General information on article selection

In the Selection of Articles dialog box, you can select a fixture by specifying its class and article.

To select a fixture

Select a class. The following options are available:

Click an entry in the Tree view. The program automatically displays all the articles belonging to the class clicked.
Click the Class data entry box in the right pane and select an entry. All the articles belonging to the class clicked are automatically displayed in the Tree view on the left.
Note: Click Options ... (Tree tab) to specify whether the Name or the Code of the class is displayed in the tree view and in the data entry boxes.

Select an article. The following options are available:

Click one of the articles in the Tree view. The article clicked and its name and parameters are entered in the right pane.
Note: When you double-click an article in the Tree view, the article selection closes automatically and the fixture is attached to the crosshairs.
Click the Article data entry box in the right pane and select an entry. The article and its name and parameters are entered.
Enter the Short name, Article number and/or the Full name of the article, depending on the setting in the Options ..., Filter tab. Make sure that you enter the name correctly. You can also use wildcards.
Articles that do not agree with your entry are hidden in the Tree view. Select one of the remaining articles or specify more parameters. If the name you enter agrees with an article, this article and its parameters are entered.
Note: When you click Delete All, the first article of the selected class is entered.
Article names can include the following placeholders:
- ? substitute for any character
- * substitute for a string consisting of any characters
Note: When you precede a placeholder with a backslash (i.e. \? or \*), the program searches for the actual character (? or *).
Defining filter options for articles

The article filter provides the following options:
- You can deactivate the Filter for article header option to hide the filter.
- You can deactivate the Upper/lower case option to ignore case-sensitivity in the article filter.
- You can click Select attributes ... to define the scope of the article filter.
- You can click Defaults to configure the program to use the settings you have made on the Tree tab for the article filter.
- After you have selected an attribute listed, you can use the arrows at top right to change the sequence of the attributes.
If present, enter values for the settings presented in the Parameters area in the right pane. The program searches for appropriate articles and selects the first article that agrees with the parameters set.
Note: If you want to enter new parameter values, you can delete all existing values using Delete parameters or you can select individual parameters and delete them using the DEL key. You can select parameters as you would in any other Windows application.
Entering parameters

The minimum and maximum values, which are displayed, need to be borne in mind when you enter parameters. You can only enter certain default values; the exception is special designs. The existing parameters of the fixture are displayed in brackets.

To enter parameters
1. Click a data entry box and enter a number or double-click a data entry box.
2. Select one of the default values if you do not define any special designs.
  Entering a number automatically takes you to values that begin with the number entered. Multiple entry of the same number allows you to ‘leaf through’ appropriate values.
Note: You can use the Options ... (Tree) tab, to specify whether the Article number, the Short name, the Full name, the Short name and the Article number or the Article number and the Short name of the article are displayed in the tree view and in the data entry boxes.
In the Focus tab, you can configure the program to automatically select a line after you have specified a class. The name or parameters can then be entered in this line.