Promoting a Wire, Net, Highway, or Single Line

You can promote a non-shared wire, net, highway, or single line to be a new shared object. If a shared object exists with the same name as the conductor being promoted, it is created as an instance of the existing shared object.

See Shared Objects for a description of shared objects and their purpose.

Prerequisites

• The non-shared conductor to promote is already added to the design. See Adding / Modifying / Deleting a Wire, Adding / Modifying / Deleting a Net, Adding a Highway, or Adding a Single Line.

Procedure

1. Select the conductor to promote:Press the space bar and enter Share.

Right-click and select Share.

2. If the conductor has the same name as an existing shared object of the same type, the Name Already Exists message box is displayed. Click Create New to create a new shared object, click Use Existing to make the conductor an instance of the existing shared object, or click Cancel.Note If you promote a conductor with a library part association to be an instance of a shared object that has a different library part association, or no library part association, the library part association on the conductor being promoted is discarded.

Results

• The conductor is promoted to be a shared object and is added to the Shared Objects Browser.

• If you shared the object into an existing shared object, properties and attributes on the objects are merged: For Analysis-related attributes (such as Analysis Model) and for the Assembly attribute, the value on the existing shared object is retained and the value on the object being promoted is discarded. See also “Attaching Component Models” in the Capital Analysis User Guide.

For other attributes and properties: If the existing shared object has properties that the object being promoted does not have, they are retained on the shared object.

If the object being promoted has properties that the existing shared object does not have, they are discarded.

If the object being promoted has property or attribute values that conflict with values on the existing shared object, the Resolve Conflicting Attributes and Properties Dialog Box displays and the values selected in that dialog box are retained and the other values are discarded.

In the Output Window, the Resolution tab is displayed. The table in the Resolution tab lists any property or attribute values in the object being promoted that were in conflict with those in the existing shared object, and shows how those conflicts were resolved. Properties/attributes that may require adjustment (such as when the value of the Analysis Model attribute was changed) are indicated by the value of the Type field being “Warning”.

Note

Conductors interfacing with a highway are not promoted automatically when you promote a highway. To share the interfacing conductors, you must promote them manually. Shared conductors that interface with the shared highway are shown as child nodes of the highway in the Shared Objects Browser. Non-shared conductors that interface with it are not shown in the Shared Objects Browser, but are shown as child nodes of the highway in the Design Browser.

When you create more than one instance of a shared object, cross-references are displayed next to the instances on the diagrams. See Cross-References on Objects or Pins.

Parent Topic:

Shared Wires, Nets, Highways, and Single Lines

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