Hi,
Is there a way to remove the contacts or NO/NC format when making a cross reference, and Only showing the reference itself?
I have been trying in the drawing properties to changes some settings in the cross reference tab, but no luck so far.
What i am trying to do is:
I am using multiple manifold blocks, which are on one single base(a base can excist of 1 to 16 manifolds). Each manifold block has its own tag, but so does the base of the manifolds. Therefor I made a Parent block for the Base, and want to use child blocks as a reference to the parent. So the engineer can see which manifold belongs to which base. That is why I don't want to see the Contact or NO/NC part of the reference.
Thanks in advance
@Tee.Dee wrote:In your child blocks make sure your "CONTACT" attribute has no value. This should fix your problem.
Doing that would mess up the pinlist function. It uses the CONTACT value to determine which sets of pins to offer the user as available.
Doesn't it?
What I did was, I made a block with symbol editor as a Fuses type. Fuses apperently have xrefs without any contacts, so that actually works fine. I just change the family and tag to my liking..
But I think what you said also works, since fuses are contactless 🙂
Just curious Jeff. Why couldn't you use the Text-based cross-referencing? It shows only cross-references. It does show the letters NO and NC but these are attributes which can be set to Invisible=Yes in the block, so they default to an invisble state.
As for needing to keep the pins, wouldn't the pinlist attribute on the parent carry that information? If so, then I would think just using the xref attribute would be sufficient.
I must say that I kind of like his approach to a multi-manifold base. I will have to investigate this more and see if it can help us resolve some issues with multiple solenoids, manifolds and P&ID tags.