Select Pins Table

The Select Pins table is displayed on dialog boxes where you need to select pins to place onto objects in a design. You can customize the columns to display extra pin property and attribute information, as well as properties and attributes of connected conductors and multicores, and also library information, such as footprints. You can filter and group pins using this extra displayed information to aid pin selection and placement.

Figure 12 shows an example of the Select Pins table in the Place Device dialog box.

Figure 12: Example Select Pins Table

Adding Columns to the Table

The first three columns (the pin icon column, Pin Name column and Conductor Name column) are fixed columns and cannot be removed from the table. Other columns can be added or removed to suit your current workflow. You can add other columns by clicking the Add new column () button and selecting an item from the menu cascade that is displayed, as in Figure 13. The menu contains different items depending on the dialog box you have opened. Attributes are shown for pins, conductors and multicores. For pins, Reservation Type (Automatic, Reserved, or Unrestricted) is shown for shared objects only. For conductors, Destination shows the object and pin which the other end of the conductor is connected to. Properties are shown if properties have been added to pins/conductors on the object. Footprint is shown only for objects with library parts with footprint definitions.

Figure 13: Column Display Menu

You can click and drag a column header to move it to a different position in the table and you can click a column header to toggle the sort order.

Column

Filter Popup

You can use the column filter popup to filter the table rows based on the values in the fields in a specific column. To display the column filter popup, right-click a column header.

The popup has the following fields:

• Remove Column - Only displays for columns you have added. Click to remove the column from the table.

• Hide Column

• Only displays for columns you have added. Click to hide the column. Hidden columns are indicated by a thicker line between column headers. In Figure 14, there is a hidden column between the Pin Assembly and Pin Design columns. Figure 14: Hidden Column

• Unhide Adjacent

• Select to unhide a hidden column. Only displays when an adjacent column is hidden.

• Select Column

• Closes the popup and selects all the items in the column that are currently displayed.

• Filter - Enter a search criteria to dynamically filter the names in the panel below.

• Individual Row Names Filter Panel - Configure the rows you want to display by selecting or clearing checkboxes in this panel.

• Select All

• Selects all the rows in the above panel.

• Clear All - De-selects all the rows in the above panel.

• OK - Select to apply the filter configuration.

Cross-highlighting

For objects that have associated symbols, the Symbol View or Connector View is displayed adjacent to the Select Pins table. If matching cavity datums have been specified on the symbol, the rows in the table and cavities on the symbol are cross-highlighted when you select either a row in the table or a cavity on the symbol.

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Shared Details

In dialog boxes that display the Select Pins table for shared objects, by default not all columns are populated for pins placed on designs other than the current design. This is to aid performance when there are a large number of pins. You can select the “Load shared details” checkbox to populate additional columns.

When “Load shared details” is not selected, certain conductor-related columns (such as Conductor Name) and certain mating-related columns (such as Pin Device Connector Pin) are only populated for pins placed in the current design, and, if there is an active build list, the Pin Design column is not populated for pins placed on designs that are not the current design and are not in the active build list.

When “Load shared details” is selected:

• If there is no active build list: All columns are populated for all pins in the table.

• If there is an active build list: For pins in the current design and pins placed in designs in the active build list, all columns are populated.

For pins placed on designs that are not the current design and are not in the active build list, all columns are populated, with the exception of certain conductor-related columns (such as Conductor Name).

Parent Topic:

Using Fetch Related and Fetch Related Extended Actions to Complete Wiring Diagrams

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