Overview of Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer

The Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer facility enables you to create logical or wiring diagrams based on an existing set of connectivity using specified constraints, instead of manually placing components.

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.

The facility is invoked:

• As a single action directly from Capital Logic Designer or Capital Platform Designer to import a project XML file and bulk generate a diagram for each design. In this case, the user can select the border and style preferences to be applied to all diagrams to be generated (one per design). If a design has a diagram already, no new diagram will be generated. See also Importing a Project and Generating Diagrams.

• Directly against an existing Capital Logic Designer design, regardless of whether diagrams exist already or not. In this case, the user can select the layout and style preferences to be applied to all diagrams to be generated. See also Generating Filtered Diagrams for a Design.

• For a specific Capital Logic Designer design, regardless of whether diagrams exist already or not. In this case, a filtering option is available to interactively paginate a set of design connectivity into multiple diagrams and apply a project based style preference set against each. See also Generating Diagrams for a Project.

• For a project or build list so that it can generate a single design and its diagrams for filtered logical connectivity from multiple Capital Logic Designer, Capital Systems Integrator or Capital Harness Designer designs in a project. See also Generating a Design and Diagrams for Filtered Connectivity from Multiple Designs.

• As part of the Import Connectivity process to enable you to automatically create multiple diagrams from incoming connectivity files. See also Importing Multiple Connectivity Files and Automatically Creating Diagrams in the Capital Connectors User Guide.

Notes on the Creation

of Diagrams

Device Symbols

You can choose whether device symbols in the design are retained and displayed on the generated diagram using the associated symbols in the symbol library. See “Use device symbols” in Specifying Layout Styling When Generating Diagrams for all the available options when generating device symbols.

Tree Type Connections

When a device has a tree type connection (logical or physical) to another device that has no other connectivity relationships, the path between the devices is the shortest path available that minimizes the crossing over of conductors, maximizes the balancing of white space, and reduces net jogs. Additionally, two new layout style settings optimize the way that the tree connectivity is displayed.

When complex loops occur within the design connectivity, Capital Schematic Generator for Logic Designer will ensure: 1) minimum conductor cross over, 2) no device collisions, 3) even device distribution in both the horizontal and vertical planes.

Objects With Undistributed Connectivity

You can generate diagrams at any stage of the design process even if some of the connectivity is not distributed. When you generate diagrams, the objects with distributed connectivity are created and any objects with undistributed connectivity are ignored or listed in the Unplaced folders in the Design Browser.

See the “Purge unplaced objects on Save” project preference in the Capital Design Tools - Common Functions User Guide to choose how objects with undistributed connectivity are displayed.

Unconnected Stacked Pins

You can generate diagrams at any stage of the design process and the generation will create individual or Stacked Pins on the diagram if unconnected stacked pins are identified in the design.

Restriction

You cannot generate diagrams if the design includes any blocks or connected stacked pins.

• Generating diagrams without a prototype design — Stacked pins are listed as individual pins in the New Generated Diagrams Dialog Box based on the available connectivity information only and created as individual unconnected pins on the diagram.

• Generating diagrams using a prototype design — Stacked pins are listed under nodes in the New Generated Diagram dialog box and created as unconnected stacked pins on the diagram based on any matching stacked pins represented in the prototype design.

Note

If an unconnected stacked pin does not match any stacked pins in the prototype design, the pin is ignored or listed in the Unplaced folders in the Design Browser as an individual pin depending on the “Purge unplaced objects on Save” project preference selection.

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