Defining the Project Structure

The project structure is composed of page and device structures. When regarded separately, the device structure is also composed of further individual structures, for example "General devices", "Terminal strips", "Cables", "Black boxes", etc.

Each of these structures can be separately determined by means of identifier schemes. The use of the various identifier blocks is defined in these schemes, which you fill with the appropriate structure identifiers. EPLAN provides pre-defined identifier schemes. In addition to this, you can define user-defined identifier schemes for your own project structures.

When creating a project, its page and device structure is determined by the selected project template or the basic project. In the project properties dialog you can also change page and device structure subsequently. The page structure can however only be changed later under specific conditions at a project with pages.

Precondition:

You have created a project and selected it in the page navigator.

Select the Project > Properties menu items and bring the Structure tab to the foreground.
Select one of the available identifier schemes from the Pages drop-down list, or click [...], in order to specify a user-defined page structure in the subsequent Page structure dialog.
Select one of the available designation schemes from a drop-down list for a device type, for instance General devices, or click [...] in order to specify a user-defined device structure in the following Device structure dialog.
If you would like to use sub-identifiers, use [Other] to branch to the Extended project structures dialog and select a Separator there.
Click [OK].