Creating Spare Conductors

You can create spare conductors in an electrical physical system. Spare conductors are used to replace damaged source conductors (also called live conductors) without removing source conductors, especially in shipbuilding industries. Hence replacing a damaged conductor has no impacts thanks to the existence of spare conductors. A spare conductor has a defined route, but it is not linked to any device ends.

Before you begin:
  1. Activate the electrical physical system.
  2. From the Conductors section of the action bar, click Spare Conductor .
    The Spare Conductor dialog box appears.
  3. Select the valid live conductor in the tree or in 3D area from which the spare conductor is generated.
    The instance name of the live conductor appears in the Route Initiated From box.
    Notes:
    • By default, the Identifier is set: SpareConductor01, but you can change it.
    • If the source conductor is resolved, the spare conductor is automatically resolved to the same conductor reference. If the source conductor is unresolved, the spare conductor will be unresolved too.
  4. Click Create One to create a single spare conductor from the selected live conductor.
    The spare conductor instance is created under the Specs Fully Resolved node (or Specs Not Resolved when the source conductor is unresolved). And the spare conductor reference (saved in database) is directly created under the node of the electrical physical system representation.

    Note: Since no ends are defined for the spare conductor, only its route is highlighted when you select it.
  5. Click Create Several to create several spare conductors from the selected live conductor in one shot. The Conductor Creation dialog box is displayed in which you can enter a number of conductors and click OK.
  6. Double-click the spare conductor to edit it.
    The Spare conductor dialog box appears. You can select another source conductor in the tree or in 3D area.
    Note: If you select an unresolved source conductor, the spare conductor instance is created under the Specs Not Resolved node.
  7. Click Close in the Spare conductor dialog box.
  8. From the Conductors section of the action bar, click Manual Routing and select the spare conductor to change its route.

    Important: The Automatic Routing command is unavailable for spare conductors which have an N/A Route Status in the Conductor and Conductor Group Routing dialog box. It is also visible in the tree.

    For more information about Automatic Routing, see Routing Conductors Automatically

    A message appears displaying the name of the conductor(s) sharing the same route and is asking you if you want to modify the route of all the conductors.
  9. Select a live conductor.
  10. Click Yes.
    A message informs you that the route is complete.
  11. From the Conductors section, click Map Conductors and select a spare conductor.
    The Instanciate / Link / Unlink Conductor and Conductor Groups dialog box is displayed. See Instantiating and Linking Conductors. Thanks to this command you can map conductors inserted in the session to conductor references instantiated from the database.

    Spare conductors are visible in the conductor list in the selected electrical physical system. It informs you that SpareCable01 is fully resolved.