Displaying Customized On/Off Sheet Connectors Symbols

For on-sheet or off-sheet connectors, you can display default symbols containing text templates. These symbols can be defined in Data Setup.

You can define in the text templates different attributes: the layout, the sheet, the frame location (Schematic Design package), the corresponding connected component, or the corresponding connected port.

Note: If you link your text template with a logical reference, it is updated with the target component information when inserted in the diagram view.

This task describes a scenario with on-sheet connectors symbols. However, the scenario is also valid with off-sheet connectors.

Before you begin: In the diagram view, place two harness connectors and a wire reference.
  1. Create a logical reference and insert a symbol representation under the reference.
  2. Double-click the symbol object to edit the symbol representation in Symbol Design.
  3. Create an on-sheet or an off-sheet symbol.
  4. Create a text template. For more information about the creation of text templates, see Creating Texts.

    Note: If no connection point exists within the symbol, a connection point is automatically created at the origin ordinate of the on-sheet symbol.

  5. In the Link Template dialog box, define a link template:
    1. In the Package box, select Electrical Logical.
    2. In the Type box, select Logical Single Connector.
    3. In the PLMEntity box, select Title.
    4. Click Insert.
  6. In Data Setup, create a new resource set in Diagram Resources.
  7. Assign the logical reference to the On Sheet Symbol for Same Sheet Context resource.
  8. Optional: Define the following criteria:
    • Routable Type: Associates a type of route line to your sheet connector representation.
    • Default: Defines the representation as the default one.
  9. In the diagram view, route the first part of your wire with an on-sheet connector.



    Note: The first symbol to be inserted is always the off-sheet symbol. If the second symbol is placed on the same sheet, the symbol of the first sheet connector is updated with the on-sheet symbol.

  10. Route the second part of your wire with an on sheet connector.

    The text applied to the symbols appears in the diagram view. The first on-sheet symbol displays the title of the target logical harness connector. The second on-sheet symbol displays the title of the source logical harness connector.
    Tip: If needed, click Update to update the text.