Motor management

Main areas

Here are the main zones that compose the “Motors” environment of the Motor Catalog.

Table 1. Zones of Motor Catalog – Motors area view


1 Selection of the motors area of the Motor Catalog application.
2 Motors can be managed in this area:
  • Edit: Edit a motor allows modifying its general data and properties by using Motor Factory.
  • New: Create a new motor. Only possible in a user’s catalog.
  • Duplicate: Duplicate a motor. Only possible in a user’s catalog.
  • Import: Importing a motor in a user’s catalog (from another catalog, from a folder or from a zip file). Only possible in a user’s catalog.
  • Export: Exporting a motor in a folder or in a zip file.
  • Delete: Delete the selected motor
3 Tools to manage the comparison between motors – Access to the comparator.
4 Reference catalogs are available.

Motors of these catalogs are read only. However, they can be copied and moved into user’s catalogs.

User’s catalogs.

The users can create new catalogs. See the process in the chapter “Reference commands”.
5 Visualization of all the motors (thumbnails) are stored in the selected catalog. Clicking on one thumbnail allows displaying the corresponding motor in the central area (6).
5' The motors can be displayed as a slide show or as a list or as a matrix view of pictures.
6 Visualization of the selected motor.
6a Displaying general data of the selected motor.
6b Displaying performance of the selected motor.