Select to include children, all families, panel, and one-line components in the list. Initially, the list includes schematic parent components in the same family as the current component. Select a tag from the list to copy, or to increment for this new component. Searches for a wire connection to a nearby PLC I/O address and, if found, uses the PLC address number in the tag name of the component. Click Skip to update only the component you edited. In the Update Related Components dialog box, click Yes-Update to update the related components with your changes.Change the description, catalog data, and so on, as needed.Right-click the component and select Edit Component.Click OK and insert the component on the drawing.Insert a new component and change the component tag as needed.
The steps to link the new component with related components are: If the component could potentially reference other components found on different drawing files in the project, the relationship must be established before editing. While inserting a component for the first time you establish its tag definition inside of the project. Related components update to match the new values. You can go back to a component at any time and edit values such as tag, catalog assignment, location, installation, descriptions, ratings, and miscellaneous values.
