Smart Electrical publishes single line diagrams to ETAP using electrical analysis SLDs. After generating an electrical analysis SLD and saving it, ETAP will use its XML as the source for import.
Note that publishing a single SLD to ETAP is called partial publishing. The XML that you create by saving the SLD has this partial identifier. As a result, in ETAP there will be no indication of deleted items after importing partial SLDs. To indicate that certain items have been deleted in Smart Electrical, use the full publishing method.
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In Smart Electrical, in the Electrical Engineer, select an appropriate item for which you want to generate an electrical analysis SLD. The item can be on any hierarchy level in the Electrical Engineer, for example a bus.
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Right-click the item that you selected and then on the shortcut menu, select New SLD.
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On the Single Line Diagram Options dialog, in the SLD type group box, select Electrical analysis SLD.
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Select Generate.
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Save the drawing.
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In the Electrical Index, expand the Documents > Electrical Analysis SLDs hierarchy.
If you want to publish an existing SLD and make sure that you retain all the changes
made since the last time it was published, you must open this SLD and save it prior
to publishing. If you do not do that, the software will publish the updated items
with inappropriate coordinates. As a result, ETAP will position these SLD items in
inappropriate places on ETAP drawings.
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Right-click the new SLD drawing and then on the shortcut menu, select Publish to External Analyzing Tool.
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On the Publish to External Analyzing Tool dialog, save the drawing as an .xml file, which will be used by ETAP as an import source.