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Designing Networks
Creating a L
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Network
You can create a L
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network by designing the network and then commissioning application
devices and routers using the LonMaker tool.
To design a L
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network with the LonMaker tool, you create a LonMaker drawing. This
involves adding LonMaker shapes for channels, routers, devices, and functional blocks; making logical
connections between devices so they can send and receive data to and from each other; and organizing
the network into subsystems. You can add LonMaker shapes at any time under any installation
scenario: you can add LonMaker shapes while you are offsite designing the network, or while you are
onsite commissioning devices and performing network maintenance.
To install the network, you commission devices and routers. Commissioning associates the device
shapes created in the LonMaker drawing with the physical devices on the network.
This chapter describes how to create a LonMaker drawing. Commissioning devices is covered in
Chapter 5, Installing Networks.
Creating a LonMaker Drawing
To create a LonMaker drawing, you add devices, routers, functional blocks, and other LonMaker
objects to the drawing page. To add a LonMaker object, you drag its LonMaker shape from a stencil
onto the drawing page. If required, the appropriate wizard will then open and guide you through the
process of creating that shape. After reading this section, you can complete the LonMaker quick-start
exercise in Appendix C to create a simple network with the LonMaker tool.
The following sections describe how to create the objects in the LonMaker Basic Shapes stencil.
Notes:
• Several of the shapes in the LonMaker Basic Shapes stencil are discussed elsewhere in this user’s
guide. For creating Network Service Device shapes, see Using Network Service Device Shapes in
Chapter 3, Getting Started; for creating Data Point shapes, see Using Data Point Shapes in
Chapter 6, Monitoring and Controlling Networks; and for using the Network Merge shape, see
Merging LonMaker Networks in Chapter 7, Maintaining Networks.
• If you have licensed the LonMaker tool as part of the NodeBuilder tool, the NodeBuilder Release
and Development Target Device shapes will also be included in the LonMaker Basic Shapes
stencil (see the NodeBuilder User’s Guide for more information on creating devices with these
shapes).