Terminal Bars, Holes and Relays

Importing

Terminal Bar Definitions

If you are using a terminal bar design flow using Capital Systems Integrator, you can import definitions for terminal bars and terminal blocks that you have created outside of Capital. These definitions represent the internal structure of terminal bars.

See Terminal Bars, Holes and Relays for more information about terminal bars, holes and the terminal bar design flow.

You import definitions for specific junction box slots and the system stores this information with the junction box slot for future reporting and consistency checking. You can import terminal bar definitions only for junction box slots with at least one hole.

The terminal bar definition is applied to the junction box slot and is matched using wire names against the existing hole connections. The system then stores the terminal bar definition with the slot and the corresponding hole connections.

A definition can contain more than one terminal bar so you can associate only one terminal bar definition file with a slot. All of the terminal bars in a definition file are applied to the slot.

If there is no wire connected to a hole connection (physical electrical device pin), a terminal block pin cannot be associated to that hole connection. If some of the wires named in the terminal bar definition are not found in the Capital Systems Integrator design data connected via holes to the slot, then the import of the terminal bar definition fails with an error message.

Note

Wires do not have to be active during the import because the system takes into account all composite data when matching wire references in the terminal bar definition to wires in the design.

After the import, you can change the relationship between terminal bar pins and the hole connections only by deleting the terminal bar definition or by importing another definition. See Deleting Terminal Bar Definitions for more information.

The terminal bar definition may contain functional devices, such as diodes, embedded within terminal blocks. These devices must correspond to devices that are placed in the slot.

The import process also verifies whether the internal connectivity of the slot corresponds to the connectivity of the terminal bar definition. Any inconsistency is reported but does not stop the import.

Procedure

Right-click on the junction box slot and choose Import Terminal Bar Definition. Alternatively, click the slot, press Space Bar and enter Import Terminal Bar Definition; the Import Terminal Bar Definition dialog box displays.
Browse to the terminal bar definition file (XML file) and click the Import button; any messages display on the Import tab in the Capital Systems Integrator Output Window.

Results

When a slot has an imported terminal bar definition associated, some of the reports and user interface in Capital Systems Integrator use names from the technical bar definition (terminal bar, terminal block, terminal block connector and terminal block pin/connector pin) rather than the usual Capital Systems Integrator names (for example, physical electrical device pins).

Reports referencing terminal bar definitions are:

Connectivity Report
Harness Report

Not only is the terminal bar and block reported but also any terminal bar connector and specific pin. You cannot configure the reports to display only the terminal bar and block.

User interface elements that reference names from terminal bar definitions are:

Generate Slot Circuit dialog box
Tool tips for wires
Design rule check results

Parent Topic:

Terminal Bars, Holes and Relays