Callum Walker

Yes I’ve now done this. It’d be great if my report selection criteria could also reference that cell.

Hi just to re-resurect this thread. I have done some more playing with this to make a big improvement. As all circuits have a direction you get confusing results with things like network switches as you don't get all the ports showing on one side of the circuit report. As a result you get a report that looks like this if you try and sort by port number you get things like the last row where that circuit is 'reversed' so switch 1 port 4 shows after all the other circuits. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |SRC Device |SRC Port | DEST Device |Dest Port | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |SWT_01 |Port 1 |Widget 1 |LAN | |SWT_01 |Port 2 |Widget 2 |LAN | |SWT_01 |Port 3 |Widget 3 |LAN | |SWT_01 |Port 5 |Widget 5 |LAN | |SWT_01 |Port 6 |Widget 6 |LAN | |Wiget 4 |LAN |SWT_01 |Port 4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fix has been some funky IF evaluations to essentially look at the circuit as a whole. Determine the direction and then IF the switch is the source, show the destination port name. If the switch is the destination due to a 'reversed' connection. Show the source port name. That way you can then sort and just get a list of all switch ports regardless of circuit direection. =IF(OBJECTDATA('eval circuit source device', 'Device', 'name')='SWT_01', OBJECTDATA('eval circuit destination socket', 'Socket', 'name'), OBJECTDATA('eval circuit source socket', 'Socket', 'name')) This way you get a nice list of all the LAN ports on the switch in order to (after you sort the column) regardless of circuit direction. It would be good if I could define the name "SWT_01" somewhere an then have all the IF statements in the document use that 1 value, but I'll take what I can get at this point.

Hi I've just come across this forum thread. I am in a similar boat now. I have 2 racks, one with a timecode reader and one with a timecode generator (LTC XLR line level for both). Currently the connector logic for patch panels is leaving me scratching my head; On the rack with the timecode generator I have set the connector type to be OUT as it is outputting Line Level audio from the device within the rack rack to the other rack, if I attempt to connect the patch panel connector to it's internal timecode generator's output I get an error saying you can't connect and output to an output which kind of makes sense but is frustrating. So I then set the connector to be IO so it doesn't care what connects to it. When I then connect the other rack's patch panel to it, it causes the line to come out of the same side as the internal connection (I guess the connectors can't have 2 lines going in 2 different directions). I have attached an image showing the behaviour of the line currently, and overlaid a blue line of the expected lined behaviour. Has anyone found any good method for this? Should I be 'cheating' and essentially adding 2 connectors to each connector, one facing each way?

Hi I don't want to derail the topic subject too much as it may be harder to find for future people trying to do this. But to explain what I'm doing (in a grossly simplified example). The first screenshot is the design layer LAN. This contains all network related connections. You can see that my media server SRV_04 has many sockets. The second screenshot shows the design layer Power. You can see that the media server SRV_04 remains. But certain devices such as TX_SYSCTL_01 and MIDI_02 are gone as they have no power connection (they are POE). As I want the power diagram to be clear for the person hooking it up in this scenario, PDU_05 has been moved closer to the equipment. If all equipment were to be shown on 1 drawing the PDU would be sitting pretty much on-top of the MIDI device. So I am looking to have certain devices such as SRV_04 across multiple design layers. As a result I would like the names to be linked so if I decide to rename it to SRV_01 I expect that to rename everywhere given it is the same device (with maybe a button in the OIP that says "Seperate from other devices"). I then also want to be able to produce a report that says "show me every connection to SRV_04 across all design layers" or "show all power connections on the Power Design Layer" Hopefully this makes sense! 🙂

HI this works when connecting 3D objects back to their 2D schematic device, however if I have the same 2D Schematic device across multilpe design layers (to create different signal flow plans) there is no such option. This may fall into user error territory, but I am trying to represent quite a large system as different signal logics. E.g. a media server needs power and data, but if my drawing has all of that shown in 1 drawing it's line-city. So I'd like to have 2 design layers, 1 for power and 1 for data, but both show the same media server. I suspect I could do this with drawings that have different classes on and off, but it would be be preferable to have the equipment laid out in different positions across the different design layers.

Hi All, This may be a basic question but I can't seem to find the best approach to this in either the forums or the documentation. I am frequently putting one device across several design layers (i.e. a power drawing, a network drawing) that way equipment can be broken down and laid out in a way that's logical to the signal in context. I am then also drawing this equipment into a 3D rack. I would like to occasionally rename an equipment item across the whole drawing, currently if I rename that equipment on a layer it just breaks the relation to the other items, so I then have to go and rename it everywhere to re-link them all up. I would like to be able to rename the object and that applies to all layers. Is there a method to do this? Cheers Cal

Thanks for the update. I'm always happy to be responsible for finding a bug. I am happy to pre-create symbols with he right name. Is there a way to generate a 3D rack object which isn't an 'equipment item' that I can then add images to and save as an object. So far I struggling to find how to create a 3D rack item as is generated by the Layout > Create Equipment function. Is there a way to create these 3D objects to save as symbols without them being created as equipment items?

Ok I will give this a shot. So Essentially I need 2 symbols. One is the ConnectCAD object which contains the 2D symbol, and one is the 3D object. Is it possible to add the first equipment item to the layout, edit its 3D object to add the front/rear graphic. And then Use the Convert to Object tool to create the 3D object which can then be associated back to the ConnectCAD 3D object under 'use Symbol' Interestingly after having a play with this I have come across what almost looks like a bug, where after converting a ConnectCAD object to Symbol, if I select a 3D object which hasn't had 'Use Symbol' selected. When I click the check-box, the object changes to a symbol, but the tick-box does not check and I can't un-check that function. See video. Screen Recording 2024-09-17 at 17.39.52.mov

I've attached a little video showing the behaviour, plus I will DM you a sample project file. I start by important a symbol from my rolling 'symbol library' document I have which has detailed ConnectCAD device symbols with pictures. You will see I then add that to my schematic view and create a second device with the same symbol. I then create the devices in the 3D view. I can then double click the 3D device, go to the Front view and add the graphic, but it only applies to that unique device. If I right click the device in the resource manager and Go Edit 3D Component, I get just a 3D view of the flat ConnectCad symbol and not the actual Rack mounted object. Untitled Project-h264.mov

It may be because I first place the 2D symbol in the schematic layout and then from there use the ConnectCAD > Layout > Create Equipment so it's creating 3 unique 3D objects on the 3D equipment layout. Not sure if that makes sense.

Hi not to resurrect an old thread. But I am wondering how I can make this change to the symbol itself. If I have multiple instances of a rack mount object I would like to apply the graphic to the symbol globally. I can edit the device in my symbol library but this appears to be the 2D schematic object (even when looking in 3D view) is there a way to edit the 3D rack mount object as well?

Hi all, I had a play with this today. As hoped it seems you can create a connections report, duplicate it and name it something else (in my case "Switch patching") and then edit that criteria so it includes "Field Value" "Dst_Dev_Name" "=" "*Name of whatever device you care about*" This is direction specific, which works for some devices like a power distribution unit. But for something like a vision matrix with outputs and inputs may mean you want to use OR functions instead of ALL functions to show destination or source devices. But this seems to be a start!

Hi all, not to resurrect an old thread. But did anyone devise a solution to this? I can probably look at a report filter or something but thought I'd also ask here! Cheers Cal

I attempted to add some cable lengths below 1M such as 0.75 and 0.5M. While the dropdown box allows these values, my cable calculation sheets show a length of 0.50 as "050" which will be calculated (and read by humans) as "50M"... slightly over my 0.5m cable estimate. Is it possible to add decimal support to cable lengths as well?

Ok so I've had a bit of a read through of the documentation (I did have a demo license but activated it at the worst possible time so didn't play with it at all!) I would create a device such as a Disguise Pro 2x4 media server. Can I then add different sockets such is video sockets, network sockets, power sockets. and assign different classes to the different sockets so only certain sockets appear on certain views. Or do I have to create different devices with the same name (can you have multiple devices with the same name?)