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CHAPTER 1: STARTING EPLAN .............................................................................................................. 1

INSTALLATION ......................................................................................................................................... 1 NOTE ........................................................................................................................................................... 6

CHAPTER 2: USER INTERFACE .............................................................................................................. 9

DIALOG ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 Dockable Dialogs .................................................................................................................................... 9 Message And Notification Windows ........................................................................................................ 9 Selection Dialogs ..................................................................................................................................... 9 Subsequent Dialogs ................................................................................................................................. 9 Write Protected Dialogs ........................................................................................................................ 10

WORKSPACES ......................................................................................................................................... 10 Define workspaces ................................................................................................................................. 10

TOOLBARS ............................................................................................................................................... 13 Customized Toolbars ............................................................................................................................. 13

KEYBOARD SHORTCUT ........................................................................................................................ 16 SCHEME ................................................................................................................................................... 18 NOTE ......................................................................................................................................................... 19

CHAPTER 3: PROJECT MANAGEMENT .............................................................................................. 23

WHAT IS A PROJECT? ............................................................................................................................ 23 OPENING A PROJECT ............................................................................................................................. 23 CREATING A PROJECT .......................................................................................................................... 24 PROJECT PROPERTIES .......................................................................................................................... 28 COPYING AND DELETING PROJECTS ................................................................................................ 28 COMPRESSING PROJECTS .................................................................................................................... 31 BACK UP AND RESTORE PROJECTS ................................................................................................... 33

Back up .................................................................................................................................................. 33 Restore ................................................................................................................................................... 36

NOTE ......................................................................................................................................................... 38

CHAPTER 4: PAGE MANAGEMENT ..................................................................................................... 41

PAGE NAVIGATOR ................................................................................................................................. 41 OPENING PAGES ..................................................................................................................................... 42 PAGE PROPERTIES ................................................................................................................................. 42 COPYING AND DELETING PAGES ...................................................................................................... 44 NUMBERING AND SORTING PAGES .................................................................................................. 50 PAGE TYPE .............................................................................................................................................. 53 NOTE ......................................................................................................................................................... 55

CHAPTER 5: SCHEMATICS CREATION .............................................................................................. 57

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ........................................................................................................... 57 Draw lines ............................................................................................................................................. 57 Draw polylines ...................................................................................................................................... 57 Draw rectangles .................................................................................................................................... 57 Draw circles .......................................................................................................................................... 58 Draw arcs and sectors ........................................................................................................................... 58 Draw ellipses ......................................................................................................................................... 58

SYMBOL, FUNCTION, COMPONENT, DEVICE CONCEPT ............................................................... 59 Symbol ................................................................................................................................................... 59 Function ................................................................................................................................................ 59 Component ............................................................................................................................................ 60 Device Concept ..................................................................................................................................... 60

DATA DIALOGS ...................................................................................................................................... 61 Dockable dialogs ................................................................................................................................... 61 Message and notification windows ....................................................................................................... 61 Selection dialogs ................................................................................................................................... 62 Subsequent dialogs ................................................................................................................................ 62 Write-protected dialogs ......................................................................................................................... 62



PLACING SYMBOLS ............................................................................................................................... 63 To place a symbol into schematics ........................................................................................................ 63

DEVICE TAGS .......................................................................................................................................... 64 POTENTIAL TERMINALS ...................................................................................................................... 65 BUS BARS ................................................................................................................................................. 66 STANDARD COMPONENTS .................................................................................................................. 67 T- CONNECTIONS ( CONNECTION SYMBOLS) ................................................................................. 68 BLACK BOXES ........................................................................................................................................ 69 INTERRUPTION POINTS ........................................................................................................................ 71 CROSS REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................. 72 TERMINALS ............................................................................................................................................. 74 PLUGS ....................................................................................................................................................... 76 CONNECTIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 78

Update Connection ................................................................................................................................ 78 Interrupt Connection ............................................................................................................................. 78 Delete Connection ................................................................................................................................. 79 Smart Connect ....................................................................................................................................... 80

BUNDLES ................................................................................................................................................. 81 CABLES .................................................................................................................................................... 82

Draw cable definition lines ................................................................................................................... 82 Draw Shields ......................................................................................................................................... 85

NOTE ......................................................................................................................................................... 87

CHAPTER 6: MACRO ................................................................................................................................ 91

CREATING MACRO ................................................................................................................................ 91 Create window macros and symbol macros .......................................................................................... 91 Create page macros .............................................................................................................................. 93

MACRO VARIANTS ................................................................................................................................ 95 Create window macros and symbol macros .......................................................................................... 95

PLACEHOLDERS ..................................................................................................................................... 97 INSERTING MACROS.................................................................................................................................. 100

Insert window macros and symbol macros ......................................................................................... 100 Insert page macros .............................................................................................................................. 100

NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 101

CHAPTER 7: NUMBERING .................................................................................................................... 104

ONLINE DEVICE NUMBERING .......................................................................................................... 104 Specifying Online Numbering Format ................................................................................................ 104 Numbering Devices Online ................................................................................................................. 108

OFFLINE DEVICE NUMBERING ......................................................................................................... 109 Specify offline numbering .................................................................................................................... 109

CONNECTION NUMBERING ............................................................................................................... 110 Specifying Settings for Connection Numbering .................................................................................. 110

NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 114

CHAPTER 8: PARTS MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................. 117

CONCEPT ............................................................................................................................................... 117 CREATING NEW PARTS ...................................................................................................................... 117 DEFINING PARTS PROPERTIES ......................................................................................................... 120 DEVICE NAVIGATOR ................................................................................................................................. 134

Hierarchical sorting of project data ................................................................................................... 135 Tabular sorting of project data ........................................................................................................... 136 Filtering Project Data in the Device Navigator .................................................................................. 138

NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 141

CHAPTER 9: MOUNTING PANEL ........................................................................................................ 144

PLACING MOUNTING PANELS ................................................................................................................... 144 PLACE MOUNTING PANELS FROM PARTS MANAGEMENT ........................................................................... 144 FREELY PLACING MOUNTING PANELS ....................................................................................................... 146 PLACING ITEMS ON THE MOUNTING PANEL .............................................................................................. 148



PLACING ITEMS WITHOUT SCHEMATIC..................................................................................................... 149 PLACING ITEMS ON THE DIN RAIL ............................................................................................................ 151 GENERATING LEGENDS ............................................................................................................................. 151

Create page legends ............................................................................................................................ 151 Create window legends ....................................................................................................................... 155

UPDATING THE MAIN ELEMENTS .............................................................................................................. 161 USING JUMP FUNCTIONS ........................................................................................................................... 162 NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 163

CHAPTER 10: SEARCH PROJECT DATA ........................................................................................... 165

FIND AND REPLACE ............................................................................................................................ 165 Finding Project Data .......................................................................................................................... 165 Show search results ............................................................................................................................. 167 Replacing Project Data ....................................................................................................................... 167

NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 169

CHAPTER 11: PROJECT CHECK ......................................................................................................... 173

MESSAGE MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................. 173 Configuring Project Checks ................................................................................................................ 173 Checking Project Data ........................................................................................................................ 175 Check offline ........................................................................................................................................ 175

NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 177

CHAPTER 12: REPORTS ......................................................................................................................... 180

ASSIGNING TYPE OF FORM ............................................................................................................... 180 Creating a Report Template ................................................................................................................ 181 Creating a Report From a Template ................................................................................................... 183 Generating Project Reports ................................................................................................................ 184

FREE PLACEMENT REPORT ............................................................................................................... 185 UPDATING REPORT ............................................................................................................................. 188

Update in the page navigator .............................................................................................................. 188 Update in the report overview ............................................................................................................. 190

NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 191

CHAPTER 13: OUTPUT ........................................................................................................................... 193

PRINT ...................................................................................................................................................... 193 PRINT PDF .............................................................................................................................................. 196 DXF/DWG ............................................................................................................................................... 198

Exporting Pages in DXF / DWG Format ............................................................................................ 198 Importing Pages in DXF / DWG Format ............................................................................................ 202

NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 204

CHAPTER 14: TIP AND TRICKS ........................................................................................................... 206

FINDING THE NEW DEVICE TAG ...................................................................................................... 206 PLACING A DEVICE WOTHOUT OPENING THE BOX PROPERTIES ......................................... 206 PREDEFINATION OF THE IDENTIFIERS ....................................................................................... 207 EDIT IN TABLE FUNCTION ............................................................................................................. 213

NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 216

CHAPTER 15: KEYBOARD SHORTCUT ............................................................................................. 219

NOTE ....................................................................................................................................................... 220


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Chapter 1: STARTING EPLAN

INSTALLATION

Insert the EPLAN CD into your ROM, and if your computer runs automatically, You should see the the screen below. Select the program and setup language and click INSTALL. You should see the fig below. Select Next.



Accept the license and select Next. Click the Installat button



Select Finish. Now go to your desktop, shift + double click on EPLAN icon Go to Local license and then Enter an unlock code



Enter the Unlock code provided by the EPLAN and select Install. Click Ok.



Select Always use highlighted license for Select license automatically column and select Start.

Your eplan will start automatically.



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Chapter 2: USER INTERFACE

DIALOG

Dialog allow you to make and change setting, sort data, select command an processes, manage data, edit properties and etc. Dialog contain different controls element depending on their program function and their specific use. The following sections provide information relating to the different types of dialog.

Dockable Dialogs

The Page navigator, the device navigators and the Message management are "dockable" dialogs. This means that these dialogs can be positioned anywhere inside or outside the EPLAN main window, as with menus and toolbars. Within the main window, you can position dockable dialogs at the top, left, bottom or right of the window borders, and also dock them to other dockable elements.

Message And Notification Windows

These dialogs inform you about particular settings or possible errors, or require you to answer a confirmation (security) question. The window size of these dialogs cannot be changed.

Selection Dialogs

Selection dialogs offer objects for selection, such as the Navigators or Symbol selection. In these dialogs, you can choose between a tree or list view of the data, where the objects are displayed in a hierarchical structure in the tree view and are alphanumerically sorted in the list view. Selection dialogs have a "memory", i.e. when they are subsequently called up, as far as it is possible they display the same information in the same manner as the last time they were called up. A selection dialog that was closed with the List tab in the foreground, will again show this tab when it is re-opened and will jump to the line that was selected in the last editing operation. If this is not possible (because the list sequence has changed, or the last selected object has been deleted or renamed) then it jumps to the first line in the list. The same is naturally true for the tree view: When re-opened, this automatically displays the most recently opened branch in the hierarchy, as far as this is possible. You can use filters to define the data to be displayed in both types of view.

Subsequent Dialogs

Some dialogs cause a subsequent dialog to be displayed. This is subordinate to the calling dialog and is opened using a button. For this reason, the subsequent dialog must be closed before further settings can be made in the first dialog.



Write Protected Dialogs

These dialogs contain data that can only be edited by users having specific access rights. Other users without these rights can only read the data and may not enter data. A dialog may be completely write-protected or individual dialog elements, e.g. a check box, may be write-protected because the data source is write-protected. In such cases, the system refuses to accept the data entry and a message notifies you of the missing access rights.

WORKSPACES

An EPLAN workspace includes the size and position of the EPLAN main window as well as the positions, sizes and settings of the "dockable" dialogs, menus, and toolbars. User-defined toolbars are also saved with a workspace. This is handy, for example, for adjusting EPLAN to different project planning tasks. You can switch to PLC editing at the "push of a button", for example, and automatically open all of the dialogs you need for that whereby positions and settings are already specified. All unnecessary dialogs are automatically closed. Work areas can be saved as schemes at any time and then selected or deleted at a later date. With EPLAN you can use several predefined work areas in the Workspace dialog, which you can use as a template for future work areas, for example. Just as you usually can with the schemes, you can also create, copy, delete, import and export schematics for the work area by using a toolbar.

Define workspaces

You have opened a project and adjusted the user interfaces of EPLAN for certain project planning task. To create a new workspace.



Go to view, workspaces Select new as shown below:



Type in the new scheme name and the description name. Then click OK. click OK. In future, to call out a work space, go to view, workspaces, select the workspaces you one.



Select OK.

TOOLBARS

As standard, the toolbars are located below the menu bar and consist of buttons allowing you to directly call up the most important EPLAN functions. Toolbars can be revealed and hidden using the popup menu: Click an empty area on the menu or toolbar with the right mouse button and all available toolbars will then be displayed and can be selected / deselected. Non-available toolbar symbols are displayed grayed out. As "dockable" control elements, you can position the toolbars anywhere on the screen, even outside the EPLAN main window, by clicking and holding the left mouse button on the toolbar title bar and then pulling it to the desired position.

Customized Toolbars

When you move the cursor over a symbol in a toolbar, then a small text window is displayed below the symbol with a description. Whether or not these so-called Tooltip boxes are displayed depends on the appropriate setting in the Adjust dialog. An additional setting in the user interface settings allows you to specify whether a possible key combination is also displayed in the text window. The Adjust dialog also allows you to adjust and extend the toolbars. It is also possible to combine frequent commands into a single toolbar. In order to retain your personal and / or adjusted toolbars when changing workspaces, you must save these as part of the current workspace. Using export and import you can copy user-defined toolbars to other workspaces or make them available to other users. You can also extend the toolbars with buttons linked to other actions and menu items within the program.



To Customize the toolbar, e.g. want to add a new toolbar for updates report, go to NEW



Give a toolbar names and press OK Go to the commands tabs, select menu, search for utilities, reports, update. Drag and place in the new toolbar then press OK.



Here you go. A new toolbar!

KEYBOARD SHORTCUT

In EPLAN, you can edit and create key combinations assigned to particular menu commands. You can go to options, keyboard shortcuts



E.g. want to add a shortcut key for updates report, select ultilities, report, updates, click CREATE To add F3 as a keyboard shortcut, just type F3 and click ok.



SCHEME

A scheme is a group of settings that are stored together under a particular name. For most settings, there are standard schemes from EPLAN that you can't edit. These are stored during the installation in their own directory (by default under\Schemes\ on the drive and in the directory where EPLAN is installed). There are (e.g.) schemes for labels, numbering settings for devices, cables, workspaces etc. If the default schemes do not suit all your needs, then you can create your own user-defined schemes: Using the toolbar next to the Scheme field, you can create schemes, save changes to a scheme, copy a scheme, edit schemes, or delete schemes. Schemes can also be imported or exported.

New

Save

Copy

Delete

Import

Export



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Chapter 3: PROJECT MANAGEMENT

WHAT IS A PROJECT?

In EPLAN, schematics and attached documents such as lists and overviews are created as pages within projects. A project is a database in which, besides the project pages, all master data used in the project (symbols, plot frames, forms, parts data, etc.) is stored. Projects are stored and organized in a second database the so-called project management.

OPENING A PROJECT

To call a project, go to PROJECT, OPEN. Select the project you want to open, and click OPEN.



Here you go.

CREATING A PROJECT

To create a new project, go to project, new



Select either one of the parameter

IEC_bas001.epb = Structure Numbering Num_bad001.epd = Serial Numbering

Click OPEN.



Type in your project name in the file name column and click SAVE.



Fill in your project properties information here, then click ok. To know more detail about project properties, please refer to PROJECT PROPERTIES.

Here you are, a project is created.



PROJECT PROPERTIES

Project properties is the information describing the project. For example company name, company address, project approved by, date and etc.

COPYING AND DELETING PROJECTS

To copy a project Go to your page properties, select the project you want to copy, press ctrl+c Go to the project where you want it to be copied to, press ctrl + v



In the target coumn, select where you want the pages the pages to be inserted. Then press ok The newly added 2 pages are copied into a new project.



To delete a project. Then go to project delete



Select Yes to all.

COMPRESSING PROJECTS

This compression is a completely separate action from the project compression function, and is performed by a separate EPLAN module which reorganizes the project database. The function irretrievably removes any deleted pages from the project and removes gaps in the database. The project can be examined at the same time for data consistency. In addition, you can continue to edit a compressed project with the standard EPLAN graphics functions. Only the deleted pages can no longer be accessed.



Press OK. Compressing in Process Click CLOSE.



BACK UP AND RESTORE PROJECTS

Back up

The backing up and forwarding of projects and master data are important parts of project planning. Using the backup system, you can back up and restore all of the data that you have created. This field defined the method that EPLAN used for backing up data. For automated backups, the "Extra storage" method is available. Here, the data is compressed as a *.zw1 file and saved in the directory that you have selected in the Backup directory field. The source project remains unchanged. To back up a project, go to Project, back up, project..



Press OK.

Press OK.



Press OK.



Restore

Projects can be restored from the page navigator and from the project management. As standard, all master data is restored on a project basis and then finally compared with the master data pool. If differences exist, then you must decide which data you wish to use. To restore the project, go to project, restore, project.



Process of restoring ..

If differences exist, then you must decide which data you wish to use. Click Yes if you would like to overwrite the original one. Click no if you do not wish to overwrite the original copy

Press ok



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