Manual Atp

ATPDraw
for Windows 3.1x/95/NT version 1.0

User’s Manual

László Prikler Hans Kr. Høidalen

The contents of this electronic document is identical with the SINTEF Report No. TR A4790, but it is not an official document of the SINTEF Energy Research, Norway. It has been converted to PDF format and made available for distribution via the ATP FTP servers and Web sites, as well as via theregional EMTP-ATP Users Groups. ATPDraw users can download and use this electronic manual free of charge. Conversion to other formats and distribution on any kind of media requires explicit permission from the authors..

Release No. 1.0.1

November 1998

Trondheim, Norway 15th October 1998

PREFACE
ATPDraw is a graphical preprocessor to ATP [3]. This report (TR A4790) contains a completedescription of the program (ATPDraw for Windows, version 1.0) and replaces the manual for the DOS version [1]. Data files for old versions of ATPDraw can be converted to the new format, as explained in chapter 2.7. A preprocessor called ATP_LCC.EXE for ATP’s Line & Cable Constants is described in chapter 6. New users of ATPDraw are recommended to focus on chapter 2; Installation Manual and chapter 3;Introductory Manual. ATPDraw is developed by EFI, which now has changed name to SINTEF Energy Research (SEfAS). Program development and writing of this manual have been financed by Bonneville Power Administration, USA. This report is based on [1], and has been prepared by L
szl Prikler at SYSTRAN Engineering Services Ltd. in Budapest, under a contract with SINTEF Energy Research.

For SINTEFEnergy Research Hans Kr. Hoidalen project manager

SUMMARY
ATPDraw is a graphical, mouse-driven preprocessor to ATP on the MS-Windows platform. The ATPDraw program has a standard Windows layout. The user can build a graphical picture of an electric circuit by selecting components from menus. The preprocessor then gives names to unspecified nodes automatically and creates the ATP file in correctformat. ATPDraw now supports about 70 standard components and 28 TACS objects. A simplified usage of MODELS is also supported. In addition, the user can create his own circuit objects using the Data Base Module option in ATP. Both single phase and 3-phase circuits can be constructed. Several circuit windows make possible to work on more circuits simultaneously and copy information between thecircuits. Most types of edit facilities like copy/paste, rotate, import/export, group/ungroup, as well as printing to paper or metafile/bitmap format are available. The program is written in Borland Pascal. Two functionally very similar versions of ATPDraw exist: a 32-bit version which is written in Borland Delphi 2.0 and runs only under Windows 95/NT, and a 16-bit version compiled with Borland Delphi1.0 for Windows 3.1x. The ATPDraw package also includes the ATP_LCC program for Line/Cable constants support and the utility Convert. The latter makes possible the usage of existing circuit files created by the DOS version of ATPDraw under the new environment.

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1. Introduction . . ............................................................................................................................................ 5 1.1 What is ATPDraw?................................................................................................................................ 7 1.2 Short description of ATP ....................................................................................................................... 7 1.3 History of the ATPDrawdevelopment................................................................................................... 9 1.4 Available components in ATPDraw ...................................................................................................... 9 1.5 Contents of this manual........................................................................................................................ 11 1.6 Manual...