Copy Equipment with Cables and Terminations

Electrical Wiring Manager supports copying existing equipment, specifically PLCs and Local Control Stations, and any 'From' cables (cables in the cable schedule with their 'From' ends defined as the equipment being copied). This features enables the copying of all 'From' cables and will terminate the new cables exactly as the original cables being copied.

To copy equipment along with cables and their terminations, from the Equipment View right-click on the PLC or Local Control Station node to be copied, click Copy (with 'From' Cables) from the context menu, right-click on the parent node under which the new equipment is to be placed (typically an 'Area', 'Building', or 'Room' node), and click Paste from the context menu.

The Copy Equipment with Cables window is then displayed, listing all the cables 'From' the original equipment:

This window also provides a field for entering the new Equipment Number.

To Select the Cables to be Copied

Check the Select checkbox for all cables to be copied.

To (Optionally) Rename the New Cables

Change the entry in the New Cable No. field to a new value (if this is not changed Electrical Wiring Manager will instead rename any existing Cable 'copy of XXXXXX' where XXXXXX is the original Cable Number).

To (Optionally) Change 'To' End of New Cables

If this is not changed the new cable is routed to the same 'To' equipment as the original cable.

To change a ‘To’ end, click the button which appears when the mouse cursor is hovered over an Equipment No. cell

The Select Equipment window is displayed, enabling the user to select any existing Equipment (or set the 'To' cable end to 'Not Connected').

• To select an equipment tag, double-click on the required tag or click on it and then click Select. The window is then closed and the number of the specified equipment is displayed in the Equipment No. cell.

• To create a new equipment tag, select New. This displays the Equipment Information window. Create the new equipment as described in Create New Equipment. The new equipment is then added to the list in the Select Equipment window.

• To copy an existing equipment tag, select the equipment from the list then select Copy Selected. This displays the Equipment Information window with the details of the selected equipment displayed. Amend these details as required and click Save. The new equipment is then added to the list in the Select Equipment window and is available for selection.

• To exit the window without selecting destination equipment, or to de-select destination equipment previously selected so that the other end of the cable is no longer connected, click either Not Connected or Exit.