(using AutoCAD 2014)
Hello ACADE Community,
Before I start, I did comb through the forums trying to find a solution to my problem but I didn't find anything.
Let's say I build a terminal strip using two-tier terminals for power distribution. (In the image below, terminal 100 and 101 are associated, 100 being the TOP level and 101 being the BOTTOM level, I want to jumper the odd terminals with the odds, and the even with the even)
Then I go to my Terminal Strip Editor and associate the terminals and assign proper jumpers.
See below.
So far so good...
Now, I don't see my jumper on my schematic. So I right click on TERMINAL 100 and select TERMINALS > EDIT JUMPER.
I then select TERMINAL 100 again, and select "S" to show the jumper. It shows the jumper... however, it doesn't maintain that graphic once I click away.
Now, others have suggested I simply show wiring to the terminals in a typical fashion, however, my reports see this as a wire and not a jumper bar (I assign part numbers to my jumper bars).
Is there a step I'm missing or perhaps I'm not toggling something correctly?
Let me know, thanks!
Lou Branchaud
Electrical Designer
Unfortunately you'll have to draw the jumpers manually in the schematics, or maybe insert a jumper chart via the Terminal Strip Editor.
I do it like this, with donuts an polylines:
Thanks for the help.
What I ended up doing is simply drawing a dashed line through any jumpered terminals and I assign the mfg / cat information in the Terminal Strip Editor.
I also had the jumper chart & terminal layout shown on seperate pages. I just thought there was an easy way to automatically show the jumpers.
Cheers!