Black Box Builder Bugs?

[Anonymous]

I have a custom power supply that I created with the Black Box Builder. When I place the
component into a ladder diagram and resequence/retag many of the wire numbers become the
same. If I stop the wires just short of the screw terminals the wire numbers behave as
expected!

Exploding the block revels that there are 5 terminals, TERM01 through TERM05. All of the
terminals/attributes are an layer 0. Layer 0 is not a wire layer. ACAD Electrical treats
the terminals as though they were all shorted together!

Any ideas?

[JeffatSJE]

Take a closer look at the pin attributes it sounds like you duplicated them.

[Anonymous]

I don't see any duplication. The Black Box Builder has
automatically incremented the attributes in a serial fashion.
DDATTE revals that AutoCAD Ele is assigning the same wire
number to the following different terminals X4TERM01, 02,
03, and 04.

[JeffatSJE]

could you post the block perhaps there is something else I might find also it could be a different block in the circuit with the same problem.

[Anonymous]

The block is attached. Thanks for the help.

[Anonymous]

Mask_Man

It looks like it is due to the block name you assigned. If you follow
the block naming convention for AutoCAD Electrical (Symbol Builder supplies
a default name following this convention automatically, you can change after
the "_" to anything you like, preceeding the "_" follows the naming
convention), the wire numbers assign correctly. For example, I renamed the
block to "HPS1_MYPOWERSUPPLY.dwg" and the each wire connection point was
assinged a unique wire number, just as you would expect.

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I hope this helps!!

Thanks,
Jared Bunch
Product Designer
AutoCAD Electrical
Autodesk, Inc.

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The block is attached. Thanks for the help.

[JeffatSJE]

Yes the block name must begin with "H or V" for Horizontal or Vertical then the family code "PS" we use PW for power supplies and PS for pressure switch either way will work but note the database table is also the family code value and ACE default table for power supplies is "PW". Then parent or child code "1 or 2"
Example: HPW1_1606-XLE
I noticed the blocks family attributes default value is "DV" this should match the family code value. I also noticed there is a block definition "120vac to 24vdc" in the file this can be purged.