Settings will help you streamline your productivity by providing customizable preferences pricing.

Measurement System

The Measurement System dropdown in the General section allows for Imperial or Metric measurement.

Customize Pricing

Pricing for the Essential Conveyor Extension is determined by each user with the exported Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet includes information on all the products found in the drawing with the price set as zero.

Exporting an Excel Spreadsheet

To export and save an Excel spreadsheet, follow these steps:

1. Click the Open Excel pricelist template button in the General tab of the Essential Conveyors Settings dialog to open the spreadsheet in Excel
   
    

2. Open the exported Excel spreadsheet and Save

   
   
    Conveyor Pricing Excel file example shown above

Spreadsheet Tabs

Included in the pricing spreadsheet are five tabs: Instructions, Header, Models, Rule, and Pricelist.

• Instructions: Provides overall information on how to use the spreadsheet 
   
• Header: Include additional information about the pricing spreadsheet to be previewed after loading
  
  
   
• Models: A list of all the product's part numbers and description
  
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• Rules: Leave this tab untouched

• Pricelist: Includes the part numbers and information necessary to update pricing
  

How to Apply Pricing

To add pricing to the spreadsheet and load it in the drawing, follow these steps:

1. Export and save the Excel pricing spreadsheet
2. Click the Pricelist tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet
3. Update the Value column from 0 to a price amount
4. Save and close the spreadsheet
5. Click Pricing in the Catalogue component section
6. Click the Import button to browse for the file and open

Create Catalogue

This tool is used to create a local conveyor catalogue in CET from the Essential Conveyors extension.  Learn more about it in the Conveyor Catalogue article.

Material To Be Handled

The second tab in the Conveyor Properties dialog is Material To Be Handled.  This is used to determine the type of MTBH that will be moving along the conveyor.

To make a selection, follow these steps:

• Click the Add MTBH button to open Materials to be Handled
• Click the drop-down arrow to select the MTBH
• Continue this step until all the MTBH types have been selected

Set as Default: Set the material type to be the automated standard used

Apply to Selection: Set the material type to a manually selected section

Inspect: Shows the current MTBH of a conveyor

Apply to Selection

1. Open Materials to be Handled
2. Make your MTBH selection 
3. Select the conveyor 
4. Click Apply to Selection
    

Inspect will display the Materials to be Handled.

1. Select the Inspect button
2. Select a conveyor to read the MTBH
   
   

Schemes

Schemes are used to apply properties, finishes, and options to products.  Schemes can be applied universally throughout the drawing, or can be limited to specific selections in your drawing such as categories, Part Tags, or whatever you have selected in your drawing.  Schemes are saved per user per computer by default.

• Click the multi-colored Explore button to work with Schemes for Essential Conveyors

Please note - The image above shows the scheme manager in the Horizontal layout.  Your schemes manager may be in the Vertical format.  If this is the case it will appear as below. 

You may change this by using the Ellipse, selecting Settings, and selecting the Layout.

For more information on how to create and use Scheme, check out these articles!

Report

Select either the Equipment - Imperial or Equipment - Metric, then click the Export Report button. 

This will open an excel document that includes tabs for Manifest, By Model, and By Function.  "Manifest" will display a list of all of the different unit types, along with relative information about those units, as shown below.

"By Model" will list each model included in drawing, along with quantity and length information.

"By Function" will generate a list that is sorted by unit function.