Standards
General Tab
Setting | Description |
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Profile | Set the naming format for drawing files. Select a pre-defined profile or click Edit to modify the elements of existing profiles. The Drawing Naming Convention dialog displays allowing you to define the naming format for the drawing files. |
Electrical Standard | Select whether the drawings will follow the ANSI-IEEE or IEC standard. |
Default Units of Measure | Select whether your drawings will use Inches or Metric(mm) as the standard units. These units will also be used for report templates. |
Device Appending Setting |
Allow Devices To Be Appended To Families - Enable to allow additional symbols to be assigned to a device ID after the available spots have been filled. If you select this option, then the following two options become available: These options determine whether parent symbols, child symbols or both can be appended. |
Primary Mode | Allows user to designate a drawing mode as primary which means an ID assigned in that mode will replace a different ID assigned to the same device in another mode. |
Grid/Snap Settings Tab
The Default Grid Settings mode allows user to set grid and snap spacing for various types of drawings. Most OpenUtilities Substation drawing modes utilize a grid that causes objects to be aligned properly. For example, the grid ensures that wires make contact with symbol connection points so that the software can recognize these connections. Snap mode causes the cursor to limit its movements to set increments. The user can adjust the spacing of the grid and snap mode to suit his requirements.
Text Settings Tab
Fields for different categories of text (IDs, wire numbers, cross references, etc.) are provided. For each field, there are three check boxes:
Setting | Description |
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Use text style | If you select Use text style, the software will use the text values defined in the text style for that type of text. If you de-select this check box, the software will use the text settings that were defined in the symbol or in the wire numbering function for subsequently inserted symbols and assigned wire numbers. |
Use text height | If you select Use text height, the software will use the text height defined in the text style for that type of text. If you de-select this check box, the software will use the text height that was defined in the symbol or in the wire numbering function for subsequently inserted symbols and assigned wire numbers. |
Scale text by page scale | If you select Scale Text By Page Scale, the software will scale the text size according to the page scale for the current page. |
Reference Options Tab
Setting | Description |
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Include reference file parts in BOM | Enable this check box to include reference file parts in Bills of Material. |
Specify a page description and value to identify master files with references | If you enabled the Include reference file parts in BOM check box, specify the page description and value in the respective fields. |