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Placing Mounting Panels

Preconditions:

Place mounting panel from parts management

  1. Select the menu item Insert > Mounting panel.
  2. Select the desired mounting panel part in the Part selection dialog.
  3. Click [OK].

    The mounting panel hangs on the cursor as a transparent preview. The size is as defined for the part. The four possible handles are marked by gray squares. The current handle is displayed in red at the bottom left.
  4. Press [A] to change the handle.

    Each time you press [A], the handle changes clockwise from the "Bottom left" position to "Top left", "Top right", and "Bottom right".
  5. Select the Placement options popup menu item to call up the Placement options dialog. Here you can define an offset between the handle and the cursor position as well as use all the setting options for the multiple placement of mounting panels.
  6. Click to insert the mounting panel at the desired location.
  7. If you want to place the mounting panel on an enclosure profile or on a second mounting panel, move the mounting panel to the vicinity of a corner point of the second mounting panel or an enclosure profile.

    A red 3D snap point symbol appears at the corner point. The mounting panel to be placed snaps in at this point. Click to place it directly at this position.

Placing Free Mounting Panels

For quick and easy design and configuration, it is possible to place an individual mounting panel in the layout space without surrounding enclosure profiles and without selecting from parts management. The free mounting panel has the same properties and editing options as the mounting panel associated with a specific part. The part selection allows the mounting panel to be retrospectively assigned a part.

  1. Select the Insert > Free mounting panel menu items.
  2. In the Free mounting panel dialog enter values for the Width, Height and Depth fields of the free mounting panel, or accept the suggested values. The dimensions must not be left blank, otherwise the free mounting panel cannot be placed.
  3. Click [OK].
  4. Place the free mounting panel in the same way as mounting panels from parts management.