2. Loading and Preparing Designs

Loading

There are two ways data gets into Publisher:

• Capital data. An existing Capital project is imported and opened in Publisher. The diagrams already exist because engineers drew them in the other Capital tools.
• Foreign data. Designs from other systems come in through the Capital Connectors framework. They have connectivity but no diagrams, so the Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer partitions and renders them. The same generator can also build one new design and its diagrams from filtered logical connectivity across several designs in a project, which is how you produce, for example, one diagram of everything on a given circuit.

Before packaging anything that links logic to harness designs, the two must be in sync. Publisher matches objects across them by UID first and falls back to Name, so a harness design that has drifted from its logic design produces broken or wrong cross links without an error.

Preparing: partition, format, embellish

Partition

Large engineering diagrams are often too dense for a technician. Partitioning splits their content across several diagrams, for example one per system or per zone.

Format

Formatting changes how the data looks without changing what it is:

• Data visibility: hide or reveal properties, cable names, symbols.
• Fonts and colours, including wire colouring.
• Exchanging symbols for service-friendly ones.
• Style sets, which can be edited for one design or for every design in the project. The default style set ships as styleset.xml in the publisher folder (see 6. The Publisher Configuration Files).
• Greyscale output for SVG, CGM and S1000D is a switch in config.xml, not a per-diagram choice.

Harness designs get extra freedoms that engineering would never allow: bundles can be moved, rotated and stretched without changing their physical length; connectors can be moved with cavity management off without leaving their node; splices, clips and grommets can slide along a bundle without changing their physical position; reference and axial dimensions can be added.

Embellish

Embellishing adds what engineering never had:

• Service names for objects and locations.
• Comment graphics and comment symbols, text frames, pictures, borders, footnotes, links.
• Tables: device lists, diagram lists, service-specific data.
• Back-annotated as-manufactured details.
• Additional languages (Publisher uses the Capital language dictionary; untranslated attributes show as quick codes such as {ABD}).
• Diagnostic procedures and fault codes (see the note below).

Diagnostic procedures, and a naming trap

Diagnostic procedures (step-by-step troubleshooting with decisions and "go to" links) are authored in a dialog Siemens calls the Publisher Configuration Editor. Despite the name, it does not edit the Publisher configuration files. It only creates and manages diagnostic procedures and trouble codes. The configuration files described in this section are edited outside Capital.

Vendor pages

ee-publisher/: Loading Engineering Data, Partitioning Diagrams, Formatting Diagrams, Embellishing Diagrams, Diagnostic Procedures, Publisher Configuration Editor Dialog, Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer.