Wayne,
This is a situation where you probably should turn on AcadE's "Combined
Installation/Locatioin and component Tag mode (IEC-style)" option for your
project. AcadE will include the INST and LOC values you assign (or the
drawing config's default "IEC setup" LOC/INST values) in determining unique
parent tag names. Sor, if you have a relay CR1 in location "PNL1" and
another relay CR1 in "PNL2", they're treated correctly as individual devices
and all of the child cross-referencing is kept separate. You turn this mode
on via the Project > Misc Settings dialog (first toggle) and it's done on a
per-project basis.
Let me know if it appears that I'm not understanding the question or issue
here.
thanks!
Nate.
"Wayne Gatlin" wrote in message
news:40915a5e$1_1@newsprd01...
> When we have 2 or more like parent devices such as a control relay coil
that
> are named the same thing but have different locations being fired from PLC
> Outputs in a seperate Panel and then do a component cross reference update
> all the relays think they are related.
>
> Example:
> PLC Outputs (Rack in MCP1) firing coils to 3 relays called CR1 (each
living
> in a seperate panel lets say CS1, CS2, and CS3 are the panel names)...(in
> this scenario, we are simply providing an outputs to turn on devices
> controlled by others...interlocks in other words) when we do a component
> cross ref update the three relays (all named the same but have different
LOC
> values) think they are related...one of the 3 gets a cross ref that points
> to the other two...
>
> Shouldn't the fact that 3 parent devices (in this case HCR1) that live in
> different panels not reference each other? If I am doing something just
> totally off the wall here please tell me what it is. Basically in any OEM
> equipment that is out there, the device names are typically the same and
if
> you are controlling many of them there would be times that the only
> differentiation would be its LOC attribute value.
>
> I also posted this on the Beta Feedback page...sice this issue affects
both
> versions
>
>