New Terminal Footprint - From .DWG to Catalog Browser in Terminal Strip Editor

[Brock_Christie]

Hello,

I am finding it quite difficult to create a new terminal block footprint that I can also find and use in the Terminal Strip Editor, Catalog Browser.

I created a new symbol (.dwg file) named 8WH1000-0AG00. (I did use an existing Allen-Bradley symbol file (.dwg) as a template, so I had all of the attributes copied over.  I saved it in the PANEL/SIEMENS/TRMS-TERMINAL BLOCKS folder. In the Footprint Database Editor, I added a new Table, named "SIEMENS". Within that table I added the 8WH1000-0AG00 component, and pointed the catalog database to the aforementioned .dwg file.

When I go to the Terminal Strip Editor, and try to assign a Catalog Code to the terminals in my schematics, the SIEMENS terminal is nowhere to be found. What step in this convoluted process did I miss?

[james.mcmillanNYR6A]

It sounds like you've done it about right, did you use the lookup in the footprint database editor to make sure you have the manufacturer and catalog combination correct? I usually use the insert terminal from schematic list the first time if I don't have an assigned footprint, this will prompt you rather than adding a generic terminal, then return to the tse. For some obscure reason the tse won't recognise if you have the base file open

[Brock_Christie]

The Catalog Browser step was missed. Didn't even see there was an option to edit that table. That was the only disconnect, from above.

[arshdeepsingh404]

Glad to hear it's working.