Panel drawing

[stalin.varghese90]

What is the best way to draw a panel drawing as shown in the attached picture.i want to put one component but have 4 balloons going from different points from same components.

[testsubject · Accepted solution]

Those are 4 separate items. If you want them to have unique item numbers you will have to insert them separately.

Each one will need to be it's own footprint and the catalog data will have to be entered into the catalog database.

Now what you might do is this but it is kind of a cheat (I use it to represent cables on a panel).

Insert each component as a manual footprint. Then when you item number that footprint, select the section you want to reference on the image.

[stalin.varghese90]

Great. The first two lines I understand and was thinking of doing the same.

The cheat one I am curious to understand better.And i am actually struggling to show cables in panel. So if you don't mind can you show me how you do it for cables?

I can't understand what you mean by reference on the image.

[testsubject]

What I meant by "reference on the image" was attach the Item balloon so it pointed to the "door", "Box", "Object" located on the ISO image you were showing. 

When Inserting footprints from schematic symbols you can select a footprint that match the physical dimensions of the part or use "Manual" which allows you to insert from a handful of options. I use "Generic Marker Only" for cables.

For all my footprints that will have an ethernet cable attached I added da pigtail to represent the cable.

In a non printing area of the layout I insert the cables using the Generic Marker.

After doing the Item Number update, I insert the Item Balloon and select one of the Generic Footprints for a cable. 

I then attach it to the pigtail on the component footprint (like a Drive) Now there is a representation of the cable on the panel and if you add/remove part and redo the Item Numbers, these will auto-update.

Now you could do something similar by adding all the components to the drawing as Gen Markers and then attach the Item Balloons to the areas that match what you want to reference. This way you do not have to create special footprints and try to get them to all line up just right.

Like I said, it is kind of a cheat but works.