Echelon OpenLNS Commissioning Tool - Manual (Page 318)

302 Creating and Using Custom OpenLNS CT Shapes and Stencils
OpenLNS CT Stencils
OpenLNS CT uses Visio stencils to speed your L ON W ORKS network engineering. A stencil is a
collection of master SmartShapes (also called masters) that you can easily reuse in your drawings. To
add a master SmartShape to your drawing, you drag the master SmartShape from the stencil to your
drawing. OpenLNS CT includes L
ON W ORKS specific master SmartShapes called OpenLNS CT
SmartShapes. For more information on Visio stencils and master SmartShapes, see your Visio
documentation. Stencils allow you to combine multiple SmartShapes into larger master SmartShapes.
If you include OpenLNS CT SmartShapes in a master SmartShape, OpenLNS CT saves the
configuration of these SmartShapes with the master SmartShape, including information such as device
template name and configuration property settings. This allows you to create master SmartShapes that
represent, for example, all of the functional blocks in a device, or all of the devices in a subsystem.
You can also create a master SmartShape that is based on a single SmartShape.
You can create custom OpenLNS CT stencils to further customize OpenLNS CT. See Creating a
Custom OpenLNS CT Stencil for more information. You can save custom stencils you create for a
specific network in the drawing folder of that network. If you create a custom stencil to use across
many networks, you can save it to a global location such as the LonWorks\LonMaker\Visio directory
(C:\Program Files\LonWorks\LonMaker\Visio [32-bit systems] or C:\Program Files
(x86)\LonWorks\LonMaker\Visio [64-bit systems] by default).
You can create custom OpenLNS CT stencils to further customize OpenLNS CT. See Creating a
Custom OpenLNS CT Stencil for more information.
Creating a Custom OpenLNS CT Stencil
To create a new custom OpenLNS CT stencil, follow these steps:
1. Enable the Visio Developer tab. To do this, click File and then click Options. In the Visio
Options dialog, click the Customize Ribbon section. On the right-hand side, enable the
Developer check box, and then click OK.
2. Click New Stencil. A blank stencil opens with the default name of Stencil.
3. Create new OpenLNS CT master SmartShapes as described in Creating Custom OpenLNS CT
Master SmartShapes.
4. Right-click the title bar of the new stencil and then click Save on the shortcut menu. Select a
folder, assign a name for the stencil file, and click Save. Save the stencil to the