Creating an Equipment Connector

You can create an equipment connector with pins.

This structure is displayed in the tree, under the Extensions > Port node.

You can define forbidden characters through the Pin Name Forbidden Characters of Data Setup to forbid the use of certain characters. If the name of the pin contains forbidden characters, you cannot validate your creation. When creating several pins, the forbidden characters are skipped. For more information, see Electrical Logical Resources.

Before you begin:
  • Create a logical reference (System) under the Logical node.
  • Create an equipment or a shell (Equipment 1) under the logical reference.
  • Optional: Define a representation for your equipment connector in Data Setup. For more information, see Electrical Logical Resources.
  • Create a diagram view under the logical reference (System).
See Also
Creating an Equipment Reference
About Electrical Components
Creating Pins
  1. Activate the diagram view.
  2. From the Edition section of the action bar, click Create Equipment Connector .
  3. In the tree, select the equipment.
  4. In the Create Equipment Connector dialog box.
    1. Enter the name of the connector.
    2. Choose the type of the connector.
    3. Choose the type of pins.
    4. Enter the number of pins to be inserted.
    5. Optional: Type a prefix for the pins' names.
    6. Type the name of the first pin.

      Note: If there is more than one pin, their names follow the alphabetical/numerical order according to the name of the first pin.

    7. Optional: Type a suffix for the pins' names.
    8. Click Add.
      The pins appear in the Pins To Be Created area.
      Note: To remove pins, select them in the Pins To Be Created area and click Remove.
  5. Click OK to create the equipment connector.
  6. Click the diagram view at the convenient place to insert the symbol.
    The symbol is placed and a context toolbar appears.
    Note: If all pins of the connector are displayed, the connector is displayed with its full representation. For more information, see About Electrical Component Representation.
  7. Optional: To modify the position of the symbol, select one of the following commands:
    • Flip horizontally
    • Flip vertically
    • Rotate to left by 90 degrees
    • Rotate to right by 90 degrees

The Extensions node displays this new hierarchy.