The standard menus start with the File menu. The “>” character is used to denote submenus.
Each time a menu item (submenu) is highlighted a tooltip appears on the status bar located at the bottom of the EMTPWorks window. The Toolbar icons (tools) are described in Toolbar.
The following bullets provide documentation links to the non-obvious options.
File>Revert: Revert to the last saved version of this design. See Reverting to a Saved File.
File>Libraries: Various library maintenance functions. See the section Working with Symbol Libraries for detailed information on this option.
Edit>Past Special: Paste from the clipboard with options. See Paste Special.
Edit>Name: This is the same as the Naming tool used for device attributes, pins and signal attributes. Selecting and clicking on a device, signal or pin gives access to the name attribute. Selecting and clicking on a visible attribute gives access to that attribute contents.
Edit>Draw Signal: creates a general signal. See Signals. This function is also available from the “Draw Signal” tool.
Edit>Draw Bundle: Draw a bundle (signal grouping) line. See Bundles. This command is also available from the “Draw Bundle” tool.
Edit>Draw 3-phase Bus: Draws a 3-phase power system bus. See Signal Line Type.
Edit>Draw Phase A: Draws the phase A of a 3-phase signal. Also available from the
“Draw Phase A” tool. See Signal Line Type.
Edit>Draw Phase B: Draws the phase B of a 3-phase signal. Also available from the
“Draw Phase B” tool. See Signal Line Type.
Edit>Draw Phase C: Draws the phase C of a 3-phase signal. Also available from the
“Draw Phase C” tool. See Signal Line Type.
Zap: Select the Zap (delete) cursor. See Deleting a Device and Hide a Visible Attribute Value. This command is also available from “Zap (delete)” tool.
Edit>Attribute Probe: Displays attributes and information on the selected (clicked) object. See Displaying and Setting Device Information.
View>Browser: opens the Attribute Browser tool. See Browser.
View>Parts Palette: Shows the Parts Palette. See Placing and Editing Devices. Also available from the “Parts Palette” tool.
View>Workbook: Selects the workbook mode. This mode shows a tab for each opened design.
Drawing>Find: Opens a scriptable find tool. See Locating Circuit Objects with the Find Tool.
Drawing>Go To Selection: Zoom to the selected item. See also Locating Circuit Objects with the Find Tool.
Drawing>Pages: Create, delete and modify circuit pages. See Adding, Deleting and Titling Circuit Pages.
Drawing>Import Sheet Info: Used to set the sheet border and background style. See also Importing Sheet Settings from another Design, Page or Template.
Drawing>Sheet Size Wizard: View and change sheet size. See also Setting Sheet Sizes and Borders and Custom Sheet Size using Sheet Size Wizard.
Drawing>Border Wizard: View and change border settings. See Border Wizard.
6.2.1 Options menu
Options>Orientation: Sets the orientation of the next placed symbol (device). See also Placing and Editing Devices.
Options>Properties: Get/Set properties on selected object. This menu is available from actual object (device) right-click menu.
Options>New Breakout: Creates a breakout symbol for a bundle. See also Using Bundle Breakouts: New Breakout.
Options>Design Attributes: View and change design attributes. See Entering Design Attributes and Predefined Attribute Fields.
Options>Define Attribute Fields: Create or modify attribute field definitions. See Defining Attribute Fields.
Options>Push Into: To get into a subcircuit symbol.
Options>Pop Up: Close the current subcircuit and go to the parent level.
Options>Naming: Various naming options for devices and signals. See Using the Auto-Naming Features, Signal Auto-Auto-Naming Options and Device Auto-Naming Options.
Options>Part Type>Make Unique Type: Make a new part type definition for the selected device. See Make Unique Type and Tutorial 4: Creating a Subcircuit Top Down.
Options>Part Type>Update from Lib: Update the selected device from a library. See Update from Lib.
Options>Part Type>Save to Lib: Save the part definition of the selected device to a library. See Save to Lib.
Options>Part Type>Library to Circuit: Places all devices from the library into the current circuit. See Library to Circuit.
Options>Part Type>Circuit to Library: Save all symbol definitions from the current design to a library. See Circuit to Library.
Options>Subcircuit>New Port Connector: Creates a port connector for the subcircuit interface pins. See also Tutorial 3: Creating a Subcircuit Bottom Up and Creating Pseudo-Device Symbols,
Options>Subcircuit>Attach Subcircuit: Attach a subcircuit to the selected symbol. See Attaching Subcircuit.
Options>Subcircuit>Detach Subcircuit: Detach the subcircuit associated with the selected symbol, making it a separate design. See Detaching Subcircuit.
Options>Subcircuit>Discard Subcircuit: Discard the subcircuit associated with the selected symbol. See Discarding a Subcircuit.
Options>Subcircuit>Create Subcircuit Block: This is the top dialog for creating subcircuits. See Subcircuit creation methods.
6.2.2 Design menu
This menu is all scripted. It is created in the EMTP.INI file (see Creating Custom Menus) and uses the EMTPWorks scripting techniques for programming various tasks. You can open the scripts associated to each item and learn on script programming methods. Documentation on the used scripting languages is available in Other Documentation.
Design>Create Project Directory: You can use this function to create folder on your hard disk for saving the design file and all related files from EMTP simulations. This should be the normal approach for each study. You should not save any design files into the EMTPWorks program folder. This command is similar to the New>Folder command available in Windows.
Design>Exclude Devices: Exclude the selected devices from the Netlist. This command is similar to the Exclude/Include available from device right-click menu. The difference is that in this case it can act on one or more selected devices in the design. You can select entire circuit sections using the Shift and Ctrl keys while clicking on devices, or using a bounding box. See Device right-click menu.
Design>Include Devices: Include the selected devices back into the Netlist. This command is similar to the Exclude/Include available from device right-click menu. There is no change if the selected devices are already included. The difference is that in this case it can act on one or more selected devices in the design. You can select entire circuit sections using the Shift and Ctrl keys while clicking on devices, or using a bounding box. See Device right-click menu.
Design>Show/Hide: Commands for showing or hiding various device attributes.
Design>Signal Params: Allows setting properties for selected signals. This is similar to the item “Signal Parameters” available from individual signal right-click menu (see Signal right-click menu). The difference is that you can now selected one or more signals and apply simultaneous changes.
Design>Load Load-Flow solution data: Used for the Load-Flow option.
Design>Utilities>Run a script: Allows to select and run a script on the current design.
Design>Utilities>Delete generated files: Deletes all files generated for the simulation.
More information is available from the appearing dialog.
Design>Patch: Special patch function applied to the design. This is provided for upgrading design templates and/or updating devices. You may be asked to perform this command when a simulation results into an error or when a new option became available. The design patch level is saved into the attribute PatchLevel. It is not harmful to run this command on any design, since the patch level will be automatically detected and is applicable for the current version of the program.
Design>Patch Devices: Special patch function applied to devices. This is provided for upgrading devices or fixing device bugs. You will be asked to perform this command when a simulation results into an error or when a new option became available. The device patch level is saved into the attribute MPLevel.
6.2.3 EMTP menu
This menu is created in the EMTP.INI file (see Creating Custom Menus). It is all scripted and designed for running EMTP simulations.
EMTP>Simulation Options: Set EMTP simulation options. The appearing dialog has help sections for explaining various options. This command is usually the first step before running a simulation.
EMTP>Star EMTP: Generates the EMTP Netlist and runs the simulation.
EMTP>Start EMTP (do not generated Netlist): Same as above, only now the Netlist is not regenerated and the previous Netlist is used if available.
EMTP>Generate EMTP Netlist: The Netlist is just generated, but no simulation is performed.
EMTP>Generate and open EMTP Netlist: Same as above, only now the Netlist is opened in the file editor.
EMTP>View Scopes: Starts a separate application for visualizing EMTP simulation waveforms.
EMTP>View Output Files: Top level access to various output files resulting from an EMTP simulation.
The menu “Start EMTP” is the same as “EMTP>Start EMTP”.
6.2.4 Toolbar
The Freehand drawing tools allow using 6 new drawing tools for freehand drawing over the schematic. The resulting objects can be resized and offer other options such as coloring.