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had a frustrating time during last couple of days struggling to figure out
what is happening here in my project but I couldn't. I attached a print screen
of my drawing and a sample report of that. As you can see I have some signal
source/Destinations ( like ESL, EA, ESD,ESR-A) and some cables which are
duplicated with what I have on the other side ( thats what I understood from
your way of doing this things). Parent cable's color/ID is empty and child
symbols have R and BK colors. As you can see in report CBLWC shows my signal
Descriptions not my wire colors. Edited by: saeedj on Mar 3, 2009 1:22 PM
Hi Doug,
I've just bumped this to show it as a recent thread, during the site update the posting dates seems to have lost a few months.
Without seeing your workflow step-by-step it is hard to determine why this happened. By analyzing your drawing everything appears correct. The funny thing is that when i ran a full rebuild of the project I get D10 and D11 for the cable wire colors instead of the letter "B" for both. But D10 and D11 are your fan-in/fan-out symbol descriptions. They should not appear as cable wire color assignments. I have passed this along to someone at Autodesk for review. It is possible that you have somehow stumbled across a workflow that throws the data manager a curve ball.
Hi Doug,
Thsnks for looking into this for me.
The Fan in source description being used instead of the cable core colour has been my main headache. I have spent days researching the fan in/out method thinking I was doing something fundamentally wrong.
I am begining to think ACADE is fussy regarding drawing settings for the fan in/out to work correctly. I seem to have developed a knack for making it misbehave. As for my work flow I have followed the steps you have outlined in this thread and also the guide here
http://www.augi.com/publications/hotnews.asp?page=1624
but I keep getting the signal description being used instead of the cable colour. I am not happy that I have to adapt the drawing settings to make this work but if that solves it for now then it is a workaround.
Perhaps there is some flaw in the application of the fan in/out ? time will tell, I just know I am now coming under pressure for it to work reliably for me, I have used up all my grace. I'm just pleased you have seen this issue and it's not just me (or is it ?)