Associate a Cable with a Panel - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

You use the Associate Cable with Panels feature in conjunction with cable block diagrams, to associate a specific cable to specific panels. When you use the cable in your cable block diagram the panels that are associated with the cable are automatically placed on your drawing along with the cable.

By dragging panels from the Domain Explorer to the Associate Cable with Panels window you can associate the panel with either side of the cable. You can see which panels are already associated or connected to the cable and to what side of the cable the panel is associated. Also you can move a panel from one side of the cable to the other.

1. In the Domain Explorer, navigate to the Cables folder.

2. Open the Cables folder, and select the cable you want to associate with a panel.

   You can choose more than one cable at the same time by selecting the required cables in the tree view in the Domain Explorer. In the Associate Cable with Panels window, you choose the cable that you want to associate to a panel from the Cable pick list in the window.

3. Right-click the cable, and from the shortcut menu, select Actions > Associate Panels, the Associate Cable with Panels window opens.

   The Associate Cable with Panels window shows the physically connected panels as well as the associated panels. A cable that is already associated to a panel, displays next to the panels name. A cable that is physically connected to a panel, displays next to the panels name.

4. In the Domain Explorer, navigate to the Panels by Category folder.

5. Locate the required panel you want to associate with the cable.

6. From Panels by Category folder, drag the required panel icon on to the Cable End One or Cable End Two column of the Associate Cable with Panels window.

   

   • You can drag the same panel into the window a number of times, providing that it is to the same Cable End each time.

   • You can also select an item in the Associate Cables with Panels window, right/click, and from the shortcut menu use the Copy/Paste commands to copy and paste an item into a new row.

   • To change a panel's cable end association, drag the panel from one cable end column to the other cable end column.

7. Close the Associate Cable with Panels window, select Yes at the prompt to save the associations.

• A cable must have a panel associated at each end to save the associations.

• Cable relationships which were manually associated with panels are not removed or deleted by the software when physically connected with the panels.

• The relationship between the physically connected panels and the cable shown in the Associate Cable with Panels window cannot be deleted. They are removed when the cable is disconnected.

• The Associate Cable with Panels window does not display, or take into consideration, pre-assigned panels or junction boxes that were assigned using instrument connection pre-assignment browsers.