You use the Reference Electrical Engineer to copy existing partial or complete power network structures by dragging items from one or more specified plants to the Electrical Engineer in the current plant.
While working in your plant, Smart Electrical allows you to connect to another plant and open the Electrical Engineer from which you can drag a power network structure to the Electrical Engineer in your plant. This way, any external plant can serve as a reference for your plant. Such an external plant can hold numerous assemblies in its Electrical Engineer, from which you can drag an assembly to the Electrical Engineer in your plant. As you copy an assembly to the Electrical Engineer in your plant, the software automatically copies to the Electrical Index all the electrical items contained in the assembly as well as the items directly associated with the items displayed in the Electrical Engineer (for example, a control station). Furthermore, the software copies the reference power cables and typical schematics to the Reference Data Explorer.
When copying a branch that contains electrical equipment items, the software also
copies the equipment item data that belongs to plant operating cases. See Rules Governing the Copying of Branches with Data that Includes Operating Cases.
The rules that determine where you can drag certain items in the target Electrical Engineer are similar to the drag-and- drop rules for items that you drag from the Electrical Index and within the Electrical Engineer.
Before connecting to a reference plant and opening its Electrical Engineer, make sure that you have been granted full access rights to that plant.
The Reference Electrical Engineer window contains the following sections:
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Toolbar
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Tree view pane
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List view pane
Toolbar
The toolbar contains the following options:
Find
Opens the Find dialog where you can look for a specific item in the Electrical Engineer. Select the arrow to display a menu with the following options:
Find
Opens the Find dialog where you can look for a specific item in the Reference Electrical Engineer.
Close
Closes the active Reference Electrical Engineer window.
Refresh
Updates the Reference Electrical Engineer display. This feature is useful where multiple users are working on the same set of data.
Buttons
Toggles show / hide for existing buttons. Buttons provide a useful shortcut to an item or a group of items. To create a button for the currently selected item or folder, select the arrow and select Add Button. To remove a button, select the button to remove, then select the arrow, and select Remove Button. Note that if you do not select any button to remove, the software removes the uppermost button in the list.
Tree View Pane
The tree view pane of the Reference Electrical Engineer shows electrical items organized in the Reference Plant folder. All items that appear under this folder have read-only status.
Expand or collapse the hierarchy by selecting the + and - icons respectively or by selecting an item in the Reference Plant folder hierarchy.
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You can open several instances of the Reference Electrical Engineer by selecting Window > New > Reference Electrical Engineer.
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After exiting Smart Electrical, and starting a new session, the software retains the size and position of all the windows that were open in the previous session.