Schematic Control Center

The Schematic Control Center is launched by selecting the Schematic Control item from the Tools menu (or by button on Tool bar).  It is a convenient tool to set display attributes for circuit components, set display status for entire circuits, and apply device restrictions for components during certain applications.

Component Parameter:

• Display Local Name - Controls display setting of the Local Name (assigned in component setup dialog) for selected components or circuits.

• Display UID - Controls display setting of the UID (Unique Identifier, assigned in component setup dialog) for selected components or circuits.

• Display Text - Controls display setting of the Text field (assigned in component setup dialog) for selected components or circuits.

• Display Results - Controls display setting of the Results (from analysis run) for selected components or circuits.

• Allow Additional Devices - Controls whether an application is allowed to recommend addition of a new device adjacent to selected components or in selected circuits.  For example, see Capacitor Design setup.

• Allow Device Movement - Controls whether an application is allowed to recommend physical reconfiguration or phase change for selected components or circuits.  Note: Components which have Allow Device Movement set to NO, are indicated by having the Lock Cmp flag set (i.e. Checked) in their component properties dialog.  

Circuit & Feeders:

The text box lists all substations, circuits, and feeders for the active system.  The two Execute commands will generally act only upon components from the circuits selected here, except when the settings are applied to individually selected components.  In the screen shot above, general actions (i.e. Display/Hide, ALL Components...) would only be applied to circuits ckt1 and ckt4.  However, choosing to update parameter settings for Selected Components... would allow components from any circuit to be updated.   

Select All -  command is used to select all available circuits in the system for an general action update.  

Unselect All - command is used to clear all circuits from being selected.  

Pan > - command is used (with a single substation, circuit, or feeder selected in the text box) to center the drawing window display on the selected item.  

Desired Setting:

The desired status for the selected component parameters is defined in the Desired Setting drop-down text field.  This field must be set to the desired action before execution.  The update choices are:

• All Components NO - updates all selected component parameters for all components in the selected circuits to No (Off).

• All Components YES - updates all selected component parameters for all components in the selected circuits to Yes (On).

• Selected Components NO - updates all selected component parameters for each component the user picks to No (Off).

• Selected Components YES - updates all selected component parameters for each component the user picks to Yes (On).  

Execute - command under the Desired Setting selection updates selected Component Parameters to the desired setting indicated.  

Note: When desired setting of "Selected Components..." is executed, the mouse pointer finger ( ) is used to sequentially select (via single-left click) all of the components for updating.  When all desired components have been selected/updated, hit the "Escape" key on the keyboard to return to Schematic Control Center.  
  

Circuit Display Control:

The Schematic Control Center can be used to display or hide all components of selected circuits.  This can be helpful when multiple circuits are in close proximity, such as in an urban distribution system.  

• Display - upon execution, updates the drawing window to display all circuits/feeders that are highlighted in the Circuits & Feeders text box.  

• Hide - upon execution, updates the drawing window to hide all circuits/feeders that are highlighted in the Circuits & Feeders text box.
  Note: Start of Circuit components will remain visible, so display flag can be reset from either the control center or the component dialog.

Execute - command under the Circuit Display Control selection updates all downstream components of selected circuit/feeder to be displayed or hidden, as indicated by radio button.  

For example, choosing the Circuit Display Control Execute command in the above screen shot, would Hide all components in ckt1 and ckt4, except for the actual Start of Circuit components.