HYCAD

GETTING STARTED

TUTORIAL

Published by Hytrol Conveyor Co.,

Inc. © 2015

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Welcome to HyCAD. This system was designed to make it possible for you to lay out and submit orders with as little room for error as possible. These more accurate orders will allow Hytrol to give you what you want in the most efficient manner.

For those of you who have been HyCAD users in the past, we hope you enjoy the newest version.

We have tried to make it flexible and easy to enter data as painlessly and efficiently as possible.

Please let us know if you feel we could improve HyCAD to be a better tool for you...our Integration

Partners.

HyCAD is a tool that combines the functionality of HEROES with AutoCAD’s drawing capabilities to allow Hytrol conveyors to be placed accurately into a planned space. HyCAD allows conveyors to be dimensioned and moved within the AutoCAD planned space so that allowances can be made for existing structures within a building and to plan for drive locations, chain guards, supports, sortation lanes, etc. in relation to the rest of the building and to allow for traffic areas.

AutoCAD’s commands work with HyCAD as they would normally unless otherwise specified.

HyCAD simply adds additional functions and features unique to Hytrol’s conveyors. This guide is designed to help you, the user, become familiar with the tools, options, and general guidelines for the use of HyCAD.

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There are four primary reasons for this program's existence. They are:

• To make the process of getting an order to Hytrol as smooth as possible.

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To reduce the number of times an order is copied, thereby reducing the chances of error.

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To ensure that the required information for the model ordered is submitted in a timely manner.

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To provide the user with an accurate graphical representation of his/her order. Unless the use of this package requires specific instructions and/or non-standard terminology, the user should assume standard Windows practices and conventions. In order to simplify this tutorial to the extent possible, Hytrol will assume the user is familiar with the Microsoft Windows environment.

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HyCAD Toolbar – Contains most tools for modifying and annotating conveyors

HyCAD Ribbon – Contains all of the tools within the toolbar and the HyCAD menu

HyCAD Menu – Contains all options for saving, submitting, printing, etc. for the project as well as a few visual and performance enhancing commands

Project Tree – Shows project name, followed by a list of conveyors contained within the project.

Many important conveyor modifications are found by right clicking the project or the conveyor.

Conveyor Family Selection Window – Lists all conveyor models by category so a new conveyor can be drawn in the project

Order Conveyor/Header – Contains basic information for the project or conveyor (depending on which is selected). The Order Header contains PO and shipping information as well as project defaults such as voltage, elevation, finish and overall width (OAW). The Conveyor Header contains overall length (OAL), overall width (OAW), elevation, mark #, speed, etc.

Line Items – Contains all options that need to be added to the physical conveyor unit, including the drive, motor, guard rail, belts, supports, etc.

Remember that customizing your toolbars may create slight differences in the way your screen will appear from the screen shown above.

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Before examining the Order Process, let’s look at the initial screen and the toolbars. After opening the program, you will need to select the ‘Load HyCAD’ button on the toolbar. You can also use the

HyCAD ribbon (not available in AutoCAD Classic View) or the HyCAD drop down at the top. The

HyCAD ribbon will have all of the tools that are available on the toolbar as well as in the HyCAD dropdown menu. Your blank screen after starting HyCAD should look similar to the image below

(with all options to ‘Load HyCAD’ shown in red).

You can name the project in the ‘Properties' box by populating the ‘Name’ field with the desired information and can contain letters, numbers, and other characters. A project can consist of a parts order, conveyors with a parts order, or an entire system.

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You will notice that your project name is now in the white window at upper left and there are multiple windows open. In the lower left, you’ll see the Conveyor Family Selection buttons. You have the option to click in the ‘Hide Categories’ which will collapse the list of conveyor options and allow more space to list individual conveyors in the Project Treeview. With this collapsed, you can select conveyors from the dropdown list with the items listed alphabetically. The ‘Disable Pricing’ and

‘Disable Validations’ will allow you to turn these off to speed up the processes of adding and making changes and is usually beneficial on very large system orders. These validations must be enabled prior to running any reports or submitting the order to Hytrol. Also displayed below is the HyCAD toolbar, ribbon, and dropdown menu.

The window on the right is the AutoCAD Graphics window where all of the graphics are displayed.

The lower box is the Line Items where specific parts or conveyor properties are displayed. The window in the middle is the Properties Window (Order Header information). This is where you will enter non-conveyor information about your project. On the following page, we will fill in all the header information required to make this a valid order.

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If you scroll down in this window, you will see that there is quite a bit of information that may be entered, so let’s get an idea of what you’ll use most often.

Some of the fields are obvious…the PO number that will be issued from your company goes in the PO number field. To enter text, double-click inside the field, type your PO, then hit enter to accept. The ‘Is Quote’ field is important to note. If you mark that field ‘True’, when you submit your order, it will be routed to [email protected] to be quoted. If it is marked ‘False’, your order will arrive at Hytrol as a new order.

If you click inside the ‘Ship To’ field, you will see a small button on the right that looks like this…

This button (the Browse button) will direct you to the

Contact Manager. If you have not added any customers, you will see the message…

Click OK. We could just fill in the ship to information by double-clicking each field in the Order Header, but the information would NOT be saved for use in future projects.

It would only be attached to this project. To save a new customer’s information for future use, click on the Contact

Manager icon shown below on the HyCAD ribbon or select the HyCAD drop down to select the Contact Manager under tools to access the database.

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Right click anywhere in the Contact Manager. You should get a sub-menu that looks like this:

Select ‘New Customer’ so we can add the customer’s information to our Contact Manager database. Fill out the information shown below. The other fields can be used, but they do not show up on orders and are not required fields. Click OK to add the customer to the database and close the Contact Manager window.

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Go back to the project’s properties box and select the Browse button to the right of the ‘Ship To’ field. You should get a view of all of the contacts in your Contact Manager. In our case, only the entry that was just added is visible.

Because our initial contact is the only one in the data table, it is already highlighted. As you add more contacts, there will be more to choose from. Select OK to insert the contact into your project.

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Notice the + and - signs in front of the main segments of the header window. If you click on these marks, you can collapse or expand that portion of the header info to save space in the window. If you have collapsed all of them, expand the ‘Ship To’ category so we can add some final information.

Use the drop down box in the ‘Ship Via’ if you want to change your freight line for this

order only. If the customer prefers a specific freight line, it would be best to change the information in the Contact

Manager rather than in the Order Header for a particular project. For our example, we will use ‘Best Way’. This tells Hytrol to use what they consider the best way to ship your conveyors. Choose how you will pay for the freight using the ‘FOB’ drop down.

The ‘SICC’ field allows you to change the SIC Code for your customer’s type of business. This is a required field, so you cannot leave it blank. The ‘Attention’ field would only be used if the order were being shipped to a particular person or area (such as ‘Receiving Clerk’ or ‘John Doe’). The

‘Customer Mark Number’ isn’t used by Hytrol, so it can be used for the end user’s PO number.

Collapse the ‘Ship To’ portion of the Header and expand the ‘PO Information’ section so we can add some more information about the order

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Collapse the ‘Ship To’ portion and expand the

‘PO Information’ section so we can add some more information about the order.

Dates may be entered by using the drop down box, which will give you a calendar from which to choose the desired date.

Fill in the items shown for your project. The ‘Promised Ship Date’ is a date given to you by someone at Hytrol. Put that person’s name in the ‘Ship Date Promised By’ field – for our example, T SARTIN.

If you want your shipment to arrive on only a certain date, you should fill this in. This will notify Hytrol that this order should not be moved up in the schedule for any reason. The ‘Requested Ship Date’ field may be used to request a specific ship date, but this is not to be confused with the ‘Scheduled

Ship Date’, which can only be filled in at Hytrol. If your name is not in the Salesperson field, please fill it in.

If this order or the units contained in this order were quoted by an individual at

Hytrol, you should expand the

‘Conveyor Header’ section and fill in the

‘Date Quoted’ field, the ‘Quoted By’ field, and include the ticket number of the corresponding quote.

This enables Hytrol to verify any pricing or descriptions you may have used when creating the file.

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If this Project will be shipping to a location outside the continental

United States, expand the ‘Custom’s

Clearance’ section and fill out the information. Please note that the broker’s information is required for international shipments.

Let’s collapse this section and open the

‘Conveyor Properties’ section. These fields allow you to set some defaults for all of the conveyors contained in the project. Let’s leave the voltage at 230, but let’s change the

Overall Width to 24” and the Default Infeed

Height to 30”. HyCAD assumes all entries are given in inches, so there is no need to indicate the units being used right now.

It should be noted that these are simply default properties; each individual unit in the project can be adjusted independently. Also note that these project defaults are not required before you add conveyors; they can simply save you some steps later when choosing motor voltages and overall widths for each unit. You will notice that HyCAD can calculate lead times automatically based on configurations of the units in the project. Check back to the Order

Header periodically to see if your lead time has changed based on an entry.

The last four groups in the ‘Properties’ box that will be discussed are ‘Group Information’, ‘Third

Party Billing’, ‘Multiple Floors’, and the ‘Finish’. These are on the following page.

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The ‘Group Information’ displays the project name and description.

The ‘Third Party Billing’ is used when freight charges will be billed to another party other than the IP or the destination location.

The ‘Multiple Floors’ option will be used when there are more than one floor involved and the elevation of the additional floor can be inputted in this field.

The ‘Finish Color’ is a required field and allows you to select the color of the conveyor or parts and allows you to change the chain guards to Safety Yellow.

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HyCAD does not automatically save your work. We recommend getting into the habit of saving your work periodically. HyCAD has two save options. The first is the AutoCAD ‘Save’ or ‘Save As’, which saves the drawing file and contains all of the AutoCAD information as well as all of the

HyCAD information. This can be done by using the AutoCAD ‘Save’ or the ‘Save As’ button.

The other option for saving is under the HyCAD dropdown menu under ‘File’ or on the HyCAD ribbon. Go to HyCAD and under file you will find the options for ‘Save Project’ or ‘Save Project

As’. This method only saves the HyCAD project and information and will not contain any of the

AutoCAD information, such as the building layout.

You can also select the ‘Save’ option on the ribbon which will save the project to the database for future use. You can also click the drop down on the ‘Save’ Button and there will be a ‘Save’ option (same as the other) or a ‘Save As’ option. Either of these options will save the changes you make to the project titled ‘My First Project’. If you use the ‘Save As’ option in the File menu, you will be asked to create a new project name so a copy of the original project may be saved.

‘Delete Project(s)’ will delete a saved project from the database. If this button on the ribbon is selected, a list of all of your existing projects will be displayed, from which you may choose the project you wish to delete.

PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU DELETE A PROJECT, IT WILL REMOVE

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IT CANNOT BE RECOVERED.

We will learn more about the other tools in the menus and the Toolbar as we continue working, but, let’s move on to adding some conveyors to our project for now.

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If you look at the lower left side of your screen, you will see a list of conveyor families. The first conveyor that we are going to add will be a model TA, which is one of our slider bed conveyors.

Please select the ‘Slider Bed’ family. This will display a list of all of the slider bed conveyor models offered. Then please select TA and select an insertion point to add it to the drawing at a zero degree angle.

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If you do not see the Line Items window showing the options and accessories for the conveyor, you may need to resize that window. You can do this by positioning your cursor at the top of the line item window and then clicking and dragging the left mouse button up until you see more of the line items.

Now expand the ‘Conveyor Properties’ section in the Conveyor Header to show the unit’s parameters. You may find you need to expand the column width to be able to read the entire parameter name. Place your cursor over one of the column lines until you see it change shape.

Grab the line by holding down your left mouse button and drag the column border to the right to expand the width.

Please click on the ‘Overall width’ field. This will display a drop down arrow. Please click on that and select the ’24 in.’ option (should already be set to 24” because we set the OAW to 24” for the entire project).

You can rotate the graphics so that your screen should now look similar to this (these graphics are set to realistic in the AutoCAD settings for display purposes):

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HyCAD fills in the parameters using the defaults (or minimum standards) from the Hytrol catalog and/or price list. Since we already told HyCAD we wanted all of our units to be 24 inches wide, at an elevation of 30 inches, and with 230 Volts AC, these fields are already populated in the appropriate location. Notice that the estimated lead time is 3 Days and is shown in Yellow. We will be making several changes to this TA. You will notice that the estimated lead time will automatically change when we make these changes.

Our current overall length (OAL) is 6 feet. We want the unit to be 36 feet OAL. You may either type the length (typed in the format 36’) or use the drop down box to select the length. Either way, your graphics will immediately update to reflect your new conveyor length.

If the conveyor is not completely visible in the Graphics Window, you can modify the view by using the standard AutoCAD functions which will depend on the user.

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We now have a 36’ OAL unit with a combined 35’ of bed length. Notice that the end drive is on the discharge end on the left hand side in direction of flow. Let’s change the side where the chain guard is located. We do this by first clicking on the ‘Drive

Assemblies’ description in the

Line Items window. You should see the Browse button appear to the right of the drive description.

Selecting the Browse button opens the properties you may edit on the drive. Change the

‘Drive Side’ to the right hand side of the unit.

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Notice the change in the Graphics Window. It will be even more obvious if you change the chain guards to Safety Yellow. To make this change, go to the ‘Finish’ category in the Line

Items, click on the Description, and click the

Browse button. Change ‘Guards Painted

Safety Yellow’ to ‘True’.

NOTE: Changing the chain guards to yellow on this unit will not change the guards on future conveyors in this project. In order to change all conveyors’ finish settings, go to the

Order Header for the project and change the

‘Finish’ settings there.

What if we don’t want an end drive on the TA? Simply go to the line item description for the Drive Assembly and change the ‘Drive Type’ to ‘Center Drive’.

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You should see that HyCAD placed the center drive in the first 10-foot long section from the infeed end. If you would like the drive located in a different section, change the ‘Drive

Section’ field in the ‘Drive Options’ category inside the same ‘Drive Assemblies’ line item properties box. HyCAD assigns bed section numbers beginning at the infeed end. Let’s move the drive from section 2 to section 3 by changing the Drive Section field.

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Let’s make a few more modifications. First, let’s change the bed section configuration.

By default, HyCAD generally places the shortest bed section(s) of a conveyor on the infeed end. To change the default bed configuration, right-click the unit name in the

Project Tree to get the submenu at right.

Select ‘Configure Section Lengths’.

You will notice that the conveyor’s ‘Total Bed Length’ is shown at the top, while the

‘Total of Sections’, or sum of the section lengths, is at bottom. As soon as you make any changes to the bed lengths, you will get a ‘red flag’ warning you that these two totals are not equal, and you will be blocked from accepting the configuration. Also notice that all lengths are given in inches in this box; all lengths you enter must be given in inches as well. You can enter any standard length bed sections and increase the ‘# of

Sections’ accordingly. For our exercise, let’s use the default three 120-inch long beds but let’s put the 60-inch long bed in section #3 and the others at

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Notice that the 5 ft. long bed is now the third from the infeed end.

You’ve now encountered your first error. It is an error because HyCAD is telling you that you broke a rule. The program knows that you cannot put a standard center drive in a 5-foot bed, so it places a red error sign on the graphic and highlights the line item that caused the error.

Even though we already know this, the error message may tell us more. Notice the two tabs at the bottom of the line items window. They are labeled ‘Line Items’ and ‘Messages’. Select the Messages tab to find out what rule you broke.

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To fix the error, you will need to go back to the Line Items. You could either move the drive from the 5-foot bed to a 10-foot bed or, as we will do in this exercise, move the short bed to section number 4 by right-clicking on the conveyor in the tree and selecting ‘Configure

Section Lengths’. If the error message or graphic does not go away, you can simply ‘refresh’ the project by clicking on the project or another conveyor in the Tree to update the program and the error should go away.

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We will now make some more changes to our TA. On the following pages we will:

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Change belt options

Change end types from round to system ends.

All of these changes will be made in the ‘Line Items' portion of the screen.

Notice that HyCAD selected the default ½ HP motor when we added the unit. To change to a 1HP motor, click inside the Motor Description field and then select the Browse button on the right hand side. This will open the Properties box for our motor. Notice it defaults to a

Totally Enclosed motor. Other available options are shown below:

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We will continue to look at the Line Items area to change the belt type. Click the Belt

Description and then the Browse button to open the Properties for the belt. Change Belt

Type to Polymate White belt.

The graphics now show the unit with a white belt. Did this do anything to our estimated lead time?

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Now let’s change the end types from the standard round ends to system ends. As we did before, click in the Description field and select the Browse button. Inside the

Properties box, change the End Type from Round End to System End. Be sure to make this change on both the infeed and discharge ends.

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System Ends as shown. Notice that the Belt Description automatically changed to reflect the required 6” narrower than the overall width for a system end.

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Now, let’s add casters to the supports. Select the Floor Support Description field and then the Browse button to open the Floor Support Properties.

From here, change ‘Casters’ to ‘True’. When you put casters on supports, the fields in the

Properties box adjust automatically to reflect the change. Now, you can select the type of casters to use. Let’s use the default 4” Rubber Swivel casters with no floor locks or brakes.

Click OK.

The graphic should show casters and knee braces as shown below.

You should also notice that HyCAD automatically changed the supports from MS-06 to MS-05 to maintain the top of roller elevation of 30 inches.

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HyCAD changed all 5 supports. But suppose you didn’t want swivel casters on all supports, or you needed floor locks and/or brakes on some, but not all? Look at the left hand side of the Floor Support line item. There is a small + sign. When you see this symbol, it means that the line item has multiple lines that may be collapsed and handled as a group or may be expanded and modified individually.

Click the + to change it to a – and expand the group.

You can now choose individual supports to modify. Rather than putting 4-inch rubber swivel casters on all of them, let’s change all but the discharge support to have rigid steel casters.

We will also put a brake on the last support. These changes are made the same way as other line items. First of all, we want brakes on the discharge support. Supports are listed in order from infeed to discharge, so select the last support under the group. Notice that the modified support is no longer in the group. Since it is now different from the others, it is shown as a separate line item. To put rigid steel casters on all of the remaining supports, select the group description line for the remaining 4 supports (the top line highlighted in blue; the blue highlight means that more than one line item is included in the description), make the necessary changes, and all four supports will change at once.

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Remove all of the casters by simply going back to the line item description field and changing the ‘Casters’ field to ‘False’. Don’t forget to change the group of supports with rigid steel supports and the support with swivel casters. The Floor Support group should once again have five supports.

Since Guard Rails are not a default option for any Hytrol conveyor, we need to add a new line item. Right-click anywhere inside the Line Items window to open the menu below. Select ‘Add New Item’, then select the ‘Guard Rails’ line item category.

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You should now see the Add Line Items dialog box. This box is used for many different options that may be added to conveyors. For now we will skip down to the middle ‘Available’ section in the window. This section shows all line items that may be added in the guard rail category for this model conveyor. To add guard rail to the conveyor, double-click the ‘Adjustable

Channel Guard Rail’ line item. This will add the line item to the ‘Selected’ portion at the bottom to show that that line item will now be added to the conveyor. Click OK to add. You should now see the Adjustable Channel Guard Rail in the graphics and in the line items area.

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Since Hytrol offers several types of guard rail, you may need to order a different type or length of guard rail from the default. In order to change this, a second step is required (unless you selected the required type of guardrail originally). Go to the line item description and open the Properties box to make changes.

Change the Guard Rail Tiers 2 tiers and the Guard Rail Height to 12 inches.

The Guard Rail Properties box can be used to make other changes. You can change the type of guard rail to ‘Solid Side’ or ‘PC Type’. You can also change the height of the guard rail, and you can add or modify offset brackets. Not all guard rail options are shown in the

Graphics Window. For instance, Adjustable Universal Channel Guard Rail may be ordered with skatewheels, but HyCAD does not draw the skatewheels.

You may remove the guard rail if you’d like; it won’t affect the rest of the project. We will remove the guard rail from the rest of this example by right-clicking on the line item and selecting

‘Delete’.

BE SURE TO SAVE ALL OF THE CHANGES YOU HAVE MADE SO FAR.

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Now let’s add another unit to our project. Let’s add a 190-ACC, which is a member of the

Minimum Pressure family. Go to the Conveyor Family Selection Window and select ‘Min.

Pressure’. Scroll down to the 190-ACC and select that model.

When you select the ACC, the Graphics Window will show connection points, represented by bright green plus signs (+), at both the infeed and discharge ends of the TA. In effect,

HyCAD is asking, “To which end of the existing conveyor do you wish to attach your new conveyor?” Regardless of which end you choose, HyCAD maintains the initial direction of flow. Select the connection point at the discharge end.

Previous versions of HyCAD supported each conveyor as a standalone unit and supports were calculated for each conveyor as if it were unconnected to any other. If conveyors were common supported, the user had to remember to add or remove supports. HyCAD now common supports automatically.

While there is a way to support conveyors independently, we will common support our conveyors for now.

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Your conveyors should look like this:

Now would be a good time to learn about some other tools on the HyCAD ribbon. The

‘View’ area on the ribbon has some toggle switches that will allow the user to turn on and off some functions within the graphics area.

The ‘Toggle Detail’ button will turn the certain details on and off, such as rollers within the conveyors. The ‘Toggle Flow’ button will turn the green flow arrows displayed in the graphics window on and off. If we click on both of those buttons, you will notice that the rollers and green flow arrow will disappear from the graphics on the 190-ACC conveyor.

The ‘Toggle Warnings’ button will turn warnings and errors that are displayed in the graphics when there is an invalid configuration. Let’s go ahead and turn everything back on.

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If you select the ‘Front View’, your graphics should look like this:

Let’s zoom in and take a look at where the TA meets the infeed of the ACC.

You should notice that there is a gap above the pivot plate of the common support. A spacer would normally be placed here. HyCAD does not draw the spacer, but you can add spacers to an order as line items. Select the TA conveyor in the Project Tree and look in the Line

Items area. You will notice a line item automatically added for the common support. HyCAD also displays the model it is connected to and adds the note to ‘Supply Common Spacers If

Required’. These would be necessary because of this gap.

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190-ACC

Change the view to the Top view and zoom in on the ACC so you can see through the rollers to the V-belt. Notice that the V-belt is on the left hand side of the unit. That means the V-belt suspension angles and adjustment nuts are also on the left hand side. If there were a wall on the left side of the conveyor, there wouldn’t be room to adjust the belt tension on the unit.

In that case, we would need to move the belt to the right hand side of the unit. To make this change, look at the bottom of the Conveyor Header for the 190-ACC under the ‘Belt

Properties’ category. Change ‘Belt Side’ to ‘Right’ and notice the update in the Graphics

Window. Go back to the SW Isometric View and look for the suspension angles on the right hand side.

There are a few other things we will change on this unit, but as you work, remember to keep an eye on two important things:

1. Save your file after each major change.

2. Check back on the Estimated Lead Time in the project folder in the Tree to see if it’s changed.

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Now, let’s change the type of drive assembly to a shaft-mounted drive. To change the drive, open the Drive Assembly Properties box shown below:

Change the ‘Drive Type’ from the default ‘Underside Drive’ to ‘Shaft Mounted Drive’.

It would be preferable to keep the drive on a different side of the conveyor from the suspension angles, so let’s say the conveyor will now be located a few feet from the wall so we have room for the suspension angles on the left hand side. Make that change in the Header.

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Now let’s add sealed bearings to the order.

First, right-click in the Line Items area and select ‘Add New Item’. Select ‘Frame/Bed

Options’.

You should now see the ‘Add Line Items’ box. Since the ‘Frame/Bed Options’ category includes quite a few possible line items to choose from, it would be quicker to use the ‘Filter’ at the top to narrow our choices quickly. In this case, we want sealed bearings for all of the 1.9” rollers on the

ACC, so go to the ‘Description’ field in the

Filter and type ‘bearings’ under the ‘Value’ heading. Now click the ‘Apply Filter’ button.

NOTE: Notice that a price and lead time are given for each line item within the ‘Add Line

Items’ dialog. If the lead time for a chosen line item is greater than that which is currently shown for the project, the estimated lead time for your project will change to match the longest lead option/item that is selected within the project.

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You should see that there are now only three line items shown in the ‘Available’ section. Doubleclick the first line item, ‘All 1.9” Diameter Rollers To have #013.1046 Sealed Bearings’, to show the line item in the ‘Selected’ window. Click OK to add the line item to your conveyor.

The line item should now be added to the order for the ACC.

Add another new line item under the category ‘Options’. The small check box in the lower left hand corner of the Add Line Items dialog box allows you to see all of the line item’s description if it contains multiple lines. For example, if you were to type ‘Package Stop’ as the Filter criteria, you would see:

However, if you also selected ‘Show Multiple Descriptions’, the line item descriptions would change to show:

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The next conveyor we will add to our system will be a 190-LRC. After we add the unit, we will learn how to remove the drive and slave drive the curve from the existing 190-ACC and modify the tangents of the unit. The curve is in the Minimum Pressure family, so go there to find the 190-

LRC, then click the connection point at the discharge of the ACC to place the LRC there.

It should be noted that, other than Gravity conveyors and the model 190-NSPC, all Hytrol conveyors come standard with a drive assembly. In order to slave drive this unit, we first have to click inside the Drive Assemblies Description field and use the Browse button to open the

Drive Assemblies Properties box. Inside this box, change the drive type to ‘Slave Connection’.

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As you return to the order, you should notice two new changes. First, the line item description for the drive assembly should now read:

Second, you should see a new symbol in the Graphics Window just above the curve.

To get a better view, you can zoom in to the 190-LRC. The exclamation point in the yellow triangle is an alert that there is a warning message you should look at before you proceed. Below the line items area, there is a tab titled ‘Messages’. If you click on this tab you should see the following message:

In previous versions of HyCAD, there were several ways to specify this information. Because none of these methods was the one “right way to do it”, the information was often either left out of the order or conflicting. In order for the line item information for both units to match the graphic,

HyCAD asks you to specify which conveyor will contain the drive for both units.

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First, go to the 190-LRC in the project tree and highlight the unit. Now, right-click and select ‘Slave Conveyor’. You should then see the box to the right asking you to specify which unit will dive the slave connection.

If there were conveyors connected to the LRC at both ends, both units would be listed as available choices in the selection box. However, since there is only a conveyor connected at the infeed end, only one conveyor is shown. When you select the ACC, the ACC will be highlighted in the Graphics Window in order to give you a chance to verify visually that you have selected the correct conveyor. After you click OK, the message and the warning icon will both disappear from the project. Click the Line Items tab at the bottom to see the line items for the LRC again. The line item for the curve’s Drive Assembly will also update to show exactly which unit will be driving it and where the slave connection should be located.

If you go back and select the 190-ACC in the Project Treeview, you will notice in the line Line

Items area that it automatically detected the slave connection to the 190-LRC and adds a note to supply a Slave Connection Kit.

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Now let’s change the tangents on the LRC. Select the conveyor in the tree, go to the Line

Items area, click the Description, and then click the Browse button to open the Properties box.

You can also right-click on the line item and select ‘Show Properties’.

Use the drop down box to change the infeed tangent from the default 6-1/4” to 30” long. Do the same to make the discharge tangent 30” long.

You should now see an error instead of a warning. The Messages tab shows that we have broken the total tangent length rule built into the program. To remove the error, we need shorten at least one of the tangents, so change the infeed tangent to 24”.

We should also point out that a tangent longer than 18” requires another support at the tangent joint, but HyCAD has done that automatically.

If you have not done so already, go back to the Line Items tab to continue working.

DON’T FORGET TO SAVE FREQUENTLY!

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If you take a closer look at the slave connection between the 190-ACC and the 190-LRC, you’ll notice that the guard at the slave connection is painted Hytrol Green. Remember, when we started the project, we didn’t change the default settings under ‘Finish’ for the project.

Consequently, every conveyor we have added to the project has Hytrol Green guards. Let’s change all of our guards to Safety Yellow.

Select the project name in the Tree. In the Header, scroll down to ‘Finish’ at the bottom.

Change ‘Guards Painted Safety Yellow’ to ‘True’.

Now all of the chain guards we’ve already drawn will change to Safety Yellow as well as all new chain guards on the conveyors we draw from this point forward.

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Go to the Conveyor Family Selection Window, select ‘Zero Pressure’ family, and select a model ABEZ. Connect the ABEZ to the discharge end of the LRC.

You should notice that a warning message immediately appears.

Go to the Messages tab at the bottom of the

Line Items area.

You could continue to work on the ABEZ, but eventually you will need to add Product Specs, which are required for this model. Let’s go ahead and fill that out now.

Right-click inside the Line

Items area, go to ‘Add

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In the Line Item Selection box, select the line ‘The Product Is A ???’.

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Now let’s make some changes to the ABEZ unit.

There are a couple of ways to modify the properties.

You can ‘right click’ on the ABEZ that it shown in the

‘Project Treeview’ window and select ‘Show

Properties’. This will bring up a window with the standard properties for the ABEZ conveyor. Another option is if you select the ‘Configure Component’ button on the ribbon and then click on the ABEZ conveyor.

This tool is useful to select a specific component of the conveyor to bring up the properties, such as clicking on the drive to bring up the properties of the drive assembly or selecting a specific floor support to display the properties window for it.

Let’s select the configure component button and select the

ABEZ conveyor. This will bring up a properties box similar to the one on the right.

Right now we are interested in making changes in the EZLogic

Generation category at the bottom of the Properties box. As we make changes here, keep an eye on the line items, specifically the EZLogic

Type/Location line, since the changes we make here will affect that particular line item.

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First, look at the EZLogic Type/Location line item. It may appear as though the zone quantity is called out twice, but that isn’t actually the case. The first description calling for ‘(5) Zones

With GEN 3 Retro-Reflective…’ is the total zone callout. That line simply counts the total number of zones in the unit. The bottom line that calls for ‘5 – 24.00 in. zones’ specifies zone lengths. While the total zone callout will always just give a total, the zone length line will change if the unit’s OAL is not divisible by the zone length or if any zones are less accumulation.

To demonstrate, in the EZLogic Generation category in the Properties box, change the zone length to 18 in. and see how the line item changes.

The top line now shows that we have a total of (6) Zones. The bottom line shows we have

(1) 30.00 in. zone and (5) 18.00 in zones. By default, HyCAD puts the odd-length zone on the infeed end.

To change zones individually, right-click on the

ABEZ in the Tree and select ‘Configure Zones’.

You should see the box shown at right. Use this to change the location of an odd zone or to change the quantity of zones. If you attempt to enter a combination of zone lengths that do not add up to the overall length of the unit, you will get a warning telling you that your entry is invalid. You may also change a single zone to diffuse or less accumulation. Changes to overall length will change the zone lengths back to default, so it may be better to make any changes to the overall length of the unit before configuring the zone lengths. Experiment with various EZLogic configurations until you are comfortable with this tool. Keep an eye on the EZLogic Type/Location line item and notice how it changes.

NOTE: ALWAYS CONFIGURE ZONES WITH ZONE #1 AT THE DISCHARGE END.

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Before we make any more EZLogic changes, go to the Properties for the ABEZ and change the zone lengths back to 24 in. Also, change the OAL of the unit to 16 ft.

Rotate the Graphics Window so your view looks something like this:

Look at the line item description for EZLogic Type/Location. Notice that the EZLogic

Controllers are currently located ‘On RH Side When Standing at Infeed End Looking

Toward Discharge End’. The Graphics Window draws the controllers on the right hand side to match that description.

Next, we will review how to change which side our controllers are on and what type of controllers we want to use.

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Go back to the EZLogic Generation properties and change the ‘Sensor Module Side’ from

Right Side to Left Side. The graphic and line item description should both reflect your change.

You could also change the location of your sensors from the end of the zone to the center of the zone.

Notice what happens when you change from

‘Retro-reflective’ to ‘Diffuse’. Both the reflector and controller mounting channels disappear and the controller is assumed to be mounted shooting up between rollers. If you want to use diffuse controllers mounted in retro-reflective channel, you should select

‘DIFFUSERETROREFLECTIVECHANNEL’ option. the

The number of IOP Power Supplies automatically increases when the ABEZ has more than 50 zones. The number of Filter

Regulators (FR Units) also adjusts automatically based on the number of zones in the unit. All adjustments to the quantity of filter regulators or

IOP’s should be made in the EZLogic Generation

Properties area of the Conveyor Header. To add additional EZLogic options such as a USB programming kit or extension cables, right click in the line items area and add a new line item using the category ‘EZLogic Type/Location’ and select the desired items.

NOTE: In the past, users would sometimes add EZLogic components to an EZLogic conveyor order, even when the components were just spare parts not specifically to be used or mounted on that particular unit. Since HyCAD automatically adds line items based on internal rules, attempting to order extra parts on a conveyor order can be very confusing. Thus, it is better to order spare parts on a separate parts order rather than trying to include them on an EZLogic conveyor order.

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Change the OAL of the ABEZ to 101 feet. HyCAD assumes lengths are given in inches, so if you need to enter a length in feet, type either the foot symbol (‘) or the word abbreviation

(ft.). Notice the changes this causes in the EZLogic Type/Location area. Also notice that, since the conveyor is longer than 100 ft., HyCAD automatically changes the drive to a High

Performance Center Drive with a 1HP motor and a 5AC reducer because it is required for any ABEZ over 100’ OAL.

After you get comfortable changing OAL and configuring zone lengths and quantities, set the

OAL to 16 feet and the zone lengths to 24 inches. Let’s simplify the EZLogic configuration by using retro-reflective controllers.

For more information on programming EZLogic, refer to the EZLogic Components Manual and the IOP Manual.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAVED YOUR PROJECT?

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While several Hytrol conveyors may be used for inclines, only three models are designed for that application by default. Other models require adding feeders, noseovers, brake motors, and/or clutch brakes in order to make them usable as incline units. The RBI, SBI, and C come standard with those items. The Model C is a very useful conveyor in many ways, but it is not normally considered a ‘Systems’ type conveyor and mostly used in standalone situations or smaller systems that do not require the incline to be connected to other conveyors.

For now, we will look at the RBI, and later we will look more closely at the SBI.

To add an RBI to our project, click the ‘Inclined’ Conveyor Family and then select the model RBI.

Attach the incline to the discharge end of the ABEZ. You will notice that the RBI is drawn by default at a slight incline. Let’s configure it to fit our system.

First, let’s put the discharge end of the RBI on top of a 10-foot high mezzanine floor. Since a 30” top of roller elevation + 10’ mezzanine floor = 150” elevation, change the discharge elevation to either 150”,

12’6”, or 10’30” (Notice that there should be no punctuation between feet and inches when using the foot and inch symbols).

A warning indicates that we have a problem. Go to the

Messages tab at the bottom of the Line Items area to see what the problem is.

You should see that we have to make a few changes to correct the warnings, so let’s go back to the Line Items and start making corrections.

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Normally, the horizontal floor space (HFS) that an RBI needs to fill is more critical in determining the length of the conveyor than the actual overall length, as is the case with other models. Change the HFS to 40 feet.

The warning we previously encountered has been resolved now that the incline angle is lower. The maximum incline angle for an

RBI is 30°, and Hytrol doesn’t recommend exceeding 18°.

Changes to the HFS, the conveyor OAL, or the elevation will affect the incline angle.

We still have error messages now, but they all concern the supports. Because the discharge supports are so tall, they cannot be standard MS supports. We need to change them to MHS type floor supports or ceiling hangers, or we can change the height at which they are mounted.

The two supports on the discharge end for the noseover will be on a mezzanine, so they will be the same height as the supports on the infeed end to give us a 30” top of belt elevation.

Select the last floor support in the line items window and view the properties of it. Change the support elevation to top of conveyor to 30” and click ‘OK’.

Do the same with the second to last support. The support is now supporting the discharge end above an invisible mezzanine floor in the Graphics

Window, and the error messages for those supports are now gone. Keep in mind that once you change the ‘Support Elevation to top of conveyor’ property, you can’t revert back to default; you must enter any changes manually, which can be difficult to do correctly on an incline, so be sure you know exactly what you want before you change the support height on an individual support.

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We can change all the supports at the discharge end at one time to be supported on top of a mezzanine by scrolling to the bottom of the

Header and finding the category ‘Multiple Floors’.

Change the ‘Has Second Floor’ field to True, and then change the ‘Second Floor Elevation’ to 120”.

Changing the ‘Second Floor Offset’ will change the distance from the discharge end to which the second floor extends. The first ‘Floor Elevation’ field indicates the height of the floor (if it’s something other than 0”) at the infeed end.

All three discharge supports should now be supported to a mezzanine floor. Please note that the mezzanine floor itself can’t be modified, extended, or removed from the Graphics Window as long as ‘Has Second Floor’ is set to true on an incline.

Let’s make the third support from discharge a ceiling hanger instead of a floor support. Select the third support from the bottom in the line items area, right-click, and select ‘Show Properties’.

Change the ‘Type of Supports’ to Ceiling Hanger. For ceiling hangers, you can change the rod length and rod type from here. Let’s just use the default 8-foot long unplated rods.

There is one more error message concerning the support in the middle of the incline. That support is too tall for a standard MS support, but it is an acceptable height for an MHS support.

Select this support in the line items area, right-click to go to Show Properties. Change ‘Type of Supports’ to MHS Support.

Your RBI should now be completely error-free.

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Notice that our estimated lead time is still two weeks. There are options that will change the lead time to 4 weeks or even tell you to

‘Contact the Factory’. If a timing belt drive or variable speed drive were added, the lead time would change to four weeks. You would be advised to Contact the Factory if you added a special belt (that isn’t a standard option) or if you ordered special paint.

We will make two more changes to our RBI. We will add a variable speed drive on the unit and a

5-foot long bed section after the noseover.

To use to a variable speed drive, we first need to go to the Line Items area and change the motor type to a

High Cycle Brake Motor. When you make this change, some errors appear warning you that a High Cycle

Brake Motor requires a 5AC reducer and the motor is not a valid application, so change the reducer to 5AC.

This will clear both errors. Now, go back to the

Properties for the motor and change ‘Motor is Variable

Speed’ from ‘False’ to ‘True’. You then have options to set the controller voltage and phase.

To add a 5-foot long bed after the noseover, go to the Noseover line item and change ‘Distance from

Discharge End’ from 26 inches to 60 inches.

Notice that the HFS does not change. When you add length to the noseover, be careful to check that your incline angle isn’t too steep.

Notice, though, that the second floor is now too short. Extend the Second Floor Offset to

60”. You should also see an error now that the drive section is too short, so let’s go ahead and move the drive to the third bed section (bed sections on inclines are counted from infeed, starting at the incline) so we can move on to the next conveyor.

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The next conveyor will be a 190-E24C from the Live Roller family. Attach it to the discharge of the

RBI, and make sure that it’s a 90 degree left hand curve. Notice that the 190-E24C is drawn on the mezzanine to match the discharge of the RBI, even though the floor isn’t visible under the curve. The floor elevation can be modified in the Header under the category Multiple Floors. The

Floor Elevation is already set at 120”, but could be changed if necessary. Since it is attached to the RBI, however, the True Elevation is locked at 12 ft., 6 in. Notice also that the infeed elevation always specifies the height above the supported floor. You will also notice a warning concerning product specs that we will correct in a little bit.

After you have added the curve, add a 20 ft. long 190-E24 straight section to the discharge end.

Although the next model is not normally connected to a 190-E24 and for learning purposes only, let’s add a model 190-NSPC to the discharge end of the 190-E24. You should see a warning, but we will correct that in a little bit. The 190-NSPC is usually slaved from a straight section and comes by default with no drive, so the warning is for you to know to specify the driving unit, which we haven’t added yet.

Now add a 190-NSP and change the OAL to 75 feet. Since the conveyor is so long, let’s use a

2 HP motor and 5AC reducer. Rather than placing this unit on the mezzanine, let’s change all of the supports to Ceiling Hangers. There are two ways to change all supports at once. One method is to go to the Header under the category ‘Conveyor Properties’ and change ‘Default

Support Type’ to Ceiling Hangers. The other method is to go to the Floor Supports line item.

The very first line item under Floor Supports is highlighted in blue and calls for a quantity of 8 supports. This line item is highlighted to show you that it represents the properties for multiple supports; the subsequent line items each only apply to one support. Use the Browse button inside the Description field for the first (blue) line and change ‘Support Type’ to ‘Ceiling Hanger’.

The change will apply to all supports listed under that line item.

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Your system should now look like this:

Select the NSPC in the Tree, rightclick, and choose ‘Slave Conveyor’.

Choose the NSP unit in the selection box and click OK (see pg. 39).

Now add a Model 190-NSPC to the discharge end of the NSP unit. Change the properties to make this curve a right-handed curve. Slave the curve from the straight section and change your supports to ceiling hangers. You should have an error message. Check the Messages tab and you’ll see that the line shafts for the straight and second curve do not line up with each other.

HyCAD is telling us we must either use a Crossover, change the line shaft side of the NSP (which would give us an error on the infeed end), or add a drive to the curve. We will add a crossover to the NSP. To do so, go to the line items area, right-click to ‘Add New Item’ and select ‘Crossovers’. Choose

‘Integral Line Shaft Crossover’ from the list. Open the properties of the crossover and change the location to the discharge end of Conveyor Section 8. HyCAD adds a crossover at the discharge end, between the straight and the curve. The crossover is clearly visible from a top view if you zoom in to the connection point.

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The next conveyor will be another incline unit, but we will use it as a decline. Choose the model

SBI from the Incline family. HyCAD initially assumes that this model will be inclining, so the conveyor is drawn accordingly. We just need to adjust the discharge elevation in the Conveyor

Header to make it a decline.

Since we started at a true elevation (from 0”) of 150” (12’ 6”) and we are supporting to a 120” mezzanine, our infeed

(supported) elevation is 30” (2’ 6”). We need this unit to have a discharge elevation that is the same as our original system elevation of 30” above the floor. Since we entered a Floor

Elevation for the mezzanine height, we need to adjust a bit to enter the new elevation at the discharge end. The simplest solution is to change the Floor Elevation to 0”. We can now change the discharge elevation to 30”. Notice that the infeed elevation is now measured from the floor instead of the mezzanine. HyCAD understands now that we are ordering a decline unit, so the feeder is moved to the discharge end and the noseover is moved to the infeed end.

Since we have not adjusted the OAL or HFS to fit the new elevation, we have the same errors and warnings we encountered when adding the RBI earlier: the angle of decline is too great and the tall supports at infeed are too tall for standard MS supports. We can fix these problems the same way we fixed the RBI. Change the OAL of the unit to 39’-10” (a standard catalog length). Also, change the two infeed supports to Ceiling Hangers and the third support to an MHS instead of MS Support.

On a decline unit, the horizontal section before the noseover is counted as the first bed section in the unit. The drive is currently located in the first bed of the decline, or bed section #2, but let’s move it closer to discharge. The discharge bed is too short for a standard center drive, so let’s move it to the fourth bed.

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ABLR from the Live Roller family.

Connect it to the discharge end of the SBI and make it 40 feet long.

We will be adding some spurs to the sides of the ABLR, so the center drive needs to be located in the second bed section.

Let’s go ahead and add a couple of types of spurs and another conveyor positioned to accept a 90degree push-off.

Right-click on the ABLR in the Project Treeview and select ‘Attach Spur’. The ‘Create New

Conveyor’ box appears. Select the model 190-

LRSS from the Minimum Pressure family.

HyCAD will place the spur as close to the infeed end of the host unit (the ABLR, in this case) as possible. By default, the spur will be a left hand converging spur, located on the left hand side of the ABLR. We will change this configuration to right hand diverging on the left hand side of the

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Select the 190-LRSS in the Tree so you can view that conveyor’s properties. In the Header, look for the Position category. Leave the ‘Conveyor Side’ set to ‘Left Side’. Change the Distance from

Infeed to 4 feet. Under the Conveyor Properties category, look for the property ‘Spur Flow’.

Change this to ‘Right Hand’. Keep in mind that the flow of the spur combined with the side of the host conveyor on which the spur is located automatically determines whether the spur is diverging or converging; hence, there is no option to specify which type the spur should be. Your spur should look like this:

Using the same method, attach a 190-LRS to the right hand side of the ABLR unit.

Locate the spur 25 feet from the infeed end of the LR. It should now look like this:

Add a left hand 190-LRC (under the Min.

Pressure tab) to the discharge end of the

190-LRS you just added. Change the Drive

Assembly to a Side Mounted Drive located on the outside radius. Change the drive on the LRS to a slave connection on the outside radius and discharge end and then right click on the LRS in the tree to select ‘Slave

Conveyor and select the 190-LRC from the list. Does your graphic look like this?

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The last powered unit in the main part of the system will be a 190-ACC. Connect it to the discharge end of the 190-LRC as shown below:

Right-click in the Line Items area and select ‘Add New Item’, then select ‘Options’. In the filter at the top of the box you can go to the ‘Description’ field and type ‘End Stop’ (not casesensitive) for the ‘Value’, and click ‘Apply Filter’ or scroll down to locate it in the list. Doubleclick to select the ‘1-1/2” x 1-1/2” Angle End Stop’ so that it appears in the ‘Selected’ box at the bottom. Use the same procedure to apply a Description filter for the word ‘Overhead’ or scroll down to find ‘Overhead Push-off’ to add to the Selected box. Click OK to add both options to your conveyor.

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The angle end stop is placed at the discharge end of the unit and the Overhead Push-off is located 1’ 3-3/4” from the infeed end of the ACC. The end stop is okay, but we need to move the Overhead Push-off to the discharge end of the ACC, and we need it on the opposite side.

Select the line item description for the push-off and click the Browse button to open the

Properties box for the push-off. Change the Conveyor Side field to ‘Right Side’ and change the

Distance From Infeed End to ‘8 ft., 8 1/4 in.’

(NOTE: Be sure to separate the FEET from the

INCHES with a comma as shown.)

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Let’s go ahead and take care of the warnings that are on the 190-E24 and 190-E24C conveyors. Both warnings can be corrected with one action. Product specifications are required for the E24 line of conveyor. You can select the folder for the entire project at the top of the Project Treeview, then right click in the ‘Line Items’ window and select ‘Add New

Item’ and select ‘Product Specifications’. Double click on ‘The Product is A ???’ to select it and click ‘OK’. This will add the product specs for the entire project (it can be done on individual conveyor as well). You can change the line to ‘Special’ by clicking on the checkbox under ‘SP’ and it will turn the field purple. Once the line is special, you can type in whatever product specifications are required. The warnings should now be removed.

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Let’s zoom in on the area where we added the overhead push-off and we will add a section of skatewheel gravity to receive product from the push-off.

Select the Gravity Conveyor Family and select model 3SW. You should notice that, in addition to the attachment points at the ends of all conveyors, one also appears opposite the push-off. HyCAD expects a unit to be placed there, so go ahead and select that attachment point.

Floor supports are automatically added to gravity sections. Let’s change the discharge elevation of the gravity section to 20 inches.

Does your conveyor look like this?

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Let’s add a different type of pusher to the ABLR. Select the ABLR in the tree and add a new line item, select

‘Options’ and then do a filter search for ‘pusher’ and add a High Speed Pusher to the unit. Once the pusher is added, it will be placed near the infeed end. In order to relocate the pusher, you will need to modify the properties of the pusher line item. Change it to the Right Side of the conveyor. It should be closer to the discharge end, so change ‘Distance From Infeed’ to 39’6” (no space, dash, or other punctuation should be used between feet and inches when using the tick marks).

You may notice that the pusher doesn’t appear to be physically connected to the ABLR. That’s because HyCAD doesn’t draw the connecting brackets. However, the mounting distances are still accurate. What effect, if any, did adding this pusher have on our estimated lead time?

Add a 19SR gravity unit opposite the High Speed Pusher. Notice that the gravity unit appears to extend past the discharge end of the LR. That is because the gravity unit is connected to the

center of the pusher face. In order to make the location visually more accurate, we need to move the pusher, not the conveyor. Select the ABLR in the treeview, and right-click on the line for the pusher and select ‘Show Properties’. Change the Distance From Infeed to 39’, and you should see both the pusher and gravity section relocate accordingly.

WHEN DID YOU LAST SAVE YOUR PROJECT?

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We have asked you to periodically look at the estimated lead time for a given unit or the entire project. If you place your mouse over the estimated lead time, HyCAD shows an explanation for the lead time that has been selected? For example, select the ABLR to which we added the High Speed Pusher. The estimated lead time for the unit is now 4 weeks.

Place your mouse over the estimated lead time, and you should see this message:

So far, we have added conveyors to our project that are all connected to one another.

However, unconnected conveyors are added differently. Before proceeding, it is important to have a basic understanding of the concept of ‘World Coordinates’. Most AutoCAD users are familiar with the term, but we understand that many HyCAD users may not be expert AutoCAD users as well.

The starting fixed point when adding the first conveyor is called the origin and the world coordinate system defines all points in the world by describing each point’s distance in each of the three dimensions from the origin. When you start a new order, HyCAD expects the first conveyor added to the system will start at the origin, described as X, Y, Z coordinates of (0,0,0), or zero inches from the origin in all directions. When we added our first conveyor (the Model

TA), the unit was drawn at an elevation of 30 inches, which is described by the Z-coordinate.

The centerline of the infeed end is described as 0 inches in the X-direction (the length of the conveyor) and 0 inches in the Y-direction (the width of the conveyor). The Axis Orientation

Arrows point in the positive direction from the origin for each axis. Therefore, the centerline of the infeed end of the the top of bed elevation for the TA is described by the point (0,0,30). If we were to move the TA

12 inches to the right, we would be moving it positive 12 inches in the X-direction. If we moved it to the left, the conveyor would move negative 12 inches the X-direction. We won’t move any of our existing conveyors, but it is important to understand this concept as we use the world coordinate system to add and modify conveyors.

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Let’s place it perpendicular to the existing TA so 90º to the left is also +90º counterclockwise from the X-axis (or direction of flow) of the TA. Therefore, we will enter 90 in the ‘Specify Angle’ field.

Your graphics at the infeed end of the TA should now look similar to this.

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25-CRR. We want to place this alongside the existing 25-CRR with an inch gap between the two. To do this so they match up exactly, select the green connection point at the infeed end to add it to the project so it should look similar to the graphic displayed on the right.

Let’s change the chain guard to be located on the right side of the second 25-CRR and move it into position. Because the overall length is 10’ and the conveying surface is

19”, we will need to move the 25-CRR that was just added 120” in the Positive Y-

Direction and 20” (to accommodate the one inch gap) in the positive X-Direction. Right click on the second 25-CRR in the tree and select ‘Move Conveyor (World Coordinates)’.

Click on the ‘Disconnect’ button, enter 120” in the Y-Coordinate field and 20” in the X-

Coordinate field. Then click on the ‘+’ button to move the conveyor on both lines to move the 25-CRR alongside the existing 25-CRR to include a one inch gap between the two.

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Change the elevation of the first CRR from 30 inches to 12 inches. You should now see an error (If you don’t see an error, you may have a “refresh” problem. This happens occasionally in HyCAD when updates aren’t shown as quickly as they are made. To refresh, simply select any other conveyor in the tree and then come back to this unit.

The error message should then be visible.). To accommodate the low elevation, we need a Long Top Side

Mounted Drive instead of the standard drive. Make the same changes on the other CRR unit and make sure the drive is on the right side of the conveyor.

Now let’s add a Ball Transfer Table (Model BTT35) from the Gravity family to the discharge end of either CRR unit.

We need to move the BTT, but it needs to be disconnected from the CRR because any movement we make to the

BTT will also move the unit to which it is connected. Since we don’t need to move the CRR, we need to separate the conveyors first. To do so, select the BTT in the Tree, rightclick, and select ‘Disconnect’. Now move the BTT so it is approximately centered between the two CRR units (10” in the X-Direction). Change the OAW of the BTT to 42 inches and the elevation to 12 inches. Also put the balls on 6inch centers and add MHS supports (change the

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So far in this tutorial, we have added conveyors connected to the infeed or discharge ends of other conveyors or standing alone using coordinates to locate them. Let’s now learn how to add a conveyor between two existing units. We will insert a 190-E24 gate between the 190-E24C and the

190-E24 that we added earlier. Before we do so, you need to understand how HyCAD connects conveyors so you can grasp the reason for the process outlined below. When units are added,

HyCAD assumes that the infeed end of a new conveyor will be connected to the discharge end of an existing conveyor. This assumption is made because HyCAD creates and connects conveyors in the logical direction of downstream flow. Therefore, you wouldn’t attempt to connect a new conveyor to a downstream unit because HyCAD assumes that nothing downstream exists yet. Even though this is what HyCAD assumes, we can change the default order of things by connecting units manually. The following exercise will show you how to do this step by step.

STEP 1 – Right click on the straight 190-

E24 in the tree and select ‘Disconnect’.

NOTE: Don’t be concerned if some of the downstream conveyors change.

Specifically, you may notice the elevations change. When a conveyor is disconnected, it disconnects at both ends, and any information (such as floor elevation) that was previously communicated through the conveyor connection is no longer recognized once that connection is broken.

STEP 2 – In the Header, change the ‘Fixed End’ to ‘Discharge’.

STEP 3 – Change the OAL from

20 feet to 15 feet. This should create a 5-foot long gap between the 190 E24C and the 190-E24.

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Window and select Gates, then 190-E24G.

STEP 5 – Connect the gate to the discharge end of the curve and change the OAL of the gate to 5 feet.

STEP 6 – Right-Click on the 190-E24 in the Project Treeview and select ‘Connect’.

STEP 7 – Connect the 190-E24 to the discharge end of the gate.

STEP 8 – Select the next conveyor downstream in the

Tree (190-NSPC), right-click, and select ‘Connect’.

Connect this conveyor to the discharge end of the

190-E24.

Everything should be reconnected like it was before we began inserting the gate into our system.

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You can verify that everything has been reconnected simply by changing the length of the 190-

E24. If all of the downstream units shift with the change in length, all of the conveyors are connected correctly. You can also tell if conveyors are connected at a quick glance by the green ‘X’ marks at the infeed and discharge ends.

If they are not connected, these marks will be magenta in color.

You may want to move the location of the gate in the Project Tree to reflect its actual position between the 190-E24 and the 190-E24C. To do so, repeat the procedure we used before: click and drag the gate in the Tree from its current position and drop it over the conveyor it needs to replace (in this case, the 190-E24).

We need to make one more change to the gate.

HyCAD automatically adds a power supply to the gate, but the power supply for the 190-E24 can still handle more motors. Go to the Line Items for the gate, and open the ‘Electricals-General’ line item for the power supply. Change ‘Size of Power

Supply’ to ‘Less Power Supply’. The line item description should now read: “Less Power Supply,

To Share Power Supply on an Adjacent Conveyor”, and the price should now show a deduction.

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Most conveyors will be added to a project using the methods we’ve demonstrated (e.g. standalone and quick connect). There is, however, one other way to add conveyors to the project.

You can add conveyors by copying in HyCAD. To copy a conveyor, select the conveyor you would like to copy in the Tree. Select the BTT35, and then right-click and select ‘Copy’ to create a copy. To add the copy to the project, you must paste it by selecting the project name in the Tree, rightclicking, and selecting ‘Paste’.

HyCAD will ask for an insertion point which you can just click anywhere for learning purposes. You should see the copy added in the Tree and in the graphics. You can also use the

‘Copy’ button on the toolbar or ribbon, which will allow you to copy multiple conveyors at one time and allow you to select a specific point to place the conveyor(s).

Let’s delete the newly added BTT35. To delete a conveyor from the project, select the last

BTT35 in the Project Treeview and right-click. Select ‘Delete’ to delete the conveyor. You can also click the ‘Erase’ button in the toolbar.

When using the ‘Erase’ in the toolbar, HyCAD will ask you to select the objects that you wish to delete. You can select one conveyor or multiple conveyors and you can also delete non-HyCAD objects. For this instance, let’s just erase the newly added BTT35.

It is important to note that when a conveyor is deleted from the project, it is permanently deleted.

There is no way to recover a deleted or erased conveyor, so be sure that is what you want to do

before you select ‘Delete’ or ‘Erase’.

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Parts orders are added into HyCAD in much the same way a conveyor would be added. There are two ways to create a Parts order depending on how much information you have about the parts you need.

The first method to add a Parts order is by clicking the ‘Add Parts’ button on the ribbon or toolbar.

Clicking this icon opens the Add Parts dialog. This box is meant to emulate the PartsView program. From here, you may search all or a portion of a part number or description. Keep in mind, though, that this is the ‘quick’ method because the search function returns a limited number of results and therefore uses less memory to draw from the database.

To add a part to the order, double-click the part you would like to add to the ‘Selected’ box below. You may also change quantities from the ‘Selected’ box. You may add as many different parts as you need before you click OK to return to the Parts order. Although the Parts order is not a conveyor and is not drawn in the Graphics Window, it is treated the same as a conveyor in the Tree. If you need to add another part after you return to the Parts order, you may add a new line item under the category ‘Parts’. This is similar to the second method for adding a Parts order, so let’s explain the difference.

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The second method is slower, but returns more comprehensive results. To get complete search results, select the project in the Tree, right-click, and select ‘Add Parts Order’. This creates a Parts order, but no parts have been added yet. From here, you can add a line item with the category

‘Parts’. It will take a minute to load the ‘Add Line Item’ dialog box as HyCAD searches the database to display all parts. You will see all available parts listed in the dialog box when it opens. The easiest thing to do now would be to use a Filter for all or part of either the part number or description. Keep in mind that all parts that do NOT match ALL of the information you enter into the filter will be removed, so only enter as much information as you positively know.

As with other line items, double-click or checkmark the part you would like to add to your order to add it to the ‘Selected’ box below. You may also change quantities or add other parts at this point.

When you have finished adding parts, click OK. Let’s work an example to add some specific spare parts to our project.

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Let’s use both methods to order a couple of extra motors for the TA unit, some spare gate springs, two motors for the E24 conveyors, and some extra rollers for the ACC and ABEZ units.

Let’s also add some extra MS supports for 30-inch elevation and a replacement belt for the TA.

First of all, select the ‘Add Parts’ tool from the toolbar.

The TA order calls for a ½ HP TEFC motor, so type ‘TEFC’ in the search area and select ‘Description’ in the ‘Search By’ area, and then select ‘Search’ to find the part. Scroll down to the ½ HP, 230/460/3,

TEFC, C-Face motor and double-click to select. This will add the 030.7134 motor we searched for to the ‘Selected’ area below. Change the quantity to 2.

Repeat the search and select process to find gate springs, E24 motors, and rollers for ACC and ABEZ conveyors. You may have difficulty using the Description search for each of these, since purchased parts often have very different line item descriptions from what you see in the conveyor line item in

HyCAD. For the springs, try searching by ‘Part #’ to find 919.0038, select it, and change the quantity to 6. Search 033.09001 to get the E24 motor, select it, and change the quantity to 4. Click OK to add these parts to your order.

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For the rollers and supports, a limited search may not return enough results to find the part we need

(since there are so many part numbers for rollers and supports). To do a comprehensive parts search, right-click in the Line Items area and add a new line item under the category Parts. Type

‘roller’ in the description contains field in the Filter, then click ‘Apply Filter’. This still returns many results to scroll through. Suppose we knew the beginning of the part number but not the whole thing.

Try adding B-019 in the ‘Part Number’ ‘Starts With’ filter and click ‘Apply Filter’. This applies both filters at once to narrow your search. If you narrowed the results too much and wanted to remove the Description filter, simply click in the check box before the word ‘Description’ to unselect that filter and keep the other. You’ll have to select ‘Apply Filter’ again. Select a roller for a 21” BR, which is part number B-01982-168. Change the quantity to 6.

To find supports, you could try a Description Contains filter for ‘MS support’, but you won’t see any results because the line item description reads differently. Try entering ‘MS’ for the Part

Number and applying the filter. You should see all MS-type supports. Scroll down to find MS-

06-24 and select. Change the quantity to 6 and click OK to add these parts to your order.

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To order a replacement belt, right click in the line items area and go to ‘Add New Item’ and select ‘Belt Assembly’. Scroll down in the window to find the ‘White Polymate 100 RMP-COS

Belt’ in the list and double click it to add it to the parts order and click ‘OK’.

Now open the properties of the belt in the line items area to change the length and add lacing.

We will change the width of the belt to 18” OAW and the length of the belt to 74’-1” OAL and add clipper lacing.

Your parts order should now look like this.

If you need to find a part number for any standard Hytrol conveyor, refer to the Installation and

Maintenance Manual. A full listing of parts, including suggested spare parts, is in the back of that manual. Later, we will learn how to access the I&M Manuals directly from HyCAD.

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Let’s look at some other tools that are located on the ribbon that are specifically designed for modifying, dimensioning and labeling HyCAD information in the graphics.

The ‘Modify’ button allows you to select a conveyor in the graphics window and highlight the conveyor in the tree.

This is especially helpful when you know which conveyor you want to modify but not sure where it is in the Tree_View. You can also locate a conveyor in the graphics from the Tree_View by right-clicking on it in the tree and selecting ‘Zoom To’. This will zoom into the selected conveyor in the graphics.

Another useful feature that can be found on the toolbar is the ‘Configure Component’ button.

This allows you to select a specific option on the conveyor to change the properties. Let’s click on the ‘Configure Component’ button on the toolbar. It will prompt you to select a component to configure. Zoom in to the 19SR conveyor near the High Speed Pusher and click on the support that is located at the discharge end.

The properties window for that specific support will appear. You will be able to modify any properties the same as if you were to select the

19SR in the tree and go down to the second floor support and open the properties in the line items area. Let’s change the top of conveyor elevation on this support to 24 inches.

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The ‘Rotate’ tool will allow you to rotate one or multiple conveyors to any desired degree. This angle of orientation in degrees is measured counterclockwise along the X-axis. You can also rotate a single conveyor by right-clicking on it in the Tree and selecting ‘Move Conveyor (World

Coordinates) and modifying the ‘Angle’ of rotation (counterclockwise).

Let’s take a look some other graphics tools such as labeling. You can label specific components on a conveyor, such as the belt, drive, or floor support. You can also display the speed and horsepower in the graphics as well as label a conveyor with a specific mark number.

We will start by zooming in on the Model SBI in the graphics window from the top view. Next, highlight the Model SBI in the Tree_View and locate the Unit Mark field in the properties window and type in P01. You will notice that there is now the mark number added to the

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Next, click on the Label Conveyor Button on the toolbar or on the ribbon.

You can also get to it by going to the HyCAD dropdown under ‘Annotate’.

Select the SBI in the graphics window clicking on the point in which you would like to draw the leader box and extend it out and click outside of the frame. You should now see the conveyor labeled with unit mark number P01 similar to the graphic shown below.

NOTE: Properties of the labeling and dimensioning functions are determined by the AutoCAD settings of your

DIMSCALE. If it is too small to read, adjust the DIMSCALE by typing that in the command line and increase the value (then erase and redraw the label after changing the settings).

Now let’s label some other items associated with this SBI conveyor. We will use the ‘Label

Component’, the ‘Speed’, and the ‘Horsepower’ buttons to display information in the graphics.

Select the ‘Label Component’ button and click on the belt of the SBI conveyor and drag out the leader to where you would like the line information about the belt to be displayed in the graphics. As previously mentioned, this would be applicable for any options including drives, supports, guardrail, etc. Now do the same with the ‘Speed’ and the ‘Horsepower’ buttons by clicking on those buttons one at a time and selecting the SBI and drag out the leader for those as well. Your graphics should look similar to the picture below.

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Next, let’s look at some elevation view and dimensioning tools available in HyCAD.

Please select the ‘Elevation View’ button on the toolbar, ribbon, or the HyCAD dropdown menu under ‘Edit’ and click on the Model SBI in the graphics. Zoom out and select a point away from the system to place the SBI in an elevation view. You have the option to ‘Mirror’ or ‘Accept’.

Click on ‘Mirror’ so it will match the flow in the layout. Your newly created side elevation view of the SBI should look like this.

Let’s add dimensions to the elevation view of the SBI. Click on the ‘Dimension Elevation View’ button on the toolbar, ribbon, or in the ‘Annotate’ section of the HyCAD dropdown and select the newly created elevation view. This will dimension all sections, heights, and overall floor space for the entire declined conveyor. Your graphics on the elevation view should now look like this.

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We will now add some dimensions and elevations to the floor plan of the graphics. Zoom back into the SBI in the system in the top view. Click on the ‘Dimension

Conveyor’ button on the toolbar, ribbon, or in the

‘Annotate’ section of the HyCAD dropdown and select the SBI conveyor. You should have the option for many different dimensions including overall width, section information, elevations, feeder lengths, angle information and horizontal floor space.

Click on the HFS (Horizontal Floor Space) option and drag your leader line below the SBI conveyor and click to draw the floor space dimension. This dimension should now be showing in the graphics window.

Now let’s add the infeed elevation of this unit by selecting the ‘Dimension Elevations’ button on the toolbar, ribbon, or in the ‘Annotate’ section of the HyCAD dropdown. Click on the infeed end of the SBI conveyor and drag out the leader to be placed close to the infeed end and the

190-NSPC. You should now see text showing elevation of 150” (EL 150”) as shown below.

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We are finished adding new conveyors to the project for the tutorial. However, you may practice on your own as you wish. The remaining portion of the tutorial will focus on commands relating to order management.

On the ribbon you will notice an ‘Export Project (.h4p)’ button with dropdown arrow that opens up other import and export options as well. These options are also available under the HyCAD dropdown menu under ‘File’ (both shown above). When importing, there is only one file type you can import: a project file, or .h4p file extension. This allows you to open another user’s project (it will not contain any AutoCAD information) via email or in a shared network. There are two options for exporting. First, you can export your project as an .h4p file, which allows you to save the project to a location convenient for you so that you can share your project via email or shared network. We recommend saving the drawing (.dwg) file which will contain all of the HyCAD information as well as the AutoCAD information, such as a building layout. You may also export your project as an .xml file type. XML files are formatted to allow other programs to take information from your HyCAD project and use it as needed. We also provide this option so that IT professionals may use the information from HyCAD orders in various other software applications, often in software developed by the integration partner.

On the ribbon you will notice a ‘Print’ option button with a dropdown arrow that also opens up some data export options.

These are also available under the

HyCAD dropdown menu under ‘File’.

You can click on the drop down arrow on this button to display the options and once the report is generated, there will be options to export the report into other formats that may be desired, such as

Microsoft Word or Excel.

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By clicking the ‘Print’ option, the standard HyCAD order report will be generated. Go ahead and click on it now.

You will get a prompt asking if you would like to include default pricing. Select ‘Yes’ so we can see the prices of our conveyors.

The Report Viewer contains added tools to allow you to customize the report. The Report Viewer is similar to what you would see with a read-only PDF document, but it is a little different.

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The Toolbar at the top of the Report Viewer has several useful navigation and annotation tools:

The Table of Contents may be toggled on or off when the report exceeds one page.

Print sends the report to the default printer. The Main Report may also be printed by selecting the

‘Print to Default Printer’ tool on the main Toolbar.

Find is a search tool that allows you to search specific text within the report.

The Page View options allow you to choose between viewing a single page at a time, multiple pages at once, or by continuously scrolling through all pages of the document.

The Zoom tools allow you to zoom in or out or set a custom zoom level.

The Navigation tools allows you to go to the next page, the previous page, or to a specific page number. The Backward and Forward buttons navigate to the most recently viewed pages.

Selecting the Annotation button opens the Annotation Menu, which allows you to select an annotation symbol or shape to insert into the report. These symbols may be used to add notes or highlights to the report before printing or exporting or to bring attention to a particular line item. Select the desired annotation object and then drag and drop it to the desired location. Once in place, right- click to select Properties, and change any properties you need to customize, or add text from here.

The last three tools on the Report Viewer Toolbar are the Export Options. This allows you to export your HyCAD report as a PDF, an Excel spreadsheet, or a Word document. Please keep in mind that a report exported to Excel will be formatted so that the text and symbols in the HyCAD order will appear exactly the same in the spreadsheet.

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Close the Main Report and go back to the ‘Print’ dropdown on the toolbar and select ‘Data Export

(Landscape)’. This report categorizes conveyor properties for the system in a table format. This format is more compatible for an Excel spreadsheet (shown below).

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Exported to Excel

Close the Landscape report and go back to the ‘Print’ dropdown on the toolbar and select ‘Data

Export (Portrait)’. This report summarizes the data for each conveyor in text form. Many prefer this format when they need to create a Word document for their order.

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When your order is ready to be sent to Hytrol for processing, submit the order using the ‘Submit

Project’ button on the ribbon or in the HyCAD dropdown under ‘File’ on the Toolbar. If there are unresolved errors or warnings in the order,

HyCAD will warn you to correct these before submission.

Let’s see what happens when we try to submit an order with warnings and errors. For this project, we’ve corrected issues as we have encountered them, so let’s save My First Project and start a new project named ‘My Second Project’. Don’t worry about including a PO number or customer information. Go ahead and add a stand-alone TA.

Change the Drive Assembly to Center Drive, but don’t change anything else about the conveyor. This should create an error. Now connect an ABEZ to the TA.

Don’t change anything about this conveyor. You should see a warning on the ABEZ. Save the project.

Select the ‘Submit’ tool. The order will fail the pre-validation check because of the empty PO field but you can click ‘OK’. You should see the following screens. Click on ‘Select All’ and then ‘Accept’.

If you select ‘No’, the order will not be submitted and the window will close. If you select ‘Yes’, you will see a message showing all errors and warnings that have not been resolved.

HyCAD is warning us that the TA is too short for the Center Drive and that there are no product specs for the ABEZ. You could select ‘Yes’ to go ahead and submit the order as it is. By doing so with errors and warnings present, you acknowledge that the issues within the order may delay the order’s being processed at Hytrol as we gather information to create a valid order internally.

Selecting ‘No’ allows you to return to the order to correct the issues before submitting to Hytrol.

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Both the Info and the Support buttons are designed to assist you should you need it as you configure your project. They can be found on the ribbon or in the HyCAD dropdown under ‘Help’.

There are links directly to the HyNet home page, the Hytrol

Catalog, and the Hytrol Price List.

The ‘Quote Request’ is a link to Hytrol’s Online Application

Information Form.

The ‘Support Desk’ link takes you directly to http://support.hytrolonline.com

, our HEROES/HyCAD support site.

The Installation and Maintenance Manuals link directs you to the online I&M manuals that are located on HyNet.

The ‘Formulas’ button brings up a list of tools used to calculate certain application information and requirements, such as box tumbling on an incline, the necessary width for the product to go around a curve, and v-belt length information.

The ‘About’ on the toolbar button shows information about the current release of HyCAD that you are using.

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HyCAD Toolbar – Contains most tools for modifying and annotating conveyors

HyCAD Ribbon – Contains all of the tools contained in the toolbar and the HyCAD Menu

HyCAD Menu – Contains options for saving, submitting, printing, etc. for the project, along with a few visual and performance-enhancing commands

Project Tree – Shows project name, followed by a list of conveyors contained within the project. Many important conveyor modification options are found by right-clicking the project or conveyor name in the tree.

Conveyor Family Selection Window – Lists all conveyor models by category so a new conveyor may be drawn in the project

Order/Conveyor Header – Contains basic information for the project or conveyor, whichever is selected in the tree.

The Order Header contains PO and shipping information, along with project defaults for voltage, elevation, finish, and

OAW. The Conveyor Header contains OAL, OAW, elevation, mark #, speed, EZLogic information, etc.

Line Items – Contains all options that need to be added to the physical conveyor unit, including the drive, motor, guard rail, belts, supports, etc.

Remember that customizing your toolbars may create slight differences in the way your screen will appear from the screen shown above.

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ICON COMMAND

KEYBOARD

SHORTCUT

HyLoadMenus

FUNCTION

Load HyCAD

This command will load Hycad

Modify Conveyor EC

Allows user to modify properties of selected conveyor (selected from drawing)

Configure Component CC

Allows user to modify properties of certain conveyor components by selecting the component; may be used for drives, supports, guardrail, belts, motors, reducers, and end pulleys

Add Part HyAddPart

HyCopy1

Allows user to create a parts order within the tree view

Allows user to copy a conveyor model and place it in the desired location

Copy Conveyor

Move Conveyor(s)

Rotate Conveyor

Delete Conveyors

Dimension Conveyor

HyMove1

HyRotate

HyErase1

HyDim1

Dimension Elevations HyElevDim1

Allows user to move a conveyor to a different location within the drawing

Allows user to rotate orientation of conveyor

Allows user to delete conveyor(s)

Automatically shows common conveyor dimension from correct preselected endpoints; includes OAL, OAW, Inside

Radius, Section Lengths, etc.

Gives true infeed and discharge elevations

Dimension Elevation

View

Label Conveyor

HyCline1

HyCn1

Label Component HylabelComponent

Create Elevation View

Show Conveyor

Speed

HyElev1

HySpeed1

Show Conveyor

Horsepower

HyHorsepower1

Print Project

HyPrint

Automatically shows inclined conveyor dimensions including OAL, HFS, Bed Length,

Noseover Length, Feeder Length, Infeed and

Discharge elevations, etc.

Labels the conveyor's mark number

Labels certain selected conveyor components, including, belts, guardrail, motors, drives, and supports

Creates an elevation view of the selected items

Shows speed of the conveyor

Shows motor's horsepower

Prints the standard Hytrol BOM Report with or

Other HyCAD Commands without pricing

Show EZ Logic Zone

Info

Multiple Elevation

View

HyShowDims

Unlock Controls HyUnlockControls

HyElevM

Displays EZ Logic zone numbers and length dimensions in the graphics

Unfreezes the Tree-View select function when

HyCAD is waiting on a response from user

Creates an elevation view for multiple items with both HyCAD and AutoCAD Entities

Match Properties

HyMatchProperties Matches selected properties (Speed, OAW, HP, etc.) from one conveyor to other conveyors

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Submenu

File

Command

Load HyCAD

Load Project

Save Project

Save Project As

HyCAD Menu

Keyboard Shortcut

HyLoadMenus

HyOpenProject

HySaveProject

HySaveProjectAs

Function

Opens HyCAD

Opens Project in HyCAD

Saves t h e Project that may be shared between HyCAD and HEROES

Allows current project to be saved under a new name

Delete Project

HyDeleteProject Allows user to select a project to delete

Submit Order

HySubmitorder Submits order to Hytrol

Log In As

Different User

Print

HyLogin

HyPrint

Opens Report Viewer for the project

(formatted printed HEROES/HyCAD order)

Allows a different user with a HyNet login to create a new order on the same machine

View

Import H4P

Export H4P

Export XML

Toggle Detail

Offset Lines

Flow

HyImportH4P

HyExportH4P

HyExportXML

ToggleDetail

HyShowOffsetLines

HyShowFlow

Import .h4p file to HyCAD

Export project as .h4p file

Export project as X M L file

Turn off/on detail (e.g. rollers / belt guards)

Draws a line to each anchor point

Toggles flow arrows

Tools

Warnings

HyShowWarnings

Contact Manager

HyContactManager

Toggles warning icons in drawing

Opens the Contact Manager

Order Summary

HyOrderSummary Displays a quick summary of the order

Data Export

Landscape

HyQuoteLS

Opens the Report Viewer to create a landscape view of data for the project, sorted by category.

Reports

Data Export

Portrait

HyQuoteP

Opens the Report Viewer to create a portrait view of conveyor data for the project listing a summary for each conveyor

Help

HyNet

Catalog

Price List

Quote Request

Support Desk

HyNet

HyCatalog

HyPricelist

HyQuoteRequest

HySupportDesk

Links user to the HyNet Home Page

Links user to Hytrol's Online Catalog

Links user to Hytrol's Online Price List

Links user to Hytrol's Online Application

Information Form

Links user to Hytrol's Support Desk

I.M. Manuals

About

HyInstallationmanual

HyAbout

Links user to Hytrol's Online Conveyor

Installation and Maintenance Manuals

Shows the version of the software

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Show Properties – Opens Order Header for editing

Add Parts Order – Creates a new parts order within the project

Export Animation File – Exports an animation file to be used in the Demo3D software

Assign FO Numbers – Assigns Hytrol FO Numbers to each conveyor in the project (used internally)

Toggle Graphics – Turns graphical details (rollers, belt guards, belts, etc.) on or off

Sort Tree – Allows the user to sort the tree by Mark Number or by Model Name

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Show Properties – Opens Conveyor Header for editing

Zoom To – Zooms to the specific conveyor in the layout drawing

Print Conveyor – Prints a specific conveyor within the entire project

Copy – Makes a copy of a specific conveyor within the tree

Delete – Deletes the conveyor

Attach Spur (where applicable) – Creates a spur converging to / diverging from selected conveyor

Configure Zones (where applicable) – Allows user to configure length and type of individual

EZLogic zones

Alignment (where applicable) – Allows conveyors with differing widths to align to the left, right, or center

Connect – Connects the conveyor to another conveyor selected by the user

Disconnect – Disconnects the conveyor from all connected conveyors

Configure Diverts (sortation) – Allows user to specify number and location of sortation diverts

Set Anchor (where applicable) – Allows user to specify a fixed point for an unconnected conveyor

Slave Conveyor (where applicable) – Allows user to specify which conveyor will drive selected slave driven conveyor

HyDimension – Allows user to select which conveyor dimensions are available

Configure Section Lengths (where applicable) – Allows user to specify lengths of bed sections

Move Conveyor (World Coordinates) – Allows user to move conveyor incrementally in the x, y, or z directions or rotationally

Fix Conveyor – Redraws the conveyor on the layout

Reset Conveyor – Resets all options to model default

T his tutorial was provided to help you become familiar with the various tools contained within

HyCAD. Please feel free to contact Hytrol anytime for help with any questions or problems.

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