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How to Configure Cable and Wire Symbols

Cable and Wire Symbols

Cable and wire marker symbols are inserted from specific functions rather than icon menus, so they do not offer a choice of symbol during insertion. If you wish to use a different symbol for a particular conductor maker you can change the cable or wire marker symbol that will be inserted in the preferences dialog or in the menu entry.

Procedure

  1. Choose Preferences from the Elecdes Menu. You will be presented with the Elecdes Preferences Dialog.

  2. Go to the Cables/Wires tab page.

  3. You will see the Conductor Symbols group box shown below:

  4. Choose the desired symbol for each type of conductor marker from the drop down lists.

    The drop down lists are filled with all of the suitable symbols that are found in the symbol directories of your Elecdes installation.

Cable and wire symbols specified in the menu file

The following is a part of an example Elecdes menu file (scada.mnu) that contains the conductor marker insertion entries:

ID_MnWire [->Wire and Cable ]

ID_wnum [Place panel wire number ]^C^C(setq wiresymbname "");mwirenum

ID_wext [Place panel wire extension ]^C^C(setq wireextsymbname "");mwireext

ID_cnum [Place Cable Core marker ]^C^C(setq cablnumsymbname "cable5");mcablnum

ID_cext [Place Cable Core extension ]^C^C(setq cablextsymbname "");mcablext

ID_c1li [Place 1 Line Cable marker ]^C^C(setq cabl1lsymbname "");(setq cp1lsymbname "");mcabl1l

Each conductor marker insertion function will check a lisp variable for the symbol name that is to be inserted, e.g. The function mwireext will check for a symbol name in the variable wireextsymbname.

  • If the varaibles are blank (set to "" as most are in the example above) then the symbol name from the preferences that are described above will be used.

  • If the variables contain a symbol name, e.g. cablnumsymbname is set to "cable5", then that symbol will be inserted by that menu entry.

  • The single line cable maker insertion function, mcabl1l, can switch between two different symbols (normal and extra) so it has two variables: cabl1lsymbname and cp1lsymbname.