Include User Symbols in the Calculation

Shows step-by-step how to include custom user symbols with custom data in the calculation.

Before you begin

You have created user symbols and want to include them in the calculation with user-defined data.

Requirements:

You have already created your own symbol and placed it in the toolbar of the corresponding trade.

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Note:

The individual steps are shown here as an example for the trade heating. The steps in other trades are identical.

Applies to all trades.

Procedure

  1. Open the file Heizung.tec from the LINEAR installation directory ..\Cad\Pipe Network Heating\Support\... with a text editor.
    Attention: This file serves only as a template for creating the user-defined data set and should not be changed.
  2. In parallel to the first file, open the _User.tec file from the LINEAR installation directory: ..\Cad\Pipe Network Heating\User-standards\... with the text editor.
  3. Search the Heating.tec file for a component of the type of the new component and copy the paragraph marked in the picture.
  4. Paste the copied paragraph at the end of the _User.tec file.
  5. Enter a unique data set number behind #NUM.
  6. Enter the block name of the new symbol behind #BLK.
    If there are several block names, separate them with commas and without spaces.
  7. Enter the name of the data set behind #BEZ. This name appears as title in the component dialog.
  8. Save the _User.tec file and start the program again.

Results

All TEC files are loaded into memory when the program is restarted and are available with the user-defined data for editing in the component dialog and in the calculation.