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The software allows you perform various actions with an open single line diagram. In addition to regular actions in a drawing such as zooming, selecting, saving, and so forth, you can do the following:

Option

Description

Moving items in the drawing

Select a drawing item to select it and then drag it to another place in the drawing. Save the SLD to keep the items you moved in their new places. Note that this does not affect the data in your database.

Drawing frames

You can instruct the software to draw a frame around each PDB bus group and around the circuits in each cell. To draw these frames, select these options on the Buses tab of the Single Line Diagram Options dialog. Note that when drawing a PDB frame, the software draws a separate frame around each bus or a section of a bus (if a bus break was used to break the bus symbol into sections). When creating a PDB symbol in Catalog Manager, you can add a macro for PDB item tags. This will enable you to display the PDB name on each PDB frame shown on the SLD. For examples of how the software draws PDB frames, see PDB Frame Examples in SLDs.

Moving and resizing frames

The software draws frames around items belonging to PDBs and around circuits in each cell. You can resize these frames and move them to other places in the drawing as needed. The software retains all your changes after saving the drawing.

Optimizing frame size and position

After repositioning buses, cells, and other items in an open drawing, and after resizing and moving frames, you can select the Edit > Adjust Frame Position and Size command to optimize the size and position of the selected frames according to the current position of the items in the selected frames.

Associating a custom symbol with a plant item.

You can associate a custom symbol with a plant item so that this plant item will be represented using that symbol. Furthermore, you can use this feature to associate different custom symbols with the same plant item depending on the properties of a specific drawing.. For more details, see Associate Custom Symbols with Plant Items.

Changing the orientation of a branch that is connected between a selected power source and a bus.

Select a root power source and then select Change branch orientation command on the Edit Drawing toolbar. You can change the orientation of a branch that is connected between the selected power source and a selected bus. You can display the branch above or below a selected bus.

Entering and modifying item properties

Select an electrical item and then enter or modify its properties in the Properties window.

Changing the line type, line color and line width of a selected bus

Select a bus and then select the appropriate icon on the SLD toolbar to change the line type, line width, or line color for the selected bus. Note that the software retains new line display settings only if you save the SLD as an external document. Otherwise, after reopening the SLD, the software displays the original bus symbol. You can use Options Manager to change the symbol that the software uses to represent busses. To create a new symbol for busses, use Catalog Manager. For more information, see Guidelines for Creating SLD Symbols in Catalog Manager.

Modifying a connector by inserting or moving a vertex or a line segment

Allows you to control the shape of a connector.

Select a connector to select it. Then on the Modify Connector ribbon, select the Insert/Move Vertex icon Diagonal Mode Alt.. You can now select a point on the connector and drag it to a new location. Also, you can insert a line segment into a connector by using Insert Segment Insert Segment Mode (Alt + S) on the Modify Connector ribbon.

For more details about both functions, see Modify a Connector.

Moving a circuit connection point to another place on the bus

Select a circuit connector and drag its connection point along the bus to another place. Make sure you save the drawing to retain the new circuit positions on the bus. This option is available only between circuits of the same bus and displayed on the same sheet.

Extending or shortening the length of a bus

Select a bus and then drag one the edge points on the bus to one side, depending on whether you want to lengthen or shorten the bus. If you are shortening a bus, you can drag the bus edge only as far as the nearest circuit. Note that the circuit positions are retained on the bus as they were in the drawing when it was saved the last time.

Inserting annotations and redlining

Add text labels, symbols, or watermarks to your SLD as annotations. Add text, linked symbols, circles, rectangles, and lines to your SLD as redlining. For more information, see Annotations and Redlining.

Renaming a document and entering revisions

Open your SLD and on the Edit menu, select Document Properties.

Saving an SLD as an external file

With an open SLD, on the File menu, select Save As. For more information, see Save a Single Line Diagram as an External File.

Setting SLD generation preferences

On the File menu, select Preferences. For more information, see Set Preferences for SLD Generation.

Setting new generation options and regenerating an SLD

On the Tools menu, select Drawing Options. For more information, see Generate an SLD from the Electrical Engineer.

Scaling the graphic elements in an SLD drawing so that they fit in the working area of the drawing

Before generating a drawing, you can instruct the software to automatically shrink all the graphic elements so that they will fit into the working area of the drawing. To do this, select the Shrink to page check box on the Page Settings tab of the Single Line Diagram Options dialog.

If after opening the SLD, you see that drawing still needs to be rescaled, you can manually set a scale factor and then regenerate the drawing. For more information, see Scaling the Content of an SLD Drawing.

In order for the software to rescale all the items correctly, make sure that when creating symbols that contain text or smart text, the Units space property is set to World. Note the World is not the default setting for this property.

Controlling the display of coupled buses on multi-sheet SLDs

For SLDs generated based on PDBs, you can instruct the software to keep the coupled buses on the same drawing sheet or to split the display between two sheets. This way you can balance the scaling of the graphics on all the pages of an SLD and avoid the situation where one of the drawing sheets is too congested and another drawing sheet has a lot of empty space. For details, see step number 3 in the Generate a Single Line Diagram for a PDB procedure.

Printing an SLD

On the File menu, select Print.

  • The software uses the following conventions to display parallel cables in an SLD:
    [...] in the item tag label and (xN) in the cable configuration label, where N is the number of cables, for example:
    Cable-32/A[...]
    3 x 150mm2 (x5)
    This means that there are five parallel cables represented by the same line in the SLD.

  • Sometimes, after the software opens a drawing, the distance between connected items is either too long or too short, which results in an inappropriate display of connectors. To control the visual consistency of connectors, you can set a Clearance value that specifies the amount of space that the software will maintain between the connector and the connected element (also known as range avoidance). This action allows you to control the visual consistency of connectors that make right-angle turns just before they attach to a symbol.

  • To set Clearance, select a connector and then type the minimum distance from the symbols where you would like the first turn in the connectors to occur. Note that the default setting is zero.