Single Line Cabling Diagrams

There are two types of cable elements:

• Cables - connector shapes representing a single cable line.

• Multi-cables - connector shapes representing a set of cables (refer to Working with Multi-cables for further information).

Both types listed above are created by dragging and dropping corresponding shapes from the stencil. Cables and Multi-cables can be connected to equipment items in four different ways:

• Connected to the centre point of the equipment item. This means that the shape representing the equipment item does not have to have any connection points defined.

• Connected to a predefined connection point on the equipment item.

• Connected to an electrical connection element on the equipment item.

• By applying the Connection to Nested Symbol method (refer to Connecting Cable Elements to Nested Symbol for further information).

For renaming cables there is a special Rename Chain function in the Tools Tab > Naming > Auto Naming > Rename Elements function (refer to Rename Elements).

Note:
That you might have to refresh the shapes to update annotation . on the drawing, after the Rename operation is complete.

Electrical equipment items can be created in the same way as other equipment items. See the Using Equipment and Subequipment. For cabling diagrams, electrical connection elements can be used. These behave very much like piping nozzles, see Using Nozzles.