Combine terminal blocks into one when using a JUMPER wire layer

[Jesus_Yelamo]

Hi, This should be pretty simple but I'm stumped. I'm not ever sure how to formulate this question.

I have terminal blocks for 24 and 0 volts. They're single level TB and in the schematics I have set my BUS as a JUMPER wire layer so they don't show up as physical connections in the TS.

Now, when I insert the terminal strip, each TB shows up as it's own entity and I would like to combine some of them.

I would like to combine the first 6 TBs into just 3 because that's what I have in the real world, like so

How can I do this? How can I tell AutiCAD that they're the same TB? I tried associating them, but that's not the answer. These are single level TBs, not multi level.

Thanks

[jseefdrumr]

My gut feeling is that you didn't need to draw your bus on the jumper layer. The only thing that should really be on the jumper layer, are jumpers.

Can you post a screenshot of how you drew this part of the circuit?

[rhesusminus · Accepted solution]

You can do this with a lot of messing around with the terminal strip editor. And, you must use association:

It'll look good in the BOM, but the terminal diagrams will look terrible.

We've been wishing for "parent/child terminals" for years, so that you can split a terminal to different symbols.

But, we've been ignored so far, and I'm pretty sure we won't get it in my lifetime.

The competition does this perfectly of course 😕

[Jesus_Yelamo · Accepted solution]

tinkercad.comAFJQ3 has a really good post on this issue and TBs in general here https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-forum/terminal-strip-as-common-rail/td-p/10874611

Like you said  rhesusminus. I have to use association and increase the terminal block level.

I don't think the schematics look too bad that way