Equipment Palette

The Equipment Palette enables you to add AC or DC equipment and annotation to the one-line. While you are editing the database, the equipment palette provides the necessary equipment types to create a power system one-line diagram.

The symbols that appear are based on the symbol option that is selected in Tools > Options > One-line Symbols. If you change the symbol option, you must close and reopen EasyPower to display the selected template symbols.

You can hide or show the equipment palette by right-clicking in the one-line area and selecting the desired option from the context menu.

Tip: You can also insert items through the Insert tab.

The Equipment Palette is displayed showing ANSI symbols for AC equipment, DC equipment, and annotations.

Figure 1: The Equipment Palette (ANSI Symbols)

The Equipment Palette is displayed showing ANSI symbols for AC equipment, DC equipment, and annotations.

Figure 2: The Equipment Palette (IEC Symbols)

For more information about what each symbol represents, see Equipment Palette Symbols.

Note: Custom symbols do not appear here. Only ANSI or IEC symbols are displayed.

Tip: You can also hover over the icons while in Icon View to see a description of the equipment symbol.

Phase

For AC equipment, you can select whether you want to add three-phase (3Ph) or single-phase (1Ph) equipment to the one-line. Three-phase is the default selection. If you change the phase here, it also changes the phase on the Insert tab.

The 3-phase and 1-phase tabs are shown in the Equipment Palette.

Figure 3: Phase Selection on the Equipment Palette

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