After creating a power distribution board (PDB) and the required cells, you have to design the physical structure of the PDB and assign the cells to specific places in the PDB.
You design your PDBs in a PDB layout drawing which takes the form of a grid that represents the physical structure of the current PDB. We recommend the following flow of activities when designing your power distribution boards:
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Create the physical structure of the PDB.
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Create a PDB layout drawing and associate it with a particular PDB.
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Create the required cells for the PDB and define their size. Note that you can automate the cell size definition so that the size of the cells will be based on particular electrical properties of the equipment associated with the cells.
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Place the cells in the appropriate places in the drawing and thus assign the cells to specific locations in the drawing grid.
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Save the drawing.
Also, we recommend that you make a number of preliminary setting prior to the actual PDB design. These settings are optional.
In Options Manager, you can define the following:
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Define which characters you want to exclude from the PDB row names.
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Define the location of the default PDB layout drawing template.
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Define the location of the PDB layout symbols.
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Define the naming conventions for PDB and cells.
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Define the item type symbology for cells. That is, define a particular symbol for cells that have specific properties such as width, height, etc.
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In Catalog Manager, you can customize the symbols for PDBs and cells. This customization allows you to show the cell properties in drawing in the manner that you need.
For information on how to carry out the specific tasks to make these preliminary settings, see the appropriate topics in the documentation of each manager.