Creating Pins

You can create pins and insert them under the following electrical components:

Harness connector
Splice
Disconnect
Terminal

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

You can define forbidden characters through the Pin Name Forbidden Characters resource 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 under the logical reference. For more information, see Creating an Equipment Reference.
Create an equipment connector under the equipment. For more information, see Creating an Equipment Connector.

From the Edition section of the action bar, click Create Pins .
In the tree, select the connector (J1).
In the Create Pins dialog box:
1. Choose the type of pins you want to create.
2. Type the number of pins to be inserted.
3. Optional: Type a prefix for the pins' names.
4. 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.
5. Optional: Type a suffix for the pins' names.
6. Click Add.
  
  Note: To remove pins, select them in the Pins To Be Created area and click Remove.
  
  The pins appear in the Pins To Be Created area.
Click OK to create the pins and close the Create Pins dialog box.

The Extensions node displays this new hierarchy.