Routing Connections in a Wiring System

Apart from wire ducts or free routing paths, connections can also be routed in a wiring system. To do this the following working method is recommended:

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.
During the creation of an extrusion outline for a wiring comb the mounting surfaces "Wiring comb front" and "Wiring comb rear" can be defined in the outline editor. To this purpose commands of the same name are available in the Insert tab in the Logic command group of the outline editor.

The mounting surfaces "Wiring comb front" or "Wiring comb rear" are used for the placement of further elements of the wiring system.

On the mounting surface with the item designation "Wiring comb front" you place an automatically generated wiring cut-out together with the wiring comb. The wiring cut-out is arranged hierarchically below the "Wiring comb front" mounting surface in the layout space navigator and receives its DT.

Working in the mounting layout

On a horizontal profile place devices such as motor overload switches, contactors and terminals.
Then place a user-defined rail "wiring comb" together with the automatically generated wiring cut-out on the top and bottom respectively of the horizontal profile.
Then place a routing range on rear of the top and bottom wiring comb, so that the connections can be routed from the front though the wiring cut-outs to the rear.
To route connections from the wiring system on, for example, a door, place a routing path or a curve. This routing path or curve touches another routing path or curve on the door and on the other hand a routing range in the wiring system.