Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer > Importing a Project and Generating Diagrams

Importing and Generating

You can import and generate a diagram using Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer functionality to populate the connectivity in the project.

Procedure

Press Space Bar and enter Import Project & Generate Diagrams.The Import Project & Generate Diagrams dialog box is displayed.
Specify the following:Look In — Click the dropdown list and select a folder location and browse to the project file to import in the window below the Look In field.

Border Selection — Select [No Border] create diagrams with no border in the project. To use a border on the diagrams, select the border name in the browser tree

Horizontal — Specify to align the border with the left, right, or center of the connectivity on the diagram.

Vertical — Specify to align the border with the top, bottom, or center of the connectivity on the diagram.

Regenerate Existing Diagrams — Select to regenerate any existing diagrams based on the currently specified settings.

Run Segment Overlay DRC — Select to run a design rule check that checks for overlaying conductor segments.

Show Schematic Style Editor — Select to open a style editor when you import the project to specify component styling, diagram layout styling, and the selection of template (prototype) diagrams.

File Name — If you have not browsed to the file in the window, enter the full path to the project XML file to import.

Files of Type — Click the dropdown list and select the type of files to browse.

Click OK.
A dialog indicates the progress of the process. If you did not select the Show Schematic Style Editor box, skip to step 9.If you selected the Show Schematic Style Editor box, the style editor is displayed.
On the Component Styling tab, you specify the styling that you want to use for objects on the generated diagrams. By default, Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer uses the Default style set for Capital Logic Designer.If you have a license to use Capital Styling, you can click the Style Set dropdown list at the top of the tab to select a different style set, if available. You can click the ellipsis button (...) to open the Style Sets Dialog to edit an existing style set or create a new style set. Caution On the Component Styling tab, you can edit the default style set or selected style set but note that the changes will apply to any designs using the style set and will be visible if this style set is viewed in Capital Project Manager.

See the Diagram Styling User Guide for style sets and how to edit them.

On the Layout Styling tab, specify the preferences to use for the layout of the diagrams. See Specifying Layout Styling When Generating Diagrams for layout styling preferences.
To use template diagrams for the generation of diagrams, click the Prototype tab.Any connectivity in the current project that matches connectivity in the selected template designs will take the layout from the template. Any unmatched connectivity in the current project will be laid out automatically. Note If a path in the current project is more complex than the reference path in a template path, Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer uses its own improved algorithm to determine the layout of the path.

Specify the following: Select Prototype Design By — Specify how you want the system to select template designs for the designs within the project (in both cases, the system will select the latest revision of a design): Name — Template designs are selected by matching design names regardless of whether the designs are revisions of the designs in the current project. For example, if there is a design POWER:1:review in the current project and an unrelated design POWER:20:partial exists in the template project, POWER:20:partial will be selected as the template.

Revision — Template designs are selected only if they are revisions of the designs in the current project. For example, if there is a design POWER:1:review in the current project and an unrelated design POWER:20:partial exists in the template project, POWER:20:partial will not be selected as a template. Note If a design (for which diagrams have to be generated) and the template are revisions of the same design, connectivity objects (devices, conductors, and so on) are matched by revisions. Otherwise, connectivity objects are matched by name. This matching rule applies in all cases. For example, even if you select to match designs by name, the connectivity objects are matched by revisions if the design and its template are revisions of the same design.

From Project — Select the project to select the template designs from.

Select the Background Run check box to use the Flexible Execution Model (FEM) to generate diagrams as a background task. Clear to run the diagram generator task locally.Note You must run at least one Capital Integration Server (CIS) controller in your Capital environment to display the Background Run check box. See also “Running Capital Tasks in the Background (Flexible Execution Model)” in the Capital Design Tools - Common Functions User Guide.

You can monitor the task and access the log file on the Tasks Tab in the Output Window. You can also access the log files in your temp directory.

Click Generate Diagrams.When the project is imported, existing diagrams are imported with it and diagrams are generated for connectivity that does not have diagrams.

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Importing a Project and Generating Diagrams