Customizing a Reference Symbol - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

The software provides a default reference symbol for wiring diagrams. This default reference symbol shows the plant item to which the cable is terminated. You may have a situation in which an equipment terminal strip connected to a cable whose other side is shown on another wiring diagram. In this case, you need a reference symbol that points to the terminal strip and not to the plant item. To remedy this situation you have to customize another reference symbol that shows not just the equipment name of the equipment it connects to but also the terminal strip and the drawing number that this strip is placed in.

Do the following in Catalog Manager to customize another reference symbol.

1. In Catalog Manager, under Wiring Symbols, find Reference.sym and rename it to Reference_old.sym.

2. Clone this symbol and then rename the cloned symbol to Reference.sym.

3. Open the new Reference.sym symbol.

4. Change the type of the new symbol to terminal strip.

5. Add all the required macros to the new symbol in accordance with what you want the reference symbol to show. You can use any macro that belongs to the terminal strip properties, for example:

   • Strip.ItemTag

   • Equipment.ItemTag

6. To display the name of the drawing, do the following:

   1. In the Properties window of Smart Electrical, enter the name of the drawing in one of the properties of the terminal strip, for example, in the Description property.)

   2. In Catalog Manager, use this property to add a macro to the new reference symbol.