Set drawing types

Electrical tab > Documents group > Drawing type menu > Set type for current drawing
  Electrical tab > Documents group >  Drawing type menu > Set type of selected drawings

When you set the drawing type, the correct ribbon tab related to that type opens when opening the drawing. The drawing type is saved to the drawing file.

  • With the Set type for current drawing function, you can set the type for the currently open drawing by selecting the type from the list and confirming the selection by clicking OK.

  • With the Set type of selected drawings function, you can set the same drawing type for multiple drawings simultaneously. First select the drawings (.drw) for which you want to set the drawing type, then select the drawing type and confirm it by clicking OK. The program then asks if you want to set the same type for all the other selected drawings as well – click Yes.

The possible drawing types are:

  • Single-line diagram – For creating any kind of single-line documents such as key single-line, distribution single-line, and block diagrams.

  • Load diagram – For creating horizontal and vertical load diagrams presenting feeders of one distribution board by using feeder symbol packages defined in feeder properties

  • Distribution board (table) – A special type to be used only with the old Distribution board table style where graphical feeder package symbols are combined to a table

  • Arrangement – For creating arrangement documents with real measurements in the model space. Distances can be measured from the documents, and the X, Y and Z coordinates are saved to the Electrical database.

  • Arrangement (not in scale) – For creating arrangement documents without any measurements, such as cable length

  • Multi-line diagram – For all kinds of schematics and multi-line style documents utilizing the sheet method: in the same drawing file, the different sheets are located on different layers

  • Cabinet layout – For cabinet layouts drawn with real measurement in the model space.

  • Table – An Electrical document type for old table forms. Functions related to this drawing type are located on the Electrical tab, so you need to activate another toolset by selecting a drawing, which has a drawing type set.

  • Other – For handling basic CAD documents done with another software, mostly using basic CAD functions.

You can also set the drawing type when you create a new drawing.