Design Wide Object

A design wide object is a non-shared connectivity object that can have multiple, or even no, instances across multiple diagrams in a Capital Systems Modeler design. All ports on a design wide object are unrestricted.

When the first instance of an object is added to a diagram, you use the menu options as per normal and it is added to the diagram and to the Design Browser Window. Non-shared objects with multiple instances use cross-references in the same way as shared objects. See Cross-References on Objects.

When you delete the final instance of an object from diagrams, you can either:

• select it and delete is as normal; the object no longer exists in the design data.

• select it and press Ctrl + Delete on your keyboard; the object is removed from the diagram but still exists as a connectivity object in the design. It is moved to an Unplaced folder for that object type in the Design Browser Window. You can then place that object in a diagram again. However, when you next save the design, all Unplaced objects may be deleted from the design data depending on the “Purge unplaced objects on Save” setting listed under General Preferences in the Project Preferences.

• Merging of Design Wide Objects

• Adding an Instance of a Design Wide Object

• Place Dialog

• Merging Instances of Design Wide Objects

• Resolving Merge and Share Into Conflicts

• Merge Into Dialog

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Projects and Designs

Capital Systems Modeler User Guide, 2512.2606

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