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If you are drawing horizontally, the inheritance of terminal group name and index must be done from top to bottom, instead of from left to right as in the vertical case.

 

You may control the direction of the inheritance for each circuit diagram sheet using a special symbol. That symbol is called Horizontal terminal numbering and you find it among the symbol macros for terminals.

 

In horizontal circuit diagrams, you should insert this symbol somewhere. For vertical circuit diagrams, you should not. If, for some reason, you still have the symbol in a vertical circuit diagram, simply delete it.

 

It does not matter where the symbol is inserted. It must however be inserted in an electrical layer. Inserting it somewhere in the title field, might be practical, but has a disadvantage if you would like to replace the drawing frame at a later point in time. When doing so, the symbol might be lost. Inserting it in the drawing area, avoids that potential problem.

 

 

The graphics of this symbol is placed in the index layer, which means that it will be totally turned off when the sheet is plotted.

 

If this symbol is inserted somewhere in a sheet, cadett ELSA will consider that sheet as horizontal. If the symbol does not exist anywhere in the sheet, it will be considered as vertical. If you erase the symbol, the sheet is changed from horizontal to vertical.

 

Please note, that the method described above works well only if the circuit diagram is either vertical or horizontal. If it contains both ways of drawing simultaneously, you will run into problems. A topic listed below describes this situation and how to handle it.

 

•Mixing vertical and horizontal way of drawing