In Smart Electrical you can generate single line diagrams that allow you to publish the data they contain to an electrical analysis application such as ETAP. When you set the SLD generation options, you can specify the levels of the power distribution network for which the SLD displays the data, and this, in turn, affects the published output data. The software generates an .xml file in a format appropriate for ETAP, which you specify in the Options Manager. The data transfer process is 'one-way, that is, from Smart Electrical to the electrical analysis application, according to the flow described in the following diagram:
After you publish the data from Smart Electrical, ETAP has its own data exchange program which enables the import and translation of the Smart Electrical .xml file.