Connectors

Importing an Interface Connector Definition

If you have created and exported an interface connector definition in XML format from another installation, you can import it rather than specifying it yourself.

See Interface Connector for more information about interface connectors and the design flow for working with them.

Note

Any options in the XML file must exist in the project and there must be no duplicate signals mapped to the same cavity or backshell termination; otherwise the import aborts. Any signals in the XML file with names that do not match the signals from the design are created as new signals when imported. If there is a library part assigned to the interface connector, and the number of cavities in the XML file is not equal to the one in the connector or there is any cavity name in the XML file that does not have a match in the connector, the existing library part on the connector is removed.

During the import, the system tries to reuse any existing cavities/terminations, delete extra cavities/terminations, and create new cavities/terminations as necessary. The prioritized algorithm for matching cavities/terminations in the XML with existing ones are:

Match both the name and any signal name on the cavity/termination
Match name
Match any signal name on the cavity/termination
Pick any cavity/termination

After the cavity/termination matching, the cavity/termination name on the connector may be renamed by the definition from the XML file (if necessary).

Example scenarios:

S4W1 is not mapped to either Cavity 2 or Cavity 3 as now there are option restrictions.

S1W1, S2W2 are dangling or deleted.

Both S1W1 or S1W2 can map to Cavity 3.

S3W1 can be mapped to Cavity 1 as there is no option restriction now.

S4W1 is not mapped as the options are different now.

S2W1 is dangling or deleted.

S4W1 is mapped to either Cavity B or Cavity C.

Note

When existing cavities are deleted, any wires connected to the cavities are also deleted if the wiring signal does not have a functional source net conductor in the associated logical design. After a cavity is deleted, if there is a signal that does not have any wiring nor functional source nets and is not mapped to any cavities of other interface connectors, the signal is removed automatically from the design. The name matching for options, signals or cavities is case-insensitive. After the import, you can edit the definition (that is, add/delete cavities, and so on). You can undo the import action.

Procedure

Right-click on the interface connector for which you want to import a definition and choose the Import Interface Connector Definition option from the pop-up menu. Alternatively, click the interface connector, press Space Bar and enter Import Definition.
The Import Interface Connector Definition dialog box displays. Browse to the interface connector definition file (XML file) and click the Import button.
Any messages display on the Import tab in the Capital Systems Integrator Output Window. The imported definition replaces the definition that was on the interface connector.

Parent Topic:

Connectors