Connector plug/jack

[Anonymous]

Attached is a drawing showing a connector jack and plug. I inserted them on the same drawing. In reality they are on seperate pages. What do I need to do to make Electrical aware that X1 pin 1 goes to X2 pin 1?

Thank you in advance,

Jos

[JeffatSJE]

we don't use seprate plug and jack symbols but looking at your drawing I would say the the naming is incorrect for your blocks. Try HCN2_4P for the plug and HCN1_1J for the jack

The first character is "H" or "V" for horizontal or vertical orientation.
The next 2 characters are "CN" for connector.
The 4th character is either 1 or 2: 1 for parent or 2 for child.
The 5th character is "_"
The 6th character is 1-9 for the style number.
The 7th character:
(Combo) specifies the plug or jack ID: P = Plug, J = Jack (Receptacle)

(Only) specifies the wire direction: 1 = right, 2 = top, 4 = left; and 8 = bottom.

The 8th character is either "P" or "J": P = Plug, J = Jack (Receptacle)
Examples:

HCN1_14P.dwg
Horizontal parent - single (plug) wiring connects from left or bottom

VCN2_18P.dwg
Vertical child - single (plug) wiring connects from left or bottom

HCN1_11J.dwg
Horizontal parent - single (receptacle) wiring connects from right or top

VCN2_12P.dwg
Vertical child - single (plug) wiring connects from right or top

[Anonymous]

I use symbols hat come with the iec library. So I think they should be ok.

Also from the online help:
Plug/Jack Connector Pin Symbols

AutoCAD Electrical connector symbols follow this convention:

The first character is "H" or "V" for horizontal wire or vertical wire insertion.
The next two characters are "C0" if the connector does not trigger a wire number change through it (the "0" meaning that the wire number does not change), or "CN" if the connector DOES trigger a wire number change.
The fourth character is either 1 or 2: 1 for parent marker or a 2 for child marker.
The remaining characters are not specified.

Jos

[rhesusminus]

It all depends on what you want from your wiring lists.
You can create a new wiretype called INVISIBLEWIRE,
and draw a wire between X1 and X2 with that wiretype. Then I froze the
INVISIBLEWIRE layer.
The Wire From/To report then gives me
(??) -> X1 -> X2 -> (??)

To place these on eparate pages, you'd have to create a invisible
source/destination signal as well.

If you wouldn't need X1 and X2 in the BOM, you could also create those
connector symbols as custom Source/Destination signals 🙂

THL