Create I/O racks

Schematics tab > Devices group > I/O menu > Create I/O rack

With this function, you can create new I/O racks.

You can also start this function from the Devices (circuit) and Devices (location) project trees.

     

Do the following:

  1. In the New device dialog, define the desired information. The device type is I/O rack:

    • ID – Device ID

    • Customer ID – Optional, free-form ID for the device that can be displayed both in drawings and reports. For information on creating customer IDs, see Create customer IDs.

    • Description – Additional information about the device recorded in a report or a drawing.

    • Full ID – Full ID is constructed from location and device ID.

    • Device text 1-4 – In the figure, attributes of the device symbol: E_SYMBTXT1-4. The texts can be edited in the drawing and the data will be updated in the database.

    • Planning area – Reports and grouping, for example, can have this piece of information as a filtering value.

    • Location – Information about where the device is located.

    • Circuit – Additional information for the device.

    • Parent device – If this is sub-device, displays next device on hierarchy.

    • Device type – Reports and grouping, for example can have this piece of information as a filtering value.

    • Product model – If a device has been assigned a product model, it will be displayed here. You can remove the product model from a device by selecting the empty option from the drop-down menu or by clicking the button. In both cases, the Remove product model information from device  dialog opens and you can select the information you want to remove.

    • Size and position

      • X-size, Y-size and Z-size – Dimensions of the device: width (X), height (Y) and depth (Z).

      • Space info – If device is located in some space.

      • Shape – Shapes define the 3D presentation of the device if 3D symbol is not defined.

      • Elevation – Elevation of the device in drawing. This affects for example 3D generation of the device.

      • System – System of the device.

  2. Click OK.

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