Creating black boxes with source signal references

[Anonymous]

I am creating some safety relays contact symbols (because we show them differently than regular contacts in our drawings). We also show the physical layout of the relays with what wires are connected to the contacts.

Is there any way to have the terminals on the contact symbol act like a source signal arrow? That way I can use source destination arrows to reference the wire numbers connected to the contacts on the relay diagram.

Thanks,
Brad

[Anonymous]

What you're trying to do is show a contact symbol on one sheet and a
physical representation of the overall relay on a different sheet, then you
want to be able to show a segment of wire, with the wire numbers attached to
the contact symbol based on the wires attached to the contact symbol?

I think the answer to your question is no... What you could try is to first
is to make a new source symbol that has just a line instead of an arrow and
has the attributes hidden then insert those at the edges of the contact
symbol with the wire connecting to this new source symbol and not the
contact. The drawback here is that a termination report won't show the
contact; although it should show the parent relay (which might be better).


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I am creating some safety relays contact symbols (because we show them
differently than regular contacts in our drawings). We also show the
physical layout of the relays with what wires are connected to the contacts.

Is there any way to have the terminals on the contact symbol act like a
source signal arrow? That way I can use source destination arrows to
reference the wire numbers connected to the contacts on the relay diagram.

Thanks,
Brad

[nwallbridge]

I had a similar problem that I overcame by adding stand alone cross refs to an exploded component that I created to represent the complete relay, then saved as a circuit block. I created the "child" circuits in the same way adding the destination standalone refs to match.
When the circuit blocks are inserted the cross refs work..
I tried first to create a component to include the refs but that doesn't work.