At a part or device placed on a mounting panel, you can create a cross-reference pointing to the associated main function in the schematic. You can also do the reverse and create a cross-reference at the main function in the schematic that points to the placed part or device on the mounting panel.
Preconditions:
- You have opened a project.
- You have created a multi-line schematic page.
- You have created a page of the type "Panel layout".
- Under Options > Settings > Projects > "Project name" > Cross references / contact image > Display, in the Display device cross-references group box, you have specified that cross-references between multi-line schematic pages and pages of type "Panel layout" are to be displayed.
- Open the multi-line schematic page in the graphical editor and insert a symbol, for example, a contactor coil.
- In the Property <...> dialog, in the <Function category> tab, enter a Displayed DT for the contactor coil, for example, K1.
- If not already selected, select the Main function check box.
- Switch to the Part tab, and in the first free field under Part number click [...].
- Navigate through the Part selection tree view to the "Relays / contactors" product group.
- Select the appropriate part containing width and height information (Mounting data tab of the selected part).
- Click [OK].
The part selection dialog is then closed and you are back in the properties dialog. - Click [OK].
- Open the page of "Panel layout" type.
- Select the menu item Insert > Box / connection point / mounting panel > Mounting panel, and draw a rectangular mounting panel.
- In the Properties <...> dialog, in the Mounting panel tab, enter the Displayed DT of the mounting panel and click [OK].
- Select the menu item Project data > Parts / Devices > 2D panel layout navigator.
- In the tree view of the Panel layout - <Project Name> dialog, select the current project and navigate below the hierarchy level 'Unplaced' to the part number of the contactor.
- Select the part and then select Popup menu > Place on mounting panel.
A rectangular graphic now hangs on the cursor whose dimension EPLAN has taken from the part information of the selected contactor. - Move the graphic inside the mounting panel and place it there with a mouse click.
A cross-reference is now created at the contactor coil in the schematic, pointing to the placed part on the 'Panel layout' page. Conversely, a cross-reference is created pointing to the contactor coil in the schematic on the "Panel layout". - Open both pages in separate editors to observe the cross-reference display.
The contactor -K1 in the schematic (left side of the illustration) points within the panel layout (right side of the illustration) to the part 001ART placed inside the mounting panel U1 and vice-versa.
Mark mounting panel cross-references
To use a marking for highlighting mounting panel cross-references to main functions in the schematic, proceed as follows:
- Select the menu item Options > Settings > Projects > "Project Name" > Cross-references / contact image > General.
- In the Settings: General dialog, in the Marker for group box, enter any desired character into the Panel layout field.
- Click [OK].
- Update the display using the menu item View > Redraw.
You have entered the "%" character as marker text for cross-references to the mounting panel (panel layout). In the schematic, this setting is displayed at the main function as follows:
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