Terminals With 2 Wire Connections

[drew_dewit]

I am curious how everyone handles these . Do you draw two wires to the same block? We would typically draw in a way that power is coming of a bus rail two devices in series may share the same terminal for power but may not be on the same page so i would have to through an source arrow in there to work which may be confusing. Just looking to see what others do and what would is best practice.

[alds02]

Could you upload a sketch or screen shot of what you do? I think I understand but want to be sure. Are you talking about a multi-level terminal or single-level? By two connections, I guess you mean one on each end of the actual terminal, right?

[Anonymous]

It depends on the industry standard. Is this for aerospace, automotive, building, commercial or general, please confirm?

[drew_dewit]

SO this is essentially what I am trying to achieve but image the switch on another page. Is there another more elloquent way of doing this? Would be much easier if there were child terminal blocks.

[stalin.varghese90]

Source and Destination is exactly what I do .Maybe you can vote for this idea 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-ideas/allow-the-same-schematic-terminal-symbol-to-...

[rhesusminus]

This seems like the same question that was answered here:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-forum/terminal-association-for-single-level-4-cond...

[Anonymous]

There are two ways of doing this:

option 1 - using source and destination arrow. This is the easiest way of doing. Surfing (hyperlink) works well on electronically singed / approved pdf drawings. This feature will be handy for checker and installers. Source and Destination chart can also be (optionally) produced if required.

option 2. - using termination association as  rhesusminus mentioned. This is advanced method. For clarity a termination association chart needs to be produced for checkers and installers though. 

It all depends on user and company drawing standards and procedures. 

[alds02]

Thanks for uploading the drawing.

There are so many methods to handle this! Since you need the wire and wire number to go to a different sheet or ladder, your method is what I would use. I've never enjoyed wrestling with perfect terminal counts showing up in Terminal Strip Editor, once I finish the schematics and being the panel layout. I'm usually changing some wires to jumpers and sometimes omitting the terminal symbol to make the count turn out the way I require it to be. Therefore the depiction in the schematics doesn't always turn out exactly the way I want it.

I like the idea of child terminal blocks!

[Anonymous]

Child TB is good idea. But,  are you planing to create child TB under group / symbol name T0 or T1? If the TBs (Parent and child) are created under these groups, not sure you will be able to associate / link tags via edit component > Drawing or Project or Parent / Sibling.