Table Of Contents
- Basics
- Interface
- Preferences
- Project
- Folio
- What is a folio?
- Type of folio
- Add new Folio
- Delete Folio
- Folio properties
- Title Block
- Element
- What is an element?
- Type of elements
- Element properties
- Element collection
- Element parts
- Element cross reference
- Element editor
- Conductor
- Schema
- What is a schema?
- Working with elements
- Working with conductors
- Working with text field
- Insert table
- Basic objects
- Working with pictures
- Select objects from workspace
- Copy object
- Cut object
- Paste object
- Multiple paste
- Delete object
- Rotate object
- Object layer level
- Search
- Replace
- Drawing
- Reports
- Export and print
- Annex
What is a project?¶
The term project inside QElectroTech can be assimilated to a “dababase”. A project is not a common database, it is a collection of information which is not structurated in columns and rows.
Figure: QElectroTech project structure¶
A project is a group of folios, elements and conductors represented inside the folios with the respective properties, properties which define the way how should be represented each folio (title block, dimensions, etc.), properties which define how the reports should be represented (folio index, component list, connector list, etc.), properties which define how to export or print the information, interconnection relaction between elements from the same or different folios and the master data (project name, author, year of creation, revision, etc.).
The project is the base of QElectroTech to manage a work. The development team has focus the tasks on the electrical and control filed, even so, QElectroTech is a E-CAE software. For this reason, QElectroTech is an inter-disciplinary tool that allows the user to create many type of projects.
Electrical projects: Purely electrical systems
Automation projects: GRAFCET, diagrams, etc.
Fluid power projects: Hydraulic, pneumatic and central lubrication systems
Proces control projects: Proces Industrial Diagrams (PID)