Foreign Engineering Data

Foreign data is loaded using the Capital Connectors framework, then partitioned, and rendered using Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer (Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer).

Capital Connectors

See the Capital Connectors User Guide for information on how to bridge data in and out of Capital, how to use the Capital Connectors, and their functionality.

Capital Connectors are applications that permit the exchange of design data between Capital, and other enterprise design systems using either intermediate file transfer or by direct connection.

The Capital Connectors provide two generic functions:

• Bridge In — the re-importation of design or build list data, that was previously authored and bridged out from Capital and since modified, using a third-party design system.

• Import Connectivity — the importation of new, and revised connectivity into Capital E/E Publisher designs. The system can also invoke Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer to render diagrams of the in-coming connectivity.

File translators, known as the Connectors (that are specific to each third-party design system), automatically re-format the outgoing and incoming design data to the specific format required by each system.

Whenever a third-party design system's design file is bridged into Capital, the Capital Connectors automatically convert the file to the X2ML format prior to importing the design data into Capital.

Note

Before you use Capital Connectors, the bridge types that you wish to use, (and hence wish to appear in the Files of Type list in the Bridge Data In dialog), must be un-commented in the 1- Adaptors declarations section of the adaptors.xml file. Once un-commented, the same adaptors will appear in all applicable Capital product Connector lists.

Using Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer

Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer can turn raw connectivity into functional or wiring diagrams or be used to paginate existing diagrams.

When you generate the diagrams, you can specify how objects are styled, and you can specify whether you want to use existing diagrams from another project as a template (or prototype). If a design (for which diagrams have to be generated), and the template are revisions of the same design, connectivity objects (devices, conductors, and so on) are matched by revisions. Otherwise, connectivity objects are matched by name.

For more details on using Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer, refer to the chapter Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer

To Refresh External Data

The following options are available for refreshing data that has been updated outside of the open design in which are you working. All options are available from the ribbon.

• Refresh All — Refreshes data for all of the items below: Symbol Libraries — Refreshes symbol library data when it has been modified in Capital Symbol Designer.

Options & Variants — Refreshes option and variant data for a design when they have been modified in other Capital applications.

Shared Objects — Refreshes shared object data for a design when it has been modified in other Capital applications.

Designs — Refreshes design data for the design in which you are working when it has been modified in other Capital applications.

Library Parts — Refreshes cached library part data when it has been modified in Capital Component Manager.

Cross References — Refreshes cross-reference data when it has been modified in other Capital applications.

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