Tree Control Properties - General

To display/modify tree control properties,

  • right-click anywhere in the Project window's tree (Sheet tab, Device, Panel-Placed tab, Panel-Unplaced tab...) and select the Tree Control Properties... command from the displayed context menu and select the General tab.

     

    The Tree Control Properties dialog appears:

     

 

General

Name

Enter a new tree's name or modify the name of an existing tree.

Select the button to select a translatable name.

 

A dialog appears containing one row for each user interface language existing under the Language column. The second column is used to define the Name for the corresponding language:

 

Other Icon...

Defines the icon, which is displayed in the tree's tab. The icon can be selected from the existing icons of the EXE file or from any DLL or EXE file. Clicking on the button opens the Change Icon file:

 
Show these objects

Object

The following objects can be defined or displayed:

  • Devices

    • Symbols

      • Pins

    • Models

      • Pins

      • Slots
      • Contours

  • Sheets

    • Fields

Devices

Display devices. The Info Column's selection list contains the following:

  • <no entry>: No output in the info column.

  • Component name: The device's component name is displayed in the info column.

  • <Attribute>: Attributes assigned the following owners can be selected: device, connector, block connector, cable, component, cable type.

Symbols

Display symbols. Placement defines, whether to display

  • All symbols,

  • only those that are Placed or

  • only those that are Unplaced.

 

The Info Column's selection list contains the following:

  • <no entry>: No output in the info column.

  • <Attribute>: Attributes assigned the following owners can be selected: symbol, database symbol.

Pins (Devices)

Display pins. The Info Column's selection list contains the following:

  • <no entry>: No output in the info column.

  • Wire name: Displays the wire name in the info column.

    Click here for information on wire name's display type.

  • Signal name: Displays the signal name for pins and conductors in the info column.

  • <Color>: Displays the wire color in the info column.

  • <Cross-section>: Displays the wire's cross-section in the info column.

  • <Attribute>: Attributes assigned the following owners can be selected: device pin, connector pin, block connector pin, component pin.

 

Note

Conductor/ wire attributes can also be selected as pins. These are then correspondingly displayed in the info column of conductors/wires.

Models

Display models. Placement defines, whether to display

  • All models,

  • only those that are Placed or

  • only those that are Unplaced.

 

The Info Column's selection list contains the following:

  • <no entry>: No output in the info column.

  • Model name: Displays the model name in the info column.

  • <Attribute>: Attributes assigned the following owners can be selected: device, connector, block connector, cable, component, cable type.

Pins (Models)

Display pins. The Info Column's selection list contains the following:

  • <no entry>: No output in the info column.

  • <Attribute>: Attributes assigned the following owners can be selected: device pin, connector pin, block connector pin, component pin.

 

Slots

Display slots. The Info Column's selection list contains the following:

  • <no entry>: No output in the info column.

  • <2D sheet view>

  • <Slot description>: Displays the slot's description.

  • <Slot distance to origin>: Displays the distance between slot and model origin.

  • <Slot direction>: Displays the slot's direction.

     

    When the direction of the slots is displayed, the user can select all slots with a desired direction and create a 2D view of them.

     

    2D views of slots created in the tree view, display only those devices that are placed on the selected slots.

 

Slots are listed below the view for which they are created.

 

The different slot types Point, Line and Area are represented by the following icons:

 

(Point)

(Line)

 (Area)

 

To directly jump to the sheet and highlight a slot, double-click on the desired slot of a placed model.

 

To display a slot's properties in the dialog Model Properties, select the command Model Properties... in the slot's context menu.

 

Note

Slot names can be changed in Database Editor.

Contours

Display contours. It's possible to display

  • All contours, or
  • only those contours Dynamically defined.

Functional Objects

-- This option is only available, when a E3.FunctionalDesignor E3.topology licencse is present! --

 

Display functional objects (such as functional units, ports, installation spaces etc.).

Functional units and their ports are always displayed below their corresponding functional block or installation space.

 

See also: Functional Design / Topology

Sheets

Display sheets. The Info Column's selection list contains the following:

  • <no entry>: No output in the info column.

  • <Attribute>: Any (sheet) attribute can be selected that is displayed as a description on every sheet.

Fields

Displays the fields placed in the project and the structure node to which they belong. The fields can be moved by Drag&Drop into other structure nodes.

 

Note

If a field belongs to the same structure node as a sheet on which the field is placed, the field is displayed only below the corresponding sheet. What is more, fields can be displayed within a sheet.

 

The Sheet tree view can thus show the sheets that contain fields and the structure node to which the fields belong:

 

Placement

Defines the objects to be displayed: All, Unplaced or Placed objects.

Info column

Defines what is displayed in the Project window's info column. The drop-down list contains all attributes available in the database.

 

Pressing the button opens the Info Column dialog in which more attributes can be selected that are displayed as additional information in the Project window.

 

Note

Individual info columns are available for the individual objects.

 

 

Available

All attributes possible for the corresponding object are listed.

Pressing the arrow button moves the selected attribute from list into the table with the information to be used.

 

Note

Attributes, which may appear on the same object repeatedly, can also be assigned repeatedly.

 

(So that an attribute can be assigned repeatedly to an object, the check box Single instance must be deactivated for the corresponding attribute in Database Editor Mode under Format -> Attribute Names....)

 

Displayed

Lists the attributes used:

Pressing the arrow button moves the selected attribute one position upwards in the list.

Pressing the arrow button moves the selected object one position downwards in the list.

Pressing the arrow button returns the selected attribute back to the list of available attributes in the left hand column.

 

Show View(s)

This option defines, whether

  • All views,

  • only the Original view

  • or several other views shall be displayed.

 

Example:

 

 

All views available in project are displayed.

 

 

Only the original and first views are displayed.

Schematic type(s)

The display can depend on one or several schematic types:

  • Electric

  • Hydraulic

  • Pneumatic

  • Process, measurement and control

  • Panel Symbol

  • Tubes + instruments

  • Single line diagram

  • <user-defined schematic types>

 

See also: Various schematic types

Formboard(s)

This option is only available, when a E3.formboard license is present!

 

Individual Formboard(s) can be used as "filter". The Device tree then displays only the devices, connectors, cables, sheets of a certain formboard. This means the trees can be structured according to the formboards.

 

It is also possible to simultaneously define 'normal' views.

 

The drop-down list displays all formboard sheets available.

 

The option defines, whether

  • All formboard sheets,

  • or several other formboard sheets shall be displayed.

 

Note

The option Unused Formboard view appears only if at least one unplaced Formboard view arises by deleting a Formboard sheet in project.

 

See also: Formboard functionality

 

Note

In user-defined tree views, sometimes not all of the commands can be executed directly in the structure because the folders, which are displayed in this view, represent a summary of structure nodes and are therefore not clear.

 

However, the complete E3.series functionality is possible in the sorted trees in a flat structure (structure_template_classic.xml).

 

See also: Project Properties

 

Special characters should be used in the tree name (e.g. ! character) to identify whether the tree contains the complete structure or the tree is dynamically sorted.