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Hi. I introduce the version 1.0.7.
Changes:
- modified to work with QET 0.6. So the version 0.6 and and 0.7-dev of QET can share the same terminal block plug-in.
- this plug-in is system independent. Don't need to know the installation path of QET or the path of the personal library folder.
- the "Config" tab allows select overwrite or not changes to the original QET project. A backup is always done.
- a label appears while the plug-in is generating the terminal block(s).

Please, check the plug-in. If all is ok, I'll upload this new version the the python pip repositories. Doing a "pip3 install qet_tb_generator --upgrade" will be enough to have the last version and if some library is needed, it will be auto installed.

To run the plug-in type in the command line there are 2 options:

python3 qet_tb_1.0.7.py <path_to_the_desired_qet_project>

python3 qet_tb_1.0.7.py

In the second case a file dialog appears to choose the QET project file.

Hi, this new version (1.0.5) :
* doesn't require the module lxml.
* solves the problem drawing conductors that not belongs to any cable.
* right-clicking on Terminal type column loops 'STANDARD', 'GROUND' and FUSE.

Any design ideas for GROUND and FUSE terminals?

Hi.
This new alpha 1.0.3 allows pressing REFRESH button and sorts terminals according the data edited in the columns  POS, CABLE and CABLE CONDUCTOR. A terminal block is divided into several segments (every segments fits on a page). Every segment is represented in a different tab. REFRESH works between segments. For efample, if the terminal block -X1 has 2 segments (-X1_1 and -X1_2) and you set POS = 1 for a terminal of the segment -X1_1, when you press REFRESH, this terminal goes to the -X1_1 segment.  

Next step, I'm going to start drawing the terminal blocks to import in QET.

I'm going to:
1. Split large terminal blocks. If a term. block has more then 40 terminals it will be split into a several terminal blocks.
2. Order terminals by default by the ID columns if not POS is specified.

@scorpio: Can you send me a email with the sample project that crashed? Thanks.

It can't generate. Only is a preview version to check the usability. I don't know if right-clicking to autofill it's a good idea. Maybe  we need to create another column with extra info,...
I don't know if it's worth to put all terminal blocks together or create a TAB for every terminal block...

Hi Scorpio, I'm a PLC programmer and I work for a company. I'm not self-employed.

For the new version, maybe is better to dissable the option of searching for implicit connections (more than 2 connectors with the same name, implicates more than one terminal). I think is clearly to draw only the terminals that exists on the diagram.

Yeap, but for the others terminals, how do you set the position?

May is better set the position in the annotation field for all terminals. If not specific position is defined, the order will be alphanumeric, but respecting the terminals that have a position defined.

At the annotation field you can define the position, the cable to which it belongs, the conductor number in the cable,...

Another posible solution is:
- to draw all terminals in the schema
- when you open the plugin appears a table whith all terminals used in the order which they are is going to be used. For example:

POS. | TERM.BLOCK | NAME | XREF | TOP CONDUCTOR | BOTTOM CONDUCTOR | CABLE | #CONDUCTOR IN CABLE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     | X1         | +1   | 2-C1 | +1            | +1               | W1    | 1
     | X1         | -0   | 2-C2 | -0            | -0               | W1    | 2
     | X1         | R    | 1-A1 | L1            | L1               | W2    | Black 
     | X1         | GND  | 1-C1 | GND           | GND              | W2    | GND 
     | X1         | T    | 1-C1 | L2            | L2               | W2    | Brown
     | X1         | S    | 1-C1 | L3            | L3               | W3    | Grey

- You can easily chande the order, and the new order will be write changing the XML of the QET project. You can change the first column to set the required order, for example:

POS. | TERM.BLOCK | NAME | XREF | TOP CONDUCTOR | BOTTOM CONDUCTOR | CABLE | #CONDUCTOR IN CABLE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5    | X1         | +1   | 2-C1 | +1            | +1               | W1    | 1
6    | X1         | -0   | 2-C2 | -0            | -0               | W1    | 2
1    | X1         | R    | 1-A1 | L1            | L1               | W2    | Black 
4    | X1         | GND  | 1-C1 | GND           | GND              | W2    | GND 
3    | X1         | T    | 1-C1 | L2            | L2               | W2    | Brown
2    | X1         | S    | 1-C1 | L3            | L3               | W3    | Grey

- The next times you used the plugin, the table will show the correct new order.

This new idea allows you to design without thinking the position of every terminal.

What abut this new idea?

Hi, 

The pluguin is not working with last changes made in the 0.7 version. The possibility to add several texts to an element has changed the XLM format, and the plugin doesn't find the text that is looking for.

I'll update the code and I could add some new features. For example:

- Fuse terminals
- Auto-draw the cables connected to the terminal block. For example, if you have 5 terminals named:
  For every terminal you can specify in the "Annotation" label something like: #%w:#
   #  -->  order of the terminal in the terminal block. If doesn't exist, will be autoordered by the terminal name
   %w:# --> cable and conductor name.  Terminals with the same name will be draw consecutively
   %f:40  --> fuse type terminal.

Do you have more ideas?

We could use , for example, the field "function" of conductor properties. If the field is blank or not in the format 'W1:1' the conductor is not part of a electric hose.

Tha table will show all conductors, and also the electric hoses. For every conductor of a electric hose, it will shows cable number of the hose and the cable number of the diagram, hose name,...

Draw elements is dificult for some reasons:
* if the terminal block is too long, it's splited in several elements and maybe the terminals for a one motor are in diferent QET Elements.

* The electrical hoses connects from the terminal block to a drive, switch, detector,... So I don't know what to draw at the end of the electric hose.

* A table allow you to have a cross-references to easy locate every cable from where to where. If you are fixing a machine and you know the number of a cable, seeing the table you know from where to where is connected, in what page appear,...

The photo shows a more real example:

Hi everybody,

The new version 0.7.72 is launched. Now in the "config" tab you can choose 2 options for xref:

• Default: Use the format page- row colum

• Auto : Use the same configuration that un QET > Project Properties > New Folio > Folio referencings.

The auto option support the same tags that QET :%f, %F, %M, %LM, %l, %c.  Ramember thar the tag %F also can include %id (page number) and %total (total number of pages).

Linux Update:

sudo pip3 install --upgrade qet_tb_generator

Windows Update:

python -m pip install --upgrade qet_tb_generator

Please check, and it something fails say me.

Hi, I'm checkinh about bridge between terminal reservation.

About the topic of Xref, have you checked changing the cross-reference in the 'CONFIG' tab of the QET_Terminal_generator?

Hi Galexis, if you want send me the Qet project and I will check what's the problem.