Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Thanks for the video, it helps a lot! Okay so for the equipment item and adapter slots - equipment items can have adapter slots in them. These adapter slots basically represent sockets of the schematic devices and if an adapter object is plugged into the socket it will display in the equipment item's adapter slot. Here is a short video about this - So basically to make use of adapter slots you should use adapter objects in the schematics. Try this out and let me know if it gets the job done. As for the rack frame, what you request is currently impossible. You can pack a rack frame with images snapped to its front in a symbol with Convert to Group selected when creating it and the drag&drop this symbol to the drawing, but this will not work in sync with the Front Door option. You can use the same class for the images and the front door and then control both visibilities from the class.

- There was another wish about this these days, so we will think about it. I suppose that in the case of title block specific data in the naming scheme we can just use the data from the first title block and that's it. - But this is with packed PDF right? If you export each PDF as separate file the naming scheme works, right? So this is basically the same as above, or am I getting something wrong? If I am wrong, can you tell me which items to export from your test file to get to this situation?

- Red symbols are symbols with just 1 plugin in them. That is why you see this option only when trying to create a symbol with just 1 plugin selected. So all that you experience is expected and working as designed. I suppose that you do not see that same with equip items because you add the additional objects in the equipment item layout group, which makes them part of the equipment item -> you still have just 1 PIO in the symbol -> Red symbol. From what you say I understand that you want to use rack frame symbol inside the equipment item, is this the case? Can you actually attach a screen recording or give me more information what you are trying to achieve? Rack frames are not expected to be placed inside of equipment items. Usually you place equipment items over rack frames.

- Could it be that you are exporting the PDFs in a single file and then the naming scheme is not used? If so, this is expected, as the naming scheme can have different values for each PDF page and in this case we do not have any rule what to be the name of the combined PDF, so we just use the file name. If you select to export your PDFs as separate files the naming scheme will be applied, no matter if you have excel included or not.

Changing this behavior will affect other users who are used to it and have no issues with how it behaves. So we cannot just change it. You can always change the insertion point of the symbol or move the symbol in the equipment item after it was selected (adjustment is done only after equipment symbol change). Anyway, we will think about making this work for both users who expect the adjustment and such who don't want it. Can you tell me do you want it off all the time or for example just for non rack equipment?

Actually, in ConnectCAD there is Cable Slack available if you use drop points, which is used in the calculate cable lengths command.

Hello @Peter Z, The title block manager menu can work with title blocks from multiple files and can generate worksheets of title blocks from multiple files. Maybe it can help you do what you want? Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Hello @DianaK, - Can you share a test file showing this issue? I tested this on my end and the PDFs used the naming scheme with and without worksheets in the publish items.

Hello @Maxxx, Try refreshing your resource manager libraries. This helped to another user with the same problem. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Hello @NetGuy512, You can save rack frames as Symbols with the option Convert to Plugin object selected while creating the symbol. This will create you a symbol with red name which then you can drag and drop on the drawing and it will create you exactly the same rack frame as the one used to create the symbol. As for the adapter slots, they are separate objects that can be inserted in equipment items. So they cannot be used with rack frames atm. Let me know if you need any further information. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

You should be able to manually adjust the end point of the cable path to be over the equip item without losing the connection. Avoid the highlight click as it will snap back at the edge of the bounds.

How are you testing this? The cable route tool allows this on cable path insertion. After that you can use the control points of the cable path with selection tool to reassociate the cable path.

Hello @Jonathan Kok, This is expected. The equipment items insertion point is at top-left-front and that is why it adjusts the symbols to this point as well. We made some changes to allow some diversion from this point by half a dimension in case you have rack ears in the symbol graphics or something similar. But if the point is at the other end of the graphics then it will be adjusted as you have already noticed. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Hello @NetGuy512, The "dev_rec" automatic filling is hardcoded in the device code and cannot be customized in any way. You can try using the Data Manager if you want data from one record to be automatically transferred to another one of the same object. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov

Hello @Maxxx, For now the only way to see the label in 2D is to use a data tag. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov