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".
- In the Display device cross-references group box, you have specified under File > Settings > Projects > "Project name" > Cross-references / contact image > Display that cross-references between multi-line schematic pages and pages of type "Panel layout" and vice-versa 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 <Function category> tab of the dialog Properties <...> 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 tree view of the dialog Part selection to the "Relays / contactors" product group.
- Select the appropriate part containing the width and height information (hierarchy level Mounting data on the Properties 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 following commands: Tab Insert > Command group 2D panel layout > Mounting panel (2D). Draw the mounting panel as a rectangle.
- In the Mounting panel tab of the dialog Properties <...> enter the Displayed DT of the mounting panel and click [OK].
- Select the following commands: Tab Devices > Command group 2D panel layout > Navigator.
- In the tree view of the dialog Panel layout - <Project name> select the current project and navigate below the hierarchy level "Unplaced" to the part number of the contactor.
- Select the part and then select the popup menu item 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 into the inside of 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 following commands: File > Settings > Projects > "Project name" > Cross-references / contact image > General.
- In the Marker for group box of the dialog Settings: General enter any desired character in the Panel layout field.
- Click [OK].
- Press [F5] to update the schematic representation.
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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