h 117
Modify the Import-Export list.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... PAGEREF
_Toc484606077 \h 118
Import PLC Import-Export list.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... PAGEREF
_Toc484606078 \h 119
Element creation.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... PAGEREF
_Toc484606079 \h 121
8.1 Schematic elements.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... PAGEREF _Toc484606080 \h 121
Select library.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ PAGEREF
_Toc484606081 \h 122
Create a new element.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. PAGEREF
_Toc484606082 \h 122
Contact definition.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... PAGEREF
_Toc484606083 \h 125
Adjust Snap interval.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w PAGEREF
_Toc484606084 \h 126
Draw symbol.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. PAGEREF
_Toc484606085 \h 126
Draw Break Lines.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... PAGEREF
_Toc484606086 \h 127
Set Base point.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484606087 \h 128
Pole attributes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... PAGEREF
_Toc484606088 \h 129
Set Cross-reference Function
attributes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... PAGEREF
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Device ID attributes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
_Toc484606090 \h 132
Freeze Device IDs Attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... PAGEREF
_Toc484606091 \h 132
Zone attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484606092 \h 133
Catalogue attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
_Toc484606093 \h 134
Record attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... PAGEREF
_Toc484606094 \h 134
Technical data attributes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
_Toc484606095 \h 135
User and Tag attributes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. PAGEREF
_Toc484606096 \h 136
Finish element creation.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. PAGEREF
_Toc484606097 \h 136
8.2 Integrate element in the tablet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. PAGEREF _Toc484606098 \h 137
Enter Position within tablet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... PAGEREF
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Display element annotation in
tablet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... PAGEREF
_Toc484606100 \h 138
Integrate element in the Slides.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. PAGEREF
_Toc484606101 \h 139
8.3 Creating PLC elements.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... PAGEREF _Toc484606102 \h 140
8.4 Creating a cabinet element.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. PAGEREF _Toc484606103 \h 143
Select Library.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... PAGEREF
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Create new cabinet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. PAGEREF
_Toc484606105 \h 143
Cabinet dimensions.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
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Cabinet drawing area.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. PAGEREF
_Toc484606107 \h 146
Calculate scale factor.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. PAGEREF
_Toc484606108 \h 146
Set scaling factor.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... PAGEREF
_Toc484606109 \h 146
Drawing the cabinet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w PAGEREF
_Toc484606110 \h 147
Annotate Dimensions.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. PAGEREF
_Toc484606111 \h 147
Erase screen-area box.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. PAGEREF
_Toc484606112 \h 148
Save.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ PAGEREF
_Toc484606113 \h 148
Appendix-Non Standard contacts.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... PAGEREF
_Toc484606114 \h 149
9.1 Coil with non standard contact definition.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... PAGEREF _Toc484606115 \h 149
Open element.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ PAGEREF
_Toc484606116 \h 149
Edit contact definition.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ PAGEREF
_Toc484606117 \h 150
Edit contact map.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... PAGEREF
_Toc484606118 \h 151
Save.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ PAGEREF
_Toc484606119 \h 152
9.2 Contact with non-standard contact definition..................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... PAGEREF _Toc484606120 \h 153
Create new element.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . PAGEREF
_Toc484606121 \h 153
Edit contact definition.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ PAGEREF
_Toc484606122 \h 154
Index.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. PAGEREF
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The first part of the tutorial (Chapters 2 to 7) takes you step by step through a simple but comprehensive project for a three-phase motor starter, with contactor, thermal protection and control circuit.
The main purpose is to give you practice in using the Cadelec methodology, but you will also be able to refer to this example project for working on your own projects.
In Chapter 8 you will learn how electrical symbols are created.
We shall assume that Cadelec 2000 is already installed and configured on your computer. If you are working with a tablet the tablet template should be calibrated.
Please refer to the installation and configuration instructions of your Cadelec manual.
Cadelec 2000 is distributed in 5 modules:
1. Basic Module.
2. Cabinet Module.
3. Terminal Module.
4. PLC Module.
5. JIC Module (American standard)
The Basic module is available together with any of the other modules or with all of them, depending on your order.
The operations within this tutorial can be reproduced by both users working on a local system and users working on a network. Network users should read the special notes for networking , e.g. when creating the demonstration project.
Assuming that after installation you have an icon named CADELEC, on your WINDOWS screen, to start the program, double-click on it.
Unless you have set the environment variable USERNAME (see manual)) you will be asked for your user name (only in Windows 95). Once you have entered your name, click on the OK button to proceed.
The following starting screen will appear:
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The access to the CADELEC different functions is possible either from the pull - down menus, or by clicking on the corresponding tool in the available toolbars, or by selecting it from a tablet. Every CADELEC menu item has a corresponding toolbar option.
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The toolbars can be activated (shown) from the Toolbars menu (Fig. 2
The active toolbars can be placed anywhere on the screen, by simply dragging them with the cursor to the new location. To hide a toolbar again, click on its upper left corner. When reactivated, the toolbars preserve their last location on screen.
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For example, by clicking on the 5-th box in the Cadelec
toolbar (Connections), the CONNECTIONS toolbar is shown (Fig. 4
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The first thing we shall do is to create our demo project. XE "Project:New" XE "New:Project"
XE "Project:New" XE "New:Project" For this click on the Cadelec
menu, and select New Project from the
Project menu (Fig. 5
Or, click on the first box from the CADELEC toolbar, holding
down the mouse button, drag down the cursor to the New Project box and release the button (Fig.
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Cadelec opens the New Project dialogue box:
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There you will have to fill in the name of the project. With the options within this dialogue box you can copy a project or a project description to be used as a model. Now, we shall create a project from scratch and therefore select the Create Empty Project option.
Fill out the following fields:
Name of Project In this field enter DEMO_PR as the name of the project to be created.
If you are working together with other users on a network, every user should enter an unique project name. You may for example, use your name or add your initials to DEMO_. This is necessary, as the project name must be unique.
The options below this field will not be used now. Check whether Create Empty Project is selected and click on the OK button.
Cadelec opens the Project
data sheet (Fig. 8
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In the project data sheet you will have to fill out the Library, the Title Box and the Terminal Drawing field (or accept the defaults). Like on all fields, which must be filled out, you can open the list of available values by clicking on the down-arrow at the right of the box, and select one, or enter a new value. Other fields are optional but should be filled out to achieve a proper documentation.
Fill out the following fields:
Library With this field you specify which library contains the electrical symbols to be used
within your project. Select the desired library from the list of existing symbol
libraries. If you have not yet created any libraries of your own, the window will
show the existing EL_DIN and JIC, MEI, NEN or BS libraries depending on your
order. Select the EL_DIN library from the list.
Standard This is a documentation field holding the used standard. It is automatically filled out
when entering the library. In this case it will be DIN.
Title Box In this field you specify the Title box to be used for all drawings within this project.
Select the existing title box named PRPRO, from the list
Terminal drawing Here you specify the Terminal pinout drawing template to be used when generating
Terminal Pinout drawings.
Again, you can select an existing Terminal Pinout drawing template (FBO_DIN1), from the list.
Description 1 - 4 These fields are for project description.
We will document the project with the following text:
Description 1: Cadelec 2000
Description 2: Demo Project
Project No. In this field you can enter a project number according to your company
convention. For this demonstration project enter Demo 01
Archive Number Here you normally enter the archive number according to your internal company
convention. In this example project, enter Arch. 01
Filing Status This is a user definable field which you may for example use for additional
archiving information.
Enter, for example: Important
Remarks In this field you can enter special remarks. Enter: For Cadelec 2000 Tutorial
Once you have filled out the fields, your screen should look like the following:
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Clicking on the Device ID button, the window XE "Formula" XE "Device ID" in Fig. 10
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In this dialogue box you will have to specify the Device-ID Formula which will be used to compute device identifiers. Within this dialogue box you can also disable automatic processes like Automatic Cross-reference Calculation in order to avoid modifications on existing projects.
Fill out the following fields:
Formula Leave this field empty and press ENTER (or you can accept the default value).
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Cadelec will open a selection box (Fig.
11
From this selection box, select the first Device ID formula by pressing ENTERS. With this formula, the Mnemonic, the Page and the Column will be annotated alongside the electrical symbols. If two electrical symbols with the same mnemonic are placed within the same page and the same column, a Column Index will be added to the Device ID.
Select all re-calculation and re-annotation options and clicks on the Wire Numbering button to select the Wire numbering system and set its options.
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The Wire Numbering window will be displayed (Fig. 12
XE "Wire Numbering:Potential" Select the Potential wire numbering and click OK to finish the project definition.
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After the project definition is completed, as DEMO_PR
XE "Page:New" XE "New:Page" is empty yet, Cadelec opens the New Page dialogue box (Fig. 14
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Within the dialogue box shown above you can specify whether you want a Schematic Drawing or a Cabinet Layout Drawing to be created. Here, no Cabinet Layout Drawing can be created as Cabinets are based on Schematics. As there are no Schematics yet in this project, this option is disabled. Selecting Take Data of other Page enables you to copy the contents of an other page, Copy same page as data sheet will copy the description of an other page and Copy which page will open a file selection box from which you can select the page to be copied.
These options refer to the pages within the same project, so, as there are no pages in the project yet, they are disabled (except Copy which page).
Proceed in the following way:
Name of Page Press ENTER on this field to confirm the default page name (1).
Leave the Schematic Drawing option selected and click the Create Empty Page button.
The Page data sheet
dialogue box will be opened XE "Page:Data" (Fig. 16
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Here you will enter page defaults and descriptions. Most fields are optional description fields. The Installation and the Zone fields must be filled out. These entries will define the default Installation (Location) and Zone of all elements in the drawing unless specified otherwise.
Fill out the following fields:
Type Cadelec will fill out this field automatically with the kind of page, which was
created (here : Schematic).
In Charge Here you can enter your name or your initials.
Sub-project With this field you can structure your project by assigning pages e.g. as Power-
Circuit, Control-Circuit, etc.
The page we will create will show both, power and control circuit. Fill this field out with Power and Control
Description Here you can enter a short page description.
Enter: Example
Title Line 1 - 4 Here you enter the Title Lines to appear in the title box of this page. Title Lines 1
and 2 will appear in the standard title box. If required, you can customize the title
box to show also Title Lines 3 + 4.
Fill out the title lines in the following way:
Title Line 1: 3-phase Motor with
Title Line 2: Control Circuit
Title Line 3:
Title Line 4 :
Drawing No. 1 - 2 In this field you can enter drawing numbers according to your internal company
convention.
Enter for example:
Drawing No. 1: Tut. Schem. 01
Drawing No. 2
Installation This field must be filled out. Here you enter the installation. This might for example
be used to separate the parts of the different production lines within your project.
Enter: Line 01
Zone ` This field must be filled out. It is used to specify the wiring zone, which is normally
represented by a cabinet.
Enter Ctrl. Cab. 01
The rest of the fields are not needed here.
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With the fields filled out, your screen should look like in Fig. 17
To proceed, press the OK button.
Once the page definition concluded, you will see the screen
below (Fig.
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At the bottom of the screen you see the title box. Important descriptions entered in the Project data sheet and in the Page data sheet are shown.
From within the graphic editor you can select Cadelec and AutoCAD functions in either of the ways:
from the pull-down menu
from the toolbars
by typing the command at the command prompt
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It is essential that you perform drawing operations within Cadelec XE "Snap:Adjust" XE "Set:SNAP" with the AutoCAD SNAP on (F9). This will help you aligning objects accurately on the drawing. If the Snap interval is e.g. set to 5 the cursor will "snap" to every fifth co-ordinate (e.g. from 0, 5, 10, 15, etc.). With this it is much easier to align the electrical symbols onto the wires than without snap operative.
For drawing schematics, we suggest a snap interval of 5 AutoCAD units.
You can set the snap interval in either of two ways:
from the menu: select Drawing Aids from the Options menu and in the dialogue box that appears specify the snap value
by typing the command SNAP at the command prompt and specifying the SNAP value.
With Cadelec you can specify wires with any voltage rating XE "Voltage Rating:Set to 400 V" XE "Set:Voltage Rating" .
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In this simple project, we will assume that the motor circuitry runs on a 400 V three-phase system.
You can specify the voltage rating in either of three ways:
from the menu : select 400 V from the Cadelec \
Connections \ Voltage Rating menu (Fig. 19
from the connections toolbar clicking, and
holding down the mouse button, on the Voltage
Rating toolbox and then dragging the cursor to the 400 V box and releasing the button (Fig. 20
by command : type LAYCAB and press ENTER When Cadelec will prompt for the voltage rating, enter 400V
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Unless you select a different voltage rating, all wires will be drawn in the current voltage rating (which is displayed on the status bar).
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To draw 3-phase wires, run the function in either of three ways XE "Wires:3-phase" XE "Draw:3-phase wires" :
from the pull-down menu : select 3-Phase from the Cadelec \ Connections menu ( Fig. 21
from the CONNECTIONS toolbar click on the 3-Phase toolbox (Fig. 22
by command : type L3 and press ENTER.
Drawing three-phase wires is very easy with Cadelec. When the function is running, specify:
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the starting point
the first cutting angle
the end point
the second cutting angle
To draw the first 3-phase cable within our demonstration
project click in row A column 1 (point P1,Fig. 24
Then, specify the first cutting angle. For our starting point, we want a straight downwards cut. You specify this by lowering the pointer just below the first point and clicking (point P2).
Now, locate the end point. Click the pointer in row A column 3 (point P3).
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Finally, you specify the end-point cutting angle, which should also be vertically downward (point P4).
To draw the second three-phase line, use the AutoCAD repeating feature. The last function will be repeated when you press ENTER or click with the right mouse button.
To draw the next wire, locate the start point approximately in the middle of the first cable section on the first of the 3-phase wires.
Then, specify an approximately 45 degree cutting angle by clicking at a point downwards and to the right. To define a 45-degree cut, you can click anywhere in the appropriate quadrant. You don't have to worry about locating the pointer at exactly 45 degrees to the starting point.
Now, locate the end point vertically below the starting point in row E.
To finish, specify a horizontal cutting angle by clicking to the right of the end point.
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After the second three-phase cable is drawn, you should have
obtained a drawing identical to that shown below (Fig. 25
If you made a mistake you can enter the UNDO command (or simply U) and press ENTER to undo the last operation. Pressing ENTER again will repeat the command until the error is undone. If you have accidentally undone a correct sequence, type REDO (or click the Redo toolbox).
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To check whether the wires on the drawing are electrically connected XE "Set:Nodes" XE "Nodes:Set" or not, you can Set Nodes. When you do this, Cadelec places a node at each intersection between two or more electrically connected lines. To do so, run the function in either of three ways:
from the menu : select Nodes-Default from the Cadelec
\ Connections menu (Fig. 26
from the CONNECTIONS toolbar click on the Nodes toolbar (Fig. 27
by command : type
If you entered a different diameter than the default, it will become the new default for the whole project.
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If the intersecting lines in your drawing do not have node markers you might not have drawn them with the SNAP option on. Please set the snap grid to 5 AutoCAD units and make sure that it is operative. Run ERASE and drag a window over both three-phase lines. Press ENTER to leave the selection mode and get the wires erased. Draw the wires again, now with SNAP operative
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In this step we shall insert electrical symbols (elements) in the power circuit. XE "Insert:From Categories" XE "Insert:Elements in power circuit" XE "Elements:Insert" XE "Element Categories" Elements can be inserted in either of the ways:
from the CATEGORIES toolbar ,shown in Fig. 30
by typing the command IE (for Insert Element) at the command prompt and pressing ENTER. Type in the name of the element, press ENTER and you can insert the element by dragging it with the mouse to the desired location.
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Please bear in mind:
When inserting elements you must always leave sections of connecting line between elements. Such a section must be at least 4.5 AutoCAD units long, because of the connectivity square of the poles (2.5 x 2.5 units). When searching for a connection, Cadelec looks in the 2.5 x 2.5 square around the pole. Never connect elements end to end. If you have accidentally inserted an element in the wrong position run the EE (Erase Element) command to erase it and mend the lines. Then insert the element again.
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First, we will insert the three-phase motor. Click in the
CATEGORIES toolbar, on the Motor,
Generator box (Fig. 31
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After the element was selected you will have to specify its
insertion point. In our case, you should indicate the bottom of the left-most
phase (Fig. 32
The next element in our power circuit will be a three-phase
fuse. You can insert it in the same way as you inserted the motor: clicking on
the Protection device box in the
CATEGORIES toolbar (Fig. 33
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For the switch gear itself, we need a three-phase contact.
Again you can insert it from the CATEGORIES toolbar (Fig. 34
Now let's continue with a thermal overload relay just below
the contact, in line D. The element you need can be inserted from the
CATEGORIES toolbar, Protection device
box (Fig. 33
The last element in our power circuit is a set of three-phase terminals in row E, above the motor.
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Insert this element from the CATEGORIES toolbar, Terminal box (Fig. 35
When dealing with terminals, you should also remember that there are two types of terminals:
Terminals with External side up
Terminals with External side down
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We selected terminals with External side down as the motor is located downwards of the
terminals. Within the Element Categories
(Slides) and within Schematics the external side is marked with a star if the
external side is downward (Fig. 36
With the elements inserted in the circuit, you should have the following drawing on your screen:
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Before you go on to draw the control circuit save your work.
To do so, select Save from the File menu or click on the Save toolbox
from the AutoCAD toolbar (Fig. 38
As with any kind of computer work it is vitally important to save your work frequently; otherwise you risk losing data as a result of power cuts or other failures.
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Before drawing the wires for the control circuit, we will specify their voltage rating as being 230V XE "Voltage Rating:Set to 230 V" XE "Voltage Rating:Set to 230 V" XE "Set:Voltage Rating" .
Similar as the voltage rating specification of the 400V wires run the function in either of three ways:
from the menu : select 230 V from the Cadelec \
Connections \Voltage Rating menu (Fig. 39
from the CONNECTIONS toolbar, clicking on the Voltage Rating and, holding down the button, selecting 230 V (Fig. 40
by command : type _LAYCAB and press ENTER Cadelec will prompt for the voltage rating, enter 230V and press ENTER to confirm.
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When drawing the 1-phase wires (see next page) you will discover that 230V wires appear in different color. This comes as Cadelec draws wires of different voltage rating at different layers. That way Cadelec recognizes the voltage rating used for each wire and performs the automatic wire numbering in a voltage rating sensitive way. This means that wires of a voltage rating can be numbered independently of the numbers given to wires of other voltage ratings.
This also enables you to customize the color and the line-type used for each voltage rating. You will do this by running Layers from the Data menu. In the dialogue box you can change properties of the wire layers (e.g PCAB400V for 400V wires; PCAB230V for 230V wires). For more details on layers and layer management please refer to your AutoCAD manual.
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In this step we shall draw the control circuit XE "Wires:1-phase" XE "Draw:1-phase" . Run the 1-phase drawing function in either of the three ways below:
from the menu : select 1-Phase from the Cadelec \
Connections menu (Fig. 41
from the CONNECTIONS toolbar, click on the 1-Phase toolbox (Fig. 42
by command : type L1 and press ENTER
Before drawing the first wire of the control circuit, the hot
wire which is a 400 V wire, set the
voltage rating to 400 V (see Set
Voltage Rating to 400V
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First locate the cursor in the same vertical position as the
uppermost three-phase wire but in column 5. Click at this position to specify
the one phase wire starting point (point P1, Fig. 43
Now, the first cable section is finished. As the other wires have a voltage rating of 230 V, set the voltage rating to 230V.
Draw the second horizontal wire from D5 to D7 (point P3 to point P4).
And now that you have drawn the two horizontal wires, you
should use the 1-Phase command a third time to draw the vertical line linking
the center points of the two horizontal wires (point P5 to point P6 Fig. 43
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Like in the power circuit, we shall draw nodes XE "Set:Nodes" XE "Nodes:Set" to check whether the lines are electrically
connected or not. Once you have selected the command, from the menu (Fig. 44
If this is not the case you might have drawn the lines without SNAP operative. Press hot key F9 to activate it. Run ERASE and erase the control circuit. Then redraw the wires.
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Now that you have laid out the basic schematic for the control circuit XE "Insert:From Categories" XE "Insert:Elements in control circuit" XE "Elements:Insert" XE "Element Categories" , you will need to insert a series of single-phase control elements. You will do this exactly the same way as you did for the three-phase power elements.
The first element to insert is a one-phase fuse. You may
insert it from the CATEGORIES toolbar (Fig. 46
Below the one-phase fuse insert a thermally activated
normally-closed contact in row B, using the CATEGORIES toolbar, Normally closed contact box (Fig. 48
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Now, we will insert a normally closed push button which will
be used to switch the motor off. You can select it from the slides (Fig. 49
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The next element we will insert is a normally open push button, which will be used to switch the motor on. Insert it from the slides or by typing the command IE and then the element name, TADRUKS. Place this element below the normally closed push button but separated by a short length of cable (at least 5 AutoCAD units).
The last element we will insert in the vertical line is a coil which will control the three-phase power contact. For this we will use the element REL3H11 ( select by clicking on the Contactor toolbox in the CATEGORIES toolbar) . When you insert this element make sure that the contact map remains below the electrical line at the bottom of the drawing.
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To complete our control circuit, we just need a cable loop with a normally-open latch contact in parallel with our normally open push button contact.
Run the 1-Phase command and draw the loop as a continuous series of points.
Once you have drawn the loop, just insert the normally open
contact (KONTS, Fig. 50
The relay contact references do not yet appear. They will appear after you have grouped the coil and the controlled contacts by giving them the same cross-reference function and running the cross-reference analysis. We will do this in the next steps.
The relay we have inserted in fact has more contacts than are necessary. This is to illustrate that it is perfectly possible for a relay to have spare contacts, which are not used. On the other hand, if you try to use more contacts than are available on the relay, Cadelec will consider this as an error. You will be warned of this when you run the cross-reference analysis and report details on errors.
The control circuit we have drawn should look like in Fig. 51
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In the next steps we shall draw the PE wire to ground the motor XE "Voltage Rating:Set to PE" XE "Set:Voltage Rating" .
Before doing so, we have to set the voltage rating to PE. To do so perform either of three steps:
select PE
from the Cadelec \ Connections \ Voltage
Rating menu (Fig. 52
click on the Voltage
Rating toolbox in the CONNECTIONS toolbar and, holding down the button,
drag the cursor to the PE box, then
release the button (Fig. 53
by command : type LAYCAB and press ENTER. When Cadelec prompts for the voltage rating, type PE and press ENTER.
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Draw the PE wire running the 1-Phase wire function XE "Draw:PE wire" XE "Wires:PE wires" from the menu (Fig. 54
Specify the starting point directly on the PE pin of the
motor and draw a wire as shown below (Fig. 56
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As you will notice, the PE line will be of a different type (dashed). This is because lines within different voltage ratings are drawn in different layers and every such layer has an associated line type.
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First we insert a terminal with PE annotation XE "Insert:PE" XE "Elements:Insert" beside the other terminals.
You can either select this terminal from the slides,
clicking on the Terminal toolbox in
the CATEGORIES toolbar (Fig. 57
Now we will insert an earthing symbol at the end of the PE
wire. Again, you can insert it from the slides (Fig. 60
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The earth symbol is an auxiliary element that will not be covered by any analysis operations (e.g. Component numbering, Lists, etc.).
After inserting the elements, as described, the earth
circuit will look like in Fig. 58
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All terminals in a schematic must be assigned to a terminal strip XE "Terminals:Set T.Strip ID" XE "Terminal Strip ID" XE "Set:Terminal Strip ID" . If not they will not be numbered and will not appear in terminal pinout drawings. To put our four terminals together in a terminal block, run the function in either of the following ways:
select Set
from the Cadelec \ Terminals \ T.strip ID
menu (Fig. 61
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from the TERMINALS toolbar ( to show it click on
the Terminals toolbox in the CADELEC
toolbar) click on the T.Strip ID
toolbox and ,holding down the button, drag it down to the Set T. Strip ID toolbox (Fig. 62
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The following dialogue box will be opened (Fig. 63
As you see in the Existing Terminal Strip area of this dialogue box, no terminal strip has been defined yet. Cadelec offers you -X1 as the first terminal strip.
Select the Keep Value option in the Counter area. This will avoid Cadelec from resetting all terminal numbers including the PE annotation to zero. To accept the suggested terminal strip (-X1) and assign our four terminals with this ID click on the OK button.
Cadelec will close the dialogue box and prompt to select the terminals. Drag a window over the four terminals and press the right mouse button or the corresponding button of your pointing device.
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The terminal strip ID -X1 will appear beside the left-most
terminal. In fact, the terminal strip ID is valid for these four terminals (Fig. 64
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Now, we shall number elements and terminals XE "Terminals:Number" XE "Number:Terminals" XE "Number:Elements" XE "Elements:Number" . To do so, run the number component function in either of three ways:
from the menu : select Number Auto \ All from the Cadelec
\ Element Analyse menu (Fig. 65
from the ELEMENT ANALYSE toolbar ( to show it
click on the Element Analyse toolbox
in the CADELEC toolbar - Fig. 67
by command : type NCOMP and press ENTER. Cadelec will prompt you to select the elements: Type ALL end press ENTER. Press ENTER again to leave the selection mode.
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After the numbering process has finished, you will find a Device ID annotated alongside most elements. The terminals were numbered incrementally. Contacts bear no Device ID yet (see e.g. the three-phase power contact) as they are not components of their own but part of e.g. a relay. The Device ID of the coil will be given to contacts after running the cross-reference calculation.
The Device ID was computed using the Device ID formula, which was selected when creating the project. There we have selected a Device ID formula to annotate:
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The Device ID alongside the one-phase fuse shows the mnemonic
for all safety devices (F), the page
number (1) and the column (6). (Fig. 68
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The terminals were numbered incrementally (Fig. 69
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Cadelec uses a sophisticated cross-reference system for automatically linking related elements in the schematics XE "Set:Cross-reference function" XE "Cross-references: Set Function" . A common use of cross-references is to link relay coils with the contacts that they control.
The basic rule for using cross-references is simple: All elements that are functionally inter-related must be assigned a common cross-reference function.
To do so, run the Set Cross-reference function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Set Xr-Function from the Cadelec
\ Element Analyse menu ( Fig. 70
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in the
Element Analyse toolbar click on the Set
Xr-Function toolbox ( Fig. 71
by command : type SXRF and press ENTER.
After running the function in either of these ways, Cadelec
will open the dialogue box shown below (Fig. 72
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The relay in our starter circuit controls one set of three-phase contacts in the power circuit and the single-phase latch contact in the control circuit. We must therefore tag all these elements with the same cross-reference function to specify that they belong to the same functional unit. Enter RUN as the name of the functional unit in the Edit Function field and press ENTER to verify. Select these three items by clicking on them with the cursor. After you have selected them, press ENTER or press the right mouse button to leave the selection mode.
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Our starter also has another functional unit, in the form of
a thermal overload relay (row D column 2) controlling a normally-closed contact
in the control circuit (row B column 6). To group these elements run Set
Cross-reference function again. Erase the RUN
entry from the Edit Function field
and define OVERLOAD as the name of
the new functional unit (Fig. 76
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All elements with cross-referencing capabilities must bear a Cross-reference function. As you can also group switches and pushbuttons a cross-reference function must also be defined for them.
To do so, repeat the Set Cross-Reference function by pressing ENTER or clicking the right mouse button.
Enter START as new cross-reference function and press ENTER. Select the normally-open pushbutton and leave the selection mode.
Proceed in the same way to assign the normally closed pushbutton with the cross-reference function STOP.
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Now that we have grouped elements that form functional units by the same cross-reference function, we can compute cross-references XE "Cross-references:Compute" .
Cadelec will do this automatically when you issue this function in either of the ways:
from the menu: select Cross-Reference from the Cadelec
\ Element Analyse menu (Fig. 79
from the ELEMENT ANALYSE toolbar, by clicking on
the Cross-Reference toolbox (Fig. 80
by command: type XRC and press ENTER.
Cadelec will search the whole project for elements that have been assigned with cross-reference functions. It then analyses the cross-reference to generate the following information:
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on coils, the position (drawing /column/ row) of
the contacts is annotated in the contact map (Fig. 81
on contacts, the Device ID of the coil is given
to the contact and its position is annotated (Fig. 81
If e.g. all switches which can turn the circuit off are given the same cross-reference function name, Cadelec will annotate the position of the other switches alongside each switch (for more details please refer to the manual).
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If Cadelec has detected any cross-referencing errors it will flag the elements red XE "Errors:Cross-reference" XE "Cross-references:Errors" .
Additionally, in the AutoCAD prompt area Cadelec will report that there are errors found.
You can view the error report in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Errors /All from the Cadelec
/ Element Analyse menu (Fig. 83
from the toolbars : click on the Errors toolbox in the Element Analyse toolbar and, holding
down the button, drag the cursor to the All
toolbox and release the button (Fig. 84
Errors which might have occurred are, for example:
you might have forgotten to assign a cross-reference function to a contact, a relay or a switch
you might accidentally have grouped elements which can not form a functional unit (e.g. the relay coil and one of the switches, the relay coil and thermal operated contact, etc.)
If one of those errors has occurred please correct it by assigning the correct cross-reference function. After this compute the cross-references again.
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If an error has occurred in the RUN group and can not find out the reason, you might have inserted a power contact instead an auxiliary contact in the cable loop (row C column 7). To correct the error:
type CHB (CHange Block) and press ENTER.
Click at this contact and press ENTER
Enter the name of the element to be used instead as KONTS.
Select the contact again to assign that only this one should be changed. Press ENTER to leave the selection mode.
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XE "Wire Numbering:Potential" In this step we shall mark the wires by annotating L1, L2, L3 for the power wires and numbering the other wires in the circuit XE "Wires:Set marks" XE "Set:Wire Marks" . .
You can set wire numbers in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Set Mark from the Cadelec /
Connections menu (Fig. 85
from the toolbars : click on the Wire Marks toolbox in the Connections toolbar (Fig. 88
by command : type SNCXMM to place horizontal marks
Once you have started the function, the dialogue box shown
below appears (Fig. 87
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First we will define the markers L1, L2,L3 for the horizontal
wires of the three-phase system (Fig. 89
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To define the first marker L1, type L1 in the Edit field and press ENTER or click on the Set button to confirm. Cadelec will close the dialogue box and prompt to select the wire to be marked. To mark the above wire of the three-phase system, click at it. After you have specified the wire Cadelec will open the dialogue box again. Proceed in the same way to mark the other two wires of the three-phase system with L2 and L3.
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After you have defined the fixed wire marks of the
three-phase system continue by assigning the above horizontal wire of the
control circuit with L1 (Fig. 90
Now we shall mark the lower horizontal wire of the control
circuit with N. Type N in the Edit field. After pressing ENTER to
confirm, click on the lower horizontal wire of the control circuit (Fig. 91
Set Placeholder marks
Now that we have defined the fixed wire marks, we shall
define the placeholder marks. These marks will appear as double zeros (00) after insertion. When performing the
automatic wire numbering (see page REF Number_wires \h
Cadelec features a counter for the wires of each voltage rating. This ensures that the wires of different voltage ratings can be numbered independently. The counter values are for the whole project so that every wire in the project will have a unique wire number.
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To set the placeholder marks, double click on the 00 in the Set Wire Numbers dialogue box, then as Cadelec closed the window,
drag a window over the wires between the 3-phase fuse and the 3-phase contact (Fig. 92
Cadelec will annotate placeholder marks in the middle of the vertical area of the specified window on each of the three wires.
Proceed in the same way to annotate the marks between:
the 3-phase contact and the thermal overload relay
the thermal overload relay and the terminals (Fig. 94
Then set the placeholder marks in the control circuit. When placing the marks in the control circuit, Cadelec will discover that there is only one wire in the window, and set only one mark.
Within the control circuit set the placeholder marks between:
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the one phase fuse and the thermally operated normally closed contact
the thermally operated normally closed contact and the normally closed pushbutton
the normally closed pushbutton and the upper horizontal wire of the loop
the lower horizontal wire of the loop and the relay
on the two horizontal wires of the loop (Fig. 93
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XE "Wire Numbering:Potential" Now that we have annotated placeholder marks we can use Cadelec's automatic wire numbering feature XE "Number:Wires" XE "Wires:Number wires" to number the wires. Run this function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Number \ All from the Cadelec
\ Connections menu (Fig. 95
from the toolbar : click on the Wire Marks toolbox (Fig. 97
by command : type NCNXM and press ENTER.
Cadelec will then search the whole schematic for wires bearing the placeholder marks 00. These marks will be numbered incrementally starting from the top left and working downwards and rightwards.
Wires with different voltage rating will be numbered independently.
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To ensure that cables, terminals and elements have unique numbers XE "View Counters" XE "Counters:View" Cadelec features counters. In the next step we shall have a short look at these counters and their values.
To view (or edit) the counters run the Edit Counters function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Edit Counters from the Cadelec
\ Element Analyse menu (Fig. 98
from the toolbars : click on the Edit Counters box from the Element Analyse toolbar (Fig. 99
by command : enter EDCNT and press ENTER.
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Cadelec opens the dialogue box below (Fig. 100
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There is the counter for the terminal strip -X1. It shows the value of 3 which means that there are three terminals of this strip which have been numbered. The other counters are for elements. When numbering elements, Cadelec automatically creates a counter for each Mnemonic. The value of the F counter shows that there are three protection devices numbered within the project.
These element counters may not be very important in our example, as we have selected a Device ID annotating the position within the schematics. They are very important if elements with the same mnemonic are numbered incrementally. By editing those counters, you can set an initial value prior to numbering. Or, you will reset all counters before re-numbering the whole project.
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Wires bearing the same name and having the same voltage rating can be cross-referenced throughout the project XE "Set:Equipot. XR points" XE "Cross-references:Equipot.XR points" . This cross-referencing will be done between wires of the same voltage rating with equipotential cross-reference points on their loose ends. For example, all wires assigned with L1 can be cross-referenced if they have equipotential cross-reference points on their loose ends.
You can insert them in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Left (Right) from the Cadelec
\ Connections \ X-ref Points menu (Fig. 101
from the toolbars : click on the X-Ref Points toolbox in the Connections toolbar and, holding down
the mouse button, drag down the cursor to the Left (Right) box and release the button (Fig. 102
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First, select the right cross-reference point and insert it
on the right extremity of the above wire of the three-phase system. Call up
this element again by pressing ENTER or the right button of the mouse. Insert
it on the next wire with a loose right end. Continue in this way until all
wires with loose right ends have equipotential cross-reference points (Fig. 103
Now, select the left cross-reference point either from the
menu or from the toolbar. Insert a left cross-reference point on the upper (L1)
wire of the control circuit. (Fig. 104
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Now that we have inserted equipotential cross-reference markers on wires XE "Cross-references:Compute Equipot. XR" with loose ends we perform the equipotential cross-reference calculation. To do so, run the function:
from the menu : select Cross-Reference from the Cadelec
\ Connections menu (Fig. 105
from the toolbars : click on the
Cross-Rreference box from the Connections toolbar (Fig. 107
by command : type XRE and press ENTER
After issuing this function in any of these three ways,
Cadelec will search the whole project for loose wire ends marked with
equipotential cross-reference points. The position of the next wire bearing the
same potential (or in other words, the same wire mark) will be annotated beside
them (Fig. 106
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In our case, Cadelec will cross-reference the L1 wires of the power and the control circuit. The annotation on the right end of the power-circuit phase (1/ 5A) shows that this wire continues in page no. 1, column 5, row A. The annotation on the L1 phase of the control circuit shows the position of the power circuit phase (1/4A).
For details on cross-referencing, please see the Manual (Chapter 5) or the Help.
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A fundamental Cadelec concept is that of wiring zones XE "Zone:Set" XE "Set:Zone" . You can assign the components in a project to different wiring zones, and Cadelec will use this information for managing the physical layout of the electrical installation (creating the cabinet drawings).
To illustrate the wiring zone concept, let us imagine that our motor starter is going to be used for controlling a fume extractor in an industrial plant. Let us now consider the physical layout of the extractor fan with its control circuitry. First, there will be a control cabinet, with the whole control circuitry. Let us call this cabinet Ctrl. Cab. 01. Then there will be the motor driving the fan; this will be located in the roof. Let us call this area ROOF. We thus have two wiring zones:
the ROOF zone housing the motor and the control cabinet (Ctrl. Cab. 01) housing all other items.
These two zones will be linked by a cable, which connects to the -X1 terminal strip in the control cabinet.
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You might remember that when we first created the schematic, we had to fill in a data sheet screen. One of the fields in this screen was labeled Zone. In this field we have entered Ctrl. Cab. 01. This was the wiring zone default, which applies to all elements, unless explicitly stated otherwise. This is very useful, because instead of assigning each individual object in a schematic to a particular zone, we only have to assign the few objects that fall outside the main zone.
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In our case, we want all elements except the motor to remain in zone Ctrl. Cab. 01.
To assign the motor to zone ROOF, run the Set Zone function in either of three ways:
from the menu : select Zone from the Cadelec \
Element Analyse menu (Fig. 108
from the toolbars : click on the Set Zone box in the Element Analyse toolbar (Fig. 109
by command : type SZON and press ENTER.
Cadelec will open a dialogue box (Fig. 110
To define our new wiring zone, enter ROOF in the edit field. After pressing ENTER to confirm, Cadelec will close the dialogue box and prompt you to select the objects. Click on the motor and press ENTER or the right mouse button to leave the selection mode. ROOF will be annotated alongside the motor to show that this item is located in wiring zone ROOF.
Until now, the elements within our project are only symbols without component specific details like amperage, power, dimensions, etc. To define these entities, elements are associated with catalogue records describing the world part.
In this demonstration project, we will use the example records that come with Cadelec. Later, you can catalogue the parts you are commonly using by creating your own records.
The component definition can be done in several ways XE "Parts:Define" XE "Component definition" XE "Define:Parts" XE "Components:Define" . You can define the components for the elements in the currently open page (not in the whole project) or, you can define the components project wide, for all elements contained in the project.
The first method is accomplished by the Assign Direct and Assign Filtered functions (from the Cadelec \ Element Analyse \ Part Number menu) and the project wide component definition can be made with the Assign Database function.
To define the components in our demo project, select the Assign Database function in either of the ways:
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from the menu: select Assign Database from the Cadelec
\ Element Analyse \ Part Number menu (Fig. 111
from the toolbars: click the Part Number flyout in the Element Analyse toolbar, and holding
down the button, drag the cursor to the Assign
All toolbox and release the button (Fig. 112
by command: type DEF_COM at the command prompt and press ENTER
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Running the command, Cadelec opens the Define Components dialogue, where the components can be defined
from the available catalogues (Fig. 113
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The Define Components dialogue lists all the elements in the project, together with their Device ID, Zone and Element Code. The list can be ordered according to a specific column header by simply clicking on it. For example, clicking on the Device ID column header (the cursor takes the shape of a down-arrow) will order the list by Device ID (the color of the Device ID header will be red).
To define a component for an element in the list (select a
record from a catalogue), click the element in the list to select it and click
the Lookup button in the lower part
of the window. The Lookup dialogue
box is opened where Cadelec lists the components (records) of the selected
catalogue, or the records matching the active filtering conditions and options
(Fig. 114
The Search across catalogues option will look for components in all available catalogues, filtering them according to the active filtering conditions. The Mnemonic, Kind (kind of element) and Contacts buttons enable / disable the corresponding filtering options.
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Activate the Search across catalogues, Mnemonic, Kind and Contacts options to have only matching records displayed in the components list.
To define the component for the selected element, select the record from the list and click the OK button. Cadelec returns to the main Define Components dialogue box where the Catalog and Article fields are filled out with the selected record.
If the Show Terminals option is active (available in the Tools dialogue - to activate click the Tools tab in the main Define Components window), the Define Components output window will contain the terminals in the project too. If not (default value), the terminals will not appear (if you do not want to associate them with catalogue articles).
Proceed in the same way to define all elements in the project.
We suggest the following catalogue/record references:
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Element Code |
Catalogue |
Record |
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THS31S10 |
DTEL |
PR001 |
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MOTOR3P |
DSIE |
M03001 |
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SICH1 |
DSIE |
FUS001 |
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SICH3 |
DSIE |
FUS003 |
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TADRUKS |
DCLO |
PBB01 |
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TADRUKO |
DCLO |
PBM01 |
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REL3H11 |
DTEL |
RM3H11 |
After component definition is finished, leave the Component Definition dialogue box by pressing the Cancel button. Cadelec will ask whether to Update Accessories or not. Choosing Yes will update the accessories for the components, which have accessories, defined (for more information, see the Manual - Chapter 12).
After leaving the Component Definition dialogue, the
catalogue, record and technical data of the components will be annotated
alongside the defined elements in the schematic (Fig. 115
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Beside the automatic annotations of the record data, you can also annotate your own comments XE "Set:User annotations" which will appear on one element only. You may use this, e.g. for mounting instructions. To annotate such details run the Set User function in either of the ways:
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from the menu : select User from the Cadelec \
Element Analyse menu (Fig. 116
from the toolbars : click on the Set
User box from the Element Analyse
toolbar (Fig. 118
by command : type SUSR and press ENTER.
Cadelec will prompt you to select the object. Click with the
cursor on the motor element. Cadelec opens the dialogue box shown below (Fig. 117
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In this example, we will fill out the fields with the following information :
Field 1: Delivery and mounting
Field 2: by company XY
Field 3: on 1st August 1998
Once you have filled out these fields and clicked on the OK
button you will find this annotated alongside the motor (Fig. 115
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Different wiring zones such as the control cabinet and the motor of our project are linked by cables XE "Set:Cables" XE "Define:Cables" XE "Cables:Set" which are connected to terminals In this step we shall specify the cables and wires connecting the terminals and the motor. Before we can do so, we have to specify the cable type to use. After this was selected we have to define a unique name for this cable. Once this was done we can specify the cable and the wire connected to each terminal. To do so, run the Set Cables function in either of the ways:
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from the menu: select Cables \ Set from the Cadelec
\ Terminals menu (Fig. 119
from the toolbars: click on the Cables box in the Terminals toolbar and , holding down the mouse button, drag the
cursor to the Set Cables box and
release the button (Fig. 120
by command : type SCAB and press ENTER
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Once the function is running, Cadelec will prompt you to select the terminal. Click on the first terminal. It might be helpful to zoom on the terminals and switch SNAP off (hot key F9).
After you have selected the terminal, Cadelec opens the
dialogue box shown in Fig. 121
Within the Select Cable dialogue box, click on the Add button to define a new cable.
Cadelec opens the dialogue box shown below with the existing
cable types (Fig. 122
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For this example, we shall use the motor cable NYY4x2.5 mm2. To select this cable type,
position the cursor on it and click on the OK button. Cadelec will open the
dialogue box shown in Fig. 124
We suggest that you use a prefix like CAB with a number to give every cable a unique name. In our case, we shall name the first cable within our project CAB01. Type CAB01 and press ENTER.
Cadelec will return to the Select Cable dialogue box. The cable we have just defined will be shown as the only cable within the project. Now we have defined CAB01 to be the cable between the terminals of the control cabinet and the motor. Within the main dialogue box, CAB01 will appear now in the Cable field.
The next thing we will do is to define the wire connecting
the terminal and motor. To do so click on the Wires button in the Set
Cables dialogue box. Cadelec opens a selection box with the wires defined
for this cable type (Fig. 125
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Select the wire labeled with bk to be connected to the first terminal. To do so, leave the cursor positioned on this label and click on the OK button. The cable can be defined either with numerical, or with alpha-numeric wires or with a combination of both.
In the Length field specify the wire length as 10 and press ENTER to confirm.
The cable and the wire on the external side of the first terminal (external side of the control cabinet - connected to the motor) are now defined.
We shall now continue and define the connection of the other terminals. As the procedure is similar, this will only be described in short.
Assigning the next terminals (Fig. 126
To assign the next terminals (-X1 2 to -X1 PE) run the function again. Select the terminal to be assigned and proceed in the following way:
place the cursor on the Cable field in the To area.
press ENTER on the empty field
select the cable CAB01 from the Select Cable dialogue box
click on the Wires button
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select a wire. We suggest to assign:
-X1 2 with wire br
-X1 3 with wire bk
-X1 PE with wire yg
specify the wire length as 10 (on the PE wire as 11)
Now, our schematic is drawn and we can save our work. You can save the schematic in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Save from the File menu
from the toolbars : click on the Save box in the AutoCAD Standard Toolbar
From an electrical point of view, we have now finished our project. However, Cadelec is also capable of exploiting information on the parts in the project to help you produce physical layout drawings for cabinet fitting purposes.
Interactively, Cadelec will generate cabinet layouts in the form of scale drawings showing the physical location of parts in the cabinet. It does this by extracting data on the parts' physical dimensions, as specified in the catalogue records.
Obviously, before you can start designing the physical layout, you must first have assigned catalogue records to elements. We have done this during Schematic creation in the Define Parts section. For elements, which have not been assigned with a catalogue record, Cadelec will be unable to create an outline, as the dimensions are unknown.
To identify which parts go into which cabinet, Cadelec uses the wiring zone specification. It assumes each wiring zone to be a physical location represented by a cabinet. Elements bearing the same wiring zone specification will therefore all be part of the same cabinet. In our project we have two wiring zones:
Ctrl. Cab. 01 with all control and protection devices and
ROOF as the motor location.
In the next steps we shall create a cabinet housing the control and protection devices. We shall assume that the motor will be mounted on a socket and does not require a cabinet.
Cadelec comes with a cabinet library called MONTA holding over 60 pre-drawn cabinets with different dimensions.
To determine which cabinet we need to house all the components, we shall issue the Cabinet Layout report listing a surface summary by wiring zones XE "Cabinets:Cabinet layout report" . To do so, select:
Cabinet Layout from the File \ Reports \ Project menu.
Cadelec will ask whether accessories should be updated. Answer by Yes.
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Cadelec opens the
report selection browse shown below (Fig. 127
To consider both, required surface and depth, issue the report R_IMF_02. To do so, position the cursor on this report and press ENTER.
Once you have selected the report Cadelec will open a dialogue box where you can enter a filter. Leave this field empty and press ENTER.
In the next dialogue
box you can select the output device. Leave Screen
selected and click on OK (Fig. 128
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Once this was done Cadelec will open a screen displaying the report. As the report will not fit on the screen, you will use the cursor keys to scroll through the report. You may also use the PAGE UP / PAGE DOWN keys to jump between the pages of the report.
On the first page of the report you will find the components of wiring zone Ctrl. Cab. 01 listed together with their dimensions. Here you can already see that most components will be represented by a rectangular outline (height and width are specified). The break contact pushbutton will be represented by a circular outline (diameter specified). Below these elements you will find a surface summary.
In our case, the surface summary and the depth are the required information. The cabinet we need should have a depth of more than 104 millimeters and have a surface of more than 14235 mm2. Using these details, we can now go on and select the cabinet.
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To create a new
cabinet layout drawing XE "New:Cabinet layout drawing" XE
"Cabinet:New Cabinet drawing" XE
"Cabinets:New Cabinet drawing" select New
Page from the Cadelec / Project
menu (Fig. 130
Cadelec will open
the New Page dialogue box shown
below. Confirm the default page number (2) and select Cabinet Layout Drawing (Fig. 132
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With this you define the page to be created as cabinet layout drawing. To continue click on the Create empty Page button.
The next screen which will be opened is the page data sheet where you will have to specify which wiring zone will be represented by the cabinet (Zone field) and select the cabinet to be used. Here you will also enter page descriptions. For a description of these fields and their use please refer to Chapter 3, section Creating a new page.
The following fields have a slightly different function for cabinet layout drawings:
Zone
In this field you specify which wiring zone is represented by the cabinet you create.
Select the Ctrl. Cab. 01 wiring zone from the list of existing zone specifications, by clicking on the down-arrow at the right of the box.
After selecting the Zone, click on the Cabinet button to open the Cabinet window (Fig. 133
Here you can select the cabinet library, the cabinet and update the accessories.
Library
Here you select the cabinet library containing the cabinet you wish to use. Open the list of existing cabinet libraries by clicking on the down-arrow.
From the list, select the MONTA library.
Cabinet
Clicking on the
down-arrow will open a list of cabinets (Fig. 133
The cabinets are
listed including their dimensions. With the surface summary calculated by the
Cabinet Layout report and the required depth (Fig. 133
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Select this cabinet from the list and click OK.
Once you have filled out the page data sheet, click on the OK button. Cadelec will open the Cabinet Layout page where you can plan the physical layout as described in the next steps.
Clicking on the Update button in the Cabinet window will update the necessary cabinet surface (like the Cabinet Layout report) and displays it in the Surface box.
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Cadelec opens the
cabinet drawing containing the cabinet door and chassis. (Fig. 136
To place the component outlines into the cabinet run the Place Components function in either of three ways:
from the menu: select Place Components from the Cadelec
\ Cabinet menu (Fig. 134
from the toolbars: click on the Cabinet box in the Cadelec toolbar, and holding down the button, drag the cursor to
the Place Components box and release
the button (Fig. 135
by command: type TXTIN and press ENTER.
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Cadelec will open a
dialogue box from where you can specify whether you wish Terminals, Plugs and
Sockets also to be placed within the cabinet (Fig. 137
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As we did not associate our terminals with catalogue records and have no plugs and sockets in our project you should leave the options de-selected and click on OK.
Then, Cadelec will
open a pickbox (Fig. 138
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Before inserting,
you can request details such as Technical data, manufacturer, etc. You will do
this, by placing the cursor on the component line and clicking on the More Info button (Fig. 139
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To place the components double-click on the component description line. Cadelec will then close the dialogue box and draw a true to scale outline using the dimensions in the record. Place this outline by clicking with the cursor at the required position within the cabinet. The outlines are labeled with the component Device ID so that you can easily recognize which part is represented by which outline.
Note:
If a part has a physical drawing associated from a physical library, then instead of the default rectangular shape (or circle), Cadelec will insert the specified drawing (for more information see the Manual - Chapter 12 or the Help - Edit record).
Place the components
as shown below (Fig. 140
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Please note that you can change the position of any outline using the AutoCAD Move command (Modify menu).
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With Cadelec you can also plan the position of the terminal block XE "Terminals:Draw block" XE "Draw:Terminal block" XE "Draw:Cable routings" XE "Cabinet:Draw terminal block" XE "Cabinet:Draw cable routings" XE "Cabinets:Draw terminal block" XE "Cabinets:Draw cable routings" within the cabinet. For this you have a special function which you can select in either of three ways:
from the menu: select Terminal Block from the Cadelec
\ Cabinet menu (Fig. 141
from the toolbars: click on the Cabinet box in the Cadelec toolbar and, holding down the mouse button, drag down the
cursor to the Terminal Block box and
release the button (Fig. 142
by command : type TSR and press ENTER.
Cadelec will prompt you to enter the Terminal Strip name. Type -X1 and press ENTER.
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Next, Cadelec will prompt to specify the start point. You will do this by clicking with your pointing device.
Enter the number of terminals as 4 (or 8 if you want to put some spare terminals).
Enter the terminal
width as 8 and the height as 10. The size of the terminals is given
in millimeters. Cadelec will draw the terminal block true to scale (Fig. 143
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In this step we draw cable routings within the cabinet.
Run the Cable Routing drawing function in either of three ways:
from the menu : select Cable Routing from the Cadelec
\ Cabinet menu (Fig. 144
from the toolbars : click on the Cabinet toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar and , holding down the
mouse button, drag the cursor to the Cable
Routing box and release the button (Fig. 145
by command : type CCC and press ENTER.
First Cadelec will ask you to specify a starting point. Click above the middle of the terminal.
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Then, Cadelec will prompt for an end point. Specify a point approximately at the same height as the above line of the outline of fuse -F1.6.
Enter the width as 10 and finally specify the side to offset as to the left from the end point.
Now, we will draw a
horizontal cable routing. Run the function again and specify a starting point
on the vertical right routing (Fig. 146
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The Cabinet layout drawing is now finished. You should save your work by selecting Save from the File menu or clicking on the Save toolbox from the AutoCAD toolbar. You can also type END to save and leave AutoCAD.
Cadelec generates Terminal Pinout drawings automatically. A pinout drawing will be generated for each terminal block. Terminal blocks with more than 50 terminals are carried over onto extra drawings.
If you have previously not created terminal pinouts within this project you will have to enter the Terminal Editor first. By doing so, Cadelec will search the whole project for Terminals and write terminal related data into a database. This database will be accessed to generate the terminal pinouts.
You will also have to enter the terminal editor before creating terminal pinouts in order to regenerate the database if you have done one of the following things in the meantime:
added or removed terminals
deleted or renumbered project drawings
changed or renumbered the elements that are connected to terminals
With the terminal editor you can directly access the terminal database. From there you can change terminal data such as Terminal Strip, Terminal number, cable and wire assignment and the wire length. You can also add spare terminal, edit the bridges Cadelec has computed and define bridges manually.
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The Terminal Editor can be entered XE "Terminals:Terminal
editor" either by selecting Edit from the Cadelec \
Terminals \ Cables menu (Fig. 147
Cadelec will open the Terminal
editor dialogue box shown below (Fig. 149
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Selecting Sort
Terminals, the Terminal order
dialogue box appears (Fig. 150
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You can select the ordering by Terminal Number, Column/Row, Internal Side Device ID, Equipotential or keep the previous order by selecting Keep existing Order. Select the Terminal Number option and click on the OK button.
Clicking on the Terminal
Editor button, the following screen appears (Fig. 151
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Changing the column width
As not all the columns of the terminal editor fit on the screen, you can alter the column width to hide certain columns and obtain better readability. To change the column width, just place the mouse cursor on the vertical line between two columns, press the left-hand mouse button and drag the line to the required location. To change the location of a field, you can click the mouse on its heading and drag the mouse left or right to the desired location.
In the terminal database of the project, you can edit terminal data like Terminal Strip Number, Cable, Length and wire assignment, etc.
You can also edit the bridges, which Cadelec has computed automatically, define bridges manually and add spare terminals.
In the Terminal database you can edit the following fields:
Terminal Strip The Terminal Strip ID can be edited to make possible re-assigning of terminals to
different terminal strips in the Terminal Editor.
Terminal Shows the terminal number and can be edited to assign different terminal numbers
to terminals within the Editor
from /to Cable Shows the cables connected on the internal side (from Cable) and external side (to
Cable) of the terminal. Typing ? in the empty from Cable field for example, brings
up a dialogue box in which the already defined cables are available, and new cables
can be added.
from / to Wire This field can be edited if the from / to Cable field has been defined previously.
Again, typing ? in the from / to Wire field brings up a dialogue box with the
existing wires of the cable, from which you can select one and insert it in the field
(by pressing ENTER on the selected wire).
from / to Length A wire length can be specified for the wire.
Bridges Here you can define bridges manually entering the same number for the terminals
with the same potential and which have to be connected by bridges. If you have run
the Generate Bridges function prior to entering the Editor, you will find bridge
numbers computed by Cadelec in this field, but nevertheless they can be edited.
Cadelec considers all terminals with the same bridge number, within the same
terminal strip as being connected, and therefore a bridge connecting those terminals
will be drawn within the Terminal Pinout Drawing.
Selecting the Generate
Bridges option and clicking OK will bring up a selection dialogue box from
which you can select the Terminal Strips to process (Fig.
152
Clicking the > button will move the selected terminal to the Selected Terminal Strips window which shows the terminal strips on which the function will be performed.
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Remarks Here you can enter special remarks which will not appear in the Terminal Pinout
drawing.
The other fields cannot be edited because their data could not be changed from within the Terminal editor:
Page, Column These fields show the page and column where the terminal is located.
from / to Potential This field shows the wire mark (referred to as a potential) on the internal / external
side of the terminal. If the wires are not numbered Cadelec will show a fictitious ID,
e.g. F1-6 which means the 6-th wire on page 1.
Zone The zone assigned to the terminal
from / to Zone Zone assignment of the elements connected with the internal / external side of
terminal.
from / to Device ID Device ID of the element connected with the internal / external side of terminal.
from / to Pin Pin numbers of element connected with internal / external side of terminal.
As in our case we have only one terminal in the demo project, we will leave the terminals data unchanged.
Selecting the Generate
Terminal Pinout Drawing option and clicking OK XE "Terminals:Terminal Pinout
Drawing" XE "Pinout Drawing" , the following dialogue box
appears (Fig. 153
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In the Generate Terminal Pinout Drawing dialogue box you can set the order by Number, Column/Row, Device ID, Equipotential or Keep Existing Order.
You can also set the page, which will contain the Pinout Drawing after generation (select Append after last Drawing)
Before proceeding, the terminal Strips have to be selected.
For this click on the Select Terminal
Strip button. A selection window appears (Fig. 154
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Here, clicking on the > button will transfer the selected terminal strip from the left window to the right one which shows the terminal strips on which the operation will be performed. Click on the X1 terminal strip and then on OK to proceed.
The first dialogue box (Fig. 153
After a short time for calculation, the terminal pinout drawing will be generated. In our case, one terminal pinout drawing was created. To view it, open the last page of the project, which contains the terminal pinouts.
You will see the terminal pinout drawing, where the four terminals of our project are ordered by numbers. The cable and wire assignments are shown just as the Device ID and the pins of the elements connected to the terminals.
If you have entered a terminal pinout drawing for the first time, you should always save it before leaving the drawing editor. Otherwise, the terminals will not be shown the next time you view the pinout drawing.
To save the drawing select Save from the menu or the toolbars.
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XE "Project:Plot" XE "Plot Project" To plot a project in Cadelec 2000 you can:
Plot the project pages one by one using the PLOT command
use the Batch Project command (BAT_PRO) and run the PLOT_PRO script which comes with Cadelec (or create a new one).
For more information on project plotting please refer to the User's Guide - Chapter 4, Plot Project.
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Plotting the project pages
To plot a project page please follow the following steps:
1. Run the PLOT
command, selecting it from the menu (Fig. 156
2. In the Plot dialogue click the Plot device tab and from the available list select the appropriate system printer
3. Click the Plot Settings tab and set:
- Paper size: to the appropriate value
- Plot area: Extents
- Scale: Scaled to Fit
4. Click Full Preview tab to see the page
5. Press the ESC key to exit the Preview mode.
6. Click OK to print the page.
Plot Project Batch script
The PLOT_PRO batch script comes with Cadelec it can be found in the list of available scripts when running the Batch Project command (BAT_PRO), and selecting the Run a script option.
Before using this script you should adapt it to your own environment settings.
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To do this run the Project
Batch command and select the PLOT_PRO
script and press F2 to edit the
script in the available scripts window (Fig. 157
_-plot n
Model
Previous Plot
Your system Printer
n
n
y
Previous Plot
The batch script contains a reference to the plot settings to apply to the drawing when plotting. This reference can be the Previous Plot. In order to obtain the correct settings by plotting you should plot a page with the AutoCAD PLOT command (see previous page, Plotting the project pages).
Your system Printer
You have to specify in the batch script the name of the system printer or AutoCAD plotter. This name is listed in the Plot dialogue box under the Plot Device tab (see previous page, Plotting the project pages). Select the appropriate printer name from the list and replace "Your system Printer" in the script with the name of your printer from the list (this can be a local printer or a network printer).
At the end save the batch script clicking on OK in the script editor. You can now use the script with all your projects.
To run the Plot Project batch follow the following steps:
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Run the Project Batch function (command: BAT_PRO) from the Tools \ Batch menu or by typing the command at the command prompt.
Select the project to plot in the project selection window
Select the project pages to include in the batch
(Fig. 158
Select the Run
a Script option in the Batch Option
dialogue (Fig. 159
Select the PLOT_PRO batch in the Available Scripts dialogue
Press Enter
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Press the OK button in the Batch Options dialogue. The plotting will be started.
To generate a Bill of Material, select: XE "Reports:Bill of Material" XE "Bill of Material:Report"
Bill of Material from the File \ Reports \ Project menu
Cadelec opens a report selection box with a description of
the 15 different Bill of Material reports that come with Cadelec (Fig. 160
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Select the report you want to be generated by positioning the cursor and pressing ENTER.
Cadelec will ask you whether accessories should be updated. If you select YES, Cadelec will check whether new accessories (auxiliary parts which are specified in the record) were added, or existing one changed. We have not modified any of the record definitions, so that you can continue by selecting NO.
Next, Cadelec will offer you to apply a filter to reduce the amount of data, which will be listed. Leave the filter empty and press ENTER.
Now, you will have to select the Output Device (Fig. 161
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Below you see the report R_EXP_04 listing the Quantity, the Record, the Stock code, an element description, the price and the total price (quantity x price).
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Tip
You can change the Report Headers easily by running Report Headers from the File \ Preferences menu.
To generate the parts list select XE "Reports:Parts" XE "Parts:Report" :
Parts from the File \ Report \ Project menu
Cadelec opens the report selection box from where you can select the parts list by positioning the cursor and pressing ENTER.
Validate the existing filter by pressing ENTER.
Finally, select the output device and click on the OK button.
Below you see the R_COP_03 report.
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The cross-reference reports list all elements XE "Reports:Cross-reference" XE "Cross-references:Report" , which are inter-related through a common cross-reference function. This can be useful for documenting all the functional assemblies in the project.
To generate one of the cross-reference reports select:
Cross-references from the File \ Reports \ Project menu
and proceed as described in the previous page.
Below you see the R_RRC_01 report.
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Connection reports list all connections XE "Reports:Connections" XE "Connections report" throughout the project, sorted by voltage rating. For large projects, this list can be very long indeed. As you will see, even our small demonstration project generates a pretty lengthy list.
To generate the connection report select:
Connections from the File \ Reports \ Project menu
Below you see a part of the R_CNX_01 report (pg. 1) listing the connections within our project.
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Terminal reports give the same information as the terminal pinout drawings but in purely textual form XE "Terminals:Report" XE "Reports:Terminals" .
To generate the terminal report select:
Terminals from the File \ Reports \ Project menu
Below you see the report R_BOR_03.
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Cabling reports give all relevant data XE "Reports:Cabling" XE "Cabling Report" on all cables throughout the project.
To generate on of the cabling lists, select:
Cabling from the File \ Reports \ Project menu
Below you see the R_CAB_01 report.
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Cable reports list the cables used within the project XE "Reports:Cables" XE "Cables:Report" . Most of the six different reports also list the length of the longest wire as the cable length.
To generate cable reports select:
Cables from the File \ Reports \ Project menu
Below you see the report R_CAP_11.
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Until now you have learned how a simple project is developed with Cadelec. Normally, projects are more complicated and require further functions like re-numbering which we will discuss in this chapter.
In this chapter you will also learn how you estimate project costs before drawing the project by pre-defining the Bill of Material.
The third part of this chapter demonstrates PLC functions.
To demonstrate modifications on schematics XE "Schematics:Modifications" , we will assume that our project has another motor with the same power and control circuitry. Instead of drawing the schematic from scratch, we will copy the schematic we have created and modify it.
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For the schematic of the new motor we shall create a new page XE "Page:New" XE "New:Page" . We can do this in either of the following ways:
from the menu : select New Page from the Cadelec \
Project menu (Fig. 169
from the toolbars : click on the Project toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar and, holding down the
mouse button, drag the cursor to the New
Page box and release the button (Fig. 170
by command : type CRE_PLA and press ENTER.
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The page creation dialogue box appears (Fig. 171
Select the Take Data of
other Page option to copy the page descriptions and specifications. Cadelec
will then open a page selection box (Fig. 172
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Select page number 1 and press ENTER.
Now click on the Copy Same Page as Data Sheet button. This will copy the drawing too.
Cadelec will open the page data sheet. The fields are the same as described in chapter 3 in the Create New Page section.
You may change the page descriptions or simply validate by clicking on the OK button.
Cadelec will copy our first schematic and open the page.
The first things you will discover are red annotations
alongside the relay
XE "Replace XR function" XE "Cross-references:Replace XR
function" and the
contacts. Every time such annotations appear, Cadelec flags cross-reference
errors. Requesting the cross-reference error list from the menu (Cadelec / Element Analyse / Errors-All)
or from the Element Analyse toolbar (Errors-All) will show you that the
groups OVERLOAD and RUN have two coils (Fig. 173
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As coil and the contacts with the same cross-reference function are assigned to be one physical part, the coils of both schematic and all contacts are considered as being one part. Logically, the same contact cannot be activated by two different coils at a time.
To correct the errors, we have to replace the cross-reference functions of the new drawing.
To do so, run the Replace Xr-Function in either of the ways:
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from the menu : select Replace XR-function from the Cadelec
\ Element Analyse menu (Fig. 174
from the toolbars : click on the Replace XR-Function box in the Element Analyse toolbar (Fig. 175
by command : type CXRF and press ENTER.
Cadelec opens the dialogue box shown below (Fig. 176
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First we replace the OVERLOAD cross-reference function by OVERLOAD2. To do so, enter OVERLOAD in the Find field and OVERLOAD2 in the Replace with field. After clicking on the OK button, select the whole schematic by dragging a window over it or by typing ALL and pressing ENTER.
Proceed in the same way to replace the function RUN by RUN2.
Alternatively, you can also change cross-reference functions by using Set Cross-reference Function . However, it is preferable to use Replace Cross-reference Function if this should be done on the whole schematic.
Once you have replaced these cross-reference functions you can perform the cross-reference calculation. To do so type XRC, select Cross-Reference from the menu or click on the Cross-reference toolbox in the Element Analyse toolbar.
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As you may have discovered, no errors were reported on the switches although they bear the same cross-reference function as the switches of the first schematic. This comes as you can group switches and pushbuttons representing a functional unit. When performing the cross-reference calculation, Cadelec recognizes every switch and pushbutton as a distinct device and annotates the position of the other elements of the same functional unit alongside.
On the pushbuttons within the copied schematic you see the
annotations 1/ 6C (Fig. 177
As we do not want the pushbuttons to be considered as parts of the same functional unit we shall also replace START by START2 and STOP by STOP2.
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Prior to wire numbering, you should reset the wire numbers XE "Wires:Reset numbers" XE "Reset:Wire numbers" . To do so select Reset / All from the Cadelec / Connections menu or from the CONNECTIONS / Wire Marks flyout.
To number the wires in the new drawing:
from the menu : select Number / All from the Cadelec / Connections menu
from the toolbars :click the Number / All toolbox in the Connections / Wire Marks flyout (Fig. 178
by command : type NCNXM and press ENTER. Specify the selection area as ALL and press ENTER again.
Once the numbering process has finished, you will find the wires of the power circuit of the new drawing numbered, starting with 10, since the wire number counters are voltage rating sensitive (there are different counters for the 400V, 230V and PE voltage ratings).
The new schematic we just created should be like in Fig. 179
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The elements in the new drawing still bear the numbers from the drawing XE "Reset:Elements" XE "Elements:Reset" of the first page from which they have been copied. To be able to number them, we have to reset them first. To do so run the reset command in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Reset All / All from the Cadelec
/ Element Analyse menu (Fig. 180
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from the toolbars :click on the Reset All toolbox in the Element Analyse toolbar and, holding
down the mouse button, drag the cursor to the All box and release the button (Fig. 181
by command : type RCOMPALL and specify ALL.
The command resets the elements and the terminals too.
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As we have reset the element numbers we can now number them XE "Number:Elements" XE "Elements:Number" . To do so, run the command in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Number Auto / All from the Cadelec / Element Analyse menu.
from the toolbars : click on the Number Auto toolbox in the Element Analyse toolbar (Fig. 182
After running the command the elements in the drawing will be annotated using the same Device ID formula, defined for the first schematic.
As in the previous step we have reset the terminals too, the command will number them too.
The terminals numbered with 4,5 and 6. These incremental
numbers are given by the counter for terminal strip -X1 (Fig.
183
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Now we can specify the cable (e.g. CAB 02) and the wires connecting the terminal X1 and the motor M4.2 as well as generate terminal pinout drawings. We can do this in same way described in chapter 3, Set cable and in chapter 5, Generate terminal pinout drawing.
To save your drawing:
select Save from the File menu or click on the Save toolbox
Instead of drawing the project first and then extracting the Bill of Material XE "Project:Cost in advance" we can start by generating the Bill of Material. This allows to make a cost estimate before the project is drawn. Later you can create the schematics by picking the components from the pre-defined bill of material and inserting them into the drawing.
You may also combine the pre-defined bill of material with the classical way of schematic creation as described in chapter 3.
In the next steps we will create the example project starting with the pre-defined bill of material.
First we shall create a new project named DEMO_PR2.
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If you are working on a network with several other users please bear in mind to create a project with a unique name.
To do so, select New
Project from the Project menu or click on the Project
toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar and,
holding down the mouse button, drag down the cursor to the New Project box and release the button (Fig. 184
Fill out the project data sheet with a description of the project. You may select a different Device ID formula then the one in our first demonstration project.
Once you have finished the project creation, Cadelec will bring up the new page dialogue box where you can select the Schematic Drawing and the Create Empty Page options and then click on OK. Then, fill out the page definition dialogue box in the same way as in Chapter 3 when creating our first demo project.
Once the project creation finished, select the Add Components function in either of the ways: XE "Components:Add" XE "Add Components" XE "Pre-defined Bill of Material" XE "Bill of Material:Pre-defined"
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from the menu : select Add Components from the Cadelec / Element Analyse / Part Number menu
from the toolbars : click on the Part Number toolbox in the Element
Analyse toolbar and, holding down the mouse button, drag down the cursor to
the Add Components box and release
the button (Fig. 185
Once you have done so, Cadelec opens the dialogue box shown below.
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To add new components to the project press the INS (Insert) key. Cadelec will open a
dialogue box shown in Fig. 187
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Fill out the following fields:
Tag Number This field is used to cross-reference to other than electrical projects such as piping
diagrams. We will not use it here, so you can leave it empty.
Element code Here you enter the name of the element to be used. First we will add the three-phase
motor to the project cost estimate.
Type either MOTOR3P or M and press ENTER. When you type M or any non valid element name (e.g. ?) Cadelec opens a selection window with the existing elements. If you typed M Cadelec lists the elements starting with M. Select MOTOR3P from the list and press ENTER.
Catalogue Here you specify the manufacturers catalogue.
In the case of the three-phase motor, this is the DLES catalogue. You can type DLES or enter any non-valid catalogue specification (e.g. ?) to select from the list of existing catalogues.
Record In this field you enter the record describing the component you wish to use.
In the case of the three-phase motor this is the record M03001. Again, Cadelec opens a selection box if you enter any non existing record specification such as the question mark (?).
Zone Here you can specify the wiring zone for the component . If you wish to leave the
device in the default wiring zone as specified in the page data sheet you can leave this field empty.
The motor should not be contained in a cabinet but in the wiring zone called ROOF. Type ROOF and press ENTER.
Quantity Here you enter how much of such components you will need within the project. In
our simple demonstration project each device is required once only.
Continue pre-defining the components by pressing the INS key and entering the specifications shown in the table below.
|
Element description |
Tag Number |
Element Code |
Catalogue |
Record |
Zone |
Quantity |
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Current and thermal protection device |
|
THS31S10 |
DTEL |
PR001 |
|
1 |
|
Normally closed contact thermally operated |
|
KONTTHO |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Three Terminals |
|
KLEMMO3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Three-phase fuse |
|
SICH3 |
DSIE |
FUS003 |
|
1 |
|
Pushbutton - normally open |
|
TADRUKS |
DCLO |
PBB01 |
|
1 |
|
Pushbutton - normally closed |
|
TADRUKO |
DCLO |
PBM01 |
|
1 |
|
One-phase fuse |
|
SICH1 |
DSIE |
FUS001 |
|
1 |
|
Relay -3 main contacts 1 mk. ct. and 1br. ct |
|
REL3H11 |
DTEL |
RM3H11 |
|
1 |
|
Three-phase power contact |
|
KONT3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Auxiliary contact; normally open |
|
KONTS |
|
|
|
|
The contacts required within our project were not associated with catalogue records as they are parts of a relay and not devices of their own.
After defining all the elements you should have the following Add Components window:
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Once you have pre-defined these components press the ESC key to quit this function.
Now that the required components are defined you can compute the Bill of Material to estimate project costing XE "Project:Costing Estimate" .
To do so, select Bill of Materials from the File \ Reports \ Project menu Cadelec will open the report selection window where you can select one of the predefined reports (e.g. R_CXP_02).
Set Voltage Rating to 400V
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Now you can proceed to draw the schematic in the first page we have created and defined. First you should specify the voltage rating to 400V. You can do this in either of the ways:
from the menu : select 400 V from the Cadelec \
Connections \ Voltage Rating menu (Fig. 189
from the toolbars : click on the Voltage Rating toolbox in the Connections toolbar and, holding down
the mouse button, drag the cursor to the 400
V box and release the button (Fig. 190
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by command : type LAYCAB and press ENTER. Cadelec will prompt for the voltage rating, enter 400V.
Draw 3-phase wires
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To draw the three-phase wires of the power circuit, run the function in either of the ways:
from the menu: select 3-Phase from the Cadelec \
Connections menu (Fig. 191
from the toolbars: click on the 3-Phase box in the Connections toolbar (Fig. 192
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by command: type L3 and press ENTER.
Draw the wires of the power circuit as shown in Fig. 193
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Set Voltage rating to 230V
Before drawing the wires of the control circuit you will have to specify the voltage rating for these wires to 230V.
Once you have done so, you will draw the one-phase wires of the control circuit (draw the hot wire of the control circuit with the 400 V voltage rating because of the equipotential cross-referencing).
To do so, run the one-phase wire drawing command in either of the ways:
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from the menu : select 1-Phase from the Cadelec \
Connections menu (Fig. 194
from the toolbars : click on the 1-Phase box in the Connections toolbar (Fig. 195
by command : type L1 and press ENTER.
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Draw the control-circuit as shown in Fig. 193
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Now that we have drawn the wires of both circuits we can insert the elements. Different than in the first demonstration project where we have inserted elements from the slides XE "Insert:From pre-defined BOM" XE "Elements:Insert from pre-defined BOM" XE "Bill of Material:Insert from pre-defined BOM" or by typing, we will now insert them directly from the pre-defined bill of materials.
To do so, run the command in either of the ways:
from the menu : select List
from the Cadelec \ Element Draw menu (Fig. 196
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from the toolbars : click on the List toolbox in the Element Draw toolbar (Fig. 197
by command : type LISTIN and press ENTER.
Cadelec opens the pickbox shown below (Fig. 198
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From this pick-box you can insert the components with their catalogue, record and zone definition into the schematic. You will do this by double clicking on the text line. Cadelec will then close the pick-box so that you can insert the element.
You can also request additional information to the components by positioning the cursor and clicking on the More Info button.
Once you have inserted all elements as shown in Fig. 199
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As you may have discovered, the wires underneath the terminals were not cut automatically. This comes as the terminals are one "block" and were not exploded by this function. You will have to explode it by command. Type
EXPLODE
and drag a window over the terminals. Press ENTER or the right mouse button to leave the selection mode.
Now the terminals are recognized as three elements. To perform the line cutting, type:
LBRK
press ENTER and drag a window over the terminals. After leaving the selection mode by pressing ENTER, or the right mouse button, the line underneath the terminals will be cut.
Next Steps:
If you wish to do so, you can now continue working on this example project.
You can try to reproduce the next steps on your own without using the descriptions within Chapter 3.
Below you see the next steps listed:
Set Voltage rating to PE and draw the PE wire
Insert the PE terminal and the earth symbol in the PE circuit
Set terminal strip ID
Number components
Set cross-reference functions
Compute cross-references
Set wire marks
Number wires
Set Equipotential cross-reference points
Calculate Equipotential cross-references
Set Cables
Set User definable annotations
In this part we shall create our demonstration project, but use a PLC as controlling device instead of the classic control circuit.
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To create a new project, select New from the Project menu
(Fig. 200
Enter for example DEMO_PLC XE "Project:New" XE "New:Project" , as the name of the project to be created, in the New Project dialogue box.
If you are working on a network with several other Cadelec users, please bear in mind to enter a unique project name (e.g. append your initials to PLC_).
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Validate the default option settings by clicking the OK button.
Next, fill out the project data sheet as shown in Fig. 202
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.
Click the Device ID
button in the Project data window to
activate the Device ID window (Fig. 203
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XE "Wire Numbering:Point to Point" Clicking the Wire Numbering button, you can set the Wire Numbering system for the project.
Select in this case the Point to Point
wire numbering system (for details on wire numbering please refer to the
Manual, chapter 5). Set the Algorithm
option to Sequential and the Direction to Vertical (Fig. 204
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After project definition, Cadelec opens the New page dialogue box (Fig.
205
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Instead of drawing a new power circuit, which will be controlled by a PLC XE "Page:New" XE "New:Page" , we shall copy it from the first demonstration project (and afterwards erase the old control circuit).
To copy a page of another project, click the Copy Which Page button.
Cadelec will open the File
selection window shown in Fig. 206
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In the Copy which Page window you can change the directory or drive (if the project you want to copy the drawing from is not in the default directory-CLPW\PR).
Select the first page of the DEMO_PR project (1.dwg) in the \PR\DEMO_PR directory and click on the Copy button to proceed.
Cadelec, opens the page definition window which should be
filled out as in Fig. 207
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After page definition is completed, clicking on the OK button, Cadelec opens page one of the DEMO_PLC project (which is the same as page 1 of DEMO_PR from which it was copied).
In the next steps we shall replace the control circuit by a PLC. To erase it run the AutoCAD ERASE command or simply E and press ENTER or SPACE. Then drag a window over the control circuit, click the right mouse button or press ENTER to leave the selection mode.
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You can insert the PLC element in either of two ways: XE "PLC:Insert" XE "Insert:PLC" XE "Elements:Insert PLC"
from the slides : click on the PLC toolbox in the CATEGORIES toolbar
(if it does not show click on the Categories
box in the Cadelec toolbar to show
it) - see Fig. 208
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by typing : enter the command IE and press ENTER. Enter the name of the element to be inserted as PLC8EBM and press ENTER to validate.
Insert the PLC like in Fig. 210
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Set Voltage Rating to 24V
Before drawing the wires connected to the input channels of the PLC XE "PLC:Draw PLC input wires" XE "Draw:PLC input wires" we shall set the voltage rating to 24V. You can do this in either of the ways:
from the menu : select 24V from the Cadelec \ Connections \ Voltage Rating menu (Fig. 211
from the toolbars : click on the Voltage Rating toolbar and, holding down the mouse button, drag the cursor to the 24V box and release the button.
by command : type LAYCAB, press ENTER and type 24V as the voltage rating.
Draw Input Wires
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The power circuit will be controlled by three PLC input signals (on, off and overload). To draw the wires connected to the input channels run the 1-Phase wire command:
from the menu : select 1-Phase from the Cadelec \
Connections menu (Fig. 212
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from the toolbars : click on the 1-Phase box in the Connections toolbar (Fig. 213
by command : type L1 and press ENTER.
Draw the wires as shown in Fig. 214
Set Voltage Rating to N
Before drawing the PLC output wires we set the voltage rating to N, in either of the ways XE "Draw:PLC output wires" :
from the menu : select N from the Cadelec \ Connections \ Voltage Rating menu
from the toolbars : click on the Voltage Rating toolbox and, holding down the mouse button, drag the cursor to the N box and release the button.
by command : type LAYCAB, press ENTER and enter the voltage rating as N.
Draw Output Wires
Though we will not need all output channels we will set them
to N potential as shown in Fig. 214
from the menu : select 1-Phase from the Cadelec \ Connections menu
from the toolbars : click on the 1_Phase box in the Connections toolbar
by command : type L1 and press ENTER
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Once you have drawn the output channels, you should repeat the 1-Phase wire drawing command to draw a short wire connected to the ground pin CG. We shall later assign this channel as being connected to the N wire by using an equipotential cross-reference point.
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To check whether the wires on the drawing are electrically connected XE "Set:Nodes" XE "Nodes:Set" or not, you will set nodes. To do so, run the function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Nodes - Default from the Cadelec
\ Connections menu (Fig. 215
from the toolbars : click on the Nodes-Default toolbox in the Connections toolbar (Fig. 216
by command : type APO and press ENTER. Press ENTER again to confirm the default or enter a new diameter.
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If the intersecting lines in your drawing do not have node markers you might not have drawn them with SNAP operative. Please set the snap grid to 5 AutoCAD co-ordinates and make sure that it is operative (short key F9). Run ERASE and click on the lines, which are not connected. Press ENTER to leave the selection mode and get the wires erased. Draw the wires again, now with SNAP operative.
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As we saw in the previous chapters, elements can be inserted in either of the ways XE "Insert:Elements" XE "Elements:Insert" :
from the slides: select the element category
from the CATEGORIES toolbar and then the
element from the opened selection window. To show this toolbar click on the Element Categories toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar (Fig. 217
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by typing: enter the command IE (for Insert Element) and then the element name.
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First we insert a normally open pushbutton (element name : TADRUKS - Fig. 218
The last input device is the normally closed thermally
activated contact (element name: KONTHO -
Fig. 220
For the switchgear we need a coil able to control the
three-phase power contact. For this, we shall use the coil REL3H00 -Fig. 221
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Additionally we can insert a lamp showing that the motor is
running and a flashing lamp activated if the thermal and overload protection
device stops the motor. For this we can insert the lamp (element name: LEUMELDE - Fig. 222
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XE "Wire Numbering:Point to Point" Now, we shall mark the wires with L+, N. To do so run the Set Wire Number function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Set Wire from the Cadelec \
Connections \ Wire Numbering menu (Fig. 224
from the toolbars : click on the Wire Marks toolbox in the CONNECTIONS
toolbar and, holding down the mouse button, drag the cursor to the Horizontal box and release the button (Fig. 225
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by command : type SET_WN and press ENTER.
Cadelec will open the dialogue box shown in Fig. 227
Type N in the edit
box, click on the Set pushbutton,
select the lower wire by clicking the mouse button on it and click on the right
mouse button to leave the selection mode. Cadelec will mark the selected wire
with N and return to the Wire Numbers window allowing you to set
the next wire number. Type L+ (or +24V) as the new wire marker, click the Set button and mark the upper wire with L+, and then, mark with N the wire connected to the CG pin, as shown in REF _Ref438980456 \h \* MERGEFORMAT Fig. 226
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With all the elements inserted, our control circuit should
look like in Fig. 228
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In this step we shall replace the default pin assignments XE "PLC:Number pins" XE "Number:PLC pins" C1..C8 by incremental pin numbers. To do so run the Number PLC Pins function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Pin Numbers from the Cadelec
\ PLC menu (Fig. 229
from the toolbars : click on the PLC toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar and, holding down the button, drag down
the cursor to the Pin Numbers box and
release the button (Fig. 230
by command : type NPLC and press ENTER.
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Cadelec will prompt you to select the
object. Click with your pointing device on the PLC (if necessary set SNAP off).
Cadelec will then open the dialogue box shown in Fig. 231
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Here you can change the number of Power and Ground pin and enter Pin numbers. In our example, we shall leave the power and ground pin assignments unchanged.
To number the pins starting with 1, simply enter 1 (or 1:8) in the Channel Number(s) field and click on the OK button.
The CG, CP, C1 - C8 annotations are contained in the Pin Function attributes (PF) and they can be edited with the AutoCAD command DDATTE. Here we shall leave them at their default values.
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In this step we will assign addresses to PLC channels XE "PLC:Address channels" . To do so select
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from the menu : Addresses from the Cadelec \
PLC menu (Fig. 233
from the toolbars : click on the PLC toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar and, holding down the button, drag the cursor to
the Addresses box and release the
button (Fig. 234
by command: type APLC and press ENTER.
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Cadelec will prompt you to select the
object. To do so, click on the PLC. Then, Cadelec will open the dialogue box
shown in Fig. 235
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As our first channels of the first PLC in the project are inputs, enter in the Address prefix field I1.
Next, you will have to specify the separator between the Address Prefix and the Channel address number. To do so click on the down arrow button beside the Separator field. From the list of separators select the dot (.) for example.
Now, enter the Start Number as 1.
Next, select the Number System by clicking on the system you whish to use (decimal).
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As in this example is not necessary to have the address annotated twice, disable the Copy Address to Label option.
Cadelec will automatically assign addresses
to the PLC channels after clicking on the OK button (Fig. 236
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The channels of our PLC are now all assigned as inputs and not described XE "Set:PLC channel descriptions" XE "PLC:Edit Addresses" . In this step we shall edit the addresses of the output channels and add channel descriptions.
For this step it might be helpful if you zoomed on the PLC. To do so, enter ZOOM (or simply Z), press ENTER and drag a window over the PLC.
To edit channel data, run the PLC Channel function in either of the ways:
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from the menu : select Channels from the Cadelec \
PLC menu (Fig. 237
from the toolbars : click on the PLC box in the Cadelec toolbar and, holding down the mouse button, drag the cursor
to the Descriptors toolbox and
release the button (Fig. 238
by command : type EPLC and press ENTER.
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When Cadelec prompts you to select the
object, click on address I1.1. For
this it might be necessary to switch Snap temporarily off by pressing F9. The Edit PLC Channel dialogue box appears (Fig. 239
Enter e.g. MOTOR ON in the Description field and IN in the Comment field. Leave the other fields unchanged and click on the OK button to proceed. Cadelec will annotate then the Channel. To obtain better readability we have to rotate / move the channel descriptors too. We shall do this in the same way as before, selecting the Rotate / Move command from the Cadelec \ Attributes menu, or clicking on the Attributes toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar and, holding down the button, dragging the cursor to the Move / Rotate box and releasing the button.
While rotating the attributes, make sure that the ORTHO function is ON (if not use the hot key F8 or double click on the ORTHO box in the status bar - in the lower part of the window).
Proceed in the same way to enter the descriptions shown in the table below.
|
Pin Number |
Address |
Label |
Comment |
Description |
|
|
I1.1 |
|
IN |
MOTOR ON |
|
|
I1.2 |
|
IN |
MOTOR OFF |
|
|
I1.3 |
|
IN |
PROTECTION |
|
|
O1.1 |
|
OUT |
CONTROL |
|
|
O1.2 |
|
OUT |
ON SIGNAL |
|
|
O1.3 |
|
OUT |
WARNING |
|
|
O1.4 |
|
|
|
|
|
O1.5 |
|
|
|
After entering the descriptions for all the
channels, and having rotated / moved the attributes accordingly, you should
obtain the PLC drawing as in Fig. 240
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Now that we have inserted all elements we will proceed and number XE "Number:Elements" XE "Elements:Number" the components. To compute the Device IDs run the number components function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Number Auto \ All from the Cadelec \ Element Analyse menu.
from the toolbars : click on the Number Auto toolbox in the ELEMENT
ANALYSE toolbar, and holding down the mouse button, drag the cursor to the All box and release the button (Fig. 241
by command : type NCOMP and press ENTER. Cadelec will prompt you to select the elements. Drag a window over the PLC circuit or type ALL and press ENTER. Press ENTER again to leave the selection mode.
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As you will discover, the elements are so close to each
other that the Device IDs are written over the element beside. For this reason
you might wish to move and \ or rotate the Device IDs. You can do this using
the Move and Rotate functions from the Cadelec
\ Attributes menu (Fig. 242
With the device IDs computed and moved you should have
obtained a control circuit similar to Fig. 244
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XE "PLC:Number elements with PLC Formula" Note: Alternatively you can use the Cadelec PLC element numbering function (command PCOMP) which, will assign to the elements connected to the PLC the corresponding PLC channel descriptor (see the Cadelec Help or the User's Guide for more information).
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Now, we shall assign cross-reference functions to link the related elements on the schematic XE "Set:XR function" XE "Cross-references:Set Function" , as we have done before in chapter 3.
To do so run the Set Cross-reference function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Set XR-Function from the Cadelec
\ Element Analyse menu (Fig. 245
from the toolbars : click on the Set XR-Function toolbox in the ELEMENT
ANALYSE toolbar ( Fig. 246
by command : type SXRF and press ENTER.
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Cadelec opens the Select
Cross Reference Function dialogue box with the cross-reference functions
defined in the power-circuit (Fig. 247
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Double click on the OVERLOAD cross-reference function and select the thermally activated normally-closed contact. After selection press ENTER or the right mouse button to leave the selection mode.
Press the right mouse button again to repeat the command and assign the relay with the cross-reference function RUN.
Repeat the command and enter START in the Edit Function field. After clicking on OK to validate select the normally opened pushbutton.
Run the function again and proceed in the same way to assign the normally closed pushbutton to the cross-reference function STOP.
After setting the cross-reference functions, you may want to move / rotate the inserted items (RUN, OVERLOAD, START, STOP) in order to obtain better readability. You can proceed in the same way as before with the device IDs.
XE "Cross-references:Master-Slave" XE "PLC:Cross-references" Master PLCs can have one or more Slave PLCs, which can be grouped by a cross-reference function as a functional unit together with the Master PLC. The number of Slave PLCs, which can be controlled by a Master PLC, is defined at element creation (when inserting the XR_FUNCTION attribute).
In order to demonstrate this feature let's suppose that our
PLC (master with 1 slave) controls a Slave PLC on another page, which controls
a magnetic break. For this let's create a new page and insert a slave PLC
(element name PLC8EBS) like in Fig. 248
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The power lines (L+ and N) as well as the CONTROL line come from page 1 and will be later cross-referenced.
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The master and slave PLCs will form a functional unit by assigning them the same cross-reference function name. Run the Set XR-Function command from the Cadelec \ Element Analyze menu or type SXRF at the command prompt and enter the cross-reference function name as PLC. Then set the PLC XR-function name for both the Master and Slave PLC. Then set the XR-Function for the contactor on page 2 as CONTROL too.
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XE "PLC:SLOT Value" In a group formed by a Master PLC and one or more Slave PLCs, you can individually identify the Slave PLCs by the SLOT name. By setting a SLOT value for the Slaves in the group, Cadelec will annotate the existing Slave PLCs on the Master PLC after running the cross-reference function (for more information on Master - Slave cross-references please refer to the Help or the Manual).
To set the SLOT value for the Slave PLC run the Set SLOT value function (command SSLOT) from the menu (Fig. 249
The circuit of channel C8 of the Master PLC should be
modified as in Fig. 250
Then set the Wire Mark CONTROL for the control line on both pages as in the figure.
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To cross-reference the functional units XE "Compute Cross-references" XE "Cross-references:Compute" , which we have grouped by assigning them the same cross-reference function name, run the cross-reference command in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Cross-reference from the Cadelec
\ Element Analyse menu (Fig. 252
from the toolbars : click on
the Cross-Reference toolbox in the
ELEMENT ANALYSE toolbar (Fig. 254
by command : type XRC and press ENTER.
Cadelec will now annotate the position of the contacts in the contact map of the coils and the position of the coil and its Device ID alongside the contacts.
Also, on the master PLC, the position of the Slave PLC as
well as its SLOT value (Slot1) will be annotated and on the
Slave PLC the Device ID of the Master and its position (Fig. 253
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To enable the cross-referencing of wires bearing the same name XE "Set:Equipot. XR points" XE "Cross-references:Set XR points" we will now insert equipotential cross-reference points at the wire ends. To do so select:
from the menu : select the Left (Right, Bottom) equipotential point from the Cadelec \ Connections \ X-Ref Points menu
from the toolbars : click on the X-Ref Points box and, holding down the
button, drag the cursor to the Left (Right, Bottom) box and release the
button (Fig. 256
Insert the corresponding equipotential cross-reference points
on the loose ends of the marked wires as in Fig. 253
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To cross-reference wires with the same name we will now run the equipotential cross-reference analysis. To do so, run the function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Cross-Reference from the Cadelec \ Connections menu.
from the toolbars : click on the Cross-Reference box in the Connections toolbar (Fig. 257
by command : type XRE and press ENTER.
Cadelec will then search for wires with the same name and
annotate the position of the next wire alongside the cross-reference point as
in Fig. 258
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XE "Number:Wires" XE "Wire Numbering:Point to Point" XE "Wires:Number wires" Cadelec's Point to Point wire-numbering system allows you to number the wires in the schematic in various ways, depending on the Wire numbering options selected at project creation. You can change these options by editing the project.
Our DEMO_PLC
project has the following wire numbering option settings (Fig. 204
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Algorithm: Sequential
Direction: Vertical
Identical wire numbers in equipotential groups - checked
Each Voltage Rating has own Counter - checked
To number the wires run the Number wires \ All function from the Cadelec \ Connections \ Wire Numbering menu (Fig. 260
Cadelec will number the wires in the drawing, separately for
each voltage rating: 24V, 400V, PE (Fig. 267
You can align the wire numbers along the wires by running the
Set Position function (command: SET_WNPOS). The command can be selected
from the Connections \ Wire Numbering \
Set Position menu or the CONNECTIONS
\ Wire Numbering toolbar. Running the
command you can draw a rectangle over the wire numbers to be aligned (Fig. 263
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With the WNALL command the wires connected to the PLC have been numbered from 1 to 6, that is like any other wires in the drawing.
XE "PLC:Number PLC wires" You can number the wires connected to PLCs with the special wire numbering function, WNPLC, which will assign to the wires the PLC Address values of the pins to which they are connected.
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Before running the command you should delete the PLC wire
numbers (connected to pins 1 - 6) by running the DEL_WN command from the Wire
Numbering \ Delete wire numbers \ Window (Fig. 262
To run the WNPLC
command, select it from the Connections \
Wire Numbering \ Number Wires \ Number PLC wires menu (Fig. 264
The wires connected to pins 1 - 6 of the PLC will receive as wire numbers the PLC channel addresses
(I1.1, I1.2, I1.3, O1.1, O1.2, O1.3) as in Fig. 266
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With Cadelec you can export PLC information XE "PLC:Export PLC Import-Export list" to a text file and use this file to set channel descriptions on other PLCs accordingly and print out PLC channel documentation. You can also use the Import-Export list for PLC programming devices.
In this step we shall export the Import-Export list. To do so run the function in either of the ways:
from the menu : select Export ASCII from the Cadelec \ PLC menu (Fig. 268
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from the toolbars : click on the PLC toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar and, holding down the button, drag the cursor to
the Export ASCII toolbox and release
the button (Fig. 269
by command : type PLCT and press ENTER.
Cadelec will open the dialogue box shown in Fig. 270
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The first thing we shall do is to define which information
should be exported. You will do this by clicking at the button beside Pin number, Address and Label in the Attributes area. For this example,
enable all selectable attributes (as in Fig. 270
Next you will have to set the delimiter character. Select the Comma Delimited File option. To specify the PLC to take the information from, click on the Select PLCS button. Cadelec will then close the dialogue box so that you can select the PLC, clicking on it with the mouse.
Once this was done, press ENTER or click the right button of the mouse to leave the selection mode and return to the dialogue box.
Now we shall have to specify the name of the file where Cadelec will store formatting details e.g. Attribute order, Delimiter character, etc. You will do this by clicking on the Format file field and entering DEMO_PLC as the name of the format file. Cadelec will then automatically set the path. Normally, you will use standardized import-export lists. In this case you will not have to define the order of the fields, delimiter character, etc. each time, but load the format file.
In the Output file field we enter the name of the input-export file. Enter e.g. PLC_1 and press ENTER to validate.
Clicking on the OK button will write the import-export list
to file (Fig. 271
The import-export list is saved as ASCII text file so that you can edit it with any text editor. If PLC channels have changed you can also edit the text file and import it to the PLC in question. The old channel settings will then be replaced. In this step we shall modify the text file to import it to the PLC in the next step.
You can open the file in any text editor, for example Notepad. Double click the PLC_1.txt file (CLPW\PR\DEMO_PLC\PLC_1.txt) in the Explorer to open it:
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Change for example the line MOTOR ON to RUN and the line MOTOR OFF to STOP.
If you would like to change other lines (e.g. Pin numbers) you can also do this. To save the modifications select Save from the File menu. To leave the editor, select Exit from the File menu.
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Now we shall import the modified import-export list XE "PLC:Import PLC Import-Export list" to the PLC to show the changes. To do so run this function in either of the ways :
from the menu : select Import ASCII from the Cadelec
\ PLC menu. (Fig. 272
from the toolbars: click on the PLC toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar and, holding down the button, drag the cursor to
the Import ASCII toolbox and release
the button (Fig. 273
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by command : type TPLC and press ENTER.
From the dialogue box shown below select all Attributes to be updated.
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Now click on the Select PLCs button and select the PLC by clicking with the mouse on it. Press ENTER or the right mouse button to leave the selection mode.
After clicking on the OK button Cadelec will import the
import-export list and update PLC channel data (Fig.
275
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If you followed the Schematics creation chapter you have used some of the 300 pre-drawn electrical symbols XE "Elements:Element creation" coming with Cadelec. We shall now see how to create your own symbols and add them to the standard symbols library (e.g. to EL_DIN) or to a schematic symbols library you have created. To show how the creation of electrical symbols works, this sub-chapter will guide you step-by-step through the creation of the coil REL3H33 (one 3-phase main; 3 make and 3 break contacts).
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Element creation from scratch follows the steps shown in the run-down diagram below:
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When creating a new element, this will be created in the default (open) library XE "Library:Open" . If necessary, first select the library where the new element should be created in. To do so:
from the menu select: Manage Libraries from the Cadelec
\ Library \ Database menu (Fig. 277
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from the toolbars: click on the Library box from the Cadelec toolbar and, holding down the
mouse button, drag the cursor to the Manage
Libraries box and release the button (Fig. 278
Cadelec will open the Manage
Libraries dialogue (Fig. 279
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To create a new element XE "New:Element" XE "Elements:Create new" :
from the menu: select New from the Cadelec \
Library \ Element menu (Fig. 280
from the toolbars: click on the Library box and, holding down the
button, drag the cursor to the New
Element box and release the button (Fig. 281
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This will open the dialogue box shown in Fig. 282
Fill out the following fields:
Element Code In this field you enter the name of the element to be created.
Enter REL3H33 and press ENTER to confirm.
If you are working together with other users on a network......
please ask your network-administrator whether Cadelec libraries are installed on the network and whether you have write access to there. If so, every user should name its element differently. We suggest, that one user creates the element with the name REL3H33. Other users should use other names e.g. their initials add to DEMO_. Later all DEMO_ elements should be erased as the REL3H33 element can be used by all users.
To create an element from scratch click the Start from scratch button to proceed. Normally you would use a similar element (e.g. REL3H32) as a model and change the contact definition and contact map only. For this demonstration element we shall not take this shortcut but create the element from scratch. This will demonstrate the principles of element creation much better.
Element data-sheet
After leaving the element creation box (see previous page) XE "Elements:Element data
sheet" you will automatically enter the element data
sheet shown in Fig. 283
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Fill out the following fields:
Electrical behavior From the pop-up list you can define the kind of element you are creating (select
Coil or contact-activating element
To show the list, click on the down arrow at the left corner of the bar and select the desired item.
In Menu From this pop-up list you can specify the category in which the element should be
contained (select Contactor)
Mnemonic Here you enter the symbol mnemonic (e.g. F for a fuse, K for a contactor).
Click with the mouse on the field and enter K, which is the mnemonic for relays. This mnemonic will automatically be used within the Device ID if you did select a formula containing it.
Control In this field you can enter a description of the element control mechanism.
Enter 1-Phase.
Group In this field you can enter a group description.
Enter COIL
Use If required, you will use this field to describe the usage of the symbol.
Enter Demonstration
Description Here you will enter an element description.
Enter: Relay 1 3-ph. 3 Mk.ct. 3 Br.ct.
Remarks This is a field for special remarks.
Enter e.g. From the Tutorial
Draughtsman 1 - 4 You can use these fields freely. You can leave them empty or enter some notes.
Catalogue Here you can specify a default catalogue.
Leave this field empty.
Before clicking on the OK button to proceed, please check
again, whether the Kind of Element
states Coil or contact-activating element
(Fig. 284
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Clicking on the Contacts tab in the element data sheet window XE "Elements:Contact
definition" XE
"Define:Contacts" XE "Contact definition" , the contact definition
dialogue box appears (Fig. 285
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Select the following contact types for the relay:
3-pole normally-open main contact (1,2;3,4;5,6)
normally-open contact (13,14)
normally-open contact (23,24)
normally-open contact (33,34)
normally-closed contact (41,42)
normally-closed contact (51,52)
normally-closed contact (61,62)
Cadelec computes automatically the contact numbers and fills out the contact numbers according to the IEC/DIN standard.
If you want to define contacts that are numbered in a different way, please refer to Appendix A.
Clicking on the OK button, Cadelec opens the element drawing in AutoCAD, and you can continue the element creation drawing the element outlines and inserting the element attributes.
Before starting to draw the element you should make sure that SNAP (hot key F9) and ORTHO (hot key F8) are operative (you can also double-click on the SNAP or ORTHO boxes in the status bar in the lower part of the screen).
We suggest a SNAP X / Y Spacing of 1 AutoCAD co-ordinate. If you are working with a tablet you can set the snap grid by clicking on the figure 1 in the Utilities area. Otherwise, run Drawing Aids from the Tools menu.
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In this step we shall draw the rectangular shape symbolizing the relay XE "Draw:Symbol" . Run the command in either of the ways:
from the menu: select Rectangle from the Draw menu (Fig. 286
from the toolbars: click on the Rectangle box in the DRAW toolbar (Fig. 287
by command : type RECTANG and press ENTER
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Then, specify the first (36,47)
and the second (44,43) corner of the
rectangle as shown in Fig. 289
With this height and width it is ensured that this element has the same size and position as other coils.
If AutoCAD co-ordinates do not change when moving the cursor...press hot-key F6 to switch co-ordinate display on.
Run the AutoCAD LINE
command either from the Draw menu,
the DRAW toolbar or by typing LINE and pressing ENTER to draw the
poles of the relay. Click with the mouse at AutoCAD co-ordinate 40,50 and drag the mouse cursor 3 AutoCAD co-ordinates in vertical
direction to co-ordinate 40,47. Press
the left mouse button to specify the end point (Fig. 288
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Click the right mouse button to run the LINE command again. Click with the left mouse button at co-ordinate
40,43 and drag the mouse cursor
downward in vertical direction to co-ordinate 40,40. Click the left mouse button to connect the starting and the
end point (Fig. 288
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In this step we will draw the break lines which define the length of cable XE "Draw:Break Lines" XE "Break Lines" which is cut underneath an inserted element.
It is very important that break lines exactly align the poles of your symbol. For this reason, please check whether SNAP is operative (hot key F9).
Select:
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from the menu: Break Lines from the Cadelec
\ Library \ Drawing menu (Fig. 290
from the toolbars: click on the Break Lines toolbox in the LIBRARY-
DRAWING toolbar ( to show it, click on the Library
Drawing toolbox in the Cadelec toolbar) -Fig. 291
by command: type DCLINE and press ENTER
Specify the Start point of the cutting line as the upper most
corner of the above pole. The End point of the cutting line is the undermost
point of the below pole line (Fig. 292
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The break lines will usually not show as the break-lines layer LBRK is frozen.
To hide / display the break line run Layers from the Format menu and Freeze / Thaw the LBRK layer.
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With the base point you define the base point for insertion XE "Set:Base Point" XE "Base Point" . You should always set the base point to correspond to the upper left-hand pole of the element.
To set the base point select
from the menu: Base from the Cadelec \
Library \ Drawing menu (Fig. 293
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from the toolbars: click on the Base toolbox from the LIBRARY-DRAWING
toolbar (Fig. 294
by command: type BASE and press ENTER
Specify the base point for insertion as the uppermost point
of the above pole (Fig. 295
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Please bear in mind to specify a new base point if you have moved the element to another screen position
Attributes
Attributes are essential to ensure that the element is working correctly. Attributes hold important information for analyse purposes and establish the connection between project pages and databases. When assigning elements within a schematic for example with a Cross-reference function, Cadelec writes the name of the cross-reference function to the XR_FUNCTION attribute. When you save the schematic, Cadelec writes the contents of this attribute to the corresponding field of a database. The next time you run the cross-reference analysis Cadelec checks whether there are other elements of the same cross-reference function in other drawings. This works by accessing the required details from the databases.
If an attribute is missing it might happen that Cadelec analyse functions do not work properly or that you cannot annotate a detail alongside the element.
Attributes only appear when creating or modifying the element. When the elements are inserted into Schematics attributes remain invisible while their contents is shown.
Position of Attributes
Depending on the standard, annotations are either on the left or on the right side of the electrical symbols. In the following part, attributes will be placed in the right side of the element. If you wish to annotate attributes on the left side of the elements like this is done in most German speaking countries, you can do this as well. When inserting attributes, you can use the MOVE command to move attributes to another position.
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Pole attributes are very important XE "Pole Attribute" XE "Elements:Poles" XE "Connection Poles" XE "Attributes:Pole" . Beside of labeling the element poles with annotations like 1,2; 1U1, etc. they are required to establish electrical connections between wires and elements. Cadelec searches for theses attributes to check whether elements are connected to wires or not.
The electrical connection will be detected if pole attributes are annotated and positioned within 2.25 AutoCAD units from the pole. For this reason you should follow the instructions within this step very carefully (see also the Manual - chapter 6 - Insert Elements from Slides).
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To annotate the first Pole attribute run:
from the menu: Poles from the Cadelec \
Library \ Drawing menu (Fig. 296
from the toolbars: click on the Poles toolbox from the LIBRARY-DRAWING
toolbar (Fig. 297
by command: type DEFPOL and press ENTER
Cadelec will prompt you to specify the Position where the attribute should be inserted. By rule, the insertion point of the pole attribute must not be more distant than 2.25 AutoCAD co-ordinates from the open pole end. Each pole must also bear one and only one pole attribute.
Specify the insertion point by clicking 1 AutoCAD co-ordinate beside and below the open end of the upper
pole (Fig. 298
After the insertion point is specified, Cadelec will open a
dialogue box (Fig. 299
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Enter 1 for both values and click OK.
With the Connection Point Name you have defined the annotation which will appear alongside the pole. The Index Number is the pole number.
The first pole attribute CN1 will be annotated.
Press ENTER or the right mouse button to repeat the function.
Again Cadelec will prompt you to specify the insertion point. Click with your pointing device 1 AutoCAD co-ordinate beside and below the open end of the lower.
Again, Cadelec will open the dialogue box shown in Fig. 299
The second pole attribute CN2
will be annotated (Fig. 300
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XR_FUNCTION attribute
In this step we shall annotate the XR_FUNCTION attribute which XE "Elements:XR Function attribue" XE "Cross-references:XR function attribute" XE "Attributes:Cross-reference function" , within schematics, displays the cross-reference function alongside the element.
To insert this attribute select
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from the menu: XR-Function from the Cadelec
\ Library \ Drawing \ Cross-References
menu (Fig.
301
from the toolbars: click on the Cross-References box in the
LIBRARY-DRAWING toolbar, and holding down the button, drag the cursor to the XR_Function box and release the button (Fig. 302
by command: type DEFFU and press ENTER
After running this function, Cadelec will prompt you to
specify the position for insertion. Click with at some distance right from the CN1 attribute approximately at the same
horizontal position (Fig. 303
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Cadelec will prompt you to enter the Cross Reference Type Descriptor. The offered default consists of the prefix R\ defining the element as contact activating device followed by the contact definition:
R\1,2;3,4;5,6\13.14\23,24\33,34\41,42\51\52\61\62
Press ENTER to confirm the default.
The cross-reference descriptor is stored in the XR_TYPE attribute, which will be inserted automatically (in the base point). As this is only needed for internal analysis purposes, this attribute remains invisible within Schematics. For this reason it is not important that the XR_TYPE attribute is annotated on top of the CN1 attribute.
Cadelec will insert the XR_FUNCTION attribute on the position you have specified. The XR_TYPE attribute will be positioned at the base point.
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In this step we shall insert the contact map XE "Elements:XR Position" XE "Cross-references:XR Position" XE "Contact map" XE "Attributes:Contact map" . Within Schematics the contact map shows the position of the controlled contacts. To insert the contact map run :
from the menu: XR-Position from the Cadelec
\ Library \ Drawing \ Cross-References menu (Fig. 304
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from the toolbars: click on the Cross-References box in the
LIBRARY-DRAWING toolbar, and holding down the button, drag the cursor to the XR_Position box and release the button (Fig. 305
by command: type DEFRC and press ENTER
Cadelec will prompt you to define the insertion point. Specify it by clicking with the mouse below the CN2 attribute
Once you have specified the insertion point Cadelec will
automatically annotate the contact map (Fig. 306
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If the contact map is not shown completely, run ZOOM, enter A for All and press ENTER.
We suggest that the next attributes should have a vertical distance of 3.5 AutoCAD co-ordinates. For this reason you should change the SNAP grid to 0.5 AutoCAD co-ordinates.
In this step we shall add the SNA attribute XE "Elements:SNA attribute" XE "Device ID" XE "Attributes:Device ID (SNA)" which will later display the Device ID. Further attributes, which are necessary for automatic component numbering will be, added automatically at the base point.
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To insert the Device ID attributes select the function in either of the ways:
from the menu: select Device ID (SNA) from the Cadelec
\ Library \ Drawing menu (Fig. 307
from the toolbars: click on the All box in the LIBRARY-DRAWING toolbar,
and, holding down the button, drag the cursor o the Device ID box and release the button (Fig. 308
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by command: type DEFSI and press ENTER
Cadelec will prompt to specify the insertion point. Define
this point 3.5 AutoCAD co-ordinates below the XR_FUNCTION attribute with the
same vertical position (Fig. 309
Cadelec will place the SNA
attribute immediately and prompt you to enter the Mnemonic Default Value. Press ENTER to confirm K as the mnemonic (for relays). As shown in Fig. 309
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This attribute is used to freeze / unfreeze the IDs in the drawing, that is to allow the element numbering commands to change or not the IDs of the selected elements.
The SNA_FROZEN
attribute is inserted by the DEFFREEZE
command, which will ask for the insertion point. The command can be selected
from the Cadelec / Library / Drawing
menu or the LIBRARY - DRAWING toolbar
(Fig. 310
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To insert the Zone attribute which will hold the Wiring Zone definition XE "Zone attribute" XE "Elements:Zone attribute" XE "Attributes:Zone" run the function in either of the ways:
from the menu: select Zone from the Cadelec \
Library \ Drawing menu (Fig. 311
from the toolbars: click on the All box in the LIBRARY-DRAWING toolbar, and, holding down the button, drag the
cursor o the Zone box and release the
button (Fig. 313
by command: type DEFZO
Specify the insertion point 1 AutoCAD co-ordinate above the XR_FUNCTION attribute (Fig. 312
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To insert the Catalogue attribute, which XE "Elements:Catalogue attribute" XE "Catalogue attribute" XE "Attributes:Catalogue" will annotate the catalogue definition alongside the element, select this function in either of the ways:
from the menu: select Catalogue from the Cadelec \
Library \ Drawing menu (Fig. 314
from the toolbars: click on the All box in the LIBRARY-DRAWING toolbar, and, holding down the button, drag the
cursor o the Catalogue box and
release the button (Fig. 315
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by command: type DEFCA and press ENTER
Specify the insertion point 3.5 AutoCAD co-ordinates below
the SNA attribute (Fig. 316
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You will insert the Record attribute by selecting XE "Record attribute" XE "Elements:Record attribute" XE "Attributes:Record" :
from the menu: Record from the Cadelec \
Library \ Drawing menu (Fig.
317
from the toolbars: click on the All box in the LIBRARY-DRAWING toolbar,
and, holding down the button, drag the cursor o the Record box and release the button (Fig. 318
by command: type DEFRE and press ENTER
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Specify the insertion point 3.5 AutoCAD co-ordinates below
the CATALOGUE attribute (Fig. 319
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Within Schematics, technical data attributes will annotate technical data XE "Technical data attributes" XE "Elements:Tech.Data attributes" XE "Attributes:Technical Data" from catalogue records. To insert these attributes run the function in either of the ways:
from the menu : Tech. Data from the Cadelec \
Library \ Drawing menu (Fig. 320
from the toolbars: click on the All box in the LIBRARY-DRAWING toolbar,
and, holding down the button, drag the cursor o the Tech.Data box and release the button (Fig. 321
by command: type DEFTD and press ENTER
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Specify the insertion point 3.5 AutoCAD co-ordinates below the RECORD attribute. Once Cadelec has inserted the attributes you will discover that some of those attributes are annotated above the contact map.
As the technical data would overwrite the contact map within schematics, the technical data attributes 3 - 5 should be moved to another position.
To do so, use the AutoCAD Move function, either by selecting it from the Modify menu, or from the Modify toolbar, or by typing MOVE and pressing ENTER. AutoCAD will prompt you to select the objects. Click with the mouse on the attributes TECHDATA03 - TECHDATA05. After these attributes are selected, press ENTER to finish the selection mode.
Now, AutoCAD will prompt you to select the base point of displacement. Click at the T-letter of the attribute TECHDATA03.
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After switching ORTHO off (press F8 or double click on the ORTHO box in the status bar), move the
attributes to the right (Fig. 322
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If required, you can add the USER_1 - USER_4 attributes XE "User and Tag attributes" XE "Elements:User and Tag
attributes" XE
"Attributes:User 1-4, Tag" (Fig. 325
Also the TAG_NUM attribute can be added if you wish to annotate a tag number to cross-refer to non-Cadelec drawings (e.g. piping plans). You will do this by running Tag from the Cadelec \ Library \ Drawing menu or from toolbars.
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The element is now created and all attributes are annotated XE "Slides" XE "Elements:Slides" . Select Save from the File menu, or click on the Save toolbox in the AutoCAD Standard toolbar, or type CADSAVE to save your work.
The CADSAVE command will generate a slide automatically, in the menu category you specified at element definition. Using the AutoCAD QSAVE command will save the element but will not generate the slide.
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With the element creation finished, you can integrate this element into the tablet XE "Tablet:integrate element" XE "Elements:Integrate in tablet" running the INT_ELE command:
from the menu : choose Integrate Tablet from the Tools / Utilities menu
from the toolbars : click on the Integrate Tablet box in the Utilities toolbar (to show the UTILITIES toolbar, click on the Utilities toolbox in the CADELEC toolbar)
by command : type INT_ELE and press ENTER.
After this you can pick this element from the tablet and insert it into the drawing.
If you are working together with other users on a network ...
and libraries are installed on the network, only the user creating the element named REL3H33 should integrate the element in the tablet. Other users should not do this as it makes no sense to have the element integrated several times.
Running the command, Cadelec will read the 4 tablet areas
into databases. After a short time, the dialogue box shown in Fig. 327
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Here you can specify the position within the Elements area of the tablet where the new element should be integrated.
Fill out the following fields:
Number of Columns This is the number of columns within the elements are a of the tablet. Leave this
field unchanged (17 columns).
Number of Rows This is the number of rows within the elements area of the tablet. Leave the number
of rows unchanged at 29 rows.
Overlay (1-4) Here you specify in which of the 4 tablet you want the element to be
integrated. Leave the overlay specification at 1 to integrate the element in the first
overlay.
After clicking on OK Cadelec will integrate the REL3H33 element in the first tablet overlay in the 8th column and in the first row. From now on, you can pick this element from the tablet by clicking at this position.
In this step we will assign the position within the tablet from where the REL3H33 can be picked, with a text. To do so, we have to open the tablet drawing, selecting Open \ AutoCAD from the File menu.
The file selection box below (Fig. 328
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Select the file EL_DIN14.dwg from the \CLPW\LI\EL_DIN\ directory
If your libraries are installed in a location apart from the default ..e.g. on network please enter the complete absolute path in the File: field with the file name EL_DIN14.
Once the tablet drawing was loaded run
ZOOM.
Specify the Zoom window to show the area below:
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Run the
COPY
command and select the 3P32 annotation. Copy it to one column beside it. When the annotation 3P32 appears in the 8th column of the first row, run
DDEDIT
and select the text 3P32.
From the dialogue box, which is opened, edit the text to show 3P33 and press ENTER. Press ENTER again
to leave the selection mode (Fig. 330
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The new element is now integrated into the tablet and its annotation shown. You can now save the edited tablet template (select Save) and plot it out.
If your printer is not configured yet type CONFIG and follow the instructions given by AutoCAD.
When saving the new element, Cadelec will create a slide automatically, so you will find the new element in the category, which was specified, for the element, along with the other elements of the same type.
XE "PLC:Create new element" XE "New:Create PLC element" XE "Elements:Create new PLC" When creating PLC elements Cadelec will handle Master PLCs and Slave PLCs differently when inserting the Cross-reference attributes.
To create a new PLC element follow the steps described at
page
Draw the PLC outline using the AutoCAD drawing commands like LINE, RECTANG, CIRCLE etc.
Insert the Base point running the BASE command from the Library / Drawing menu or toolbar
Draw the Break Lines running the DCLINE command
Insert the Device
ID, Freeze Device IDs, Catalogue, Record, Zone, Technical Data, Installation (and Circuit,
Tag, User) attributes (see Fig. 333
Run the DDATTDEF
attribute insertion command and insert the PF
attributes (Pin Function attributes)
like in Fig. 331
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Set Cross-reference attributes
Master PLCs
When setting the XR_FUNCTION
attribute (command DEFFU) for a
Master PLC Cadelec will ask you the Number
of Slaves (Fig. 332
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Then accept the default Cross Reference Type Descriptor (P\1) by pressing Enter.
After the XR_FUNCTION,
run the XR_POSITION function (command
DEFRC) and Cadelec will insert two
attributes: the SLOT\1 and the P\1 attributes (Fig. 333
Then, insert from the Library / Drawing/ PLC menu the PLC specific attributes:
- PLC Addresses (OP ?)
- PLC Labels (SYM ?)
- PLC Descriptors (DES ?)
- PLC Comments (COM ?)
Finally, the new Master PLC element should be like in Fig. 333
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Slave PLCs
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When inserting the XR_FUNCTION attribute for a Slave PLC, Cadelec will ask for the Cross Reference Type Descriptor (at the command prompt). Enter 1 and press Enter.
Then running the Set XR Position command (DEFRC), Cadelec will ask twice for the attribute position: first for the XR_MAIN attribute position (click with the mouse at the insertion point) and second for the SLOT attribute position.
The XR_MAIN
attribute will hold (after cross-referencing) the position of the Master PLC in
the drawing (Page/Column.Row), and the SLOT
attribute will define the SLOT value
of the Slave PLC. You can set this value in the schematic with the SSLOT command (see page
Save
Saving the element will create the slide too, so after saving you will find the new element in the Element Category defined when entering the element page data.
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Before creating a new cabinet you should make sure that the MONTA library or another cabinets library is selected as the active one.
To declare the MONTA library for example as the active one,
select Open from the Cadelec /Library / Database menu (Fig. 335
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From the opened library selection browse select MONTA by positioning the cursor and pressing ENTER.
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Now we shall create the cabinet element XE "New:Cabinet" XE "Elements:New cabinet" XE "Cabinets:New" XE "Elements:New Cabinet" . To do so, select New from the Library / Element menu (Fig. 337
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If you wish to copy the descriptions of an other cabinet element, click the Take Data of other Element button and select the cabinet.
Click on the Start from scratch button to proceed.
Once this was done, Cadelec opens the element data-sheet
where you can enter the cabinet description if required (Fig.
340
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Please make sure that the Kind of element definition (the bar above all other entries) shows Auxiliary Graphics Element.
Clicking on the Cabinets
tab in the cabinet data sheet window XE "Cabinets:Dimensions" , opens the Cabinets screen,
where the cabinet dimensions have to be specified (Fig. 341
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We assume for our example cabinet and its assembly gate to have the following dimensions:
Cabinet:
Height: 800 mm
Width: 800 mm
Depth: 250 mm
Mounting plate:
Height: 750 mm
Width: 750 mm
Depth: 5 mm
Enter these dimensions and click on the OK button to proceed.
Once AutoCAD was entered you will see a rectangle XE "Cabinets:Scale factor" XE "Cabinets:Drawing area" . This represents the maximum drawing area, which can be used to display the cabinet door and chassis (this is the common way to represent cabinets).
This drawing area has the size of 370 AutoCAD units in horizontal direction and 230 AutoCAD units in vertical direction.
The first thing you normally do when drawing new cabinets is to estimate whether the cabinet (door and chassis) will fit within this drawing area if
1 mm is equal to 1 AutoCAD co-ordinate.
In the case of our example cabinet this is not possible, as this would require a drawing area of 1550 x 800 AutoCAD co-ordinates. For this reason we shall have to scale the cabinet with a factor we will have to calculate.
To ensure that the cabinet will fit in horizontal just as in vertical direction in the maximum drawing area (represented by the rectangular), we shall calculate two scale factors.
For the X-factor sum the cabinet and chassis width and consider a space between those drawings (here 10 % - factor 1.1). This sum divided by the available space in horizontal direction is the factor in horizontal direction.
(cabinet width + chassis width) * 1.1
SFX =
horizontal drawing area
For the y-factor we will divide the cabinet height by the vertical drawing area space.
cabinet height
SFY =
vertical drawing area
With the dimensions of cabinet (800 x 800), chassis (750 x 750) and the size of the drawing area (370 x 230) this leads to the following factors:
SFX = 4.61 SFY = 3.48
For the next steps we will use the larger of both factors as the scaling factor SF.
SF = max(SFX, SFY)
Now we round the SF factor (the larger of the factors) and set it as the new value for the global scale factor for linear dimensioning. This factor is the AutoCAD DIMLFAC system variable (for more details please refer to your AutoCAD Command reference). To do so, type
DIMLFAC
and press ENTER. Enter the new value as 5.
All linear measurements within this drawing will from now on be scaled by the factor 5. Also the component outlines you may later insert into this cabinet will be scaled by this factor.
Before drawing the cabinet, please make sure that SNAP XE "Draw:Cabinet" XE "Cabinets:Draw" (hot key F9) and ORTHO (hot key F8) are operative.
Run the AutoCAD RECTANG
command and specify the starting point e.g. on AutoCAD co-ordinate 50,250 (Fig. 342
Now you should draw the cabinet door true to scale. To calculate the line length use the following formula:
Length (in mm
line
length (in ACAD co-ord.) =
DIMLFAC factor
According to this formula the lines of the door (dimensions: 800 x 800) will all be 160 AutoCAD units long. Drag the cursor from the start point to co-ordinate 210,90.
To draw the mounting plate run RECTANG again. Specify a starting point with some distance from the
cabinet door e.g. on 240,240. From
this point drag the cursor to co-ordinate 380,90
(Fig. 342
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To annotate dimensioning select Linear from the Dimension menu.
After selecting this function specify the lines to be measured. Once you have done this, move the dimensioning lines to the required position and click the right mouse button.
You will discover that although the lines are 160 (150) AutoCAD co-ordinates long, the length is annotated as 800 (750).
Repeat this function and proceed in the same way until you have annotated the required dimensions. (For more details on Dimensioning and customizing dimensions lines please refer to your AutoCAD manual).
Now you can erase the rectangular displaying the screen area. To do so run the AutoCAD ERASE command and select the lines of the rectangular. Once you have selected all lines press ENTER.
This simple demonstration cabinet is now finished. If you wish to add e.g. a door-opener you can do this by using the AutoCAD 2D drawing commands.
The demonstration cabinet is now finished. To save it select Save from the menu or the toolbars.
In chapter 8 we have defined contacts according to the DIN standard convention. Here we shall define contacts numbered with *1,*2 as normally open contacts.
For this we shall use the element REL3H33, the contactor we have created XE "Non-standard coil" XE "Elements:Non-standard coil" in chapter 8, and modify the contact pair 61,62 to represent a normally open contact.
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To open the element REL3H33,
select Open from the Cadelec \ Library \ Element menu (Fig. 343
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Now we shall have to edit the definition of the contact pair 61,62 XE "Contacts:Edit definition" .
To do so, zoom on the stacked attributes on the base point (Fig. 346
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To edit the contents of the XR_TYPE attribute, which holds the contact definition, run the
DDEDIT
command and click on the text XR_TYPE .It might be helpful to switch SNAP temporarily OFF (F9).Then it will be easier to click on the X letter.
In the dialogue box which appears (Fig. 347
61,62 to 61$NO,62$NO
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Once it is done, click on the OK button.
Now we shall change the normally-closed contact of contact pair 61,62 to show a normally-open contact pair.
First run the
ERASE
AutoCAD command.
Click on the normally -closed contact representation and press ENTER to erase it.
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Run the
COPY
command and copy the figure of the normally-open contact pair
33,34 beside the annotation P \ 61,62 (Fig. 348
Note
If, to copy the normally-open contact, you selected Copy from the Edit menu, and then Paste, after pasting the copied block has to be exploded (Modify / Explode).
To edit the contact numbers in the figure run
DDATTE
and select the contact figure beside P \ 61,62. In the dialogue box, which is opened, change the
contacts to 61,62 (Fig. 349
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The last thing to do is to change the contact attributes P\61,62 to show P\61$NO,62$NO. To do this run
DDEDIT
and click on the P\61,62.
In the dialogue box which is opened (Fig. 350
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Leave the attribute default empty and click on the OK button.
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We have now modified the coil to control a contact with non-standard contact definition (this contact of the relay will require a special contact with the cross-reference type descriptor -XR_TYPE : *1$NO,*2$NO).
You can now save by selecting Save from the menu or toolbars. This will create automatically the slide too, in the menu category specified at element definition.
The coil contact 61,62, which we have modified in the previous steps XE "Contacts:Non-standard contact" XE "Contacts:Edit definition" , will not be able to control a normally open contact numbered according to the DIN standard. It will need a special contact.
To create such a contact you should copy a normally open contact with standard contact definition e.g. element KONTS, and edit its definition.
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Select New from
the Cadelec \ Library \ Element menu
(Fig. 352
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In the dialogue box that appears (Fig. 354
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Click the Take Data of other Element button and, select element KONTS from the selection list. Then click the Copy same page as data sheet button, to copy the element KONTS too.
Next Cadelec will open the element data sheet where you can
edit the element description (Fig. 355
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After clicking on OK Cadelec will open the element.
Once the element opened, you will see the element KONTS that we have copied as a model for
the new contact (Fig. 356
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Now we shall change the contact definition. Run the
DDEDIT
command and select the XR_TYPE attribute which is one of the attributes stacked on the base point.
Edit its default to bear the following contents:
*1$NO,*2$NO
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After clicking on the OK button to validate, edit the pole attributes default value (same command - DDEDIT):
CN1 default should become *1
CN2 default should become *2
(Fig. 358
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When inserting into the schematic, the contact numbers will be *1,*2 (before cross-referencing).
Once you have done this, the contact definition was changed. You can now save the new contact, selecting Save from the File menu or the toolbars.
When saving the element from the menu or toolbars, Cadelec will create automatically a slide too, which will appear in the menu category you specified at element definition (Normally-open contact). You can pick it from there and insert it into the drawing.
INDEX \e " " \h "A" \c "2"
A
Add Components.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 87
Attributes
Catalogue.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... 134
Contact map.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 131
Cross-reference function.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 130
Device ID (SNA).................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 132
Pole.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 129
Record.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... 134
Technical Data.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 135
User 1-4, Tag.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 136
Zone.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 133
B
Base Point.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. 128
Bill of Material
Insert from pre-defined BOM.................... 22322i813w .................. 91
Pre-defined.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... 87
Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 70
Break Lines.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... 127
C
Cabinet
Draw cable routings.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 57
Draw terminal block.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... 57
New Cabinet drawing.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ 52
Place Components.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. 54
Cabinets
Cabinet layout report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ 50
Dimensions.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... 145
Draw.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 147
Draw cable routings.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 57
Draw terminal block.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... 57
Drawing area.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 146
New.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 143
New Cabinet drawing.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ 52
Place Components.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. 54
Scale factor.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... 146
Cables
Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 77
Set.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 47
Cabling Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... 76
Catalogue attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 134
Component definition.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... 43
Components
Add.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 87
Define.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 43
Place in Cabinet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 54
Compute Cross-references.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 111
Connection Poles.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 129
Connections report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 74
Contact definition.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 125
Contact map.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... 131
Contacts
Edit definition.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... 150, 153
Non-standard contact.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... 153
Counters
View.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 39
Cross-references
Compute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 34, 111
Compute Equipot. XR.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... 41
Equipot.XR points.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. 40
Errors.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... 35
Master-Slave.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 110
Replace XR function.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. 81
Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 73
Set Function.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... 33
Set Function.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 109
Set XR points.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... 112
XR function attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... 130
XR Position.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 131
D
Define
Cables.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 47
Contacts.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ 125
Parts.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 43
Device ID.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ 13, 132
Draw
1-phase.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ 26
3-phase wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 20
Break Lines.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... 127
Cabinet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 147
Cable routings.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 57
PE wire.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. 30
PLC input wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 98
PLC output wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... 99
Symbol.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 126
Terminal block.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 57
E
Element Categories.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 22, 27
Elements
Catalogue attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 134
Contact definition.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ 125
Create new.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ 122
Create new PLC.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 140
Element creation.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 121
Element data sheet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 123
Insert.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... 22, 27, 30, 101
Insert from pre-defined BOM.................... 22322i813w .................. 91
Insert PLC.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... 98
Integrate in tablet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ 137
New cabinet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 143
New Cabinet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 143
Non-standard coil.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ 149
Number.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 32, 85, 108
Poles.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 129
Record attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... 134
Reset.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 84
Slides.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. 136
SNA attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... 132
Tech.Data attributes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... 135
User and Tag attributes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 136
XR Function attribue.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... 130
XR Position.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 131
Zone attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 133
Errors
Cross-reference.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 35
F
Formula.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 13
I
Insert
Elements.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ 101
Elements in control circuit.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 27
Elements in power circuit.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 22
From Categories.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... 22, 27
From pre-defined BOM.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... 91
PE.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 30
PLC.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 98
L
Library
Open.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 122
N
New
Cabinet.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 143
Cabinet layout drawing.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ 52
Create PLC element.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. 140
Element.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 122
Page.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... 15, 80, 96
Project.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 10, 86, 94
Nodes
Set.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... 21, 27, 100
Non-standard coil.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 149
Number
Elements.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 32, 85, 108
PLC pins.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ 104
Terminals.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ 32
Wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... 38, 114
P
Page
Data.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 16
New.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... 15, 80, 96
Parts
Define.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 43
Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 72
Pinout Drawing.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 63
Place Components.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 54
PLC
Address channels.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... 105
Create new element.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. 140
Cross-references.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 110
Draw PLC input wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... 98
Edit Addresses.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 106
Export PLC Import-Export list.................... 22322i813w ................ 117
Import PLC Import-Export list.................... 22322i813w ................ 119
Insert.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... 98
Number elements with PLC Formula.................... 22322i813w ..... 108
Number pins.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 104
Number PLC wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... 114
SLOT Value.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 110
Plot Project.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 65
Pole Attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... 129
Pre-defined Bill of Material.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... 87
Project
Cost in advance.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 86
Costing Estimate.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 90
New.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... 10, 86, 94
Plot.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... 65
R
Record attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... 134
Replace XR function.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. 81
Reports
Bill of Material.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 70
Cables.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 77
Cabling.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ 76
Connections.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... 74
Cross-reference.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 73
Parts.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 72
Terminals.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............ 75
Reset
Elements.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 84
Wire numbers.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 83
S
Schematics
Modifications.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ..... 79
Set
Base Point.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... 128
Cables.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 47
Cross-reference function.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 33
Equipot. XR points.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ 40, 112
Nodes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 21, 27, 100
PLC channel descriptions.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 106
SNAP.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... 19
Terminal Strip ID.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 31
User annotations.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................... 46
Voltage Rating.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........... 19, 25, 29
Wire Marks.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... 36
XR function.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 109
Zone.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w 42
Slides.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w . 136
Snap
Adjust.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. 19
T
Tablet
integrate element.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. 137
Technical data attributes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ 135
Terminal Strip ID.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 31
Terminals
Draw block.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... 57
Number.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ 32
Report.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................. 75
Set T.Strip ID.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 31
Terminal editor.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... 60
Terminal Pinout Drawing.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ...... 63
U
User and Tag attributes.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .......... 136
V
View Counters.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ........ 39
Voltage Rating
Set to 230 V.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... 25
Set to 400 V.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... 19
Set to PE.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .............. 29
W
Wire Numbering
Point to Point.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ......... 95, 102, 114
Potential.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .. 14, 36, 38
Wires
1-phase.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ 26
3-phase.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................ 20
Number wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ................. 38, 114
PE wires.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............... 30
Reset numbers.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ... 83
Set marks.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ............. 36
Z
Zone
Set.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .... 42
Zone attribute.................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w .................... 22322i813w ....... 133
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