Apart from wire ducts or free routing paths, connections can also be routed in a wiring system. To this purpose requirements were created in the software and a recommended working method was defined.
Preparations in the outline editor for extrusions
An element of the wiring system is the wiring comb which is used for the fixation of the wires without the usage of a mounting panel and wire ducts.
Wiring combs are realized in EPLAN as a user-defined rail on the basis of an extrusion outline.
- In the outline editor define an outline for a wiring comb.
- Place two logic elements each on the outline to generate mounting surfaces for the wiring comb front and wiring comb rear. The two new menu items Wiring comb front and Wiring comb rear are available to you in the Insert > Logic menu of the outline editor to this purpose.
Place a user-defined rail with such a stored outline extrusion (*.fc2). Then these logic elements generate two mounting surfaces with an item designation of the same name "Wiring comb front" and "Wiring comb rear".
3D mounting layout in the layout space
- Place the wiring combs that you prepared on the top and bottom of the horizontal profile, on which devices such as motor overload switches, contactors and terminals have already been placed.
- On the wiring comb front place one Wiring cut-out each and on the rear a routing range.
As a result the connections on the front are routed through the wiring cut-outs to the rear into the routing ranges during the routing.
Benefit:
You can use the logic elements and mounting surfaces for wiring combs to route connections in wiring systems quickly and conveniently.
Example:The following figure clarifies the order during routing in a wiring system:
- From the wiring comb front (1)
- Through the wiring cut-out (2)
- On the rear side
- In the routing ranges (3).
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