Vario
Managing variants, options and accessory parts of the diagram
Vario has been developed for managing the variants of diagram. It is essential in the production of standard machines build by many modular parts or accessories, whose presence can be set according to boolean relations or mutual exclusion. Actually, Vario can be used for a controlled automatic generation of diagrams..
Main features
Management of variants
The drawing of electrical diagrams or schematic representation of systems, often requires the possibility of managing optional parts or accessories which are present or not in the drawings depending on the configuration of diagram or system.
This situation is typical of serial productions to which are also applicable for business and organizational aspects, several accessory solutions. The variable parts can be combined each other with boolean and conditional relationships that determine the final status of the machine or system to be drawn or propose.
Here is the scope of Vario: indispensable and effective tool for the management of the variants on a diagram of any kind.
Vario works, necessarily, with one of Electro Graphics CAD (iDEA, Eplus, CADelet).
Setup of macro
A macro is a set of diagram elements like as symbols, tables, signs, data assigned to components; to that sets it is possible to applied a state of visibility and presence on the diagram.
A macro can be defined from a master drawing, with the assignment of a description and current status of visibility and activation.
The interface of Vario handles the activation and deactivation of a macro and highlight it for a proper setting.
It is possibile to duplicate a macro and modify it later, for quickly generate the elementary parts and the options to set the status of a diagram.
It is possibile to remove from the master drawing any not active macro.
Integration and use of project and system parameters to influence the available options and profiles.
Management of options
A option is a set of macros linked by boolean conditions of presence on the diagram.
Options can be defined by window interface and drag-and-drop.
Definition of any functional parts and attribution of the essential requirement to ensure consistency of the diagram.
Identification of mutually exclusive options.
Detections of options that are incompatible.
Assigning macros enabled when an option is not active (eg a bridge link when an optional part is not on the definitive diagram).
Modify and duplicate options already defined.
Management of profiles
After defining macros and options (groups of conditional macros), it is possible to aggregate more options to obtain a profile. A profile determines the visibility and presence of the options and, therefore, of the macro associated with them on the diagram.
Application of a profile to the master drawing to obtain the desired variant.
Validation of the profile with consistency checks on macros embedded.
Saving of the diagram resulting by applying a profile.
Import and export of profiles as XLS file.