1 Introduction to the Reference Manual
1.1 Structure of the Reference Manual
1.2 Basic facts
1.2.1 cadett ab
1.2.2 cadett ELSA
1.3 Standards
1.3.1 IEC617
1.3.2 IEC1082
1.3.3 IEC750 and IEC1346
1.3.4 IEC1355
1.4 Item designations
1.4.1 Function
1.4.2 Location
1.4.3 Component type letter code
1.4.4 Counting number
1.4.5 Complete item designation
1.4.6 Abbreviated notation
1.5 The OnLine Engine
1.6 The system design of cadett ELSA
1.7 The Modules of cadett ELSA
1.7.1 The Project Module
1.7.2 The Drawing Manager
1.7.3 The Drawing Environment
1.7.4 The Symbol Generator
1.7.5 The PDS
1.7.6 The OnLine Engine
1.7.7 The Dynamic OnLine
1.7.8 The Report Generator
1.7.9 The Script Generator
1.7.10 The Translator
1.7.11 The Catalogue
1.7.12 The Settings Module
1.7.13 The Cabinet Layout Module
1.7.14 The other modules
1.8 Work procedure
1.8.1 The moral story about Calvin Bigshot and Nicholas Planner
1.9 The installation of cadett ELSA on a hard disk or server
2 cadett ELSA in general
2.1 Starting the software
2.2 Screen layout
2.2.1 cadett ELSA window title
2.2.2 Modules
2.2.3 Pull down menus
2.2.3.1 File
2.2.3.2 Edit
2.2.3.3 View
2.2.3.4 Tools
2.2.3.4.1 Import from another cadett ELSA
2.2.3.4.2 Self test report...
2.2.3.4.3 Clean up cadett ELSA...
2.2.3.4.4 Current workstations
2.2.3.4.5 Alternatives (settings)...
2.2.3.4.5.1 Workstation directory
2.2.3.4.5.2 Main directory
2.2.3.4.5.3 Selected product
2.2.3.4.5.4 Selected AutoCAD
2.2.3.4.5.5 Use Solo eXs
2.2.3.4.5.6 Advanced...
2.2.3.4.5.6 AutoCAD profile
2.2.3.4.5.6 Language
2.2.3.4.5.6 License detection
2.2.3.4.5.6 AutoCAD start
2.2.3.4.5.6 Settings for "ultra silent mode" (databases)
2.2.3.4.5.6 Max. no of retries/time for excl. access to MGSTART.SCR and AUTOSCR.SCR
2.2.3.4.5.6 Elsalog
2.2.3.5 Module
2.2.3.6 Active module
2.2.3.7 Help
2.2.3.7.1 About cadett ELSA
2.2.3.7.2 www.cadett.com
2.2.4 Toolbar
2.2.5 Status bar
3 Project Module
3.1 General Overview
3.1.1 Projects and what you can do with them
3.1.2 Short name, long name, and description
3.1.3 Tree structure
3.1.4 SOURCE directory
3.1.5 Other project parameters
3.1.6 Typical operations
3.1.6.1 Open an existing project
3.1.6.2 Create a new project
3.1.6.3 Copy an existing project
3.1.6.4 Delete an existing project
3.2 Buttons, input fields, toolbar, and menus
3.2.1 Buttons and input fields
3.2.1.1 Filter the tree view
3.2.1.2 Refresh tree view and detailed projects list
3.2.1.3 Search for projects
3.2.1.4 Activate "recently used projects" feature
3.2.2 Toolbar
3.2.2.1 New
3.2.2.2 Delete
3.2.2.3 Edit
3.2.2.4 Collect
3.2.2.5 Open
3.2.3 Context menus in tree structure
3.2.3.1 Applied on a project
3.2.3.1.1 Remove project from group
3.2.3.1.2 Project parameters (properties)...
3.2.3.2 Applied on a group
3.2.3.2.1 New group
3.2.3.2.2 Remove group
3.2.3.2.3 Rename group
3.2.3.2.4 Set focus on the open project
3.2.4 Context menu in detailed project list
3.2.4.1 Open
3.2.4.2 Close
3.2.4.3 New project...
3.2.4.4 Delete project
3.2.4.5 Restore deleted project...
3.2.4.6 Go to the super project
3.2.4.7 Show sub-projects
3.2.4.8 Recreate OnLine database
3.2.4.9 Export project (save as EZP file)...
3.2.4.10 Import of project (load EZP file)...
3.2.4.11 Set project to local mode
3.2.4.12 Restore project from local mode
3.2.4.13 Undo local mode
3.2.4.14 Legacy TRAVEL
3.2.4.14.1 Check-out for TRAVEL (legacy)
3.2.4.14.2 Check-in from TRAVEL (legacy)
3.2.4.15 Remote TRAVEL
3.2.4.15.1 Check-out from server
3.2.4.15.2 Check-in to server
3.2.4.16 Create PDF file...
3.2.4.17 Show/hide fields...
3.2.4.18 Create cadett ELSA revision...
3.2.4.19 Create comparison databases...
3.2.4.20 Autodesk Vault
3.2.4.20.1 Small check-in of version
3.2.4.20.2 Large check-in of primary revision
3.2.4.20.3 Large check-in of secondary revision
3.2.4.20.4 Large check-in of tertiary revision
3.2.4.20.5 Large final check-in of primary revision
3.2.4.20.6 Large final check-in of secondary revision
3.2.4.20.7 Large final check-in of tertiary revision
3.2.4.20.8 Check-out
3.2.4.20.9 Undo check-out
3.2.4.21 Project parameters (properties)...
3.2.5 Module pull-down menu
3.2.5.1 Refresh display of tree structure
3.2.5.2 Expand tree structure
3.2.5.3 Collapse tree structure
3.2.5.4 Show recently used projects
3.2.5.5 Show prototype projects
3.2.5.6 Show list of drawing sheets
3.2.5.7 Settings for Autodesk Vault...
3.2.5.8 Settings for automatic removal of unpacked revisions...
3.2.5.9 Settings for WAN mode (slow network)...
3.2.5.10 Setting of main project directory
3.3 Tree structure Management
3.3.1 Manipulation of the tree
3.3.1.1 Create new groups
3.3.1.2 Remove groups
3.3.1.3 Rename a group
3.3.1.4 Copy or move groups
3.3.1.5 Copy or move projects
3.3.1.6 Remove projects from groups
3.3.1.6.1 Alternative method
3.3.2 Virtual groups
3.3.2.1 The root
3.3.2.2 Prototype project
3.3.2.3 Unpacked revisions
3.3.2.4 Projects in local mode
3.4 Major features and functions
3.4.1 Open project
3.4.1.1 The concept of opening a project
3.4.1.2 How opening a project is done
3.4.1.2.1 Double-click to open
3.4.1.2.2 Open using the Toolbar
3.4.1.2.3 Open using "File" pull-down menu
3.4.1.2.4 Open using the context menu
3.4.1.3 The consequences of opening a project
3.4.2 Close project
3.4.3 Create new project
3.4.3.1 Page 1 of the New project dialogue
3.4.3.1.1 Long project name
3.4.3.1.2 Description
3.4.3.1.3 Group (Tree structure)
3.4.3.1.4 Created (date)
3.4.3.1.5 Signature 1 (e.g. originator)
3.4.3.1.6 Signature 2 (e.g. inspector)
3.4.3.1.7 Copy content of SOURCE directory
3.4.3.1.8 Copy content of TARGET directory
3.4.3.1.9 Copy document codes
3.4.3.1.10 Copy numbering algorithm assignments
3.4.3.1.11 Filter for copying
3.4.3.2 Page 2 of the New project dialogue
3.4.3.2.1 Text fields
3.4.3.2.2 Short project name
3.4.3.2.3 SOURCE directory
3.4.3.2.4 Use an adjusted version of the long project name as SOURCE directory
3.4.3.3 Page 3 of the New project dialogue
3.4.3.4 Common buttons
3.4.3.4.1 Cancel
3.4.3.4.2 <Back
3.4.3.4.3 Next>
3.4.3.4.4 Create
3.4.4 Delete project
3.4.5 Restore deleted projects
3.4.6 Search for projects
3.4.7 Search for groups
3.4.8 Recently used projects
3.4.9 Preview drawing sheets
3.4.10 Refresh Project Module views
3.4.11 Set focus on the open project
3.4.12 Export and import projects (EZP)
3.4.12.1 Export projects (backup/save)
3.4.12.1.1 Select directory to save the EZP file in
3.4.12.1.2 List of selected projects
3.4.12.1.3 Include group information
3.4.12.1.4 Use the long project name as file name
3.4.12.1.5 Export all listed projects
3.4.12.1.6 Export selected projects
3.4.12.1.7 Close
3.4.12.1.8 The export procedure
3.4.12.2 Import projects (restore/load)
3.4.12.2.1 Select/add EZP files
3.4.12.2.2 Remove selected files from the list
3.4.12.2.3 List of selected EZP files
3.4.12.2.4 Validating status
3.4.12.2.5 Short project name
3.4.12.2.6 Long project name
3.4.12.2.7 SOURCE directory with options
3.4.12.2.8 Import to the current group
3.4.12.2.9 Tree groups (one per line)
3.4.12.2.10 Validate selected projects
3.4.12.2.11 Import (load) selected projects
3.4.12.2.11.1 Over-writing existing project
3.4.12.2.12 Close
3.4.12.3 EZP Technical details
3.4.13 Silent PDF
3.4.13.1 Select projects in the detailed projects list
3.4.13.2 The Create PDF file command
3.4.13.3 The SilentPDF dialogue box
3.4.13.3.1 The Create PDF files tab
3.4.13.3.1.1 List of selected projects to create PDF files
3.4.13.3.1.2 List of projects to select from
3.4.13.3.1.3 ADD TO THE LIST button
3.4.13.3.1.4 Filter projects
3.4.13.3.1.5 CREATE PDF FILES button
3.4.13.3.2 The Settings tab
3.4.14 Screen display
3.4.14.1 Customise detailed projects list appearance
3.4.14.1.1 Additional fields suitable for presentation
3.4.14.1.2 Show/hide fields dialogue box
3.4.14.1.2.1 Remove fields
3.4.14.1.2.2 Add fields
3.4.14.1.2.3 Rearrange the field order
3.4.14.1.2.4 Edit field titles
3.4.14.2 Configure general screen display behaviour
3.4.14.3 Update the screen
3.4.15 Local mode
3.4.15.1 Set project to local mode
3.4.15.2 Restore project from local mode
3.4.15.3 Undo local mode
3.4.15.4 Automatic restore from local mode on exit
3.4.15.5 Technical details
3.4.16 TRAVEL
3.4.16.1 Working environment import for TRAVEL
3.4.16.1.1 Hard remote import (cadett ELSA Enterprise)
3.4.16.1.2 Soft direct import (cadett ELSA Professional and lower)
3.4.16.2 Check-in and check-out projects for TRAVEL
3.4.16.2.1 Legacy TRAVEL
3.4.16.2.1.1 Check-out for TRAVEL (legacy)
3.4.16.2.1.2 Check-in for TRAVEL (legacy)
3.4.16.2.2 Remote TRAVEL
3.4.16.2.2.1 Prerequisites
3.4.16.2.2.2 Check-out from server...
3.4.16.2.2.3 Check-in to server...
3.4.17 Revision Handling
3.4.18 Replicator
3.4.19 Autodesk Vault Integration
3.4.19.1 General description
3.4.19.1.1 The purpose of the integration
3.4.19.1.2 Basic features of the integration
3.4.19.1.3 Check in to Vault
3.4.19.1.3.1 Large check in (check in for Vault revision)
3.4.19.1.3.2 Small check in (check in for Vault version)
3.4.19.1.3.3 Check in for final storage
3.4.19.1.4 Check out from Vault
3.4.19.1.5 Summary
3.4.19.1.6 Vault requirements
3.4.19.1.7 Security
3.4.19.1.8 Resources/articles
3.4.19.1.9 Organisation of cadett ELSA data in Autodesk Vault
3.4.19.2 Restrictions
3.4.19.3 Settings
3.4.19.3.1 The VAULT.INI configuration file
3.4.19.3.2 The Vault Settings dialogue
3.4.19.3.2.1 Automatic e-mail notifications
3.4.19.4 Check-in
3.4.19.5 Check-out
3.4.19.5.1 Detailed description of Check-out dialogue
3.4.19.6 Automate the job
3.4.19.7 The Vault Client Extension
3.5 Project parameters (detailed description)
3.5.1 Basic preferences tab
3.5.1.1 Project name and directory
3.5.1.1.1 Short project name
3.5.1.1.2 Long project name
3.5.1.1.3 Project description
3.5.1.1.4 SOURCE directory
3.5.1.1.5 TARGET directory
3.5.1.2 Person and project data
3.5.1.2.1 Date of last modification
3.5.1.2.2 Created (date)
3.5.1.2.3 Signature 1 (e.g. originator)
3.5.1.2.4 Signature 2 (e.g. inspector)
3.5.1.2.5 Origin
3.5.1.2.6 Supersedes
3.5.1.2.7 Superseded by
3.5.1.3 Project texts
3.5.1.3.1 Company name
3.5.1.3.2 Company street
3.5.1.3.3 Company zip code/city
3.5.1.3.4 Customer name
3.5.1.3.5 Customer street
3.5.1.3.6 Customer zip code/city
3.5.1.4 Project data
3.5.1.4.1 Unit description 1
3.5.1.4.2 Unit description 2
3.5.1.4.3 Unit description 3
3.5.1.4.4 Document number
3.5.1.4.5 Customer number
3.5.1.4.6 Project number
3.5.1.5 Symbol library and catalogue
3.5.1.5.1 Standard (symbol library)
3.5.1.5.2 Default catalogue
3.5.1.5.3 Remove catalogue name in index when redundant
3.5.1.6 Additional project settings
3.5.1.6.1 Date format
3.5.1.6.2 Delete protection
3.5.1.6.3 System project
3.5.1.6.4 Allow multiple workstations concurrently in the project
3.5.1.6.4.1 Multiple users at once
3.5.1.6.5 Prototype project
3.5.1.6.6 Super project
3.5.1.6.7 Sub-project
3.5.2 User defined project parameters tab
3.5.2.1 Managing the content of User defined project parameters
3.5.2.2 Managing definitions of User defined project parameters
3.5.2.2.1 Create a new parameter definition
3.5.2.2.2 Delete a parameter definition
3.5.2.2.3 Change the definition of a parameter
3.5.2.3 Using the content of User Defined Project Parameters
3.5.2.3.1 The Drawing Manager
3.5.2.3.2 The Report Generator
3.5.2.4 Central override of User defined project parameters
3.5.2.4.1 The file format of USERPROJPAR.INI
3.5.2.4.2 Functionality
3.5.3 Drawing manager 1 tab
3.5.3.1 Drawing frame and mask
3.5.3.1.1 Drawing frame
3.5.3.1.2 Masks
3.5.3.1.2.1 Mask for SOURCE directory
3.5.3.1.2.2 Mask for TARGET directory
3.5.3.1.3 Text position accuracy
3.5.3.1.4 Block name for title field
3.5.3.2 File name composition
3.5.3.2.1 File name segments
3.5.3.2.1.1 Add a segment
3.5.3.2.1.2 Remove a segment
3.5.3.2.1.3 Rearrange the order of segments
3.5.3.2.1.4 Change a segment
3.5.3.2.2 Sheet number
3.5.3.2.2.1 Number of digits
3.5.3.2.2.2 Pad sheet number with zeroes
3.5.3.2.2.3 Default start value
3.5.3.2.2.4 Default step value
3.5.3.3 Electrical layers
3.5.4 Drawing manager 2 tab
3.5.4.1 Grid layout
3.5.4.1.1 Start point
3.5.4.1.1.1 X (start point)
3.5.4.1.1.2 Y (start point)
3.5.4.1.2 Maximum x and y coordinates
3.5.4.1.2.1 X (maximum)
3.5.4.1.2.2 Y (maximum)
3.5.4.1.3 Column width
3.5.4.1.4 Row height
3.5.4.2 Numbering
3.5.4.2.1 Columns
3.5.4.2.1.1 Start value (digit or letter)
3.5.4.2.1.2 Step value
3.5.4.2.1.3 Descending
3.5.4.2.1.4 Fixed length (pad with zeros)
3.5.4.2.2 Rows
3.5.4.2.2.1 Start value (digit or letter)
3.5.4.2.2.2 Step value
3.5.4.2.2.3 Descending
3.5.4.2.2.4 Fixed length (pad with zeros)
3.5.4.3 Special
3.5.4.3.1 Column numbering over multiple sheets
3.5.4.3.2 Number of columns per sheet
3.5.4.3.3 Columns numbers controlled by rows
3.5.4.3.4 Row numbering over multiple sheets
3.5.4.3.5 Number of rows per sheet
3.5.4.3.6 Row numbers controlled by columns
3.5.5 General tab
3.5.5.1 Wear groups
3.5.5.1.1 Calculation basis for spare parts lists in PERCENT
3.5.5.1.2 Calculation basis for spare parts lists in PIECES
3.5.5.2 Symbol handling
3.5.5.2.1 Help symbols with index (Device list/Cabinet layout)
3.5.5.2.1.1 All
3.5.5.2.1.2 When main symbol exists
3.5.5.2.1.3 When index is equal to main symbol
3.5.5.2.2 Over-booking of mirror symbols
3.5.5.2.2.1 Replace connection number in help symbol with *
3.5.5.2.2.2 General explanation of over-booking
3.5.5.2.2.3 Example 1: Active
3.5.5.2.2.4 Example 2: Not active
3.5.5.2.3 Main symbols without index (index empty)
3.5.5.2.3.1 Case_1 (interpreted as main symbol)
3.5.5.2.3.2 Case_2 (interpreted as help symbol)
3.5.5.3 Miscellaneous
3.5.5.3.1 OnLine
3.5.5.3.1.1 OnLine active by default
3.5.5.3.1.2 Automatic regeneration
3.5.5.3.2 Management of PLC data
3.5.5.3.2.1 Use separate extended PLC database
3.5.5.3.3 Project locking
3.5.5.3.3.1 Lock project / Unlock project
3.5.6 Item designations 1 tab
3.5.6.1 General item designation settings
3.5.6.1.1 Item designations in the drawing sheets
3.5.6.1.2 Case sensitivity in item designations
3.5.6.1.2.1 Distinguish UPPER and lower case letters in item designations
3.5.6.1.3 Connection point numbers in item designations
3.5.6.1.3.1 Allow connection point numbers in item designations
3.5.6.1.4 Symbolic item designations (LABEL)
3.5.6.1.4.1 Use symbolic item designations
3.5.6.2 Regeneration of item designations
3.5.6.2.1 Redundancy reduction for unchanged item designations
3.5.6.3 Multiple level item designations
3.5.6.3.1 Example of multiple level designations
3.5.6.3.2 Activate
3.5.6.3.2.1 Item designations in multiple levels
3.5.6.3.3 Separator character between levels
3.5.6.3.4 Levels
3.5.6.3.4.1 Maximum number of levels
3.5.6.3.5 Separator character for top level in item designations
3.5.6.3.6 IEC1346 transitions
3.5.6.3.6.1 Background IEC1346 transitions
3.5.6.3.6.2 Implementation of IEC1346
3.5.6.3.6.3 Reduce double separator characters
3.5.6.3.6.4 Separator characters for reduction
3.5.6.3.6.5 Relevant IEC1346 project parameters
3.5.6.4 Counting number in item designations
3.5.6.4.1 Principles for automatic item designation generation
3.5.6.4.2 Numbering range
3.5.6.4.3 Redundancy reduction for counting number
3.5.6.4.4 Minimum number of digits in counting number
3.5.6.4.5 Start value
3.5.6.4.6 Spare numbers
3.5.6.4.7 Module for restart of numbering after spares
3.5.6.4.8 Row-wise numbering
3.5.7 Item designations 2 tab
3.5.7.1 Separator characters in item designations
3.5.7.1.1 The two main ways of handling item designations in cadett ELSA
3.5.7.1.2 Separator character independent item designations
3.5.7.1.3 Do not use separator characters in drawing sheets
3.5.7.2 Composition of item designations
3.5.7.2.1 Editing compositions for item designations
3.5.7.2.2 Differences between Conventional devices, PLC's and Cables
3.5.7.2.3 Separator character dependent item designations (ordinary)
3.5.7.2.3.1 Synchronise separator character with conventional devices
3.5.7.2.4 Separator character independent item designations
3.5.7.2.4.1 General composition
3.5.7.2.4.2 Composition of the designation part
3.5.7.2.4.3 Synchronise separator character with conventional devices
3.5.8 Item designations 3 tab
3.5.8.1 Terminals and connectors
3.5.8.1.1 Synchronise separator character with conventional devices
3.5.8.2 Drawing environment settings
3.5.8.2.1 Automatic item designation generation OnLine
3.5.8.2.2 When symbols are moved
3.5.8.2.3 When symbols are copied
3.5.8.2.4 When symbols are inserted
3.5.8.2.5 Automatic terminal numbering when copying
3.5.8.2.5.1 Compatibility
3.5.8.2.5.2 Using automatic terminal numbering
3.5.8.2.5.3 Access from the Drawing Environment
3.5.8.2.6 Display dialogue box when main symbol is inserted
3.5.8.2.7 Display dialogue box when help symbol is inserted
3.5.8.2.8 Ask when help symbol exists
3.5.8.3 Redundancy reduction
3.5.8.3.1 Example of how recundancy reduction works
3.5.8.3.2 Plant
3.5.8.3.3 Location
3.5.8.3.4 Circuit
3.5.8.3.5 Sheet
3.5.8.3.6 Redundancy reduction inside item designations
3.5.8.3.7 Perform OnLine redundancy reduction
3.5.8.3.8 Completing of fixed item designations
3.5.9 Cross-references and potentials tab
3.5.9.1 Cross-references
3.5.9.1.1 Composition of cross-references
3.5.9.1.1.1 Parts for cross-references
3.5.9.1.1.2 Synchronise separator character with conventional devices
3.5.9.1.2 Content of cross-reference part ”Text”
3.5.9.1.3 Redundancy reduction
3.5.9.1.3.1 General background
3.5.9.1.3.2 Plant
3.5.9.1.3.3 Location
3.5.9.1.3.4 Sheet
3.5.9.1.3.5 Document number (drawing number)
3.5.9.1.3.6 Document kind Classification Code (DCC)
3.5.9.1.3.7 Also inside cross-references
3.5.9.2 Potential references
3.5.9.2.1 Composition of potential reference names
3.5.9.2.1.1 How to edit the composition
3.5.9.2.1.2 Parts for potential reference names
3.5.9.2.1.3 Synchronise separator character with conventional devices
3.5.9.2.2 Type of Potential reference
3.5.9.2.2.1 Chain reference (both types allowed)
3.5.9.2.2.2 Source reference (only)
3.5.9.2.3 Cross-reference for source
3.5.9.2.4 Potential references within the same sheet
3.5.10 Mirrored attributes tab
3.5.10.1 Activation
3.5.10.1.1 Activate mirroring of attribute values from main to help symbols
3.5.10.2 General settings
3.5.10.2.1 Mirror complete item designation
3.5.10.2.2 Lock mirrored attribute values for editing
3.5.10.3 Mirrored attributes
3.5.10.3.1 How to edit the list of mirrored attributes
3.5.10.3.2 Limits for the configuration
3.5.10.3.3 Conventional devices
3.5.10.3.4 Terminals
3.5.10.3.5 PLC
3.5.10.3.6 Cables
3.5.11 Connections 1 (general and terminals) tab
3.5.11.1 General connection handling settings
3.5.11.1.1 Activation of connection handling
3.5.11.1.1.1 Connection lists and wire numbering
3.5.11.1.2 Connection lists
3.5.11.1.2.1 Separator character between item designation and connection point number
3.5.11.1.3 Calculation of connections
3.5.11.1.3.1 Terminal diameter (largest used)
3.5.11.1.3.2 Connection point tolerance
3.5.11.1.4 Display separator character for terminal number in
3.5.11.1.4.1 Circuit diagrams
3.5.11.1.4.2 Reports
3.5.11.2 Terminals groups
3.5.11.2.1 Numbering algorithm assignments
3.5.11.2.2 Default numbering algorithm
3.5.11.2.2.1 Algorithm
3.5.11.2.2.2 Limit
3.5.11.2.3 Sequence between terminals controlled by
3.5.11.2.4 Terminal numbering
3.5.11.2.4.1 Ignore the following terminal numbers
3.5.12 Connections 2 (wires)
3.5.12.1 Sorting and wire numbering
3.5.12.1.1 Renumber wires
3.5.12.1.2 Overall sorting
3.5.12.1.3 Restart of wire numbering (numbering range)
3.5.12.1.4 Cabinet layout
3.5.12.1.4.1 Sub-sorting controlled by cabinet layout
3.5.12.1.4.1 Background to cabinet layout controlled sub-sorting
3.5.12.2 Wire numbering
3.5.12.2.1 Type 1: Within device
3.5.12.2.2 Type 2: Between devices
3.5.12.2.3 Type 3: Device-terminal
3.5.12.2.4 Type 4: Between terminals
3.5.12.3 Numbering series for wires
3.5.12.3.1 General description of numbering series for wires
3.5.12.3.2 Series 1 / Start value
3.5.12.3.3 Series 1 / Step value
3.5.12.3.4 Series 2 / Start value
3.5.12.3.5 Series 2 / Step value
3.5.12.3.6 Series 3 / Start value
3.5.12.3.7 Series 3 / Step value
3.5.12.3.8 Suffix to separate identical numbers in the same node
3.5.12.3.9 Separator character for suffix
3.5.12.4 Wire numbering exceptions
3.5.12.4.1 Do not number wires to devices with the following component types
3.5.12.5 Wires and spares
3.5.12.5.1 Activations
3.5.12.5.1.1 Generate connection lists
3.5.12.5.1.2 Calculate wire-numbers
3.5.12.5.1.3 Calculate terminal and cable core spares
3.5.12.5.1.3 Calculation of spares
3.5.12.5.1.3 Spare cable cores calculated using cable mirrors
3.5.12.5.1.3 Spare cable cores calculated using numbering algorithms
3.5.12.5.1.3 Spare terminals
3.5.12.5.1.4 Allow forced connections
3.5.12.5.2 Automatically inserted wire-numbers
3.5.12.5.3 Default dimension and colour
3.5.12.5.3.1 Dimension
3.5.12.5.3.2 Colour
3.5.13 Tree structure tab
3.5.13.1 Membership of groups in the tree structure
3.5.13.1.1 Add to group
3.5.13.1.2 Remove from group
3.5.13.1.3 Membership in multiple groups at the same time
3.5.13.1.3.1 Allow the project to be member of more than one group
3.6 Standard projects
3.6.1 Prototype and demonstration projects
3.6.1.1 Document codes
3.6.1.1.1 Project parameters for the full IEC1355 implementation
3.6.1.1.2 Project parameters for the simplified IEC1355 implementation
3.6.1.2 Cross-references
3.6.1.3 Item designations
3.6.1.3.1 IEC1346 levels and two fixed transitions
3.6.1.3.2 IEC1346 levels with flexible transitions
3.6.1.3.3 Traditional IEC750-like implementation without levels
3.6.2 System projects
3.6.2.1 Drawing frames
3.6.2.1.1 Details about ELSA390 drawing frames
3.6.2.1.1.1 Use of DCC code
3.6.2.1.1.2 The DC block
3.6.2.1.1.3 Layer set
3.6.2.1.1.4 Font
3.6.2.1.1.5 Associated masks and mask files
3.6.2.1.1.5 ELSA390
3.6.2.1.1.5 SIMPLE39
3.6.2.2 Report forms
4 Drawing Manager
4.1 General overview
4.1.1 How to use the Drawing Manager
4.1.2 The screen layout
4.2 Toolbar and menus
4.2.1 Toolbar
4.2.1.1 New
4.2.1.2 New between
4.2.1.3 Delete
4.2.1.4 Copy
4.2.1.5 Paste
4.2.1.6 Paste between
4.2.1.7 Filter
4.2.1.8 Reorganise
4.2.1.9 Collect
4.2.1.10 Open
4.2.2 Context menu in survey
4.2.2.1 New
4.2.2.2 New between
4.2.2.3 Delete
4.2.2.4 Cut
4.2.2.5 Copy
4.2.2.6 Paste
4.2.2.7 Paste between
4.2.2.8 Undo
4.2.2.9 Redo
4.2.2.10 Save filter...
4.2.2.11 Delete filter...
4.2.2.12 Filter
4.2.2.13 Auto-size columns now
4.2.2.14 Translate drawing sheet(s)
4.2.3 Module pull-down menu
4.2.3.1 Renumber drawing sheets...
4.2.3.2 Mask file
4.2.3.2.1 Reinitialise from the mask file copies in the project
4.2.3.2.2 Reread central MSK file (SOURCE)
4.2.3.2.3 Reread central MSK file (TARGET)
4.2.3.3 Manual activation of Support for user defined file types
4.2.3.4 Transfer from title fields to Drawing Manager
4.2.3.5 Transfer from Drawing Manager to title fields
4.2.3.6 Set texts to default values
4.2.3.7 Change document codes for drawing sheets...
4.2.3.8 Edit document codes of current project...
4.2.3.9 Generate document codes...
4.2.3.10 Adjust filenames according to field content
4.2.3.11 Edit central document codes...
4.2.3.12 Copy document codes...
4.2.3.13 Display message window...
4.2.3.14 Preferences...
4.3 Features and functions
4.3.1 Document codes
4.3.1.1 General overview
4.3.1.1.1 What is a document code?
4.3.1.1.2 File name composition
4.3.1.1.3 Sheet numbering
4.3.1.1.4 The IEC1355 standard
4.3.1.1.5 Examples and explanations
4.3.1.2 Document code implementations
4.3.1.2.1 Document kind Classification Codes according to IEC1355
4.3.1.2.1.1 The IEC1355 standard
4.3.1.2.1.2 IEC1355 implementations
4.3.1.2.1.2 Common ground
4.3.1.2.1.2 IEC1355 file name composition
4.3.1.2.1.2 Sheet numbering and cross-references
4.3.1.2.1.2 Complete IEC1355 implementation
4.3.1.2.1.2 Simplified IEC1355 implementation
4.3.1.2.2 Example of user defined document codes
4.3.1.2.2.1 Sample plant structure
4.3.1.2.2.2 Document codes for the sample
4.3.1.2.2.3 File name composition
4.3.1.2.2.4 Title field links
4.3.1.2.2.5 Sheet numbering and cross-references
4.3.1.2.2.6 Using the example
4.3.1.2.2.6 File names
4.3.1.2.2.6 Creating new sheets
4.3.1.2.2.6 Title fields
4.3.1.2.2.6 Extending the plant tree when needed
4.3.1.2.2.6 Cross-references
4.3.1.2.2.6 Within the same DCC code and function
4.3.1.2.2.6 Between two functions
4.3.1.2.3 Legacy drawing classes and drawing types
4.3.1.2.3.1 Legacy Class/type orientation
4.3.1.2.3.2 The "Class/types *LEGACY*" document code tree
4.3.1.2.3.3 Example of legacy project related drawing types
4.3.1.3 Document code management
4.3.1.3.1 Editor for document codes
4.3.1.3.2 Generate document codes
4.3.1.3.3 Copy document codes
4.3.2 Drawing sheet operations
4.3.2.1 New
4.3.2.1.1 Selection of document codes
4.3.2.1.2 Title field update according to document code
4.3.2.2 New between
4.3.2.2.1 New between Example
4.3.2.3 Copy
4.3.2.3.1 Copy within the same directory of the same project
4.3.2.3.2 Copy between projects
4.3.2.3.3 Copy between SOURCE and TARGET
4.3.2.3.4 How document codes are treated when copying
4.3.2.4 Paste
4.3.2.4.1 Paste with identical file name composition
4.3.2.4.2 Paste where file name composition differs
4.3.2.5 Paste between
4.3.2.6 Cut
4.3.2.7 Delete
4.3.2.8 Single text changes
4.3.2.8.1 Single changes in the survey
4.3.2.8.2 Single changes in the detailed view
4.3.2.9 Global text changes
4.3.2.9.1 Global changes in multiple fields at once
4.3.2.10 Reorganise
4.3.2.11 Collect
4.3.2.12 Open
4.3.2.13 Change sequence / adjust filename
4.3.2.14 Changing document codes for drawing sheets
4.3.2.15 Renumber drawing sheets...
4.3.2.15.1 Display Short Text instead of Description
4.3.2.16 Undo
4.3.2.16.1 Redo
4.3.3 Adjusting the survey
4.3.4 Filter
4.3.4.1 Set a filter
4.3.4.2 Named filters
4.3.4.2.1 Save named filter
4.3.4.2.2 Activate named filter
4.3.4.2.3 Delete named filter
4.3.5 Viewer
4.3.5.1 Activation and configuration
4.3.5.2 Resize viewer
4.3.5.3 Full screen view
4.3.5.4 Direct zoom and pan
4.3.5.5 Context menu
4.3.5.5.1 Zoom In
4.3.5.5.2 Zoom Out
4.3.5.5.3 Zoom Extents
4.3.5.5.4 Print
4.3.6 Special commands
4.3.6.1 Reinitialise and reread mask file
4.3.6.1.1 Reinitialise
4.3.6.1.2 Reread
4.3.6.2 Forced transfer between title field and Drawing Manager
4.3.6.3 Set texts to default values in existing drawing sheets
4.3.6.4 Adjust filenames according to field content
4.3.7 Dialogue box descriptions
4.3.7.1 Document code selection dialogue box
4.3.7.2 New/paste between dialogue box
4.3.8 Drawing frame and mask
4.3.8.1 Drawing frame
4.3.8.2 Mask and mask file
4.3.8.2.1 Edit meta data of mask
4.3.8.2.2 Edit content of mask file
4.3.8.2.3 Delete existing mask
4.3.8.2.4 Create new mask
4.3.8.3 Mask file details
4.3.8.3.1 Remarks
4.3.8.3.2 ASCII or ANSI
4.3.8.3.3 Multiple drawing frames in the same project
4.3.8.3.4 Field descriptive lines
4.3.8.3.5 Variables for default values
4.3.8.3.5.1 Project parameters
4.3.8.3.5.2 User defined project parameters
4.3.8.3.5.3 Aliases
4.3.8.3.5.4 Special features
4.3.8.3.6 Support for user defined file types
4.3.8.3.7 Overriding default field settings
4.3.8.4 Creating a new drawing frame with associated mask
4.3.9 User defined file types
4.3.9.1 Activating user defined file types
4.3.9.2 Configuration for user defined file types
4.3.10 Message handling
4.3.10.1 The message window
4.3.11 Preferences
4.3.11.1 Colours
4.3.11.2 List behaviour
4.3.11.2.1 Automatic column width
4.3.11.2.2 Remember sorting
4.3.11.3 Viewer
4.3.11.3.1 Selected viewer
4.3.11.3.2 Automatically turn off viewer when problems are detected
4.4 Technical details
4.4.1 ELSA390 standard drawing frames
4.4.1.1 Prompt and use of DCC code
4.4.1.2 The DC block
4.4.1.3 Layer set
4.4.1.4 Default font
4.4.2 ELSA390 standard masks and mask files
4.4.2.1 ELSA390
4.4.2.2 SIMPLE39
4.4.3 Standard layers and colours
4.4.3.1 The complete IEC Extended layer set
4.4.3.2 The complete DIN5 Extended layer set
4.4.3.3 All standard colours in cadett ELSA
4.4.3.4 Colours added in cadett ELSA R39
4.4.3.5 Layers added in cadett ELSA R39
4.4.3.6 How to utilise current layers and colours
4.4.3.6.1 Current standard projects
4.4.3.6.2 Old standard projects
4.4.3.6.3 Existing projects
4.4.3.6.4 New projects
4.4.3.7 Convert drawing sheets to current layer set
4.4.4 Legacy projects (R32 and older)
4.4.4.1 The extensions that were made in cadett ELSA R33
4.4.4.2 Converting projects from R32 or older
4.4.5 Storage of document code definitions
4.4.6 Storage of file name composition
4.4.7 Preset Aliases compatibility feature
5 Drawing Environment
5.1 Basic properties of the Drawing Environment
5.2 Workspaces
5.3 Ribbon menus
5.3.1 General information
5.3.2 The “File” tab
5.3.2.1 The “File” panel
5.3.2.1.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.2.1.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.3 The “Home” tab
5.3.3.1 The “Draw” panel
5.3.3.1.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.3.1.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.3.2 The “Modify” panel
5.3.3.2.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.3.2.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.3.3 The “Layers” panel
5.3.3.3.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.3.3.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.3.4 The “Text and Attributes” panel
5.3.3.4.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.3.4.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.3.5 The “Utilities” panel
5.3.3.5.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.3.5.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.4 The “View” tab
5.3.4.1 The “View” panel
5.3.4.1.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.4.1.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.4.2 The “Layer setting” panel
5.3.4.3 The “Zoom” panel
5.3.4.3.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.4.3.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.4.4 The “Layers” panel
5.3.5 The “Insert” tab
5.3.5.1 The “Insert” panel
5.3.5.2 The “Block Handling” panel
5.3.6 The “Tools” tab
5.3.6.1 The “Dynamic OnLine I” panel
5.3.6.2 The “Dynamic OnLine II” panel
5.3.6.3 The "Dynamic Tools" panel
5.3.6.3.1 Wire-list Editor...
5.3.6.3.2 Edit wire-chain
5.3.6.3.3 Plant database Beta...
5.3.6.3.4 Boundary Box Edit...
5.3.6.4 The “Tools” panel
5.3.6.4.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.6.4.1.1 Adjust wire-number positions
5.3.6.4.1.2 Reset wire-number positions
5.3.6.4.1.3 Cross-referenced objects
5.3.6.4.1.4 Fix incorrect lines
5.3.6.4.1.5 SnapFix...
5.3.6.4.1.6 Terminal direction editor
5.3.6.4.1.7 Copy resource data
5.3.6.4.1.7 Extended functionality for the Copy resource data command
5.3.6.4.1.8 Index/electrical data from catalogue…
5.3.6.4.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.6.4.2.1 Update current sheet (multi-user)
5.3.6.4.2.2 Preprocessing on SaveDXF
5.3.6.4.2.3 Generate item designations in the current sheet
5.3.6.4.2.4 Generate item designations in the entire project…
5.3.6.4.2.5 Create Bookmark Settings for PDF generation
5.3.6.5 The “Symbols” panel
5.3.6.5.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.6.5.1.1 Symbol generator: 1. New…
5.3.6.5.1.2 Symbol generator: 2. Save
5.3.6.5.1.3 Symbol generator: 3. Edit
5.3.6.5.1.4 Symbol generator: 4. Delete...
5.3.6.5.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.6.6 The “Alternatives” panel
5.3.6.6.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.6.6.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.6.7 The "Option Handling" panel
5.3.6.7.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.6.7.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.7 The "Alternative Document type" tabs
5.3.7.1 The “Alternative Document type” tab in Circuit diagram mode
5.3.7.1.1 The “Initialise” panel
5.3.7.2 The “Alternative Document type” tab in Cabinet Layout mode
5.3.7.2.1 The “Initialise” panel
5.3.7.2.2 The “Grid and Snap” panel
5.3.7.2.3 The “Draw” panel
5.3.7.2.4 The “Dimensioning” panel
5.3.7.3 The “Alternative Document type” tab in Cable/harness diagram mode
5.3.7.3.1 The “Initialise” panel
5.3.7.3.2 The “Cable/harness diagram” panel
5.3.7.4 The “Alternative Document type” tab in Wiring diagram mode
5.3.7.4.1 The “Initialise” panel
5.3.7.4.2 The “Wiring diagram” panel
5.3.7.4.2.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.7.4.2.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.7.5 The "Alternative Document type tab" in Block diagram mode
5.3.7.5.1 The "Initialise" panel
5.3.7.5.2 The "Block diagram" panel
5.3.8 The “Drawing aids” tab
5.3.8.1 The “Tools” panel
5.3.8.1.1 Directly visible commands
5.3.8.1.2 Commands in the slide-out panel
5.3.8.2 The “Object Snap” panel
5.3.8.3 The “Object selection” panel
5.3.8.4 The “Grid and snap for Circuit diagram” panel
5.3.9 The “Help” tab
5.3.9.1 The “Help” panel
5.4 Pull-down menus
5.5 Toolbars
5.6 Colours and layers
5.6.1 Layer management in cadett ELSA
5.6.2 Background colours
5.6.2.1 Colours for both black and white background
5.6.2.2 Commands to change layer colours
5.6.2.3 Commands to switch background colour
5.6.2.4 Script Sequences to update entire projects
5.7 Converting old user defined menus
5.8 Creating and maintaining user defined menus
5.8.1 Step-by-step guide
5.8.1.1 Enter the Customise User Interface tool
5.8.1.2 Create a new customisation file
5.8.1.3 Load the new customisation file
5.8.1.4 Create new menu commands
5.8.1.5 Test your menu commands
5.8.1.6 Make the customisation permanent
5.9 Detailed command descriptions
5.9.1 Symbol Generator
5.9.1.1 Overview
5.9.1.1.1 What is a cadett ELSA symbol?
5.9.1.1.2 Creating and editing symbols
5.9.1.1.3 The Four Golden Rules of symbol making
5.9.1.1.4 Symbol Generator Objects
5.9.1.1.5 Symbol types
5.9.1.1.6 Attribute definitions
5.9.1.1.7 Short description of the commands
5.9.1.1.7.1 1. New...
5.9.1.1.7.2 2. Save
5.9.1.1.7.3 3. Edit
5.9.1.1.7.4 4. Delete...
5.9.1.2 Symbol data dialogue (main Symbol Generator dialogue)
5.9.1.2.1 Attribute configuration
5.9.1.2.2 Object data
5.9.1.2.2.1 Symbol name
5.9.1.2.2.2 Symbol type
5.9.1.2.2.3 Document type
5.9.1.2.2.4 Component type letter code
5.9.1.2.2.5 Resource category
5.9.1.2.2.6 Function code
5.9.1.2.2.7 Description
5.9.1.2.2.8 Electric
5.9.1.2.2.9 Standard attribute order
5.9.1.2.2.10 Icon generation with zoom
5.9.1.2.2.11 Advanced
5.9.1.2.3 OK button in Symbol data dialogue
5.9.1.2.4 Cancel button in Symbol data dialogue
5.9.1.2.5 Connect.>>
5.9.1.2.6 Contacts >>
5.9.1.2.7 Packing and sorting of contacts
5.9.1.3 Connection data dialogue
5.9.1.3.1 Running number
5.9.1.3.1.1 Why the connection point sequence matters
5.9.1.3.2 Connection point number
5.9.1.3.3 Attribute check-box
5.9.1.3.4 KNR number
5.9.1.3.5 View all
5.9.1.3.6 Prompt
5.9.1.3.7 Configure button
5.9.1.3.8 OK button
5.9.1.3.9 Cancel button
5.9.1.3.10 Specify position and direction of connection point
5.9.1.4 Contact dialogue
5.9.1.4.1 Contacts for contact mirrors
5.9.1.4.1.1 Orientation V H radio buttons
5.9.1.4.1.2 Function code drop-down list
5.9.1.4.1.3 KNR1 - KNR3
5.9.1.4.1.4 No graphics check-box
5.9.1.4.1.5 Attribute check-box
5.9.1.4.1.6 Zoom button
5.9.1.4.1.7 OK button
5.9.1.4.1.8 Cancel button
5.9.1.4.1.9 Insert function object for contact
5.9.1.4.2 I/O's for PLC mirrors
5.9.1.4.2.1 Appearance V H radio buttons
5.9.1.4.2.2 Function code drop-down list
5.9.1.4.2.3 KNR1 - KNR12
5.9.1.4.2.4 No graphics check-box
5.9.1.4.2.5 Attribute check-box
5.9.1.4.2.6 Zoom button
5.9.1.4.2.7 OK button
5.9.1.4.2.8 Cancel button
5.9.1.4.2.9 Insert function object for I/O
5.9.1.4.3 Cable cores for cable mirrors
5.9.1.4.3.1 V H radio buttons
5.9.1.4.3.2 Function code drop-down list
5.9.1.4.3.3 KNR1 - KNR3
5.9.1.4.3.4 Attribute check-box
5.9.1.4.3.5 OK button
5.9.1.4.3.6 Cancel button
5.9.1.4.3.7 Insert function object for cable core
5.9.1.5 Specify insertion point
5.9.1.6 Adjust attribute definitions
5.9.1.6.1 How the attributes should be positioned
5.9.1.7 Save a symbol
5.9.1.8 Delete a symbol
5.9.1.9 Create new symbol from scratch
5.9.1.10 Edit existing symbol
5.9.1.11 Specific details for different symbol types
5.9.1.11.1 Conventional main symbols
5.9.1.11.2 Conventional help symbols
5.9.1.11.2.1 Contacts
5.9.1.11.2.2 Help symbols for multiple contacts
5.9.1.11.2.3 Help symbols that are not contacts
5.9.1.11.2.4 Cabinet layout symbols
5.9.1.11.3 Conventional contact mirror
5.9.1.11.3.1 Detailed example of a vertical contact mirror
5.9.1.11.3.2 The differences for a horizontal contact mirror
5.9.1.11.4 PLC main symbol
5.9.1.11.5 PLC help symbol
5.9.1.11.6 PLC mirror
5.9.1.11.6.1 Horizontal PLC mirror with standard appearance
5.9.1.11.6.2 Vertical PLC mirror with standard graphics
5.9.1.11.7 Terminal main symbol
5.9.1.11.8 Pin/socket main symbol
5.9.1.11.9 Terminal/connector help symbol
5.9.1.11.10 Cable main symbol
5.9.1.11.11 Cable help symbol
5.9.1.11.12 Cable mirror
5.9.1.11.13 Potential reference
5.9.1.11.14 Sub-circuit
5.9.1.12 Example
5.9.1.12.1 Creating a symbol from an existing one
5.9.1.12.1.1 Insert a suitable symbol to start with
5.9.1.12.1.2 “Open” the symbol for editing
5.9.1.12.1.3 Graphical adjustments
5.9.1.12.1.4 Symbol name
5.9.1.12.1.5 Symbol type
5.9.1.12.1.6 Component type, Resource category and Function code
5.9.1.12.1.7 Adjustments
5.9.1.12.1.8 New attributes
5.9.1.12.1.9 Saving the symbol
5.9.1.12.1.10 Refresh symbol view
5.9.1.12.2 Creating a new symbol from scratch
5.9.1.12.2.1 Symbol name
5.9.1.12.2.1 Draw the symbol
5.9.1.12.2.2 Symbol type
5.9.1.12.2.3 Component type letter code and Resource category
5.9.1.12.2.4 Attributes
5.9.1.12.2.5 Connection points
5.9.1.12.2.6 Insertion point
5.9.1.12.2.7 Minor adjustments
5.9.1.12.2.8 Saving
5.9.1.12.2.9 Refresh the Symbol view
5.9.1.13 Technical details
5.9.1.13.1 Symbol graphics
5.9.1.13.2 Standard attributes
5.9.1.13.3 Symbol database content
5.9.1.13.4 Standard function codes
5.9.1.13.4.1 Function codes for contacts
5.9.1.13.4.2 Function codes for PLC in- and outputs
5.9.1.13.4.3 Function codes for other purposes
5.9.2 Attribute adjustment tool
5.9.3 Copy from other sheet
5.9.3.1 Background
5.9.3.1.1 The traditional way of copying objects from other sheets
5.9.3.1.2 Use the "Copy from other sheet" feature instead
5.9.3.2 Step by step procedure
5.9.4 Attribute increase and decrease text height feature
5.9.4.1 Where to find the commands
5.9.4.2 What the commands do
5.9.4.3 Details
5.9.5 The Sheet Shift Feature
5.9.5.1 Accessing sheet shift commands
5.9.5.2 CAELCHGDXF
5.9.5.3 Previous/Save
5.9.5.4 Next/Save
5.9.5.5 Any sheet...
5.9.5.5.1 Dialogue overview
5.9.5.5.2 File list
5.9.5.5.2.1 Displaying the file list or not
5.9.5.5.2.2 Handling of the file list
5.9.5.5.3 Single or multiple sheet preview
5.9.5.5.4 Navigating between available sheets
5.9.5.5.5 Save current sheet before sheet shift
5.9.5.5.6 Ok
5.9.5.5.7 Cancel
5.9.5.5.8 Additional preview options
5.9.5.5.8.1 Left mouse-button pan
5.9.5.5.8.2 Mouse-wheel zoom
5.9.5.5.8.3 Right-click menu
5.9.5.5.8.3 Zoom In
5.9.5.5.8.3 Zoom Out
5.9.5.5.8.3 Zoom Extents
5.9.5.5.8.3 Print
5.9.5.6 Back
5.9.5.7 Forward
5.9.5.8 Previous/no save
5.9.5.9 Next/no save
5.9.6 QuickPDF
5.9.6.1 How to start QuickPDF
5.9.6.2 Main dialogue
5.9.6.2.1 Generate PDF file tab
5.9.6.2.1.1 Complete QuickPDF setting
5.9.6.2.1.1 How to use Complete QuickPDF settings
5.9.6.2.1.1 Activate an existing Complete QuickPDF setting
5.9.6.2.1.1 Create a new Complete QuickPDF setting
5.9.6.2.1.1 Adjust an existing Complete QuickPDF settings
5.9.6.2.1.1 Delete a Complete QuickPDF setting
5.9.6.2.1.1 Copy a Complete QuickPDF setting
5.9.6.2.1.1 Rename a Complete QuickPDF setting
5.9.6.2.1.1 The name field
5.9.6.2.1.1 The Save button
5.9.6.2.1.1 The Save as button
5.9.6.2.1.1 The Delete button
5.9.6.2.1.2 File name
5.9.6.2.1.3 Content of PDF file
5.9.6.2.1.3 Directory options
5.9.6.2.1.3 File selection
5.9.6.2.1.3 Manual selection
5.9.6.2.1.4 Directory to place generated PDF file in
5.9.6.2.1.5 Create hyperlinks for cross-references
5.9.6.2.1.6 Open PDF file after generation
5.9.6.2.1.7 Create PDF
5.9.6.2.1.8 Cancel
5.9.6.2.2 Settings tab
5.9.6.2.2.1 Layer setting
5.9.6.2.2.2 Paper size
5.9.6.2.2.3 Reproduced area
5.9.6.2.2.4 Offset (origin for reproduced area)
5.9.6.2.2.4 X
5.9.6.2.2.4 Y
5.9.6.2.2.4 Center
5.9.6.2.2.5 Plot style table (pen assignments)
5.9.6.2.2.5 Font name
5.9.6.2.2.6 Orientation
5.9.6.2.2.6 Upside-down
5.9.6.2.2.7 Scale
5.9.6.2.2.7 Mm
5.9.6.2.2.7 Units
5.9.6.2.2.7 Fit current format
5.9.6.2.3 Extended layer setting tab
5.9.6.2.3.1 Creating a new extended layer setting, example
5.9.6.2.3.2 Using an existing extended layer setting
5.9.6.2.3.3 Deleting an existing extended layer setting
5.9.6.2.4 Insert logotype tab
5.9.6.2.4.1 Creating a new Insert logotype setting, example
5.9.6.2.4.2 Using an existing Insert logotype setting
5.9.6.2.4.3 Deleting an existing Insert logotype setting
5.9.6.2.5 Extended filename tab
5.9.6.2.5.1 Statements
5.9.6.2.5.1 Presentation of statements
5.9.6.2.5.1 Interpretation of statements
5.9.6.2.5.1 Add a statement
5.9.6.2.5.1 Remove a statement
5.9.6.2.5.1 Rearrange statements
5.9.6.2.5.1 Change a statement
5.9.6.2.5.2 Creating a new extended filename setting
5.9.6.2.5.3 Using an existing extended filename setting
5.9.6.2.5.4 Deleting an existing extended filename setting
5.9.6.2.5.5 Saving an extended filename setting
5.9.6.2.6 Extended filter tab
5.9.6.2.6.1 Filter conditions
5.9.6.2.6.1 Presentation of conditions
5.9.6.2.6.1 Interpretation of conditions
5.9.6.2.6.1 Add a condition
5.9.6.2.6.1 Remove a condition
5.9.6.2.6.1 Change a condition
5.9.6.2.6.2 Filter expressions
5.9.6.2.6.2 AND
5.9.6.2.6.2 OR
5.9.6.2.6.2 NOT
5.9.6.2.6.2 Parenthesis
5.9.6.2.6.2 Validate a filter expression
5.9.6.2.6.3 Creating a new extended filter setting
5.9.6.2.6.4 Using an existing extended filter setting
5.9.6.2.6.5 Deleting an existing extended filter setting
5.9.6.2.6.6 Saving an extended filter setting
5.9.6.2.7 Hyperlinks tab
5.9.6.2.7.1 Hyperlinks section
5.9.6.2.7.1 Surrounding rectangle
5.9.6.2.7.1 Mark hyperlinks with surrounding coloured rectangle
5.9.6.2.7.1 RGB for rectangle
5.9.6.2.7.1 Deviating colour
5.9.6.2.7.1 Mark hyperlinks with deviating colour
5.9.6.2.7.1 RGB for deviating colour
5.9.6.2.7.2 Bookmarks section
5.9.7 Terminal Direction Editor
5.9.7.1 Menu locations
5.9.7.2 Use of the command
5.9.8 Attribute Retrieval Feature
5.9.9 Boundary Box Edit
5.9.9.1 Global editing of Boundary Boxes
5.9.9.2 Procedure
5.9.9.2.1 Example
5.9.10 Automatic Wire-number Adjustment Feature
5.9.10.1 Adjust wire-number positions
5.9.10.2 Reset wire-number positions
5.9.11 Symbol Insert Tool
5.9.11.1 Display of the tool
5.9.11.1.1 Turn on and off
5.9.11.1.2 Place conveniently
5.9.11.2 Buttons, controls and views
5.9.11.2.1 Resource category view
5.9.11.2.1.1 a-f: Symbol macros
5.9.11.2.1.1 a Terminals
5.9.11.2.1.1 Connector
5.9.11.2.1.1 General description of connectors
5.9.11.2.1.1 Connector-pin
5.9.11.2.1.1 Connector-socket
5.9.11.2.1.1 Horizontal terminal numbering
5.9.11.2.1.1 Multi terminal
5.9.11.2.1.1 Terminal dia 1.25
5.9.11.2.1.1 Terminal dia 2.5
5.9.11.2.1.1 Terminal strip
5.9.11.2.1.1 b Cables
5.9.11.2.1.1 Cable
5.9.11.2.1.1 Potential reference
5.9.11.2.1.1 Property symbol
5.9.11.2.1.1 Shield
5.9.11.2.1.1 Wire-number
5.9.11.2.1.1 c Miscellaneous
5.9.11.2.1.1 Additional help symbol
5.9.11.2.1.1 Additional main symbol
5.9.11.2.1.1 Boundary box
5.9.11.2.1.1 External Connection Diagram (KABGRAF III)
5.9.11.2.1.1 Generic symbol
5.9.11.2.1.1 Hyperdynamic Contact Mirror...
5.9.11.2.1.1 Insert using catalogue...
5.9.11.2.1.1 Repeat previous insert
5.9.11.2.1.1 d Earth
5.9.11.2.1.1 e Pilot switch actuators
5.9.11.2.1.1 f Cabinet layout
5.9.11.2.1.2 0-7: Help symbols and contact mirrors
5.9.11.2.1.2 0 Detached contact mirrors
5.9.11.2.1.2 1 Attached contact mirrors
5.9.11.2.1.2 2 Make help contacts
5.9.11.2.1.2 3 Break help contacts
5.9.11.2.1.2 4 Change-over help contacts
5.9.11.2.1.2 5 Main make contacts
5.9.11.2.1.2 6 Main break contacts
5.9.11.2.1.2 7 Telemecanique compatible contact mirrors
5.9.11.2.1.3 8: PLC
5.9.11.2.1.3 I/O symbols
5.9.11.2.1.3 Vertical and horizontal symbol versions
5.9.11.2.1.3 Connection points on the upper or the lower side
5.9.11.2.1.3 Connection points on the left or the right side
5.9.11.2.1.3 Digital I/O's with 1 - 4 connection points per I/O
5.9.11.2.1.3 Analogue I/O's with 1 - 12 connection points per I/O
5.9.11.2.1.3 Table of all supported combinations
5.9.11.2.1.3 PLC mirrors
5.9.11.2.1.3 Programmable I/O’s
5.9.11.2.1.3 PLC main symbols
5.9.11.2.1.3 Location in the Symbol Insert Tool
5.9.11.2.1.3 Look
5.9.11.2.1.3 Use and definition of generic connection points
5.9.11.2.1.3 How to insert PLC symbols
5.9.11.2.1.3 cadett ELSA standard PLC functionality
5.9.11.2.1.4 9: Free
5.9.11.2.1.5 A-Z: Main symbols
5.9.11.2.2 Symbol and resource view
5.9.11.2.3 Buttons and controls
5.9.11.2.3.1 Catalogue selection
5.9.11.2.3.2 Refresh symbol view
5.9.11.2.3.3 Symbol mode and Catalogue mode
5.9.11.2.3.4 Horizontal and vertical symbols
5.9.11.2.3.5 Standard and user defined symbols
5.9.11.2.3.6 Background colour in Symbol Insert Tool
5.9.11.2.3.7 Toggle display of removed symbols
5.9.11.2.3.8 Search for symbols
5.9.11.2.3.8 Search for symbols dialogue
5.9.11.2.3.8 List of hits
5.9.11.2.3.8 Preview of symbol
5.9.11.2.3.8 Actions when you have found the desired symbol
5.9.11.2.3.9 AUTO-HIDE mode activation
5.9.11.2.3.9 Prepare for AUTO-HIDE mode
5.9.11.2.3.9 Use AUTO-HIDE mode
5.9.11.2.3.9 Symbol insert toolbar
5.9.11.2.3.10 Import legacy TS sub-circuits
5.9.11.2.3.11 Symbol thumbnail size
5.9.11.2.3.12 Symbol Insert or External connection diagram mode
5.9.11.3 Context menu
5.9.11.3.1 Display enlarged view of symbol
5.9.11.3.2 Remove from the Symbol Insert Tool
5.9.11.3.3 Add to the Symbol Insert Tool
5.9.11.3.4 Raw insert
5.9.11.4 How to insert symbols with the tool
5.9.11.5 Hiding individual symbols in the Symbol Insert Tool
5.9.12 External Connection Diagrams
5.9.12.1 KABGRAF II - terminal oriented External Connection Diagrams
5.9.12.1.1 Handling
5.9.12.1.2 Manipulation of cable data before generation
5.9.12.1.3 Configuration
5.9.12.1.3.1 General management
5.9.12.1.3.1 Available configurations at delivery
5.9.12.1.3.1 Create a new configuration
5.9.12.1.3.1 Changing an existing configuration
5.9.12.1.3.1 Deleting a configuration
5.9.12.1.3.2 Settings
5.9.12.1.3.3 Detailed technical information
5.9.12.1.3.3 Configuration storage
5.9.12.1.3.3 Standard symbols
5.9.12.2 KABGRAF III - cable oriented External Connection Daigrams
5.9.13 Hyper Dynamic Contact Mirrors
5.9.13.1 Create a Hyper Dynamic Contact Mirror
5.9.13.2 Edit a Hyper Dynamic Contact Mirror
5.9.13.3 Contact Switching
5.9.13.4 Technical details
5.9.13.4.1 How it works
5.9.13.4.2 The contacts
5.9.14 Extended Attribute Editing
5.9.15 OnLine Protocol
5.9.16 Error finding tools for connections
5.9.16.1 Connection View
5.9.16.2 Connected symbols
5.9.16.3 Combining Connection view and Connected symbols
5.9.17 Fix incorrect lines
5.9.18 Cross-referenced objects
5.9.19 Layer...
5.9.20 cadett ELSA Layer handling...
5.9.20.1 Layer selection
5.9.20.2 Pen width
5.9.20.3 Toggle layer On/Off
5.9.21 OnLine Settings...
5.9.21.1 OnLine
5.9.21.1.1 On and Off
5.9.21.1.2 Regenerate
5.9.21.1.3 Pack
5.9.21.2 Update current sheet
5.9.21.3 Update other sheets
5.9.22 Settings for automatic item designation generation…
5.9.23 Owner id...
5.9.23.1 Technical information regarding Owner id
5.9.24 Terminal Tool
5.9.25 Consistency check
5.9.25.1 Cables
5.9.25.1.1 Extended check (slower)
5.9.25.1.2 Context menu in Cable tab
5.9.25.1.2.1 Show in drawing sheet
5.9.25.1.2.2 Update cable core item designation
5.9.25.1.3 The columns of the list
5.9.25.2 Devices
5.9.25.2.1 Group by drawing sheet
5.9.25.2.2 Group by item designation
5.9.25.2.3 Show hidden messages
5.9.25.2.4 Error messages only
5.9.25.2.5 The columns of the list
5.9.25.3 Collect
5.9.25.4 Print
5.9.25.5 Export to Excel
5.9.25.6 Oddities
5.9.26 Terminals
5.9.26.1 General description of terminals in cadett ELSA
5.9.26.1.1 Item designations for terminals
5.9.26.1.2 Inheritance of terminal group name and index
5.9.26.1.3 Internal and external terminal sides
5.9.26.1.4 Terminal numbering in general terms
5.9.26.2 Terminal macros
5.9.26.2.1 Placing terminals
5.9.26.2.1.1 Multiple terminals
5.9.26.2.1.2 Single terminals
5.9.26.2.2 Detailed terminal symbol dialogue
5.9.26.2.2.1 Symbol
5.9.26.2.2.1 Internal/External side
5.9.26.2.2.1 Appearance
5.9.26.2.2.1 Symbol selection
5.9.26.2.2.1 Attribute configuration
5.9.26.2.2.1 Location of terminal group name
5.9.26.2.2.1 Terminal group name in first terminal
5.9.26.2.2.1 Location of terminal numbers
5.9.26.2.2.1 Terminal group name after first terminal
5.9.26.2.2.1 Terminal text size
5.9.26.2.2.1 OK
5.9.26.2.2.1 Cancel
5.9.26.2.2.1 Insertion point
5.9.26.2.2.2 Standard attributes
5.9.26.2.2.2 Index
5.9.26.2.2.2 Plant
5.9.26.2.2.2 Location
5.9.26.2.2.2 Terminal group name
5.9.26.2.2.2 Terminal and terminal number selection dialogue
5.9.26.2.2.2 Terminal group
5.9.26.2.2.2 List of terminal groups
5.9.26.2.2.2 Show free algo assignments
5.9.26.2.2.2 Terminal number, cross-reference and source
5.9.26.2.2.2 Selected
5.9.26.2.2.2 OK
5.9.26.2.2.2 Cancel
5.9.26.2.2.2 Terminal number
5.9.26.2.2.2 Step
5.9.26.2.2.2 Next
5.9.26.2.2.2 Complete designation
5.9.26.2.2.2 Edit all attributes
5.9.26.2.2.2 Edit sequence
5.9.26.2.2.3 Settings
5.9.26.2.2.3 Fast insert
5.9.26.2.2.3 Number by algorithm
5.9.26.2.2.3 Check designation
5.9.26.2.2.3 Algorithm assignments...
5.9.26.2.2.3 Algorithm assignments editor
5.9.26.2.2.3 New Assignment
5.9.26.2.2.3 Delete
5.9.26.2.2.3 Preview / Close
5.9.26.2.2.3 Ok
5.9.26.2.2.3 Cancel
5.9.26.2.2.3 Reset
5.9.26.2.2.3 Default values
5.9.26.2.2.4 OK
5.9.26.2.2.5 Cancel
5.9.26.2.3 Simplified terminal symbol dialogue
5.9.26.2.3.1 Symbol section
5.9.26.2.3.2 Standard attributes section
5.9.26.2.3.3 Detailed dialogue... button
5.9.26.2.3.4 OK button
5.9.26.2.3.5 Cancel button
5.9.26.2.4 Terminal numbering when inserting terminals
5.9.26.2.4.1 Manual terminal numbering
5.9.26.2.4.2 Automatic terminal numbering
5.9.26.2.4.2 Numbering algorithm assignment
5.9.26.2.4.2 Syntax for terminal group names
5.9.26.2.4.2 Default numbering algorithm
5.9.26.2.4.2 Managing the algorithm assignments
5.9.26.2.4.2 Through the project parameters
5.9.26.2.4.2 Directly from the drawing environment
5.9.26.2.4.2 Inserting terminals using automatic terminal numbering
5.9.26.2.4.2 Example of automatic terminal numbering
5.9.26.2.4.2 Renumber existing terminals
5.9.26.3 Editing terminals
5.9.26.4 Terminals in vertical or horizontal diagrams
5.9.26.4.1 Horizontal terminal numbering
5.9.26.4.2 Mixing vertical and horizontal way of drawing
5.9.26.5 Global terminal configurations
5.9.27 Numbering of texts and attributes
5.9.27.1 Where to find Numbering of texts and attributes
5.9.27.2 How Numbering of texts and attributes work
5.9.28 Block update commands
5.9.28.1 General description
5.9.28.2 Where to find the commands in the menus
5.9.28.3 Descriptions of individual commands
5.9.28.3.1 UPDATESINGLEBLOCK
5.9.28.3.2 CAELUPDATESINGLEBLKNOREPAIR
5.9.28.3.3 CAELCFGUPDATEBLOCK
5.9.28.3.4 UPDATEBLOCK
5.9.28.3.5 CAELCFGUPDATEBLOCKNLR
5.9.28.3.6 UPDATEBLOCKNLR
5.9.28.3.7 CAELUPDATEINSERTS
5.9.28.3.8 CAELCFGUPDATEINSERTS
5.9.28.3.9 CAELUPDATESYMBOLS
5.9.28.4 Configurations in ACAD.INI
5.9.29 Cables
5.9.29.1 General orientation about cables
5.9.29.2 The Cable macro
5.9.29.2.1 Inserting a cable symbol
5.9.29.3 Item designations for cables
5.9.29.4 Changes in cable symbols
5.9.29.4.1 Mirroring of item designations
5.9.29.4.2 The Copy/Edit Edit command
5.9.29.4.3 The Replace text command
5.9.29.4.4 Using Dynamic OnLine
5.9.29.5 Finding and correcting errors in cables
5.9.29.6 Possible problems with cables
5.9.30 Extended auto-insert...
6 Dynamic OnLine I
6.1 Common principles
6.2 Activating or starting Dynamic OnLine I
6.2.1 Ribbon menu in the Drawing Environment
6.2.2 Pull-down menu in the Drawing Environment
6.2.3 Module icon
6.3 The lists
6.3.1 Collecting the lists
6.3.1.1 Automatic collect
6.3.1.2 Manual collection
6.3.1.3 Filter
6.3.1.3.1 Type of filter
6.3.1.3.2 Turn filtering off
6.3.1.3.3 Comparison text
6.3.1.3.3.1 Browse button
6.3.1.3.3.2 Wild-cards
6.3.1.3.4 The filter has its effect
6.3.2 Symbol list
6.3.2.1 Filter
6.3.2.2 Fixed symbol data
6.3.2.3 Editing of general attributes
6.3.2.3.1 Index, electrical data and remark
6.3.2.3.2 Connection number
6.3.2.3.3 Cable core numbers and wire-number binding
6.3.2.3.4 Data
6.3.2.3.5 Other attributes
6.3.2.4 Editing item designations
6.3.2.5 Plant
6.3.2.6 Location
6.3.2.7 Circuit
6.3.2.8 Item designation (all)
6.3.2.9 Item designation (devices)
6.3.2.10 Item designation (PLC)
6.3.2.11 Item designation (terminals/connectors)
6.3.2.12 Potential reference name
6.3.2.13 Item designation (cables)
6.3.2.14 Drawing sheet
6.3.2.15 Boundary boxes
6.3.3 Device list
6.3.3.1 General
6.3.3.2 Presentation
6.3.3.2.1 Columns and sorting order
6.3.3.2.2 Single resources
6.3.3.2.3 Resource groups
6.3.3.2.4 Resource groups containing resource groups
6.3.3.2.5 Module
6.3.3.2.6 Terminal groups
6.3.3.2.7 Connectors
6.3.3.2.8 Composite indexes
6.3.3.2.9 Help symbols with index
6.3.3.3 Editing
6.3.3.3.1 Change index of a device
6.3.3.3.2 Edit item designation/remark/index
6.3.3.3.3 Switch to the symbol editor
6.3.3.3.4 Swap
6.3.3.3.5 View device
6.3.4 Wire list
6.3.4.1 Detailed description of wire-numbering in cadett ELSA
6.3.4.1.1 General about wire-numbering
6.3.4.1.2 Manual wire-numbering
6.3.4.1.2.1 Requirements for wire-numbering
6.3.4.1.2.2 Summary manual wire-numbering
6.3.4.1.3 Automatic wire-numbering
6.3.4.1.4 Cabinet layout controlled automatic wire-numbering
6.3.4.1.4.1 Location boxes
6.3.4.2 Automatic wire-numbering
6.3.4.2.1 Presentation of the wire list
6.3.4.2.1.1 Sequence
6.3.4.2.1.2 Columns
6.3.4.2.2 Background
6.3.4.2.3 The Number button
6.3.4.2.4 The Insert button
6.3.4.2.5 Renumbering wires
6.3.4.2.5.1 Keeping the wiring sequence
6.3.4.2.5.2 Complete renumbering keeping existing wire-number symbols
6.3.4.2.5.3 Complete renumbering with new wire-number symbols
6.3.4.3 Rearrange the wires of a chain
6.3.4.4 Edit connection properties
6.3.4.4.1 Changing wire-number
6.3.4.4.2 Changing dimension
6.3.4.4.3 Changing node name and signal name
6.3.4.4.4 Changing colour
6.3.4.4.4.1 Editing the list of selectable colours
6.3.4.4.5 Save or restore changed properties
6.3.4.4.6 Transferring changed properties to the circuit diagram
6.3.4.5 Handling of errors in the wire list
6.3.4.5.1 Presentation of incorrect wire-numbering
6.3.4.5.2 Repair chain
6.3.4.5.3 Direct manipulation in the list
6.3.4.5.4 Split connection
6.3.4.6 Split connection
6.3.4.7 View device
6.3.4.8 Settings
6.3.4.8.1 Wire-numbering when reading data
6.3.4.8.2 Ignore control of terminal number
6.3.4.8.3 Overwrite existing wire-numbers
6.3.5 Cable list
6.3.5.1 Calculation of a cable core list
6.3.5.1.1 Which connections are interpreted as cable cores?
6.3.5.1.1.1 Point-to-point connections
6.3.5.1.1.2 More complex nodes
6.3.5.1.1.2 Wire-number binding
6.3.5.1.1.2 Forced connections
6.3.5.1.2 Which cable cores are included in a cable?
6.3.5.1.3 Which direction does a cable core have?
6.3.5.2 Presentation
6.3.5.2.1 Order
6.3.5.2.2 Columns
6.3.5.3 Change item designation for cable
6.3.5.4 Change core number
6.3.5.5 Change index of a cable
6.3.5.6 View Connection
6.3.6 Terminal list
6.3.6.1 General orientation and background
6.3.6.1.1 Internal and external terminal side
6.3.6.1.2 Starting point for generation of terminal list
6.3.6.1.3 Spare terminals
6.3.6.1.4 Links, bridges, and jumpers
6.3.6.1.4.1 Internal and external links
6.3.6.1.4.2 Short and long links respectively
6.3.6.2 Presentation of the terminal list
6.3.6.2.1 The rows of the terminal list
6.3.6.2.2 The order between the rows in the terminal list
6.3.6.2.3 The columns of the terminal list
6.3.6.3 Editing the terminal list
6.3.6.3.1 Complete automatic terminal numbering
6.3.6.3.1.1 Overwrite
6.3.6.3.1.2 Do not overwrite
6.3.6.3.2 Re-numbering selected terminals
6.3.6.3.2.1 Direct editing
6.3.6.3.2.2 According to start and step values
6.3.6.3.2.3 According to selected numbering algorithm
6.3.6.3.2.4 According to project parameters
6.3.6.3.2.5 Unnumbered terminals
6.3.6.3.2.6 Remove terminal number
6.3.6.3.2.7 Failed numbering
6.3.6.4 View feature
6.3.6.5 Special settings
6.3.6.5.1 Always load wire list
6.3.6.5.2 Include connectors
6.3.6.5.3 Fill out levels with no links
6.3.6.5.4 Filter out link connections
6.3.6.5.5 Present short links
6.4 Generation of TARGET databases
6.4.1 Allow manual creation of TARGET database files
6.4.2 Perform generation
6.4.2.1 Create *A.DBF
6.4.2.2 Create two-way *A.DBF
6.4.2.3 Create *B.DBF
6.4.2.4 Create extended *B.DBF
6.4.2.5 Create *E.DBF
6.4.2.6 Create *G.DBF
6.4.2.7 Create *I.DBF
6.4.2.8 Create *L.DBF
6.4.2.9 Create *X.DBF
6.4.2.10 Create *Y.DBF
6.4.2.11 Create *0.DBF
6.4.2.12 Create *2.DBF
6.4.2.13 Create TARGET database files
6.5 General settings
6.5.1 Device
6.5.1.1 No terminals
6.5.1.2 No cables
6.5.1.3 Terminals: Update index only in parent terminals
6.5.2 Help symbols with index (Device list/Cabinet layout)
6.5.3 Actions when changing index
6.5.3.1 Update electrical data in help symbols
6.5.3.2 Update electrical data in the main symbol
6.5.4 Terminal numbering
6.5.4.1 Ignore terminal numbers
6.5.5 Reset RAM buffers
6.5.6 Advanced
7 Dynamic OnLine II
7.1 Symbol list
7.2 Filter
7.2.1 The PDS filter
7.2.2 Type of item designation
7.2.3 Management of large amounts of data
7.2.3.1 Get catalogue data
7.2.3.2 Get user attributes
7.2.3.3 Load count – <PAGE_DOWN> – The A button
7.3 Automatic PDS (“kick-back” OnLine)
7.4 Collect
7.5 The Electrical data section
7.6 Resource groups
7.7 Separator character independent item designations
7.8 Main list editing
7.9 The first icon column
8 Report Generator
8.1 General orientation
8.1.1 The report definition
8.1.2 How the Report Generator creates the report
8.1.3 The form
8.1.4 Report variables
8.2 Generating reports in short
8.2.1 Prerequisites
8.2.2 The Report Definitions tab
8.2.3 Simplified start of report generation
8.2.4 Starting report generation from the Settings 1 tab
8.2.4.1 Create report dialogue box
8.2.4.2 Reports in DXF format
8.2.4.3 Reports in FMT format
8.2.5 Starting report generation from the Settings 2 tab
8.3 Report definitions in detail
8.3.1 The Report definitions tab
8.3.1.1 Detailed description of the list of the Report definitions list
8.3.1.2 Open a report definition
8.3.1.3 Filters
8.3.1.4 Collect
8.3.1.5 Other operations on report definitions
8.3.2 The Settings 1 tab
8.3.2.1 Name and composition
8.3.2.1.1 Name
8.3.2.1.2 Description
8.3.2.1.3 TARGET database
8.3.2.1.3.1 Table of available TARGET databases
8.3.2.1.4 Select db file
8.3.2.1.5 SOURE dir./TARGET dir.
8.3.2.1.6 Type of form
8.3.2.1.7 Form
8.3.2.1.8 ANSI/ASCII
8.3.2.2 Editing of filter and sorting
8.3.2.3 Filter
8.3.2.3.1 Condition
8.3.2.3.2 Report variable
8.3.2.3.3 Operator
8.3.2.3.4 Text to compare with
8.3.2.3.5 Text/Variable
8.3.2.3.6 Filter expression
8.3.2.4 Sorting
8.3.2.4.1 Sorting order
8.3.2.4.2 Page/line break
8.3.2.4.3 Exclusive
8.3.2.5 Report
8.3.2.5.1 Show report dialogue (number of drawing sheets)
8.3.2.5.2 Create report
8.3.3 The Settings 2 tab
8.3.3.1 Report printout
8.3.3.1.1 Print file
8.3.3.1.2 Directory
8.3.3.1.3 Delete old reports of the same type
8.3.3.1.4 Automatically collect drawing sheets
8.3.3.1.5 Adjust filenames according to field content
8.3.3.1.6 Renumber drawing sheets
8.3.3.1.7 Workstation dir.
8.3.3.1.8 SOURCE dir.
8.3.3.1.9 TARGET dir.
8.3.3.1.10 Fixed dir.
8.3.3.1.11 Send report to printer
8.3.3.2 Printer settings
8.3.3.2.1 Typeface
8.3.3.2.2 Character size
8.3.3.2.3 Fit to page
8.3.3.2.4 Configure printer
8.3.3.2.5 Print configuration
8.3.3.3 Forms and variable declaration
8.3.3.3.1 Edit variable declaration
8.3.3.3.1.1 Variable declaration
8.3.3.3.2 Prepare DXF
8.3.3.3.3 Run pre-processing of TARGET databases
8.3.3.3.4 Batch file for preprocessing
8.3.3.3.5 Parameters for preprocessing
8.3.3.3.6 Run batch for post-processing
8.3.3.3.7 Batch file for post-processing
8.3.3.3.8 Parameters for post-processing
8.3.3.3.9 Run for all
8.3.3.4 Report definition
8.3.3.4.1 Main table priority
8.3.3.5 DIN cable and terminal plans
8.3.4 To exit the Settings 1 and 2 tabs
8.4 Creating reports / generating reports
8.5 Creating and changing report definitions
8.5.1 Creating a new report definition
8.5.1.1 Name
8.5.1.2 Description
8.5.1.3 Created by
8.5.1.4 Database file
8.5.1.5 Type of form
8.5.1.6 Form
8.5.2 Changing an existing report definition
8.5.2.1 Local report definitions in network installations
8.5.2.2 Report definitions in local installations
8.5.2.3 Central report definitions in network installations
8.5.3 Copy a report definition
8.5.4 Delete a report definition
8.5.5 Collect and convert report definitions
8.5.5.1 Collect
8.5.5.2 Export and import of report definitions
8.5.5.3 Converting old report definitions
8.6 Forms
8.6.1 DXF forms
8.6.1.1 General description
8.6.1.2 Create a new DXF form
8.6.1.3 Preparing a DXF form
8.6.1.3.1 Settings for DXF preparation
8.6.1.3.1.1 Horizontal forms
8.6.1.3.1.2 Conventional vertical forms
8.6.1.3.1.3 Other forms
8.6.1.3.1.4 The title field
8.6.1.3.2 DXF forms with special needs for preparation
8.6.1.3.2.1 Forms with two tables
8.6.1.3.2.2 Terminal lists with links
8.6.2 FMT forms
8.6.2.1 Conventional FMT forms
8.6.2.2 Endless FMT forms
8.6.2.3 Creating FMT forms
8.6.2.3.1 FMT forms without graphics
8.6.2.3.2 FMT forms with semi-graphics
8.7 Standard report definitions
8.7.1 List of standard report definitions
8.7.1.1 Tables of content
8.7.1.1.1 Table of content SOURCE and TARGET (0X_E_EAB001)
8.7.1.1.2 Table of content SOURCE (0X_E_EAB002)
8.7.1.1.3 Table of content TARGET (0X_E_EAB003)
8.7.1.2 Device lists including ordering lists
8.7.1.2.1 Ordering list (0X_E_EBF001)
8.7.1.2.2 Device list without quantity (0X_E_EPB001)
8.7.1.2.3 Device list summarised by item designation (0X_E_EPB002)
8.7.1.2.4 Device list summarised by location (0X_E_EPB003)
8.7.1.2.5 Device list summarised by plant (0X_E_EPB004)
8.7.1.2.6 Device list summarized by plant and location (0X_E_EPB005)
8.7.1.2.7 Device list with spare terminals (0X_E_EPB006)
8.7.1.3 Connection lists
8.7.1.3.1 Wire list one-way (0X_E_EMA001)
8.7.1.3.2 External wire list by location (two-way) (0X_E_EMA002)
8.7.1.3.3 Terminal list without bridges (0X_E_EMA003)
8.7.1.3.4 Terminal list with bridges (0X_E_EMA004)
8.7.1.3.5 Terminal plan DIN (0X_E_EMA005)
8.7.1.3.6 Cable list (one-way) (0X_E_EMB001)
8.7.1.3.7 Cable list by location (two-way) (0X_E_EMB002)
8.7.1.3.8 Cable core list (one-way) (0X_E_EMB003)
8.7.1.3.9 Cable core list by location (two-way) (0X_E_EMB004)
8.7.1.4 Lists of changes
8.7.1.4.1 List of changed devices (0X_E_EBH001)
8.7.1.4.2 List of changed wires (0X_E_EBH002)
8.7.1.4.3 List of changed cable cores (0X_E_EBH003)
8.8 Report variables
8.8.1 Edit report variable declarations
8.8.1.1 Functions of the NVARDEC editor
8.8.2 Variable declarations in detail
8.8.3 List of all report variables
8.8.3.1 Current variables
8.8.3.1.1 Swedish
8.8.3.1.1.1 System variables for sheet number and more
8.8.3.1.1.2 Standard variables
8.8.3.1.1.3 Other standard variables
8.8.3.1.1.4 Simple device lists (*E.DBF)
8.8.3.1.1.5 Extended device lists (*2.DBF)
8.8.3.1.1.6 Ordering lists (*L.DBF)
8.8.3.1.1.7 Catalogue data in device and ordering lists
8.8.3.1.1.8 Other Catalogue data
8.8.3.1.1.9 Numbering algorithm assignments (*J.DBF)
8.8.3.1.1.10 DIN Cable/Terminal plans (*X.DBF)
8.8.3.1.1.11 Other variables for wire and cable lists
8.8.3.1.1.12 Special variables for connection data
8.8.3.1.1.13 Project parameters (PROJECTS.DBF)
8.8.3.1.1.14 Revision lists (lists of changes)
8.8.3.1.1.15 Tables of contents (*Z.DBF och *Y.DBF)
8.8.3.1.1.16 Lists of symbols
8.8.3.1.2 German
8.8.3.1.2.1 System variables for sheet numbers and more
8.8.3.1.2.2 Standard variables
8.8.3.1.2.3 Simple device lists (*E.DBF)
8.8.3.1.2.4 Ordering lists (*L.DBF)
8.8.3.1.2.5 Catalogue data in device and ordering lists
8.8.3.1.2.6 Other Catalogue data
8.8.3.1.2.7 Numbering algorithm assignments (*J.DBF)
8.8.3.1.2.8 DIN cable and terminal plans (*X.DBF)
8.8.3.1.2.9 Basic TARGET database (*G.DBF)
8.8.3.1.2.10 Project parameters (PROJECTS.DBF)
8.8.3.1.2.11 Other project parameters, part 1
8.8.3.1.2.12 Other project parameters, part 2
8.8.3.1.2.13 Tables of contents, part 1
8.8.3.1.2.14 Tables of contents, part 2
8.8.3.1.2.15 Tables of contents, part 3
8.8.3.1.2.16 Symbol lists
8.8.3.2 Obsolete report variables
8.8.3.2.1 Swedish
8.8.3.2.1.1 PLC information (*D.DBF)
8.8.3.2.1.2 PLC information (*1.DBF)
8.8.3.2.1.3 Error list (*F.DBF)
8.8.3.2.1.4 Connection point numbers in help symbols (*H.DBF)
8.8.3.2.1.5 Cross-references in contact mirrors (*K.DBF)
8.8.3.2.1.6 Potential references (*Q.DBF)
8.8.3.2.1.7 Project bound drawing types (*R.DBF)
8.8.3.2.1.8 Post processing status (*Y.DBF)
8.8.3.2.1.9 The old Report Generator (before cadett ELSA 5.0)
8.8.3.2.1.10 Floppy disc (diskette) labels (before cadett ELSA 6.0)
8.8.3.2.1.11 Lexicon (before cadett ELSA 6.0)
8.8.3.2.1.12 Database generator
8.8.3.2.2 German
8.8.3.2.2.1 PLC information (*D.DBF)
8.8.3.2.2.2 Error list (*F.DBF)
8.8.3.2.2.3 Connection point numbers in help symbols (*H.DBF)
8.8.3.2.2.4 Cross-references in contact mirrors (*K.DBF)
8.8.3.2.2.5 Potential references (*Q.DBF)
8.8.3.2.2.6 Project bound drawing types (*R.DBF)
8.8.3.2.2.7 Post processing status (*Y.DBF)
8.8.3.2.2.8 Variables for customisations
8.8.3.2.2.9 Lists of report definitions (AUTOLST.DBF)
8.8.3.2.2.10 The old Report Generator (before cadett ELSA 5.0)
8.8.3.2.2.11 Lexicon (before cadett ELSA 6.0)
8.8.3.2.2.12 Catalogue lists using special “utility”
8.9 User defined attributes
8.9.1 Symbols with user defined attributes
8.9.2 Transfer data from user defined attributes to *G.DBF
8.9.3 Report variables for user defined attributes
8.9.4 Report forms with variables for user defined attributes
8.10 Storage and presentation of report definitions
8.11 Extended features
8.11.1 Super Project Report Generation
8.11.1.1 Back-ground and scope
8.11.1.1.1 What is a super project?
8.11.1.1.2 Which kinds of reports can be generated?
8.11.1.2 Basic principles
8.11.1.2.1 Device lists
8.11.1.2.2 Wire and cable lists
8.11.1.2.3 Tables of contents
8.11.1.3 Practical step by step guide
8.11.1.3.1 Select TARGET databases
8.11.1.3.2 Sub-projects of current super project
8.11.1.3.3 Selection for regeneration in sub-projects
8.11.1.3.3.1 OnLine, super project and selected TARGET db
8.11.1.3.3.2 All selected TARGET databases
8.11.1.3.3.3 Missing or older than DXF files
8.11.1.3.3.4 Select by sub-project
8.11.1.3.4 Start and close
8.11.1.3.5 Generating super project reports
8.11.1.3.6 Viewing created reports
8.11.2 Immediate Report Translation
8.11.2.1 Basic principle
8.11.2.2 Activation and lexicon selection
8.11.2.3 Language numbers
8.11.2.4 Forms for immediate translation
8.11.2.5 Generation
8.11.2.6 Limitations
8.11.3 Excel Report Generation
8.11.3.1 Report definition details
8.11.3.1.1 The Report Definition (REP file)
8.11.3.1.2 The Excel form (XLSX file)
8.11.3.1.3 The FMT form (FMT file)
8.11.3.2 Microsoft Excel Sample Report Definitions
8.11.3.2.1 Device list with quantity (0E_E_DEV2_QUANTITY)
8.11.3.2.2 Internal wire list (0E_E_CON1_I)
8.11.3.2.3 Cable core list (0E_E_CON2_CABLECORE)
8.11.3.2.4 Device list of changes (0E_E_DEV2_QUANTITY_REV)
8.11.3.2.5 Internal wire list of changes (0E_E_CON1_I_REV)
8.11.3.2.6 Cable core list of changes (0E_E_CON2_CABLECORE_REV)
8.11.3.3 Extended Excel report features
8.11.3.3.1 Improved Excel form settings handling
8.11.3.3.2 Full shape support
8.11.3.3.3 Post batch
8.11.3.3.4 Post macro
8.11.3.4 Compatibility with older cadett ELSA versions
8.11.3.5 Supported versions of Microsoft Excel
8.11.4 Spare terminal support for device lists
8.11.4.1 Back-ground
8.11.4.2 Extended definition of spare terminals
8.11.4.3 Details of the feature
8.11.4.3.1 Supported device lists
8.11.4.3.2 Not supported device lists
8.11.4.3.3 Compatibility
8.11.4.3.4 Pre-processing
8.11.4.3.5 Filter settings
8.11.4.4 Sample report definitions
8.11.5 Cable lists with multiple devices in each end
8.11.6 DIN cable and terminal plans
8.11.6.1 DXF forms for DIN cable and terminal plans
8.11.6.2 TARGET database for DIN cable and terminal plans
8.11.6.3 Sorting of DIN cable and terminal plans
8.11.6.4 Settings for DIN cable and terminal plans
8.11.6.4.1 Maximum number of terminals per sheet
8.11.6.4.2 Maximum number of cables (internal)
8.11.6.4.3 Maximum number of cables (external)
8.11.6.5 Compatibility for DIN cable and terminal plans
8.11.7 Catalogue data in connection lists
8.11.7.1 CATFIELDSINGDB.INI configuration file
8.11.7.2 Report variables for Catalogue data in connection lists
8.11.7.3 Available standard Catalogue fields
9 Script Generator
9.1 Script sequences
9.1.1 The three main parts of script sequences
9.1.2 The language of script sequences
9.1.3 Special script sequence commands
9.1.4 Structure and function of script sequences
9.1.4.1 The header
9.1.4.2 The main part
9.1.4.3 The footer
9.1.4.4 The resulting framework of typical script sequences
9.2 How the Script Generator is used
9.3 Trouble shooting
9.4 Special features
9.4.1 Sub-routines
9.4.2 More than one project
9.4.2.1 The Show files for project feature
9.4.3 Both SOURCE and TARGET directories at once
9.4.4 More than one script sequence
9.4.5 Printing script sequences
9.4.5.1 Active script sequence
9.4.5.2 Script sequence list
9.4.6 Convert old script sequences
9.4.7 Beta functions
9.4.7.1 ScriptCOM
9.4.7.2 Display command line end (;= <RETURN>)
9.4.8 Syntax checking and Command dictionary
9.4.8.1 View/edit command dictionary
9.4.8.2 Manual syntax checking
9.4.8.3 Activate or deactivate automatic syntax check
9.4.8.4 The result of using automatic syntax check
9.4.9 Script Generator settings
9.4.9.1 General
9.4.9.1.1 Automatic syntax check
9.4.9.1.2 Display converted script seq.
9.4.9.1.3 Always use UPPER CASE except within parentheses
9.4.9.1.4 Mark special commands
9.4.9.1.5 Colours
9.4.9.1.5.1 Command
9.4.9.1.5.2 Subroutine
9.4.9.1.5.3 Lisp
9.4.9.1.5.4 Other text
9.4.9.2 Network
9.4.9.2.1 Check script sequences
9.4.9.2.2 Interval
9.4.9.3 Multiscript
9.4.9.3.1 Generate common script file
9.4.9.3.2 Delay between script sequences
9.4.9.3.3 Use the default directory of the script sequences
9.4.9.4 Conversion
9.4.9.4.1 Overwrite existing script sequences with converted ones
9.4.9.4.2 Do not overwrite existing script sequences
9.4.10 Contemporary import and export of script sequences
9.4.11 Legacy import
9.4.11.1 Local
9.4.11.2 Central
9.4.12 Running PLOT script sequences from the Drawing Environment
9.4.12.1 Example
9.4.12.2 Technical details
9.5 Standard script sequences of cadett ELSA
9.5.1 Contemporary script sequences
9.5.1.1 Convert DWG to DXF
9.5.1.1.1 0DWG-R12DXF_Q
9.5.1.1.2 0DWG-R12DXF_Z
9.5.1.1.3 0DWG-R15DXF_Q
9.5.1.1.4 0DWG-R15DXF_Z
9.5.1.1.5 0DWG-R16DXF_Q
9.5.1.1.6 0DWG-R16DXF_Z
9.5.1.1.7 0DWG-R17DXF_Q
9.5.1.1.8 0DWG-R17DXF_Z
9.5.1.1.9 0DWG-R18DXF_Q
9.5.1.1.10 0DWG-R18DXF_Z
9.5.1.1.11 0DWG-R19DXF_Q
9.5.1.1.12 0DWG-R19DXF_Z
9.5.1.1.13 0DWG-R22DXF_Q
9.5.1.1.14 0DWG-R22DXF_Z
9.5.1.2 Convert DXF to DWG
9.5.1.2.1 0DXF-R14DWG_Q
9.5.1.2.2 0DXF-R14DWG_Z
9.5.1.2.3 0DXF-R15DWG_Q
9.5.1.2.4 0DXF-R15DWG_Z
9.5.1.2.5 0DXF-R16DWG_Q
9.5.1.2.6 0DXF-R16DWG_Z
9.5.1.2.7 0DXF-R17DWG_Q
9.5.1.2.8 0DXF-R17DWG_Z
9.5.1.2.9 0DXF-R18DWG_Q
9.5.1.2.10 0DXF-R18DWG_Z
9.5.1.2.11 0DXF-R19DWG_Q
9.5.1.2.12 0DXF-R19DWG_Z
9.5.1.2.13 0DXF-R22DWG_Q
9.5.1.2.14 0DXF-R22DWG_Z
9.5.1.3 Convert DXF to other DXF format
9.5.1.3.1 0DXF-R12DXF_Q
9.5.1.3.2 0DXF-R12DXF_Z
9.5.1.3.3 0DXF-R15DXF_Q
9.5.1.3.4 0DXF-R15DXF_Z
9.5.1.3.5 0DXF-R16DXF_Q
9.5.1.3.6 0DXF-R16DXF_Z
9.5.1.3.7 0DXF-R17DXF_Q
9.5.1.3.8 0DXF-R17DXF_Z
9.5.1.3.9 0DXF-R18DXF_Q
9.5.1.3.10 0DXF-R18DXF_Z
9.5.1.3.11 0DXF-R19DXF_Q
9.5.1.3.12 0DXF-R19DXF_Z
9.5.1.3.13 0DXF-R22DXF_Q
9.5.1.3.14 0DXF-R22DXF_Z
9.5.1.4 Convert DWG to other DWG format
9.5.1.4.1 0DWG-R19DWG_Q
9.5.1.4.2 0DWG-R19DWG_Z
9.5.1.5 Fix drawing sheets
9.5.1.5.1 0DXF-PURGE-DXF_Q
9.5.1.5.2 0DXF-PURGE-DXF_Z
9.5.1.5.3 0DXF-PURGE_SCALE-DXF_Q
9.5.1.5.4 0FIX_LAYERS
9.5.1.5.5 0FIX_LAYERS_DIN5_LEGACY
9.5.1.5.6 0FIX_LAYERS_ELSA390
9.5.1.5.7 0FIX_LAYERS_IEC1082_LEGACY
9.5.1.5.8 0FIX_LAYERS_IEC113_LEGACY
9.5.1.5.9 0FIX_LAYERS_WHITE_BACKGROUND
9.5.1.5.10 0FIX_LINES
9.5.1.5.11 0FIX_OLD_INDEX_Q
9.5.1.5.12 0FIX_STYLE_DIN_Q
9.5.1.5.13 0DXF-SCALE_RESET-DXF_Q
9.5.1.6 Change drawing frame
9.5.1.6.1 0CHANGE_FRAME_ELSA390
9.5.1.7 Delete wire-number symbols
9.5.1.7.1 0DEL_CON_SYM_Q
9.5.1.7.2 0DEL_CON_SYM_Z
9.5.1.8 PDF generation
9.5.1.8.1 0PDF_FREEGEN_CONFIGURABLE_BOOKMARKS
9.5.1.8.2 0PDF_FREEGEN_HYPERLINKS
9.5.1.8.3 0PDF_FREEGEN_Q
9.5.1.8.4 0PDF_FREEGEN_SEARCHABLE_HYPERLINKS
9.5.1.8.5 0PDF_FREEGEN_SHEET
9.5.1.8.6 0PDF_HIGH_QUALITY
9.5.1.9 Printing
9.5.1.9.1 0PLOT_DWG_R15_Q
9.5.1.9.2 0PLOT_DWG_R15_Z
9.5.1.9.3 0PLOT_DXF_R15_LAYER_Q
9.5.1.9.4 0PLOT_DXF_R15_LAYER_Z
9.5.1.9.5 0PLOT_DXF_R15_LOGO_Q
9.5.1.9.6 0PLOT_DXF_R15_LOGO_Z
9.5.1.9.7 0PLOT_DXF_R15_Q
9.5.1.9.8 0PLOT_DXF_R15_Z
9.5.1.10 Updates
9.5.1.10.1 0UPDATE_FROM_30_Q
9.5.1.10.2 0UPDATE_FROM_30_Z
9.5.1.10.3 0UPDATE_INSERTS
9.5.1.10.4 0UPDATE_SUBCIRCUITS_TO_77
9.5.1.10.5 0UPDATE_SYMBOLS_TO_77
9.5.1.10.6 0UPDATE_TERMINAL_Q
9.5.1.11 Cable harness
9.5.1.11.1 0HARNESS_PLOT_CUSTOMER
9.5.1.11.2 0HARNESS_PLOT_WORK
9.5.1.12 Autodesk Vault integration
9.5.1.12.1 0VAULT_PUBLISH_Q
9.5.1.12.2 0VAULT_PUBLISH_Z
9.5.1.13 Other tools
9.5.1.13.1 0DWG-SLIDE_Q
9.5.1.13.2 0DXF-SLIDE_Q
9.5.1.13.3 0DXF-SLIDE_Z
9.5.1.13.4 0ELPROCAD-CADETT_ELSA
9.5.1.13.5 0REFRESH_SYMBOL_BITMAP
9.5.1.14 Subroutines
9.5.1.14.1 _0LAYER_0
9.5.1.14.2 _0LAYER_1
9.5.1.14.3 _0LAYER_2
9.5.1.14.4 _0LAYER_3
9.5.1.14.5 _0LAYER_4
9.5.1.14.6 _0LAYER_5
9.5.1.14.7 _S_SWITCH2E
9.5.2 Discontinued script sequences
10 Translator III
10.1 Lexicon management
10.1.1 Selection of lexicon to display and to use
10.1.2 Display of the lexicon
10.1.3 Ignoring entries
10.1.4 General management
10.1.4.1 Single changes
10.1.4.2 Global changes
10.1.4.3 Create new entries
10.1.4.4 Delete existing entries
10.1.4.5 Filtering
10.1.4.5.1 Save filters for later reuse
10.1.4.5.2 Reuse a saved filter
10.1.4.5.3 Delete saved filters
10.1.4.6 Saving changes
10.2 Translations
10.2.1 Run translations directly from the Translator III
10.2.2 Run translations from the Drawing Manager
10.3 Settings
10.3.1 In drawing sheet
10.3.1.1 Add un-translated words to lexicon
10.3.1.2 Case sensitive
10.3.1.3 Translate exact match only
10.3.1.4 Translate parts of words
10.3.1.5 Swap translation and original positions
10.3.1.6 Do not untranslate first
10.3.1.7 Replace text
10.3.1.8 Add translation (fixed height)
10.3.1.9 Add translation (relative height)
10.3.1.10 Do nothing
10.3.2 In title field
10.3.3 Translation filter
10.3.3.1 COMMAND
10.3.3.2 LAYER
10.3.3.3 BLOCK
10.3.3.4 TAG
10.3.3.5 CONTENT
10.3.3.6 Examples
10.3.4 Transferred translation
10.4 The Module pull-down menu
10.4.1 New Lexicon…
10.4.2 Delete Lexicon…
10.4.3 New Setting…
10.4.4 Delete Setting …
10.4.5 Edit languages…
10.4.6 Import lexicon from Translator II…
10.4.7 Alternatives…
10.5 How to edit lexicons with Excel
10.6 Technical details
10.6.1 How un-translation has been made possible
10.6.2 Lexicons
10.6.2.1 LANGS.DBF
10.6.2.2 LEXICON.DBF
10.6.3 Settings
11 Catalogue
11.1 General overview of the Catalogue
11.1.1 Purpose and basic definitions
11.1.2 Single resources and resource groups
11.1.3 Screen layout of the Catalogue
11.2 The fields of the Catalogue
11.2.1 Description
11.2.1.1 Description (short)
11.2.1.2 Long description
11.2.1.3 Electrical data
11.2.1.4 E-number
11.2.1.5 Resource type
11.2.1.6 Manufacturer
11.2.1.7 Supplier
11.2.1.8 Type number
11.2.1.9 Ordering number
11.2.2 Data
11.2.2.1 Resource category
11.2.2.2 Numbering algorithm
11.2.2.3 Limit
11.2.2.4 Layout symbol
11.2.2.5 Module
11.2.2.6 Height
11.2.2.7 Width
11.2.2.8 Depth
11.2.2.9 Mass/weight
11.2.2.10 Wear group
11.2.2.11 Quantity in stock
11.2.2.12 Ordering limit
11.2.2.13 Ordering quantity
11.2.2.14 Unit price
11.2.2.15 Discount
11.2.2.16 Update (present)
11.2.2.17 Information sheet
11.2.3 Link settings
11.2.4 Symbols
11.2.4.1 New
11.2.4.2 Viewer
11.2.4.3 Standard
11.2.4.4 Document type
11.2.4.5 Symbol
11.2.4.6 No check
11.2.4.7 Rearrange sequence of symbols
11.2.4.8 Drop-down list for document type selection
11.2.5 Resource group
11.3 New resource, example
11.4 Copy resources
11.5 Change resources
11.6 Delete resources
11.7 The Undo feature
11.8 Filter
11.9 Global edit
11.10 Create new catalogue
11.11 Remove catalogue
11.12 The Client/server solution and its consequences
11.13 Catalogue import…
11.14 Edit resource categories
11.15 Properties of a catalogue
11.15.1 Basic settings
11.15.2 Resource handling
11.15.3 Units
11.15.4 Database structure
11.15.5 Wear-groups
11.16 Settings for the catalogue
11.17 Configuring the survey
11.18 Save and use named filters
11.18.1 Save named filter
11.18.2 Activate named filter
11.18.3 Remove named filter
11.19 Catalogue Hyperlinks
11.19.1 How to use Catalogue Hyperlinks
11.19.2 Technical details
11.20 Import from supplier files...
11.20.1 Introduction
11.20.1.1 Basic principles
11.20.1.2 Import template
11.20.1.3 Import procedure
11.20.2 Using the Catalogue import feature
11.20.2.1 Buttons
11.20.2.1.1 New template
11.20.2.1.2 Copy template
11.20.2.1.3 Delete template
11.20.2.1.4 Edit template
11.20.2.1.5 Previous
11.20.2.1.6 Next
11.20.2.1.7 Cancel
11.20.2.2 Double-click in template list
11.20.2.3 Right-click in template list
11.20.2.4 Template editor
11.20.2.4.1 General
11.20.2.4.2 Field
11.20.2.4.2.1 New field
11.20.2.4.2.2 Edit
11.20.2.4.2.3 Delete field
11.20.2.4.2.4 Move up
11.20.2.4.2.5 Move down
11.20.2.4.2.6 Drag and drop
11.20.2.4.2.7 Double-click
11.20.2.4.2.8 Right-click
11.20.2.4.3 Forced fields
11.20.2.4.3.1 New field
11.20.2.4.3.2 Edit
11.20.2.4.3.3 Delete field
11.20.2.4.3.4 Double-click
11.20.2.4.3.5 Right-click
11.20.2.4.4 Field copies
11.20.2.4.4.1 New field copy
11.20.2.4.4.2 Edit field copy
11.20.2.4.4.3 Delete field copy
11.20.2.4.5 Filter
11.20.2.4.5.1 New filter
11.20.2.4.5.2 Edit
11.20.2.4.5.3 Delete filter
11.20.2.4.5.4 Double-click
11.20.2.4.5.5 Right-click
11.20.2.4.6 Condition
11.20.2.4.6.1 New condition
11.20.2.4.6.2 Edit
11.20.2.4.6.3 Delete condition
11.20.2.4.6.4 Move up
11.20.2.4.6.5 Move down
11.20.2.4.6.6 Drag and drop
11.20.2.4.6.7 Double-click
11.20.2.4.6.8 Right-click
11.20.2.4.7 Field key
11.20.2.4.7.1 New key
11.20.2.4.7.2 Edit
11.20.2.4.7.3 Delete key
11.20.2.4.7.4 Right-click
11.20.2.4.8 Field update
11.20.2.4.8.1 Edit
11.20.2.4.8.2 Double-click
11.20.2.4.8.3 Right-click
11.20.2.4.9 Resource groups
11.20.2.4.10 Example
11.20.2.4.11 Advanced settings
11.20.2.5 Perform a Catalogue import
11.20.2.5.1 Selection of file to import
11.20.2.5.2 Reading the supplier file
11.20.2.5.3 Presentation of statistics
11.20.2.5.4 Selection of resources to write to Catalogue
11.20.2.5.5 Transferring data to the Catalogue
11.21 Technical details
11.21.1 Standard database structure
11.21.2 Field length adjustment
12 Settings Module
12.1 File configuration
12.2 Symbol standards/Symbol libraries
12.3 Masks
12.4 Workstation definitions
12.5 Numbering algorithms
12.6 Drawing environment
12.7 Functions codes
13 Wire-list Editor
13.1 Background
13.1.1 Cables and wires
13.1.2 Wire-numbers
13.1.3 Wire-numbering in general
13.1.4 Rules for wire-numbering
13.1.5 Manual wire-numbering
13.1.5.1 Summary manual wire-numbering
13.1.6 Automatic wire-numbering
13.1.7 Cabinet layout control
13.1.7.1 Location boxes
13.2 Wire-list Editor main dialogue
13.2.1 Wire-list table
13.2.1.1 Filtering (which connections to display)
13.2.1.2 Sequence of the wire-list
13.2.1.3 Columns of the wire-list
13.2.1.3.1 Icons
13.2.1.3.2 Pos
13.2.1.3.3 Wire-number
13.2.1.3.4 Status
13.2.1.3.5 From
13.2.1.3.6 To
13.2.1.3.7 Side
13.2.1.3.8 Sheet reference
13.2.1.3.9 Wire/cable dimension
13.2.1.3.10 Colour
13.2.1.3.11 Node name
13.2.1.3.12 Signal name
13.2.1.3.13 Length
13.2.2 Sections
13.2.2.1 Division by
13.2.2.2 Wire-numbering
13.2.2.2.1 Overwrite unlocked
13.2.2.2.2 All wires
13.2.2.2.3 Selected wires
13.2.2.3 Wire locking
13.2.2.3.1 Lock all
13.2.2.3.2 Lock selected
13.2.2.3.3 Unlock selected
13.2.2.3.4 Unlock all
13.2.2.4 Filter
13.2.2.4.1 Filter text
13.2.2.4.2 Display errors only
13.2.2.4.3 Hide cable cores
13.2.2.5 Wire-chains
13.2.2.5.1 Change sequence
13.2.2.5.2 Repair selected
13.2.2.5.3 Repair all faulty
13.2.2.6 Wire properties
13.2.2.6.1 Colour
13.2.2.6.1.1 Editing the list of selectable colours
13.2.2.6.2 Dimension
13.2.2.6.3 Signal name
13.2.2.6.4 Node name
13.2.2.6.5 Wire-number
13.2.2.6.5.1 Manual editing of an individual wire-number
13.2.2.6.5.2 Manual editing of several identical wire-numbers
13.2.2.6.5.3 Manual numbering of several non-identical wire-numbers
13.2.2.6.5.4 Automatic wire-numbering of selected wires in the wire-list
13.2.2.6.5.5 Automatic wire-numbering of all wires in the wire-list
13.2.2.6.6 Update
13.2.2.6.7 Transferring changed properties to the circuit diagram
13.2.2.6.8 Save or restore changed wire properties
13.2.3 Buttons
13.2.3.1 Collect
13.2.3.2 Settings
13.2.3.3 Apply
13.2.3.4 Close
13.2.4 Context menu
13.2.4.1 Enter wire-numbers manually
13.2.4.1.1 Prefix
13.2.4.1.2 Start value
13.2.4.1.3 Step value
13.2.4.1.4 Suffix
13.2.4.1.5 Add numbers
13.2.4.1.6 Cancel
13.2.4.2 Number selected wires
13.2.4.3 Change connection sequence in wire-chain
13.2.4.4 Repair selected wire-chain
13.2.4.5 Lock selected wires
13.2.4.6 Unlock selected wires
13.2.4.7 Clear selected wire-numbers
13.3 Renumbering wires
13.3.1 New wire-numbers with existing wiring sequence
13.3.2 Complete renumbering with existing wire-number symbols
13.3.3 Complete renumbering with nothing kept
13.4 Handling of errors in the wire list
13.4.1 Presentation of incorrect wire-numbering
13.4.2 Finding the errors
13.4.3 Repair selected wire-chain
13.4.4 Repair all faulty wire-chains
13.5 Edit wire-chain
13.6 Wire-numbering settings
13.6.1 Numbering area
13.6.1.1 General orientation about numbering areas
13.6.1.2 Definition of numbering areas
13.6.1.2.1 Function (plant)
13.6.1.2.2 Location
13.6.1.2.3 Product (circuit)
13.6.1.2.4 Complete item designation
13.6.1.3 Wires between numbering areas
13.6.1.3.1 The numbering area where the wire-chain begins
13.6.1.3.2 Global level
13.6.1.3.3 The numbering area above the first shared
13.6.1.3.4 The first shared numbering area
13.6.2 Number series
13.6.3 Assignment of number series
13.6.3.1 Example 1 (traditional Swedish numbering)
13.6.3.2 Example 2 (refined variant of the first)
13.6.4 Save button
13.6.5 Close-button
14 Revision Handling
14.1 General description of the feature
14.2 Management of revisions
14.2.1 Creating a new revision
14.2.2 Unpacking an existing revision
14.2.3 Opening an unpacked revision
14.2.4 Deleting an unpacked revision
14.2.5 Deleting a revision itself
14.3 Revision comparisons
14.3.1 Design-wise revision comparison
14.3.1.1 Create TARGET databases for lists of changes
14.3.1.1.1 Created TARGET databases
14.3.1.1.2 Requirement for revisions comparisons
14.3.1.2 Generate lists of changes
14.3.1.3 Configuration of revision comparisons
14.3.2 Sheet-wise revision comparison
14.4 Automatic removal of unpacked revisions
14.4.1 Configuration dialogue box
14.4.2 Configuration file
14.5 Technical details
15 Super projects
15.1 Features and availability
15.2 Limitations
15.3 Detailed feature descriptions
15.3.1 Management of super projects
15.3.2 Navigating between super and sub-projects
15.3.2.1 Navigating to the super project
15.3.2.2 Displaying the sub-projects
15.3.3 Potential references between sub-projects
15.3.3.1 Example
15.3.4 Symbol references between sub-projects
15.3.4.1 Example
15.3.5 Super project report generation
15.4 Practical experiences from working with super projects
15.5 General advice
16 Plant database BETA
17 Miscellaneous (additional features)
17.1 Option Handling
17.1.1 Basic concepts
17.1.2 Prerequisites
17.1.3 The commands of the Option Handling feature
17.1.3.1 Create options
17.1.3.1.1 ID
17.1.3.1.2 Colour
17.1.3.1.3 Name
17.1.3.1.4 Active
17.1.3.1.5 Create option
17.1.3.2 Add objects to and remove objects from an option
17.1.3.2.1 Add objects to an option
17.1.3.2.2 Remove objects from an option
17.1.3.2.3 Check the content of an option
17.1.3.3 Modify an option
17.1.3.3.1 Activate or deactivate an option
17.1.3.3.2 Renaming an option
17.1.3.3.3 Change the colour of an option
17.1.3.3.4 Remove an option
17.1.3.4 Merge options
17.1.3.5 Recreate options
17.1.4 Technical details
17.1.4.1 Option List Storage
17.1.4.2 Option Layers
17.1.4.3 Remote control of the Option Handling feature
17.1.4.4 Compatibility with older versions
17.2 Text Add Symbols
17.3 Configurable bookmarks in PDF files
17.4 Updates from versions older than cadett ELSA 7.7
17.5 Symbol Plot Utility
17.6 WAN mode
17.6.1 Activation and configuration
17.6.1.1 WAN mode (suitable for slow networks like VPN)
17.6.1.2 Fully automatic local mode for projects
17.6.1.3 Threshold value in milliseconds for latency when WAN mode should be enabled
17.6.1.4 Signalling of active WAN mode
17.6.2 Technical details
18 Replicator
18.1 Replicating projects
18.1.1 Check-in draft
18.1.2 Check-in release
18.1.3 Check-out
19 Installation and Update Guide
20 Import from other cadett ELSA