Placement of a Device or Ground Device in a Slot

A slot represents a physical piece of equipment that can contain one or more logical devices. After you have associated a logical design with the topological design, you can place one or more devices from the logical schematic in each slot. You can place ground devices in slots with the slot type Equipment, Junction Box, or Ground. You can place normal devices only in slots with the slot type Equipment or Junction Box.

When you create a slot in a diagram, it has the following constraint by default:

Do place devices with property matching Object Name = Ruled Object Name

When devices are placed in slots automatically, this constraint specifies that any devices with the same Object Name as the slot is placed in that slot. You can edit or remove this constraint for a slot as required.

See Overview of Rules and Constraints for more information about constraints.

Once you have placed devices in a slot, you can combine two or more devices. See Combining Normal Devices in a Slot for more information. Devices with footprints cannot be combined with any other devices.

You can place a device in multiple slots if each instance is mutually-exclusive. For example, a battery may be placed in a particular slot in one vehicle configuration but be placed in a different slot in another vehicle configuration. You can also place a device in one slot multiple times using option expressions. This enables the device to have a different footprint depending on the configuration. See “Variant Placement of a Device”. for examples.

• Placement of Normal Devices in Slots

• Placement of Ground Devices in Slots

• Optimized Ground Placement

• Placement of Devices with Footprints in Slots

• Variant Placement of a Device

• Manually Placing a Normal or Ground Device in a Slot

• Automatically Placing a Normal Device in a Slot

• Automatically Placing all Unplaced Normal Devices from a Particular Logical Design

• Automatically Placing all Unplaced Normal Devices

• Automatically Placing all Unplaced Ground Devices from a Particular Logical Design

• Automatically Placing all Unplaced Ground Devices

• Unplacing a Placed Device from a Slot

• Unplacing all Placed Devices from a Particular Logical Design

• Unplacing all Placed Devices

• Unplacing all Placed Ground Devices

Parent Topic:

Devices

Capital Systems Integrator User Guide, 2512.2606

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