Component tagging with sequential line numbering help

[Anonymous]

So when I split my drawing into two half, with each half being justified to the left side, the component tagging and wiring works just fine. However, for detailing some IO Link field blocks and sensors, I put my block in the middle and sensors to the left and right, so I have my right side line numbers all the way to the right side of my page. When I move things around and have it auto-retag components, it pulls from the line numbers on the farther left hand side than the closer right hand side.

Is there a way to have them number from the right hand side if they are on the right half of the page? I'm attaching screenshots of my normal schematics that work fine and my field IO Link page that I'm having trouble with.

Regular schematic page that retags fine.Field IO block page that doesn't retag correctly.

Thanks for any tips!

[TRLitsey]

Hi there,

I don't know if what you ask can be done or not.  The attachment is an example of how I tend to, but not always, show multi-port field boxes in a schematic.  You might be able to do something like this with your box.  In order of appearance, sheet/line reference to the left, then reference arrow connecting input point at I/O card or terminal, multi-port cable wires, arrow and wire in inline with field device implying they are connected, they are all inline with the connecting port which is labeled as the ports are labeled on the multi-port field box.  Something like this may work for your application.  I think in the final draft I was a little more explicit with the pins at the multi-port connection and I added the cable wire colors.

Good luck

[jseefdrumr]

You can't have a left-to-right ladder and a right-to-left ladder on the same page. Those settings are controlled in project and drawing properties. When you run your retag, because of its current settings, ACADE is tagging everything based on the leftmost ladder relevant to the components being tagged. If you want to go right-to-left instead, you have to do it across the whole page. Can't do both.

I suggest changing the symbol. What you're doing here is basically using a footprint as a schematic symbol. It's huge, and it's two-sided. I've attached a drawing from a project where we used Balluff I/O Link modules, and here we just came up with something similar in appearance to a standard I/O module.

Our solution was to dumb it down to the max. We don't even depict the symbols for the sensors; that's covered in a sensor index on a separate page. Instead, I use an M12 connector symbol so that I can literally just copy the circuit from page to page.

We felt that there wasn't much point to showing every wire in every cable, because the cables are all purchased at preset lengths, with connectors already on them; the installers are literally just plugging them in. Since all communication for the I/O was getting back to the PLC via Ethernet, there's no real way to show it in a schematic anyhow. It's not like these things end up with discrete I/O wiring in an input card somewhere.

We actually had some lively discussions about how best to draw I/O Link. It was fun! (not really) Our solution may not be appropriate for your needs, but maybe it'll get you thinking in a new direction, that will get you where you want to go.

Hope this helps,

Jim