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Different variants of the project editing within one manufacturing team are possible due to the client-server architecture of EPLAN Smart Wiring, the storage of the project data in the central working directory and the creation of project instances:
- With different finishers you can edit different project instances of one and the same project file.
- You can continue the work on already initiated but not yet completely edited project instances.
- You can edit one and the same project instance simultaneously with multiple finishers.
Working with different project instances of one and the same project file
If you, for example, have received the order as a manufacturing team to install connections of multiple identical enclosures in series, each of you loads the same project file via the menu items Project > Open project and by this method edits each created project instance.
Continuing editing of project instances
In relation to all persons in the manufacturing team the last status of the recently edited project instance is saved when closing the application or switching to another project. If you want to access these saved states to finish "your" project or that of a colleague (for example when you work in shifts) the Project > Continue project menu items are available to you.
Working with one and the same project instance (simultaneous operation)
If connections of enclosure bayings have to be installed, whereby a project to be edited can contain several layout spaces or several enclosures in one layout space or if connections of several mounting panels have to be installed within one enclosure, a colleague of your manufacturing team - subject to prior consent - selects the menu items Project > Open project. All others simultaneously join the project via the menu items Project > Continue project by selecting the same project instance for editing.
Opening projects
Preconditions
- You have access to the preset working directory.
- The administrator has made a project file available in the working directory or in one of the subdirectories.
Procedure
- Select the menu item Project > Open project.
- In the next dialog navigate to the corresponding directory.
- Select the project file.
- The project file is loaded and an instance of the project is generated.
- A unique ID is assigned to the project instance. This is displayed in the title bar of the connection list next to the project name.
- In the Select layout spaces dialog select the desired layout space of the project instance whose routing connections you want to edit.
- If necessary use the preview of the selection dialog to have the mounting layout displayed which is contained in the layout space.
- Select the layout space.
- The selection dialog is closed.
- The connection list of the selected layout space is opened.
- In the 3D viewThe 3D view is a separate display area in EPLAN Smart Wiring. This is always visible when 3D information is available in the loaded project. the mounting layout of the layout space is displayed.
Note
The Select layout spaces dialog is only displayed when the open project or the continued project instance is based on a project file of the type *.EPDZ and has more than one layout space.
Tip
In the project selection enter any character string in the Filter field. The number of projects offered for selection is then automatically reduced to the projects that have the entered character string in the name.
Continuing projects
Precondition
You or colleagues from your manufacturing team have already loaded (and edited) projects in the selected working directory and created project instances.
Procedure
- Select the menu items Project > Continue project.
- The Continue project dialog opens.
- All projects loaded by you or by colleagues of your manufacturing team are listed in the currently selected working directory.
- The project loaded last is displayed at the top of the list.
- For each project you receive information when it was opened last.
- In the dialog select the desired project.
- A list with all existing instances of the project is opened.
- The project instance that was changed most recently is listed at the top of the list.
- For each project instance information is displayed when it was created and when the most recent change was performed.
- Select the desired project instance.
- In the Select layout spaces dialog select the desired layout space of the project instance whose routing connections you want to edit.
- If necessary use the preview of the selection dialog to have the mounting layout displayed which is contained in the layout space.
- Select the layout space.
- The selection dialog is closed.
- The connection list of the selected layout space is opened.
- In the 3D view the mounting layout of the layout space is displayed.
Notes
- The Select layout spaces dialog is only displayed when the open project or the continued project instance is based on a project file of the type *.EPDZ and has more than one layout space.
- In the Continue project dialog colored symbols are displayed next to the project name and colored frames at the project instances under certain conditions. The symbols and frames are used for the Visualization of the installation and check status of the project.
Tips
Also use the buttons in the dialog Continue project:
- Via [Open last project state] you open the last version of the most recently edited project instance without having to make a project selection. The project name is displayed on the left-hand side of the button.
- After project selection has been effected you reopen the selected project via [Restart] and this way generate a new project instance.
- After project selection you immediately open the last state of the recently edited project instance by using [Open last modification].