Conrad Preen

@ErikvanderKuijl time to upgrade 😉

@ErikvanderKuijl It's implemented. Maximum rack height is 60U. Been like that for a while, 2026 u2 for example. Best regards Conrad

@natem Nice idea! I will file an enhancement request for this.

@natem I think the first step here is to get a look at the document. Would it be OK for you to PM me the file? Conrad

@jfreberg great points that you make! Not really sure of an ETA for this though I do agree there are some kinds of adapters that we haven't got to yet, namely adapter-as-connection and break-in adapters. I think it would be best to add these functionality to the Adapter object rather than spawn a new object type. Needs some thinking about to get to the correct design. Conrad

@pepeflores This isn't really a ConnectCAD thing. It's a development of the Selection tool. I like the idea of being able to restrict selection to certain object types. I think a lot of people will find that useful. I will put it forward as a suggestion. Conrad

@pepeflores Well one way is to draw a temporary rectangle around the area and name it for example IN-HERE. Then add this to your selection criteria as shown below. That will get you there. If you make a Vectorscript of it then you can with a little scripting get the rectangle, do the selection and delete the rectangle. Hope that helps you get started. Conrad

Hi @natem any chance you could PM me a file that shows the problem? I take a look at it. Conrad

@KAAC At the moment all user-created content is in the user folder category.

@Greg Abel Hi Greg, the Adapter Slot object is on the front of the Equipment Item facing backwards. You are rendering in Hidden Line so the text is hidden because there are objects in front of it. If you render in Wireframe you will see the slot's text. I guess you'll want to change the placement of the slot so that the text is on the outside. Conrad

@EricSeipel We will look at creating a utility for bulk creation of device library symbols.

@Greg Abel Not seeing that at all. If you want us to chase this down we'll need to know exact versions, are you on Windows or Mac and OS version etc. etc. mode information will help us to reproduce the problem and find the cause. Meanwhile you can force a redraw by double-clicking the Pan tool. That might help. Best regards Conrad

@Callum Walker Thanks Callum! This will be fixed is coming in a forthcoming update. Conrad

Hello Charles, Things are a little blurry but that's not necessarily a bad thing. ConnectCAD has always leaned towards jeans and T-shirt rather than suit and tie. Broadly speaking a Circuit shows a signal path. The Circuit object has a Cable parameter. If 2 Circuits have the same value set in the Cable parameter then they can be said to belong to the same physical cable. The Spotlight Cable object allows you to model the physical cable directly and if you have drawn Sp Cables on your layout drawing, these will appear as choices in the Circuit object's Cable parameter popup. You may not want to draw a Cable object for each physical cable. It can get pretty tedious in a large installation. So there are other options: in the ConnectCAD Setting dialog Cables pane, you can define cable names for your multicores and these too will appear in the Circuit object's Cable parameter popup. This let's you specify those circuits that are part of multicores. Otherwise we conflate the idea of circuit and cable so as to keep things simple for the one-to-one case. So onwards to the physical world... Most circuits / cables in installations follow common paths. Provision of cable paths is costly and you don't want your cables snaking around everywhere for aesthetic and safety reasons. So we use Cable Path objects to model the paths circuits and cables follow. In ConnectCAD we use the Cable Route tool to place our cable paths. This tool is specialised towards permanent installations where cable paths run mostly horizontally with vertical sections to accommodate height changes. You first place your Drop Points where you want cabling to be delivered, and then use the Cable Route tool to join them up. Drop Points are useful for defining locations in the early stages of a project. Racks and Equipment also function the same way - cable paths can terminate on them directly. Once you have your path network created you can Analyse Cable Routes to make sure all circuits can reach their intended destinations. Correct if necessary and then use Calculate Cable Lengths to estimate the length of each circuit through the cable path network. The Edit Cabling Tool let's you see which circuits are using a given path segment and it allows you to assign circuits to alternate paths, and to assign extra circuits not yet on the schematic. So a lot of power and flexibility there. And yes, a lot to get your head around. Hope this brief intro has helped a bit . Conrad

@Callum Walker I think I know what's happening here. If the device has no room assigned Create Equipment places the equipment items around the top left of the page area. If there is a room there those equipment items land in the room and acquire the room as they reset. There's another issue we just fixed that equipment used to search for rooms on other layers than the one it's on. So that might also be playing a role. Thanks for reporting the issue. Have a great week and I'll see what we can do to help with this. Conrad