justin-walzengineering / layerscale

EPLAN script to facilitate applying an XSL Transform to an EPLAN Layer scheme.

LayerScale

EPLAN script to facilitate applying an XSL Transform to an EPLAN Layer scheme.

The repository contains a Visual Studio 2017 solution to facilitate editing the script file, but the only needed files are in the LayerScale folder:

• LayerScale.cs
• LayerTransform.xsl

Copy those files to a convenient place on your local disk. I recommend placing the script file LayerScale.cs to your EPLAN $(MD_SCRIPTS) folder, and the LayerTransform.xsl file to your EPLAN $(MD_SCHEME) folder.

Principle of operation

EPLAN layer schemes can be exported to an *.elc file, which is in reality an XML file. As such, we can apply an XSL Transform to that file, and one possibility is to apply a math operation on a specific XML attribute.

For layer scheme files, each layer node has an attribute named A961. The provided XSL file applies a multiplier to the value of this attribute for each layer node.

The multiplicand can therefore scale UP (>1), or scale DOWN (<1).

Follow those steps to use:

1. Load the script in EPLAN: Utilities > Scripts > Load...
2. 1. Use the "Scale layer tool" menu point under Utilities
   2. Associate this script to a toolbar button, assigning the Command Line "ScaleLayerAction"
3. Export the current Layer Scheme to file (*.elc)
4. Launch the script either by clicking the toolbar button, or by using the Utilities > Scale layer tool menu point
5. In the dialog, select the 3 paths:
   1. Input scheme which was exported earlier
   2. XSL Transform file provided with script
      1. The XSL Transform file defaults to a scale of "1.25". This can be edited by the user to set to required scale
   3. Output scheme file
6. Click the OK button to start the transformation
7. Import the resulting EPLAN Layer Scheme file (*.elc)

The MIT License

Copyright © 2018 STLM Inc.

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