If a cable connects two terminal strips with each other and not all cable connections have been configured, you have the possibility to automatically generate and connect the missing cable connections. The spare terminals required for placing these connections are also generated automatically. The command Connect cable connections is available to this purpose. (To this purpose you first have to Customize the ribbon and then assign the desired command to a user-defined command group.) To run the command, one or more cable definitions or shields must be selected (as main functions).

Preconditions:

• The cables are already connected to two terminals, this means at least one cable connection is completely connected.
• A part is assigned to the cables.

1. Mark the desired cable definitions and / or shields or a superior hierarchy level in the cable navigator. Or mark the desired cable definitions and / or shields in the graphical editor. Or mark project pages in the page navigator.
2. Select the Connect cable connections command.
   
   Spare terminals (i.e. unplaced terminals) are generated in the terminal strips for each cable connection of the cable that is not placed on top.
   
   The unplaced connections between the terminals are generated automatically from the function templates of the cable part. The DTs of the generated terminals are entered into the properties Source and Target of these connections.
   
   A message is displayed after the action has been successfully executed. Here the number of cable connections and terminals that were generated is summarized.

The potential of the cable connections is taken into consideration when generating the spare terminals. Terminals with the function definition "Terminal with saddle jumper, 2 connection points" are generated by default. PE terminals are generated for cable connections with the potential type "PE", SH terminals are generated for cable connections with the potential type "SH", etc. The terminals are sorted in and numbered at the end of the terminal strip (like when individual new terminals are generated in the terminal strip navigator).

Whether all automatically generated terminals of a terminal strip are connected externally or internally depends on the connection point logic of the first graphically placed terminal of this terminal strip. If the connected terminal connection point has the setting "External", all new terminals are connected externally; if it has the setting "Internal", all new terminals are connected internally.

See also

Cables

Drawing Cable Definition Lines or Shields