Connectors

Mapping Cavities and Pins between a Device Connector and a Harness

Connector

You can use the Cavity Map dialog box to re-map the names of cavities/pin between a physical device connector and a physical harness connector. When you use the Cavity Map dialog box, the actual cavities/pins are not switched and the signals are not remapped but the names of the cavities/pins are changed. This dialog box enables you to remap the cavities from the two mated connector library parts.

See Device Connectors and Harness Connectors in Capital Systems Integrator for more information on these types of connector and on the constraints that apply to the cavities of these connectors.

Note that you cannot edit a cavity map if a footprint defines the selected slot connector or physical device connector.

Procedure

Right-click on either the slot connector (that defines the harness connector) or the device connector in the Design Browser (Design tab) and choose the Cavity Map option from the pop-up menu. Alternatively, click one of the connectors, press Space Bar and enter Cavity Map.
The Cavity Map dialog box displays. The cavities of the connector that you selected in the Design Browser (Design tab) display in the second column and the cavities of the mated connector display in the first column. The cavities on each row are mapped with each other. You can edit the second column only.Click a cavity name in the second column that you want to change. A drop-down list of the available cavity names for the connector display. Click the name that you want to map to the cavity name in the first column. Note that the cavity name that you change moves to the row where the cavity name that you select was previously displayed. Note If a connector has a footprint, you can click the Faceview button for it to view its graphical faceview.

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