Place Ellipse

Ellipses consist of three points: Start Point and End Point which define the width and height of the ellipse and Rotation Point which rotates the ellipse around the Start Point.

• Click on the ellipse button.
  The text Click on ellipse start point will appear near the mouse cursor.
• At this point, right-clicking the mouse will cancel the ellipse placement.
• Left clicking the mouse will create an ellipse start point.
  The text Click on ellipse end point will appear near the mouse cursor.
• At this point, right-clicking the mouse will reset the placement back to
  Click on ellipse start point.
• Move the mouse to draw the ellipse size out where you want it.
• You can 'pan' the schematic by dragging with the right mouse button.
• Left-click the mouse to place the end point of the ellipse. This will also create a rotate point.
• The software will now be ready to place another ellipse. Either right-click the mouse to cancel or press the ESC button on the keyboard.

After the ellipse is placed, the points can be dragged to reshape it.

Often you may need to show point handles to help locate points such as the adjustment point. Point handle display is toggled using the TAB keyboard button or by clicking the toolbar button.

Place Text

• Click on the text button.
  The text Click on text start point will appear near the mouse cursor.
• At this point, right-clicking the mouse will cancel the text placement.
• Left clicking the mouse will create a text start point and the properties dialog will open.
• The Text field will be focussed so you can enter the required text.
• The text alignment, baseline, font size, opacity and line color can be changed.
• Checking the Vertical Text box will make the text render vertically.
• The Text Rotate point can be used to rotate the text 0 to 359.9°.

After the text is placed, the points can be dragged to reposition or rotate it.

Often you may need to show point handles to help locate points such as the start or rotation point. Point handle display is toggled using the TAB keyboard button or by clicking the toolbar button.

Horizontal Text

Vertical Text

Rotated Text

Place Multiline Text

Multi-line text objects consist of two points: Start Point and End Point.

• Click on the multiline text button.
  The text Click on multiline text start point will appear near the mouse cursor.
• At this point, right-clicking the mouse will cancel the multiline text placement.
• Left clicking the mouse will create a multi-line text start point.
  The text Click on multiline text end point will appear near the mouse cursor.
• At this point, right-clicking the mouse will reset the placement back to
  Click on multiline start point.
• Move the mouse to draw the multiline textbox out where you want it to go.
• You can 'pan' the schematic by dragging with the right mouse button.
• Left-click the mouse to finish placing the multiline text object
• The software will now be ready to place another multiline text object. Either right-click the mouse to cancel or press the ESC button on the keyboard.

Place Ladder

(Schematic Editor only).

Clicking on the 'place ladder' toolbar button will bring up the Ladder Config dialog.

This is where you can select whether the ladder has any prefixed character such as 'L' or sequence of prefixed characters.

It is also where you can select postfixed numbers or characters.

In the Text Format you can type in any text. If you add a '#' then that character will be replaced by a number.

If an asterix '*' exists in the Text Format field then it will be replaced by a character.

The starting number (if '#' exists in Text Format) is defined by the Start Number field while the starting character is defined by teh Start Character field.

The number of lines, line spacing, color, opacity and font size are all definable in this dialog.

Ladders are often used in electrical schematics where 'ladder logic' is used to best describe the system.

Example Ladder Diagram

Place GND

(Component Library and Schematic Editors only).

Clicking the Place GND toolbar button will produce a ground symbol:

GND objects are really a styled Label object which means if you hover your mouse on a GND, all other GND objects are highlighted and all label objects with the tag 'GND' are also hightlighted.

This helps to see all connected GND points in a schematic.

Ground and Label Symbols

Example selection of GND and label objects.

Ground and Label Symbols

Hovering on a GND symbol highlights all other GND symbols in the schematic.

Note that the label with the tag 'GND' is now also highlighted.

Place Origin

Selecting this toolbar option doesn't place another origin (an origin object will always exist in all editors (Component Library, Schematic and Layout) and only one can exist at one time) but it allows you to find the origin and drag it to where you need it to be.

'Placing' (dragging) the origin object.

The origin position is the 'origin' for the mouse coordinate display in the toolbar.

This image shows a close up of the origin object in a schematic and also the mouse coordinate display in the toolbar.

The mouse cursor is currently 30 pixels to the right and 20 pixels below the origin.

In the Layout Module, the cursor position will be in grid units (mm, cm, mil, inches).

Repositioning the origin can be usefull to take quick measurements in grid units using the mouse coordinate display in the toolbar. Dimension objects can also be used to take measurements.

Place Interconnect

This toolbar option is only available in the Component Library Editor.

Interconnects are included in the Component Library Editor because many components (PLCs, Loggers, Modems, Analog IO, Digital IO etc.) have common connections which are often ground, but also common connections isolated from the component's ground.

A logger or PLC may have many external connections which are internally linked.

For example, a YDOC logger has it's power reference (GND) terminal internally connected to all digital IO references and analog IO references.

Interconnects are a convenient method to indicate these internal connections to the electrical schematic designer.

Most often, the data sheet of a PLC / Logger does not provide any electrical information regarding these internally connected points, so interconnects do not have any electrical properties such as voltage or current range etc, but they do act as internal wires and all interconnects with the same ID number will appear connected in all three editor modules.

To place an interconnect, click the toolbar button.

If you are placing the first set of interconnects in the component the text Placing Interconnect_1 will appear near the mouse cursor.

Repeatedly clicking around the screen will place interconnect objects.

Right-clicking on the screen or pressing the ESC keyboard button will end the interconnect placing.

If a set of interconnects already exist in the component, then the interconnect select dialog will appear:

Interconnect Select Dialog

Interconnect Select Dialog has a drop-down list where you can select an existing group of interconnects to add to, or create a new group.

Interconnects with the same group number are connected electrically.

Interconnects in Component Editor

Image of several interconnects.

Hovered on Interconnects

Hovering on an interconnect will highlight all other interconnects with the same interconnect number.

Overlapping Points with Interconnects

If an object is connected to an interconnect then hovering over any of them will display the object in the overlapping points list.
In this case, a line end-point is touching an interconnect point.

Place Component

Clicking on this toolbar button will open the parts picker.

In the Layout Editor, this button allows you to place parts that do not exist in the schematic.

Hovering over a part in this parts picker will provide a small image of the schematic symbol and the footprint graphics (if defined).

Clicking on a part will place it in the schematic drawing (if you are in the Schematic Editor) or in the layout drawing (if you are in the Layout Editor).

You can load parts from the Default database or from your own Custom database.

The Default database is updated from the deltaPhy server. Any updates to this database will leave your Custom database unaltered.

Alternatively you can click the button next to the Default database tab to open the parts picker dialog. This dialog uses the same database as the parts picker, but displays it differently.

This is the same dialog used in the Component Library Editor. We added it here because it may suit some people better than the default parts picker.

This parts picker dialog is viewing the IEC Symbols category.

You can either double-click a part or click once to select it, then click the Open button to place the part in either the Schematic or Layout Editors.

Checking the 'Show Footprints' box will display the part's footprints if defined. If the footprint is not defined, the schematic symbol is displayed with a light red background.

The checkbox labelled Thumbnails will display graphics (if checked) or just the component's name in text (if unchecked).

The dialog also indicates any component errors. Errors are indicated by a slightly red background and red text.

Hovering over the component provides some detail about the fault via a 'tooltip'.

You can still place the part in the Schematic Editor, but if there are no footprints for example, you won't be able to place the part in the Layout Editor.

After placing the component, it will be dragged around the screen with the mouse.

Pressing the SPACE BAR keyboard button will rotate the component left by 90°.

Left-clicking the mouse will place it on the schematic / layout.

Place Component - Layout Editor

Clicking on this toolbar button will open the parts picker for components that exist in the schematic.

Placing parts from the schematic will enable air-wires to be displayed to indicate how the components should be connected / wired according to the schematic drawing.

Click on the parts you require to be placed in the layout.

Click the Update Layout button and the Confirmation Dialog will be displayed.

Click the Yes button and the parts will be placed in the current layout.

Place Wire

integrated-System Design wires are not just graphical lines. When hovering over a length of wire or on wire nodes / points, a list of objects attached to the wire is displayed.

This list is the Overlapping Objects List and appears at the top-right side of the window.

In the Schematic Design module, any object directly under the mouse is listed at the top and separated by a line from those objects connected to the wire. The objects directly under the mouse can be selected using the SPACE BAR or the ↑ and ↓ buttons.

Wires can be placed via the wire & cable picker which is accessed using the toolbar button in the Schematic and Layout editors.

Each left-click will place a wire point or 'node'. Pressing the ← (backspace) keyboard button will remove the last wire node.

Right-clicking or pressing the ESC keyboard button will terminate the wire placement.

When placing wires, they can be forced to the nearest 45° and 90° angle using the toolbar button. Clicking This button will toggle the enforcement. If the toolbar button is colored blue, the feature is active. If it has a dark background, the feature is inactive.

Wires can be created in the Component Library Editor using the Electrical Properties Dialog.

Wire Picker Dialog.

Wire Picker Dialog with My Fourth Wire being hovered over. A tooltip to the right provides information on the wire being hovered on.

Click one of the wire buttons to place it on the schematic sheet.

Example Wire

Place Cable

Cables can be created in the Component Library Editor and can contain any number of wires that have been defined.

Cables can be placed via the wire & cable picker which is accessed using the toolbar button.

Click on one of the cable buttons to select it and start placing it.

Each left-click will place a cable point or 'node'. Pressing the ← (backspace) keyboard button will remove the last cable node.

Right-clicking or pressing the ESC keyboard button will terminate the cable placement.

When placing cables, they can be forced to the nearest 45° and 90° angle using the toolbar button. Clicking This button will toggle the enforcement. If the toolbar button is colored blue, the feature is active. If it has a dark background, the feature is inactive.

Cables can be created in the Component Library Editor using the Electrical Properties Dialog.

Cable Picker Dialog.

Cable Picker Dialog with 3-Way GP cable being hovered over. A tooltip to the right provides information on the cable being hovered on.

Click one of the cable buttons to place it on the schematic sheet.

Example 'Raw' Cable

Initially the cable will look similar to this image above. The wires and cable width can be styled as in the next image.

Cables can be placed and styled within the Component Library , Schematic and Layout Editors.

If the cable is placed within the Component Library Editor, it can be styled and saved as a component. This means it can be accessed from the Schematic and Layout Editors easily using the Parts Picker (via the Place menu button)

Styled cables can also be saved in the Snippets library if you want to.

Example Styled Cable

This cable has wires and cable width styled using the 'Edit Properties' dialog.

Previous Wire / Cable Style Selection

In the Layout Editor previous wire / cable styles can be selected using this toolbar button.

This button will open the Previous Wire / Cable Styles menu.

Hovering on any of the previous styles will provide a tool-tip with information on the style.

Clicking on any of the styles will open the wire / cable selection menu where you can select the type of wire / cable you want to place.

Place Bus

Buses are often used in electronic / electrical schematics as a convenient way to indicate multiple connections.

Click on one of the toolbar button to start placing a bus.

Each left-click will place a bus point or 'node'. Pressing the ← (backspace) keyboard button will remove the last bus node.

Right-clicking or pressing the ESC keyboard button will terminate the bus placement.

When placing buses, they can be forced to the nearest 45° and 90° angle using the toolbar button. Clicking This button will toggle the enforcement. If the toolbar button is colored blue, the feature is active. If it has a dark background, the feature is inactive.

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Labels and wires can be attached to a bus. The labels can be formatted to suit 'bus entries' by using the context menu 'Make Bus Enry' option:

Example Bus in Schematic Editor

Hovering your mouse over any bus entry label (or any label) will highlight all other labels with the same tag.

This makes it easy to see where your connections are routed to in the schematic.

Place Label

Click on the 'place label' toolbar button to begin placing a label.

A label will be produced and will be dragged around under the mouse. It will be given a default 'tag' Label_1 will be the first default label tag.

You can change the tag to something more meaningful by right-clicking the label and selecting Edit Label Tag from the pop-up context menu.

Labels connect parts of a schematic diagram together.

If the mouse is hovered on a label point, all other labels with the same tag name will be highlighted.

The overlapping points list will also indicate all points that are connected to the labels.

In this example the label "0V" on the top left side is 'connected' to the "0V" label on the top right side of the drawing.

Within a sub-sheet, labels can allow sheet entries to be added to the sub-sheet. Adding sheet entries is done from the top-most sheet.

Using the context menu (right-click on label) several options can be accessed:

Changing the name of the label will change which other labels it will be connected to.

Using Make Bus Entry will format the graphic properties to have smaller font, transparent background which may be suitable for use with buses.

Place No-connection

The 'No-connection' object surpresses errors such as a non-connected electrical object or an unterminated wire end-point or start-point.

This image shows unterminated wire end-points. One has the 'unterminated error' symbol flashing (the red cross) while the other has a No-connection object attached to it.

These objects have a 'tag' property so you can put in an explanation why the wire was unterminated while at the same time, surpress any errors both in the schematic and in the schematic report.

Place Sub-sheet

When the Schematic Editor is opened (this is the main screen which is opened after the login screen) you will be viewing the "Top-most" schematic sheet.

This is the default sheet which can be used to create electrical drawings.

In addition to this sheet, an unlimited number of sub-sheets can be added.

Use the toolbar button to place a sub-sheet.

The new sub-sheet will be dragged around under the mouse and will be given a default name or 'tag'.

Left-click to place the sub-sheet. You can resize it as required and change line color, fill color, line width and style and opacity using the properties dialog.

You can change the tag by right-clicking and selecting: Edit Schematic Tag

The sub-sheet name gives it more context within the main (top-most) drawing.

For example, one sub-sheet may be called "Control Room" or "Packing Room" etc.

Sheets can be entered (to edit their contents) by double-clicking on them or right-clicking and using the pop-up context menu option 'Edit Schematic'.

Within each sub-sheet, layout sheets may be added which makes the sub-sheet fully self contained (schematic diagram and layout diagram(s) all in one).

This means you can save a commonly used schematic sub-sheet as a Snippet; it could contain layout(s) with enclosure(s) / cabinet(s). To use it in a project, load it from snippets and a good part of the job is already done.

Connections can be made from the top-most sheet to components within a sub-sheet by adding Sheet Entries and / or Floating Sheet Entries.

Example Multi-sheet Schematic

In this example there are 3 sub-sheets: 'Control Room', '240VAC Contactors', and 'Power Supply'.

These are all contained in the top-most schematic sheet.

In this example, schematic entries are set to act as labels, so the software considers sheet entries are connected to labels with the same name.

(Use the toolbar button to enable (or disable) schematic entries to act as labels)

This means the 3 labels '+24V', 'GND' and 'Ethernet' connected to the 'Control Room' sheet will also be connected to the other two sheets because their sheet entries will connect with the corresponding labels with the same names / tags.

If this is not suitable, the next drawing is redrawn so the connections are explicit and easier to see.

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Example of same schematic, redrawn for clarity.

Example Multi-sheet Schematic

You can add multiple sub-sheets to the top-level sheet and rename + color-code them as required.

Place Dimension Objects

Dimensions are placed using the toolbar button.

The text 'Click on dimension start point' is displayed near the mouse.

Right-clicking or pressing the ESC keyboard button will cancel the dimension placement.

Left click to place the start point, then drag the dimension out to where you need it and left click again to place it.

(After left-clicking to place the start point, right-clicking will remove the new dimension and the software will go back to displaying Click on dimension start point near the mouse cursor).

Dimension Objects in Schematic Editor

Edit the dimension object using the properties dialog to change the text. If there is no text then pixels will be displayed in Schematic Editor dimension objects.

Dimension Objects in Layout Editor

Edit the dimension object using the properties dialog to change the text. If there is no text then display units will be displayed in Layout Editor dimension objects.

Note the 5 'dots' appearing along the length of the dimension objects. These represent, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 points along the length which can be helpful when finding the mid-point or 1/4 point along a length.

Place Din Rail Objects

Din rails can be created and placed in the Component Library Editor and the Layout Editor modules.

Clicking the toolbar button will open the Din Rail Dialog where you can specify the width and height of the rail. These attributes are used when mounting a component on a rail in the Layout Editor

Image of Din Rail Object

When mounting a component to a rail in the Layout Editor, the software will look for other compatible rails and indicate this compatibility with dashed indication lines with a transparent green fill.

Mounting to Din Rail

This image shows a Procon Analog Input component being dragged. The Layout Editor indicates this component is compatible with both din rails.

Once mounted (or ready to mount) the component will be rotated to align itself with the rail.

Component Mounted / Ready to Mount

This image shows a component mounted to a rail. When hovering your mouse on the mounted component, the rail is highlighted in blue.

If the spacing between other mounted components is too small to fit a component being dragged, the collision will be indicated as in the image below.

This image shows two components mounted to a din rail. The middle component is being dragged to mount it to the rail between the two mounted components. The Layout Editor software indicates there is not enough room for the middle (dragged) component and will not allow it to be mounted between the two mounted components.

Place Din Recess Objects

This toolbar function is only available in the Component Library Editor and is only enabled in the Footprint View tab of the library editor.

Din Recesses are for components that are able to mount to a din rail.

Clicking this toolbar button will begin placing a din recess object.

Any component is is able to be mounted to a din rail will need a 'din recess' object.

This object is used in the Layout Editor to detect compatible din rails you may want to mount the component to.

The size and height of din rails present in the Layout Editor are compared with the din recess object of the component you are dragging.

If they are compatible you will see indication lines to show which din rails you are able to mount the component to.

After clicking on the 'place din recess' toolbar button, the following dialog will appear:

After the din recess dialog OK button is clicked you will see the following text next to the mouse cursor:

Next, click the left mouse button and drag the recess out to the size and rotation required.

At this point if you click the right mouse button, the process will revert back to the begining.

Pressing the ESC keyboard button will abort the din recess placing process.

If you click the left mouse button the recess will be placed and will look something like the following image:

Place the recess onto the component footprint to allow the component to be installed on a din rail in the Layout Editor.

In this image, the box is checked in the Component Library Editor user settings dialog.

This displays all objects in partial opacity except for the object currently being hovered on and can make it easier to see the object under the mouse.

Place Discrete Parts

This toolbar function is only available in the Component Library Editor and is only enabled in the Schematic Symbol View tab of the library editor.

The number of objects to create and their spacing can be selected using the dialog.

The option to distribute the objects horizontally is also there.

The Repeat Dialog allows you to create a number of discrete parts.

Select the objects you want to create a discrete part from and click the Create Discrete Parts toolbar button.

If an electrical object is detected in the selected objects, the name field in the Discrete Parts dialog will contain the electrical object name.

You can change that at anytime. If no electrical object exists, just type in a name.

This name will be listed in the Extract Discrete Objects dialog when you need to add the discrete parts

If there is a # character in any text object selected to be part of the group, the # will be replaced by a number. The number will increment for each member of the discrete group.

Similarly, if there is a * character in any text object, the * will be replaced by a letter.

The starting number and starting letter are both selectable from this dialog.

This image shows the Repeat Dialog. It is used for both Discrete Components and Graphic Repeats in the Component Library Editor.

This is the resulting group of Discrete Objects created from this dialog.

They are all grouped individually so moving Line 1 text will also move the line (and any other object that is part of the group).

Hovering on one of the object points will highlight all other object points that belong to the Discrete Group, in green so you can more easily see the other objects in the Discrete Group.

You can arrange them however you like in the Component Library Editor (symbol view) but when the component is placed in the Schematic Editor, the Discrete Groups will be hidden until extracted.

After extracting them, you can arrange them in the schematic drawing where you want them.

Place Block Repeats

This toolbar function is available in the Component Library Editor and is enabled in both the Schematic Symbol View and Footprint View tabs of the library editor.

It is also available in the Schematic Editor and functions in a similar way except it does not group the objects.

This is very similar to the Discrete Objects dialog, except this dialog does not create Discrete Objects, just groups of repeating objects.

The number of objects to create and their spacing can be selected using the dialog.

The option to distribute the objects horizontally is also there.

If there is a # character in any text object selected to be part of the group, the # will be replaced by a number. The number will increment for each member of the discrete group.

The starting number is selected in the dialog.

This is the resulting object set created from this dialog.

If there is a * character in any text object selected to be part of the group, the * will be replaced by a letter. The letter will increment for each member of the discrete group.

The starting letter is selected in the dialog.

This is the resulting object set created from this dialog.