Editing an Object's

General Properties

To edit an object's general properties, right-click over the appropriate design object, select the Properties option and click the General tab in the Edit Properties dialog box.

A design object's General Properties facility allows you to specify the name of an object and its text attributes, and view the library description.

Procedure to specify the name property

1. Type the new name of the object in the Name box. If valid names for the object type have been created in Capital Project Manager, you can select a name by clicking the ellipsis button (...) to display the Name Selection dialog. With the exception of pins, you can rename an object to have the same name as another object in the same diagram. If you do this, the name appears in red, and a warning appears when you click OK. If you are editing the properties of a multicore indicator, the multicore name appears in the Name field. If you are editing the properties of a signal, you can edit the name only if the signal is not associated with a functional source net conductor from the related Capital E/E Publisher design. If you have assigned a library part to the object and usage definitions have been created for the library part in Capital Project Manager, by default the Name Selection dialog lists only the names that are used in the usage definitions. You can display all available names for the object type by unchecking the Filter on Usage box at the top of the dialog. See the Capital Project Manager help system for more information about usage definitions. If you are editing the general properties for a net conductor and it connects to a device that has a usage definition in Capital Project Manager, the Name Selection dialog lists only the names that have been added for the corresponding pin in the usage definition. If a net conductor is connected to more than one device with a usage definition, the list of net names displayed depends on the pin types to which it is connected. The pin types can be IN, OUT, IxO, IxO Terminated, NC, PWR and GND. See Pin Type Definitions in the Capital Component Manager User Guide for information about pin type definitions.

2. Check the Visible box if you want the specified name to appear with the object in the diagram. The name appears once for each object. However, in the case of conductors, you can display the name next to more than one segment of the conductor. See Displaying a Conductor Name For Multiple Segments of a Conductor for more information. If name text has been added to segments previously, and has not been deleted, checking the Visible box will display the name text for each instance of name text that has been added.

3. Click the Edit Text Attributes button to invoke the Edit Text Attributes Dialog where you can set the attributes for the name that appears on the diagram.

Procedure to view the library description

1. Right-click on the object, and then select Properties. The Edit Properties dialog appears.

2. Click the View () button in the Library Part section of the General tab. The View Component facility appears. This is like the Part Selection facility but is read-only.

3. Click Close.

Parent Topic:

Partitioning Diagrams

Capital E/E Publisher User Guide, 2512.2606

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