EPLAN News 2.8

New Functionalities for the Preparation of Macros in Macro Projects

The new menu item Prepare macros for automatic generation is now available for macro projects in the Project data > Macros menu instead of the previous Group macro boxes and associated objects menu item. Several functionalities for preparing macros before the automatic generation are located in the subsequent dialog of the same name.

Benefit:

The new Prepare macros for automatic generation dialog allows you to prepare macros optimally in the macro project before the generation. The problems that might occur during the update of macros such as the moving of symbols are avoided by this.

The first check box corresponds to the previously existing menu item Group macro boxes and associated objects. Through grouping macros can be detected more easily as a unit after insertion into the schematic and are not separated unintentionally anymore.

You can now also group page macros by using the further check box Group page macros.

The Activate handles check box allows you to automatically activate the respective handle for all the selected macros with macro boxes. For macro boxes where this has not yet been the case the handles are set to their standard position as a result.

By activating the handle - both in the macro project and for the inserted macro in the schematic - you prevent that a change in the macro (e.g. the graphic) results in unwanted shifting of the macro and / or its elements after the update.