Scheme Ribbon

Navigation:

Function of the Scheme Ribbon

The Scheme ribbon (see the following figure) opens simultaneously with the Scheme if Context related ribbon tab change is activated. The ribbon is used to edit the scheme and select display options.

The Scheme ribbon contains the following groups in addition to the Execute module application button:

Zoom,
Visualization,
Drawing,
Adjust,
Font,
Layout,
Show.

Zoom

Fit to window Zoom the scheme to the size of the workspace.

Zoom in (F3) Enlarge the view.

Zoom out (F2) Reduce the view.

Interactive

Interactive resizing is used to enlarge a rectangular area to be selected with the mouse to the size of the workspace. Select Interactive and drag a frame around the area to be resized.

Visualization

Hide layer

With the split button Hide layer, the different levels and nets can be shown and hidden: Control and Others (contains Programmable Control and the Operational Side Condition Priority), key figures, and the nets of the material models present in the scheme (e.g., fuel nets, electricity net, heat net, compressed air net).

Mass view

Energy view

Exergy view

Mass view, Energy view, and Exergy view can be activated after running the simulation to get a sankey-like representation for each view.

Tooltips

Tooltips enables and disables the display of Tooltips or components on the scheme.

Overlay icons

The Overlay icons button enables and disables the display of the Overlay icons.

Drawing

Select Select objects on the scheme.

Edit points Change the shape of the selected graphic element or edit the wrap points to determine the wrapping and alignment of text and annotations.

Picture Insert an image from a file.

Tools (Split Button)

The split button Tools shows the symbol of the last activated function. The following functions can be selected from the drop-down list of the split button Tools.

Draw line or free figure (+ Shift)

Polyline or Bezier curve (+ Shift)

Rectangle or square (+ Ctrl)

Ellipse or circle (+ Ctrl)

Text box

Adjust Format

Under the Format split button you can set the color, outline, and font of the selected objects, e.g., the color of the net lines.

Fill styles

Shape outline

Edit text font

Clicking on one of the three Format buttons opens the following window where you can set the shape fill styles, the shape outline, and the font.

Font

In addition to the Format dialog box (see the figure above), there is the Font group in the ribbon where you can make the following font settings.

Font

Font size

Bold

Italic

Underline

Font color The font color setting refers to the fill.

The font settings apply to the selected text or as a default setting if no text is selected.

Double-click the small arrow in the lower right corner of the Font group to open the same Format window as shown above, or a window for setting only the font (without color) if no object is selected.

Layout

Page layout

Page layout is the recalculation of the net routing for all objects of the scheme. It may be useful to repeat the routing process after moving components or manually aligning connections.

Align to grid points

Switch beetween automatic alignment of objects at the grid points and free positioning.

Layout assistent

The Layout assistent simplifies graphical modeling by automatically placing components.

Align (split button)

The Align split button is active when at least two components are selected. The last activated function is displayed as an icon on the button (see the following figure).