Do yourself a favor. I have used this program since 1997 and I regularly
use jumpers between terminal blocks. Connect a wire layer between the
jumpered terminals and assign as a JUMPERBAR. A layer with the name JUMPER
in its name will not appear on the wire list but will carry a wire/potential
number, thus it will effectively pass current through it from terminal to
terminal. I set the color for this JUMPERBAR layer to a color that stands
out onscreen as something other than one of my actual wires. Version 2008
does allow you to insert terminal symbols and create an invisible jumper
relationship between them, but I choose to continue the same practice I have
always used.
Once I insert my terminal strip from terminal strip editor, I then insert my
own blocks that represent the jumperbars graphically. I used Symbol Builder
to add the appropriate attributes, including ITEM, MFG, and CAT, so once I
insert these they are automatically added to the panel BOM. In the attached
screenshot the jumperbars are identified by the color red.
I have used this method since 1997 without issue.
wrote in message news:5778180@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hello,
I am trying to figure out a way to make my terminal strip and wire from/to
report work ok.
I have a project with several drawings in it and I jumpered the terminals
that have 24V and 24C wires going to them. The problem that I have is that
in my terminal strip editorI noticed there are several terminals that look
like this:
Panel TB1 24C terminal# 24C TB1 Panel
This means it's pretty much using a terminal for nothing, because it's
connecting a 24C wire with a 24C wire that are both in my panel and they
should both be on the same side of the terminal (even though I don't see why
they would be there at all). As I said, I saw several terminals like this
and I don't know what the problem is.
Another thing that I noticed in the terminal strip editor that I don't like
is that even though these terminals have jumpers, it appears that there is a
wire going in every terminal, wire that caries the 24C signal from terminal
to terminal. Is there any way to correct this? To try and make it more
clear, I am using 1492-J3 terminals and in the terminal strip editor it
shows 2 wires on one side of the terminal and one on the other side (one of
those two being the 24C)
The last question is in regards to the wire from/to report that is giving me
the same thing as described above, a wire from 24C to 24C to 24C to 24C,
etc. When I used the Edit jumper function I was thinking it was going to
eliminate those wires from the report, otherwise I see no use for using
those jumpers.
I hope I managed to explain my problem. Help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!
Doug McAlexander
Design Engineer/Consultant/Instructor/Mentor specializing in
AutoCAD Electrical training and implementation support
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