Formboard

Generate Layout

Component orientation

Devices
Defines how branches are laid out during the formboard generation process. The following options are available:
- Closest preferred plane: Maintains branches at junction, supports, and devices on optimized plane in their respective orientation with harness data after flattening. When you select this option, intermediate devices are placed at appropriate locations.
  To optimize the layout, junctions and devices can be rotated through the angle of 180 degree, and supports can be rotated through 90 degree.
  
  By default, this option is selected.
- Component torsion free: Maintains the tangency of the branches and straightens the branches (torsion-free harness) without being flattened on the same plane.
Support
Lets you specify the criteria for support orientation. The following options are available:
- Rounding orientation angle closest to 45 degree: By default, this option is selected.
- Rounding orientation angle closest to 90 degree
- Rounding orientation angle closest to 180 degree
- Torsion free
T-shape junction

Identification angle: Lets you specify the maximum angle allowed around the perpendicular to the backbone for T branches. Beyond this value, the junction cannot be identified as a T-shape junction.
By default, the identification angle is 10 deg.

Tangency and shape at device junction

Keep branch definition: keeps the arrangement of branches at a device junction.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Offset from global xy plane

Specifies the distance separating the laid-out harness from the plane.

By default, the Distance value is 20 mm.

Table management: Displays the layout bounding box and the space bounding box to improve space visualization during layout manipulations. The dimensions of the space bounding box are editable.
By default, this check box is cleared.

Ambiguity zone identification angle: Lets you specify the ambiguity angular zone around the local orientation vector at the junction which makes the T-branch candidate to be on the right or on the left of the backbone.
By default, the identification angle is 10 deg.

Ambiguity zone width: Lets you specify the width around the orientation vector at the support entry within which any segment is considered as ambiguous.
By default, the width is 5 mm.

Pitch: Lets you specify the pitch value between two consecutive orientation vectors.
By default, the width is 5 mm.

Perform clash detection: Detects the clashes between devices, supports, branches, and tables and displays the same as red dots while manipulating the flattened data.
By default, this check box is cleared.