Typhoon HIL Software Manual
- Introduction
  Overview of the categories covered in the Typhoon HIL Software Manual
- System Requirements
  Guidelines for the hardware and/or software environment necessary to run Typhoon HIL Control Center, for both PC and Test Server/Virtual Machine-based setups.
- Typhoon HIL Quick Start Guide
- Typhoon HIL Toolboxes
  List of the Toolbox Packages available in the Typhoon HIL software suite
- Connecting to your HIL device
  Guidelines on how to connect to a HIL device using either USB or Ethernet ports.
- Device Manager
  Device Manager is used to create, manipulate, and activate HIL device setups.
- Typhoon HIL Control Center
  This section provides a general description of Typhoon HIL Control Center and lists the main software components accessible from it, as well as additional software tools which can be invoked from its interface.
- Example Explorer
  General Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center Example Explorer.
- Signal Access Management
  This feature allows you to change the visibility of signals in Schematic Editor and HIL SCADA
- Schematic Editor
  Introduction to the Schematic Editor tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
  - Schematic Editor menus and toolbar
    This section describes schematic editor menus and toolbar
    - Schematic Editor Shortcuts
  - Library Explorer
    Description of the Library Explorer panel in Schematic Editor.
  - Model explorer
    This section describes model explorer
  - Device explorer
    This section describes device explorer
  - Quick insert dialog
    Description of the Quick Insert dialog feature in Schematic Editor that allows for quickly finding and inserting new components into your model.
  - Subsystem elements
    This section describes subsystem elements
  - Mask
    Description of component masks and their functionalities
  - Handlers
    Handlers are functions that are executed at specified action points.
  - Schematic areas
    Description of how to create areas in a schematic to improve visual organization.
  - Disable schematic parts
    This section describes how some elements on schematic can be disabled and later enabled.
  - Component bypass
    Description of how to bypass components in a schematic.
  - Schematic Icon API
    Overview of the Schematic Icon API functionality
  - Execution rate visualization
    This section describes execution rate visualization
  - Compilation status dock
    This section describes compilation status dock
  - Undo/redo history window
    This section describes undo/redo history window
  - Creating wires and wire nodes (junctions)
    This section describes creating wires and wire nodes (junctions)
  - Replacing wires with Electric Tags or Signal From/Goto pairs
    This Schematic Editor action allows tags to be quickly generated from connected wires.
  - Auto-connect component terminals
    Description of the behavior of the auto-connection feature
  - Electrical component vectorization
    Describes how specific electrical-type (PE) atomic components can be vectorized.
  - Single-line diagram representation
    Describes how the Electric Bus and similar components can be used in conjunction with the Electrical component vectorization feature to create single-line diagrams (SLD).
  - C code export
    This section describes C code export option.
  - Signal selection dialog
    Overview of how to select specific signal references for a model component
  - User Defined Libraries
    This section describes user defined libraries
  - Model Settings
    This section describes the Model Settings dialog in Schematic Editor and its options.
  - Alignment assistant
    Description of how to enable, disable and use the alignment assistant
  - Generating an API script from a selection
    Description of how to generate an API script from a selection in Schematic Editor.
- Schematic Editor Component Libraries
  Detailed functionality and use of the pre-built Component Libraries in Schematic Editor
- Third-party integrations
  This section provides an overview of the key third party integrations within Typhoon HIL's toolchain.
- HIL SCADA
  Description of the HIL SCADA tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- Waveform Generator
  This section describes the waveform generator tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center.
- Test and Calibration Tool
  Description of the Test and Calibration tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- TyphoonTest IDE
  This section describes TyphoonTest IDE
- Signal Analyzer
  This section describes the Signal Analyzer tool.
- Lookup table extraction tool
  Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center tool for extracting characteristics (lookup tables) from datasheet graphs and charts into a format that can be imported by non-linear models.
- Package Manager
  Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center tool for creating and managing Typhoon packages that contain Schematic examples, Schematic and widget libraries, documentation etc.
- Usage Logging
  This section briefly describes Typhoon HIL software logging feature.
- Python Interpreters
  Overview of how you can use Typhoon HIL Python Interpreters to further customize your test files.

Schematic Editor Shortcuts


ACTION	SHORTCUT
Action that creates a new user library.	Ctrl+Shift+N
Rotate item on diagram in clockwise direction.	Ctrl+R
Rotate item on diagram in counter clockwise direction.	Alt+R
Flip components around vertical axis by 180 degrees.	Ctrl+Alt+V
Flip components around horizontal axis by 180 degrees.	Ctrl+Alt+H
Action for scaling view to none zoom.	Ctrl+1
Scale view in such a way to display all elements of diagram.	Ctrl+2
Opens library in a schematic diagram.	Ctrl+Shift+O
Action for compiling schematic.	F5
Action for toggling between fullscreen and normal mode.	F11
Action for removing wire routing points from connections.	Shift+W
Action for opening dialog for mask creation.	Ctrl+M
Action for showing contents of composite component.	Ctrl+Enter
Action for showing contents of composite component in new tab.	Ctrl+Shift+Enter
Action for changing name for elements with name.	F2
Action for creating subsystem from current selection.	Ctrl+Alt+S
Action for displaying exec rate legend dialog.	F6
Action for changing model settings (for example hardware target, simulation parameters ...)	F12
Zoom in action.	Ctrl++
Zoom out action.	Ctrl+ -
Copy action.	Ctrl+C
Paste action.	Ctrl+V
Cut action.	Ctrl+X
Action for selecting all elements on diagram.	Ctrl+A
Action for saving schematic diagram.	Ctrl+S
Action for creating new schematic.	Ctrl+N