You use the Electrical Engineer to create and manage electrical associations among equipment in your plant. You can make new electrical associations or change the existing ones. You can create electrical associations by dragging items from the Electrical Index to an appropriate place in the electrical tree of the Electrical Engineer window. For the rules that govern electrical associations, see Rules for Associating Electrical Equipment.
To change an electrical association, drag an item in the Electrical Engineer to another place in the electrical tree. See Change an Existing Electrical Association and Rules for Changing Electrical Associations.
The software synchronizes any new electrical relationships that you create in the Electrical Engineer with the Electrical Index. When creating a new item in the Electrical Index, the software also adds this item in the Electrical Engineer if appropriate (some items do not appear the Electrical Engineer).
The Electrical Engineer allows you to generate and display single line diagrams (SLDs) that show the electrical
network distribution powered from an item selected in the Electrical Engineer.
Display Rules
The Electrical Engineer displays electrical items based on their electrical relationship. Therefore, a power source, for example, is always on a higher hierarchical level than a load. The Electrical Engineer also shows every item that has an electrical connection with a selected item. The following rules define which electrical items appear in the Electrical Engineer:
The Electrical Engineer displays all electrical items that have at least one electrical association.
Certain items appear automatically in the Electrical Engineer after you create them in the Electrical Index. These items appear in the Electrical Engineer even if they do not have any electrical association. These items are generators, buses, circuits, battery banks, battery chargers, UPSs, and transformers.
The Electrical Engineer automatically displays power cables that the software creates when you create a load or when you activate the Apply Option command to automatically associate that load with a feeder.
For a multiple cable assembly, you can hide or display the individual cables by right-
selecting the icon 
, and on the shortcut menu, selecting Show Multiple Cables. The software indicates the display toggle state by a check mark.
Items that have no hierarchical parents appear at the root of the Electrical Engineer provided that they feed other items.
For equipment items that are connected in parallel, the software uses a special indicator
next to the equipment items that are connected in parallel.
The indicator is 
. For example, 
.
Certain items do not appear in the Electrical Engineer. These items are power distribution boards, cells, control stations, and their cables. Only the items that are included in single line diagrams or power distribution networks appear in the Electrical Engineer except for circuit components that do not appear in the Electrical Engineer at all.
You can display item tags of buses, bus risers, and incomers together with the item tags of the associated power distribution boards if you set your general preferences accordingly.
The Electrical Engineer window contains the following sections:
Toolbar
Tree view pane
These sections are described below:
Toolbar
The toolbar contains the following options:
Find
Select Find to open the Find dialog where you can look for a specific item in the Electrical Engineer. Select the arrow to display a menu with the following options:
Find
Opens the Find dialog where you can look for a specific item in the Electrical Engineer.
Find in Electrical Index
Searches the Electrical Index for the item that is currently selected in the Electrical Engineer. Note that both the Electrical Engineer and the Electrical Index have to be open if you want to use this feature.
Close
Closes the active Electrical Engineer window.
Refresh
Select Refresh 
to update the Electrical Engineer display. This feature is useful where multiple users are working on the same set
of data.
Buttons
Buttons provide a useful shortcut to an item or a group of items. Select Buttons 
to toggle show / hide for existing buttons. To create a button for the currently
selected item or folder, select the arrow and select Add Button. To remove a button, choose the button to remove, then select the arrow, and select
Remove Button. Note that if you do not select any button to remove, the software removes the uppermost
button in the list.
Tree View Pane
The tree view pane of the Electrical Engineer shows electrical items organized in the Plant folder. You cannot move, delete, or rename this folder, nor can you add new folders. Each item contained in the Plant folder contains other items that are associated with it electrically. The options available on the menus depend on the currently selected item type.
Expand or collapse the hierarchy by selecting the + and - icons respectively or by selecting an item in the Plant folder hierarchy.
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You can open several instances of the Electrical Engineer by selecting Window > New > Electrical Engineer.
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You can right-click any item in the Electrical Index to find it in the Electrical Engineer or select an item in the Electrical Engineer to find it in the Electrical Index. Both the Electrical Engineer and Electrical Index have to be open if you want to use this feature.
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You can right-click any item in the Electrical Engineer and then select Expand All Sub-Items on the shortcut menu to display all the existing child items of the selected items After selecting this option a second time, select Refresh to expand the items in the Electrical Engineer tree view.
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To filter the display of the Electrical Engineer and show only the selected branches of the network structure, from the View menu select the Show Selected Electrical Branches Only command.
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To display all the existing data in the Electrical Engineer, close the Electrical Engineer and open a new session by selecting
on the main toolbar.
Also, you can display the selected branches of the network structure in a new Electrical Engineer window by selecting Show in New Window on the View menu.
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After exiting Smart Electrical, and starting a new session, the software retains the size and position of all the windows that were open in the previous session.