Associating Junction Points with Cables

You can associate junction points with an electrical cable to split the route of the cable into multiple routes.

Working with multiple cable routes for one single cable lets you allocate the routes in various electrical physical systems. This allows different users to define the routes of your cables independently in various zones of your product.

Before you begin: Associating junction points with a cable impacts the extremities and the constraints of the cable route.

To manage these impacts, specify the following options according to your needs:

  • Unset the route details when the conductor/route extremities are modified
  • Unset the route constraints when the conductor/route extremities are modifies

For more information, see Conductor Routing.

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About the Impacts of Junction Points on Cable Routes
  1. In the tree, select an electrical physical system.

    Multiselection is available.

    Note: You can also select:
    • Devices
    • 3D parts with an electrical behavior and junction points (junction devices).
    • Cables
    • Cable Routes

      You can select cable routes only if their parent cables are loaded in the session.

  2. From the Cable section of the action bar, click Associate Junction Point .
    The Associate Junction Point panel appears. Your cables and their cable routes are listed in a table.
  3. In the panel, select one or several cables.
    The following commands are available:
    Allows you to manually associate, remove, or replace junction points.
    Note: If you select several cables, this command is available providing the following conditions are met:
    • The cables share the same extremities.
    • The junction points shared by the cables are defined on their path in the same order.
    Allows you to clear all the junction points associations for the selected cables.
    Allows you to associate junction points and dispatch the cable routes according to your business logic. For more information, see Execution Triggered During Associate Junction Point Command (EWR_ExecuteJunctionAssociationAndRouteDispatch).
  4. To associate a junction point with a cable, click Associate Junctions to the selected cable(s) manually .
  5. In the work area, select a junction device, and then select a junction point.

    Note: If there is only one junction point in the 3D part, it is selected automatically.

    • The selected junction point is associated with the cable and is added to its route.

    • In the tree, a new Cable Route object appears under the electrical physical system aggregating the first cable route of the cable.
  6. Repeat the previous step to associate several junction points and to create multiple cable routes for a cable.

    Tips:
    • If you click a specific device, you can use the arrows to define if the junction point is added in the route before or after the device.
    • To remove a junction point from a route, click on the context toolbar to activate the Remove mode, and then select a junction device in the 3D area. Click again to deactivate the mode.

  7. To validate, click .
    • In the Associate Junction Point panel, the new cable routes are listed.
    • Under the Message column, information about the impact of your associations is provided.
  8. Dispatch the cable routes of your cable in several electrical physical systems:
    1. Select one or several cable routes in the list.
    2. Click Dispatch Route(s) to target Electrical System .
    3. In the tree, select an electrical physical system.
    Under the Electrical System column, the name of the electrical physical system that aggregates the cable route is updated.
    Note: To aggregate a cable route back to its initial electrical physical system, click Dispatch Route(s) to respective Cable(s) parent Electrical System .
  9. Close the Associate Junction Point panel.
    You are now able to define the path of the routes of your cables. For more information, see Routing Cables.