Creating a Stacked Pin

You can create a stacked pin using pins that have been placed on a device, plug, jack, inline or block. You can use pins that are connected to a conductor, mated to a pin on another object or unconnected/unmated pins. You cannot add reference pins to a stack.

Note

You can also create a stacked pin by selecting As Stack when placing pins on an object using the Place Pins Dialog Box [Non-Shared Objects], Place Pins Dialog Box [Shared Objects], Place Dialog Boxes, Add Shared Dialog Boxes or Place Pins Dialog Box [Blocks].

Prerequisites

• The pins to be included in the stack must have been placed on the object.

Video

This video demonstrates how to create a stacked pin:

Procedure

1. Select the pins to be included:Press the space bar and enter Create Stack.

Right-click and select Create Stack.

The cursor changes to and a red square () indicates the current target grid point. Circles indicate locations on the object where you can place the stack and dotted gray lines/boxes indicate locations outside the object where you can place the stack. Note For pins that are connected to a shield termination, the Create Stack action is only available if the other end of the shield termination is connected to a multicore or overbraid indicator.

2. Move the cursor over the location to place the stack.The cursor changes to .

3. Click to place the stack.

Results

• The selected pins are no longer displayed on the diagram.

• If no conductors are connected to the selected pins, the stacked pin is displayed as a diamond shape ().

• If conductors are connected to the selected pins, they maintain their connectivity and are placed in a new highway that interfaces with the stacked pin.

• If a pin with a shield termination connected to it is added to the stack, the shield termination disappears from the diagram but the pin retains the connectivity to the shield termination.

• The stacked pin is named using the number of pins in the stack and the total number of pins on the object. For example, if two pins are in the stack and there are six pins in total on the object, the stacked pin is named 2 of 6.

Note

You can use Style Sets to display stacked pin names on diagrams. See Displaying the Name of a Stacked Pin on a Diagram in Usage Examples - Stacked Pins.

Parent Topic:

Stacked Pins

Related Topics

• Stacked Pins

• Adding Pins to a Stack

• Removing Pins From a Stack

• Viewing the Pins in a Stack

• Deleting a Stacked Pin

• Viewing the Conductors that Terminate at a Stacked Pin

• Stacked Pins Overview

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