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The wire list that Dynamic OnLine I presents, is optimised. This means that cadett ELSA uses all available information to create a wiring with a routing that is as effective as possible. A wiring where the involved wires follow the shortest possible path is thereby regarded as optimised.
The best information that can be available for such an optimisation is a properly made cabinet layout. If a cabinet layout is available, cadett ELSA will use it, by default.
If a cabinet layout does not exist, at least not for the current sub-node, cadett ELSA will attempt to optimise the wiring anyway. The information that will be used for that, with the most commonly used project parameter settings, is first the location designations, and secondly the remaining parts of the item designations, in many cases component type letter code and counting number. In other words, cadett ELSA will make the bold guess that, for instance, –K1 is placed to the left of –K2, and that –K3 is placed to the right of –K2. For fuses such as –F1 and –F2, cadett ELSA makes the guess that they are placed further away from the contactors, but in proximity of each other. These assumptions are in many cases sufficient to make a decent optimisation of the wiring.
An automatic wire-numbering uses rules that have been defined in the project parameters to assign wire-numbers to the selection of wires that is currently displayed in the wire list. (The connections that do not get wire-numbers can for instance be cable cores, but also wires, which for various reasons may be excluded).
Note
The rules which are used by the automatic wire-numbering are compatible with rules that were used in older versions of cadett ELSA and MG-CAD. The origin of these rules can actually be found in an as early version as cadett ELSA 3.8 and MG-CAD 4.2 released in 1992, even though extensive further development has been carried out since then.