Palette Overview

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The display object palettes are designed to help you lay out a new oneline diagram for a pre-existing power flow model as quickly as possible. Display object palettes exist for Areas, Buses, Substations and Zones. Palettes list the display objects that you have already added to the oneline, the display objects that have not yet been drawn that neighbor those displayed objects, and the set of all display objects that have not yet been added to the drawing. By selecting and dragging a display object name from either the Undisplayed Neighbors list or the All Undisplayed list to a location on the oneline diagram where you would like that object to appear, you can add that display object to the drawing with very little effort.

To see which elements neighboring a particular device are already on the oneline diagram and which are not, highlight a device in either the Displayed or All Undisplayed list. The Displayed Neighbors and Undisplayed Neighbors columns will list the corresponding neighboring devices for the selected device, allowing you to drag the undisplayed neighbors to the diagram if you wish.

The display object palettes, in conjunction with the auto-insert capabilities of other devices, are especially useful for adding a large region of an interconnection in relatively little time.

To display one of the four available palettes, select Show Insert Palette For from the Quick Insert ribbon group on the Draw ribbon tab. To display the palette with the focus set to an object already displayed, right-click on that object on the diagram and select *** Palette (where *** is the name of the object type) from the popup menu.