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The automatic wire-numbering is way simpler to use and much more effective than the manual one.

 

After you have defined the Wire-list Editor Settings in a suitable way, which you often do once and for all, you perform wire-numbering in the Wire-list Editor with a simple click.

 

Different kinds of wires can be numbered with separate numbering series. Wire-numbering in different cabinets can be separated from each other or be done together. It is up to you to choose what is most suitable for you!

 

To control the automatic wire-numbering, you define so-called "numbering areas" in your project. Within each numbering area, you use the same numbering series. Other numbering areas, will be numbered separately. Typically, a numbering area may be equal to a cabinet, and therefore represented by a location designation.

 

cadett ELSA distinguishes between four types of wire connections, which are described by the table below.

 

 

You can define as many numbering series as you want, and you can specify for which wires these series should be used, based on a large number of factors, as the ones listed below.

 

•Connection type, as described in the table above

•Function (plant) to any desired level

•Location to any desired level

•Product to any desired level

•Dimension

•Colour

•Node name

•Signal/potential name

•Connections between numbering areas

 

Connections to or from terminals can use the terminal number as wire-number instead of a number from a series. It is also possible to use the reduced form of the terminal group name combined with the terminal number as wire-number (for example -X1:1).

 

However, using terminal numbers as wire-numbers in this way, may lead to two problems, both of which have their own solutions:

 

1.Two wires in the same wire-chain may in this way get the same wire-number. This is a violation of the basic rules for wire-numbering.

 

The solution to that problem in cadett ELSA is to use a suffix. If two wires in the same wire-chain have for instance wire-number 100, the first one can be named 100, while the second one becomes 100.1.

 

2.A wire between two terminals could be given either of two different numbers. Which of the two should be chosen as wire-number?

 
The answer to that question in cadett ELSA, is to use both. A wire between terminals 1 and 3 would hence get 1-3 as wire-number.