Terminate Plant Cables Using the Continuous Connection Method - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

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This procedure explains how to terminate plant cables in a wiring drawing using the continuous connection method. The continuous connection method allows you to make a connection in a sequential way by selecting a terminal that will be wired first. The software then automatically wires the rest of the terminals in a sequential order.

  1. In the Electrical Index, expand the Documents folder.

  2. Right-click the Wiring Diagrams folder and then on the shortcut menu, select New Wiring Diagram.

  3. Drag the plant items that you want to wire from any open window to the new wiring drawing.

    • You can drag any appropriate item such as a motor, circuit, panel, and so forth.

    • You can drag your items from the Electrical Index, Electrical Engineer, or Related Items window.

  4. Select Edit > Activate Connection Mode PPM All Outputs Graphic.

  5. In the Electrical Index, Electrical Engineer, or Related Items window, select an appropriate cable that you want to terminate. You can connect only those cables that are associated with equipment on one or both cable sides.

  6. In the wiring drawing, move the cursor over the terminal strip that you want to connect to the cable.

    • The software displays the available, valid connection points of the terminal strip on your drawing. For more details, see Place Point Ribbon (Smart Electrical) in the Catalog Manager help.

    • You can place an entire terminal strip on a wiring diagram by dragging it to an open drawing from the Electrical Index. In a conventional wiring diagram, it is also possible to place a sub-set of terminals or individual terminals on an open diagram. Drag the required terminals from the List View pane in the Electrical Index and place them on the diagram as needed. Note that you cannot place the same terminal more than once on the same wiring diagram.

  7. Select the connection point of the terminal to which you want to connect the first conductor on the appropriate side.

    • You can connect the first conductor to any terminal on the current terminal strip. The software will then automatically connect the remaining conductors in a sequential order.

    • The number of conductors that you can connect cannot exceed the number of available wiring connection points on a terminal.

    • You can connect only one conductor on a wiring connection point.

  8. On the shortcut menu, select Continuous Connection.

  9. In the wiring drawing, move the cursor over the connection points of the second terminal strip.

  10. On the shortcut menu, select Continuous Connection.

  • The software provides a set of default symbols for terminal strips, terminals, first terminals, cables, cable sets, and conductors. You can customize your own wiring symbols in Catalog Manager. For details, see Creating Symbols in the Catalog Manager help.

  • You can perform various actions in a wiring drawing, such as moving items by dragging them to position the items in the drawing, removing items from the drawing, disconnecting cables, and so forth.

  • Removing a wiring item from a drawing does not delete that item from your plant.

  • Disconnecting two wiring items in a drawing, disconnects the items in your plant, removes the connecting cable from the drawing, and retains the association between the cable and the items in your plant.

  • Selecting Refresh saves the drawing. If you do not select Refresh or you make changes to your drawing after refreshing, the software prompts you to save the drawing on closing.

  • To exit the Connection Mode, select another command or press the ESCAPE key.

  • You can add other wiring items to the drawing by dragging them to drawing from the Electrical Index or Related Items window.

  • After adding a wiring item that is connected to a cable, the drawing displays the item connected to the cable on one of the cables sides and the name of the item tag of the wiring item that is connected on the other cable side. After dragging that wiring item to the drawing, software replaces the item tag name with the symbol of that wiring item.

  • The software allows you to add annotations and use redlining in your wiring drawings. For details, see Annotations and Redlining.

  • If you move a macro to another place in the drawing, selecting a macro highlights the cable, cable set, or conductor that is associated with that macro. This way you can see which cable, cable set, or conductor belongs to that macro.

  • Sometimes, after the software opens a drawing, the distance between connected items is either too long or too short, which results in an inappropriate display of connectors. To control the visual consistency of connectors, you can set a Clearance value that specifies the amount of space that the software will maintain between the connector and the connected element (also known as range avoidance). This action allows you to control the visual consistency of connectors that make right-angle turns just before they attach to a symbol.

  • To set Clearance, select a connector and then type the minimum distance from the symbols where you would like the first turn in the connectors to occur. Note that the default setting is zero.