Manipulating your Network

From the Branch section of the action bar, click Network Manipulation Assistant .

In the work area, select one of the following:

A product. The branches from every electrical branch geometry within the product are selected.
An electrical branch geometry. All the branches within the electrical branch geometry are selected.
A branch.

Note: You can multiselect elements or select several elements one by one.

The Robot is snapped to the network. In the 3D area, your selection is highlighted and an icon is displayed on broken connections:

Tips:

To remove elements from your selection, click Remove Mode on the context toolbar, and then select a product, an electrical branch geometry, or a branch.
To add elements to your selection, select a product, an electrical branch geometry, or a branch.
To snap the Robot to another position, click a branch section, a route point, or a branch point.

Define if the supports belonging to your selection are moved during the translation:

By default, all supports are fixed.

Option	Description
Fix individual support	The selected support is not translated.
Free individual support	The selected support is translated.
Free all supports	All supports within your selection are translated.
Fix all supports	No supports within your selection are translated.

Optional: Modify the orientation of the Robot.

See About the Robot Orientation.

Tip: You can use the context of your network to position the translated network at the intersection point between your network and a geometrical element. An offset editor also allows you to define a precise position after the translation.

For more information, see About the Context-based Routing Assistant.

Move the Robot along one of its axis to position the network.
To validate your manipulations, click Execute on the context toolbar or press Enter.
The Impact Analysis Tool panel appears and indicates in a table the disconnections resulting from your manipulations.
To manage the disconnections, do one of the following:
- To reconnect a single branch, click in the branch's row.
- To reconnect all the branches, click in the table's header.
A preview of the extended branches is displayed.
Click Apply.

The shape of your network is updated.

Important:

During the manipulations, the route elements defining the route of the translated branches are removed from the route.
To keep the shape of the branch, removed route elements are replaced by new route points.
When you translate supports through which branches are routed but not selected for translation, the shape of the non-translated branches are updated according to the new position of the support.

When you manipulate a branch routed through a curve, only the ends of the curve are used to create the new route points.

The tangency of these two points are used to define the shape of the manipulated branch. As a consequence, the shape of the branch before and after the manipulation can be different.


Branch routed through curve before the manipulation	Branch routed through curve after the manipulation