Component Illustrations

Component illustrations provide useful information relating a component's function. This may include a sectional view of the component, but also illustrations of the component's usage within a circuit diagram. For several components, their sectional view can be animated like a cartoon.

            Select a 4/2-way hand-lever valve and click on Component Descriptionunder the Didactics menu.

The following dialog box appears:

            Please click the line with the relevant topic [104] 4/2-way valve, two pistons (1). The following picture appears:

Often it is easier to understand the functional nature of a component, when its behavior is visualized through the use of animation. For this reason, several components possess different sectional views showing the component at different states. These sectional views can be animated in much the same way as a flip book.

            Please mark a 3-way pressure reducing valve and click the menu option Didactics- Component Description to open the window with the component description. Now click the link with the function illustration [84] 3-way pressure reducing valve

This function illustration can be animated.

            Click on  or Execute- Start to start the animation.

An animation can be “frozen” with  or by clicking on Pause in the Execute menu.  or Execute- Stop stops an animation, whereas  or Execute- Reset restarts an animation.