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How to Suppress Duplicated Symbol Warnings

Fundamentals

The DUPLICATED warning is generated in the Ebase material reports if symbols in the project drawings have the same PNLNO and TAGNAME values and do not represent sibling subcomponents of the device.

When this is the case there is no way to determine the difference from those symbols in the reports and is thus flagged up as a warning.

This is the best warning to identify if a TAGNAME has accidentally been used for two or more different devices in the project.

In some circumstances it may have been the intention that the TAGNAME is duplicated within the project and in this case it may be desirable to suppress the warning for that duplication.

Procedure

  1. Add an attribute named "RSTATUS" (Report Status) to the symbol (block) that is being used as the duplicated component.

  2. Add a field named "RSTATUS" to the template_$DEVIC.dbf database in the RTEMPLATE directory of the Elecdes installation. This will allow the attribute added to the block in the step above to be filled in when the block is inserted. It will also allow that attribute to be modified in the global editor.

  3. Set the RSTATUS attribute of the duplicated symbol to the value "DUPLICATED". You can do this when the symbol is inserted or using the global editor.

  4. Regenerate the material reports. The duplicate warning will now be suppressed for the symbols that have their RSTATUS attribute set to DUPLICATED.

  5. In Paneldes it is possible to use the AUX2: field to provide an RSTATUS control code instead of adding an attribute. Simply add the text "RSTATUS:DUPLICATED" to the AUX2 field of a Paneldes component to control and suppress the duplicated warning.

Previous Procedure (still supported)

  1. Add an attribute named "DUPLICATE" to the symbol (block) that is being used as the duplicated component.

  2. Add a field named "DUPLICATE" to the template_$DEVIC.dbf database in the RTEMPLATE directory of the Elecdes installation. This will allow the attribute added to the block in the step above to be filled in when the block is inserted. It will also allow that attribute to be modified in the global editor.

  3. Set the DUPLICATE attribute of the duplicated symbol to be any non-blank value. You can do this when the symbol is inserted or using the global editor.

  4. Regenerate the material reports. The duplicate warning will now be suppressed for the symbols that have their DUPLICATE attributes set.

Combined values

If you need to combine two or more RSTATUS values then separate the values with a comma, e.g. "No XREF, DUPLICATED".