How to Route Wires on Multiple Panel Models
General
A complete design may consist of many panel models in individual drawings. Each drawing is a partial model that shows only part of the overall design.
Paneldes supports completing the wire route optimisation procedure for one wire schedule by executing the route optimisation repeatedly, each time on a different partial model. The route optimisation procedure can be executed on each model independently, without erasing the results obtained from the other partial models.
Paneldes also supports XREFing the partial models into a master model and executing the route optimisation procedure once on the complete model. See How to break a large model into smaller models.
Procedure
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Click on button Route and View Wires on Wire and Cable Manager dialog for performing Wire Route Optimisation on Partial Models.
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Choose the appropriate Paneldes options from the Routing: Wires preferences page before performing the Wire Route Optimisation procedure.
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Ignore internal wires
If you enable the options Ignore external wires and Ignore missing / frozen terminations, then you can execute the wire route optimisation on a model that shows only one panel of many. Paneldes will not attempt to find a route for any wire that is connected outside the panel or for which the terminations are missing or on a frozen layer.
Instead of producing a warning about terminations that are missing, any previously calculated wire route length and route name will be carried forward unmodified into the results of this route optimisation pass.
You can then load the model for the next panel and re-run the route optimisation on that next panel model. The results of route optimisation for this panel model will be carried forward into the results of the route optimisation on the next model.
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Ignore external wires
Similarly, if you enable the options Ignore internal wires and Ignore missing / frozen terminations, then you can execute the wire route optimisation on a plant model that shows all of the panels, but none of the detail within them. Paneldes will not attempt to find a route for any wire that is connected only within a panel or for which terminations are missing or on a frozen layer.
Any route lengths and route names for internal wires, calculated from each of the detailed panel models, will be carried forward unmodified into the results of the wire route optimisation for the plant model.
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Optimise wire Lengths
This option must be enabled to allow Paneldes to execute the Wire Termination Optimisation procedure.
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Choose the appropriate Paneldes options from the Routing: General preferences page before performing the Wire Route Optimisation procedure.
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Ignore missing / frozen terminations
Instead of producing a warning about terminations that are missing or on a frozen layer, any previously calculated wire route length and route name will be carried forward unmodified into the results of this route optimisation pass.
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Once all the appropriate selections have been made follow the wire routing procedure.
See also
How to break a large model into smaller models
How to generate wire and cable routes