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Electrical Diagrams Site Map Preface User's Tasks Workbench Description Glossary Index

Dassault Systmes 1994-2001. All rights reserved.

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Site Map

Site Map
Preface Using This Guide More Information User's Tasks Entering the workbench Setting up working units and grid Repositioning components in a network Modifying a component Rotating a component Flipping a component in free space Flipping a connected component Changing the scale of a component On and off sheet connectors Place on and off sheet connector Link and unlink on and off sheet connectors Query connector for linked object Display document linked to connector Title block and printing Annotating a diagram Printing a sheet Storing objects in a catalog Workbench Description Design Modify Toolbar On/Off Sheet Connector Toolbar Glossary Index

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Preface

Preface
The CATIA-Electrical Connectivity Diagrams (ELD) is a new generation CATIA product dedicated to manage logical designs of power distributive systems (high voltage) using industry standard conventions, terminology, and practices. The tool is focused on capturing all appropriate electrical design information and thereby satisfy shipbuilding requirements in the area of power Quality and Reliability. This product provides customers with a set of tools to visualize, analyze and document their Power Distributive system designs. With this smart diagram capability, the users are able to more productively validate their designs. In addition, the captured intelligence can be reused for downstream design processes providing additional benefits to customers overall design processes such as 3D Plant & Ship design. Using This Guide More Information

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Using This Guide

Using This Guide

This guide is intended for the user who needs to become quickly familiar with the CATIA Electrical Connectivity Diagrams Version 5 product. The user should be familiar with basic CATIA Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. The sections of the book describe in detail the procedures for using all of the features of the Electrical Connectivity Diagrams product.

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More Information

Where to Find More Information

Prior to reading this book, we recommend that you read the CATIA - Infrastructure User's Guide. Certain conventions are used in CATIA documentation to help you recognize and understand important concepts and specifications.

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Conventions

Conventions
Certain conventions are used in CATIA, ENOVIA & DELMIA documentation to help you recognize and understand important concepts and specifications. The following text conventions may be used: The titles of CATIA documents appear in this manner throughout the text. File -> New identifies the commands to be used. The use of the mouse differs according to the type of action you need to perform. Use this mouse button, whenever you read Select (menus, commands, geometry in graphics area, ...) Click (icons, dialog box buttons, tabs, selection of a location in the document window, ...) Double-click Shift-click Ctrl-click Check (check boxes) Drag Drag and drop (icons onto objects, objects onto objects) Drag Move Right-click (to select contextual menu)

Graphic conventions are denoted as follows: indicates the estimated time to accomplish a task.

indicates a target of a task. indicates the prerequisites. indicates the scenario of a task. indicates tips

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Conventions

indicates a warning. indicates information. indicates the end of a task. indicates functionalities that are new or enhanced with this Release. Enhancements can also be identified by a blue-colored background in the left-hand margin.

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User's Tasks

User's Tasks
The User's Tasks section explains and illustrates how to use various kinds of features. The table below lists the information you will find.

Entering the workbench Setting up working units and grid Repositioning components in a network Modifying a component On and off sheet connectors Title block and printing Storing objects in a catalog

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Entering the workbench

Entering the Electrical Connectivity Diagrams Workbench

This task shows you how to enter the Electrical Connectivity Diagrams workbench. 1. Choose the Electrical Connectivity Diagrams item from the Start -> Equipments & Systems menu. The New Drawing dialog box displays: It allows you to choose the standard and the format of your output drawing

2. Click OK. The workbench displays, with a new Sheet.

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Entering the workbench

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Setting up working units and grid

Setting Working Units and Grid

This task shows you how to set the units in which you will be working - inches, millimeters, yards and so on. It also shows you how to set the grid if you choose to have one. 1. To set the working units click Tools->Options and in the Options window that displays, click General->Parameters and then select the Units tab.

2. Select Length under the Magnitude column. click the down arrow next to the grayed out Length field select millimeters. This sets the units to millimeters.

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Setting up working units and grid

3. To set the grid, click Tools-Options and in the Options window that shows, click Mechanical Design-Drafting and then select the General tab.

4. Check the Display option if it is not checked. 5. For Primary Spacing enter 50 mm and for Graduations enter 5 mm.

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Setting up working units and grid

Primary Spacing refers to the bold lines in the grid. Graduations are the lighter gray lines. 6. Click OK. To learn more about these options read the Infrastructure and Drafting User's Guides.

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Repositioning components in a network

Repositioning Components in a Network

This task shows you how to reposition components in a network. If you reposition components that are connected through cables, they will be stretched to accommodate the move. Similarly, you can also reposition several components at the same time. To do this you select them, in which case they are considered to be part of one set that can be manipulated. 1. Select the components that you want to reposition. In the image below, the motor and breaker outlined in red have been selected. The line between them also gets included in the set.

2. Click any of the selected components, or the line, and drag to reposition where you want it. All the selected components will move and the line will stretch to maintain the connection with the rest of the diagram. In the image below the selected components have been moved away to the right.

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Repositioning components in a network

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Modifying a component

Modifying a Component
Ways of modifying a component are discussed in this section. Rotating a component Flipping a component in free space Flipping a connected component Changing the scale of a component

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Rotating a component

Rotating a Component
This task shows you how to rotate a component. A component can only be rotated if it is in free space - connected components cannot be rotated. 1. With your component displayed, click the Rotate Right button. or Rotate Left

2. Move the pointer to the component you want to rotate. If it can be rotated (if it is not connected) it will be selected when you move the pointer over it. 3. Click the component to rotate it. It will rotate 90 degrees in the direction you selected. The image below shows a selected component and a component that has been rotated.

Components can only be rotated in 90-degree increments.

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Flipping a component in free space

Flipping a Component in Free Space

This task shows you how to flip a component that is in free space. When a component flips in free space it rotates 180-degrees on the vertical or horizontal axis. The axis on which it will rotate is the X or Y axis as laid out when the component graphic was originally created. In the image below the component graphic was originally created with the Y axis running through the center and the X axis at the base. In the second image the Flip Horizontal command was used to flip it on the Y axis. In the last image the Flip Vertical command was used to make it flip on the X axis.

1. Click the Flip Horizontal

or Flip Vertical

button.

Flip Horizontal will flip the component on its vertical axis Flip Vertical will flip the component on its horizontal axis. 2. Click the component you want to flip. It will be flipped.

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Flipping a Connected Component

Flipping a Connected Component

This task shows you how to flip a component that is connected. When a component is inline (connected), it will use the line in which it is placed as the axis on which to flip. 1. Click the Flip Inline were. button if you want the connections to remain as they button if you want the connections to flip also.

Click the Flip Connections 2. Click the component. It will be flipped.

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Changing the Scale of a Component

Changing the Scale of a Component

This task shows you how to change the scale of a component. 1. Click the Scale Component button .

2. Click the component whose scale you want to change. The Scale Component dialog box displays.

3. Enter a value in the Scaling Factor field. For instance, if you enter 2 it will double the size if you enter .5 it will halve the size. 4. Click OK. The scale of the component will change.

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On and off sheet connectors

On and Off Sheet Connectors

Creating and working with on and off sheet connectors are explained in this section. To learn how to store on/off sheet connectors in a catalog see Storing objects in a catalog. Placing On and Off Sheet Connectors Linking & unlinking on and off sheet connectors Query connector for linked object Display document linked to connector

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Place on and off sheet connector

Placing On and Off Sheet Connectors

This task shows you how to place on and off sheet connectors in a design. On and off sheet connectors are used when it is not practical to visually display all of a line in one sheet and a second sheet has to be used, or when design considerations require interrupting display of the line even if all of it is on one sheet. In such cases on and off sheet connectors are placed where display of the line ends, and at the point where it is displayed again, to show that the visual display was interrupted and the two halves should be regarded as one continuous line. 1. Click the Place On/Off Sheet Connector button The Catalog Browser displays. .

2. Locate the connector symbol you want to use and click it. 3. Move your pointer to the line where you want to place it. NOTE: When you click the line, the symbol will be placed at the closest open connection. You can also select a connector on the line to place the symbol. 4. Repeat the above steps and click the second line on which you want to place it. The connector symbol will be placed. The image below shows on and off connector symbols placed at the ends of two lines.

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Link and unlink on and off sheet connectors

Linking/Unlinking On and Off Sheet Connectors

This task shows you how to link and unlink on and off sheet connectors. 1. To link, click the Link On/Off Sheet Connectors button 2. Click the first connector you want to link. 3. Click the second connector. A link will be created between the two. NOTE: Each connector will be highlighted as you move your pointer over it. 4. To unlink connectors, click the Unlink On/Off Sheet Connectors button 5. Then click one of the on or off sheet connectors. . .

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Query connector for linked object

Query Connector for Linked Object

This task shows you how to query an on or off sheet connector to determine which connector it is linked to. 1. Click the Query On/Off Sheet Connectors button .

2. Move the pointer to the connector you want to query (it will highlight). 3. Click. A zoomed-in and highlighted image of the linked connector will be displayed. The image below is shown zoomed-out. The highlighted connector is the linked one.

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Display document linked to connector

Display Document Linked to Connector

This task shows you how to display the document that is linked to an off sheet connector. 1. Click the Query On/Off Sheet Connectors button .

2. Click the connector that is linked to the off sheet connector in a different document. The Query On/Off Sheet Object Link dialog box displays.

3. Click the Open button. The document that contains the linked off sheet connector will be displayed, with the linked connector highlighted. If the document that contains the linked off sheet connector is open, a message will display telling you that it is already open.

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Title block and printing

Title Block and Printing

This section discusses annotating and printing your diagram. Annotating a diagram Printing a sheet

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Annotating a diagram

Annotating a Diagram
You can use the Text command in the Drafting toolbar to add annotations to your diagram. 1. Click the Text button in the Drafting toolbar.

Instructions for using the Text and other commands in the Drafting toolbar, are available in the Drafting documentation.

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Printing a sheet

Printing a Sheet
This task shows you how to print a diagram sheet. 1. Click File -> Print. The Print dialog box displays.

2. Enter your preferences. 3. Click OK. See Interactive Drafting User's Guide to learn more about the print command.

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Storing objects in a catalog

Storing Objects in a Catalog

This task shows you how to store objects such as components and on/off sheet connectors in a catalog. Only basic information is supplied in this task. See CATIA - Infrastructure User's Guide (Advanced Tasks - Using Catalogs) for information on creating and working with catalogs. 1. With the component you want to store in the catalog displayed, click Infrastructure -> Catalog Editor in the Start menu to create a new catalog. To open an existing catalog use the File -> Open command and navigate to the catalog. The Catalog Editor opens. 2. Click Windows -> Tile Horizontally so that both the Catalog Editor and the component are displayed.

3. Double-click the family under which you want to add the component. You will need to add a family if this is a new catalog document. 4. Click the Add Component button. The Description Definition dialog box displays.
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Storing objects in a catalog

5. Enter (or change) the name for the component and add other information you need to. 6. Click the Select external feature button. 7. Click the Preview tab and select the option Local preview (stored in catalog). This will allow an iconized image of the component to be displayed in the Catalog Browser. 8. Click the component you want to add to the catalog. The component will be added.

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Workbench Description

Workbench Description
The Electrical Connectivity Diagrams application window looks like this:

Design Modify Toolbar On/Off Sheet Connector Toolbar

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Design Modify Toolbar

Design Modify Toolbar

The Design Modify Toolbar contains the following tools:

See Rotating a component

See Flipping a component in free space

See Flipping a connected component

See Changing the scale of a component

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On/Off Sheet Connector Toolbar

On/Off Sheet Connector Toolbar

The On/Off Sheet Connector Toolbar contains the following tools:

See Place on and off sheet connectors See Query connector for linked document See Link and unlink on and off sheet connectors See Link and unlink on and off sheet connectors

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Glossary

Glossary

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Index

Index
A
annotate diagram

C
catalog on and off sheet connector store object change scale component

D
diagram annotate print display the document on and off sheet connector

F
flip flip (connected)

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Index

G
grid

L
link on and off sheet connector

O
on and off sheet connector catalog display the document link place query unlink on and off sheet connector

P
place on and off sheet connector print diagram

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Index

Q
query on and off sheet connector

R
reposition rotate

S
setting store object catalog

U
unit unlink on and off sheet connector

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