topic Re: Panel Nameplate Report Qty. Field in AutoCAD Electrical Forum

Panel Nameplate Report Qty. Field

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:53:05 GMT

Hi all,

I am hoping someone can tell me if this is possible or not. I have an example to make this explanation simpler:

I have made a nameplate on a panel layout and made its Component Tag "Nameplate1". I brought up the "Panel Layout - Nameplate Insert/Edit" Dialog Box. I have entered Manufacturer and Catalog data for the nameplate. I have also made the count 2 instead of the default 1.

My question comes from when I run a Panel Nameplate Report. The resulting report shows one instance of the nameplate "Nameplate1" even though there is really a quantity of 2. Is it possibly to run a Nameplate Report that will also grab the quantity of each nameplate with that Component Tag? I am trying to use this report to find duplicates of nameplates.

I know that I can also run a Panel BOM Report to give me the quantity, but that report can only tell me total quantity of a certain catalog number, and if I have many nameplates with different Component Tags with the same catalog number, this report cannot help me find duplicate nameplates.

Thanks in advance for any tips and answers.

Re: Panel Nameplate Report Qty. Field

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:00:57 GMT

As far as I can understand you try to set quantity 2 for one component manually. ACElectrical wouldn't do this until you wouldn't work with the assembly. So just place second component somewhere beyond the drawing borders to have "2" in report.
Please tell me if I misunderstood you.

Re: Panel Nameplate Report Qty. Field

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:20:05 GMT

Thank you for the response; you are understanding correctly.

I thought about doing something like that. I'd prefer, if I can, to not have to make a physical duplicate nameplate with the same component tag. I guess ACADE doesn't like it when you manually change a component's quantity then. Thanks for the suggestion.

Re: Panel Nameplate Report Qty. Field

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:46:37 GMT

Hi Ben,

You could add the Field "Sub" (which calls out the sub assembly component count) to your Panel BOM to show the number of duplicate tags which you type in the "Count".

If you really need to have the Tags Separate from everything else you can apply an "installation" code named "TAGS" (do not let it pass the data to the main components, when the message pops up and says do you want to update matching components say "skip") then when you do your Panel BOM, you can filter by the Installation code "TAGS".

Alternatively you could build a link using a WDA (user defined attribute) file, to make the QTY or SUB field available. (it s a little harder but then you don't have to do the filters since you make the attribute available for all reports - so your Component tag report will work the way you want it to)

I suggest contacting your local Reseller to see if they can help you with the setup.

Regards,

James Alger

SolidCAD

Re: Panel Nameplate Report Qty. Field

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:51:32 GMT

Thank you. "Sub" looks like the type of field I was looking for. I'll try adding that field to my tag block. I think this solves my problem.

Thanks again for everyones' help.