How do we address connecting/ NOT connecting the cable shield to the connector in the to/from list.
Here is a simple example.
22awg shielded twisted pair cable.
P1 2 conductor plug
P2 3 conductor plug
P1-1 to P2-1
P1-2 to P2-2
P1-NC to P2-3
Additionally, how do you address the cable conductors in the cable library so there is 3 conductors( the shield being the 3rd)?
Thanks
Having the wire go to the PIN labled NC will work great for the To-from list, the only issue is when you are trying to graphicy show a connector pinout and the connector has mutiple Cpoints for the wires and the NC wire will be present. If you send the NC wire to another pin that shares another wire, that wire will now be 2X the size. Seems like there are MORE JURY Rigging work arounds than there is actualy fuctionality with all this routing stuff. I realy like the results of the routs I have been able to do, But again, WAY TO MANY work arounds.
Agreed - you do have to resort to some creative thinking to work around the limitations of the system. So where the appearance of the discrete wiring is important, why not just hide the NC route body(bodies) within the route part? That way it doesn't matter how big the route gets because you won't see it, and all of the From-To list items are still able to make their connections.
Now, *eye roll* as you can imagine, this only works as long as you don't modify the route (*update* that specific route segment. editing others appears to have no effect on the NC route), otherwise the harness rebuilds and re-shows the body. Still, if it's the last thing you do before going to print, will that give you the desired result?
I will have to give it a try to see how it works, but it sounds like it should work. I might be able to hide it during the drawing phase. I dont recall how I ended up working around the issue last FEB when i posted the question, but my guess is that i opted out of the TO from and Manualy routed the cable in order get the desired image. "more work" to work around the feature (problem).
Have you delt with Smart components and routing yet? Im tring to use smart components (leds/Switchs) that have washers and nuts attached, but I can use the smart features after they are placed during the to-from placement.
That's a good question. I think there are a couple ways to handle it, depending on how you implement the shield termination. There doesn't seem to be anything stopping me from using the same pin on the same connector for multiple wires, so the simple solution in my mind is in the component library definition of the connector, simply add a pin called "NC", so where you might have 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 for a DB-9 connector, I would just define it as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,NC. This way I can have as many wires "not connecting" at that connector as I want.
So, it seems reasonable to me then that if you have a twisted shielded pair, that the shield and cores will run the full length of the route, so this approach made sense to me.
I think it gets trickier if you are using a shield terminator splice, but you can route cores of a cable down different paths, so this approach would probably require a component to be able to act as both a connector and a routing component (like a clip) in order to route the cores through it, but terminate the shield in it.
I'm interested to hear what your thoughts are about this.