Amy C.

@Conrad Preen I understand the need for the product to be useful to the most users and this will mean it won't meet specific wishes of some. I appreciate many of the upgrades made to the cable tool in the last few years. I often add electrical components to any lighting/LED/rigging/distro devices I use so I can draw cabling diagrams, and when I do this I space the components on the device and they are not vertically stacked. By saying "should" I was speaking to the logic rather than the feasibility or usefulness for the majority of users. If there is a electrical component and a cable is connected to it, and this connection is able to be listed and changed between components through power planning/object info/drawing, then it seems logical for this connection to be visually shown to that component, not just a central point on a device. If the component is central then it is central, but if they've been arranged the cable follows just like it follows the symbol moving. As you said this may be more detail than most people want/need and I get that, which is why my initial question was whether it was possible to have a work around to the normal center point for all cables. I understand where the level of detail I'm asking about could get too confusing, but when mapping numerous cables out of a device (say a splitter, PD, distro, etc.) it visually is hard to follow what goes where when they are all stacked. For instance, say I have a breakout box with 6 outputs and I want to visually show where each output is going. Currently I might drag each cable end after creation to it's output to clearly show which cable is in which circuit, but when doing this for a large number of devices it's time consuming. There are other ways of showing circuits like on the device itself with text, but often when there's too much text people miss details they might visually see faster. So as to my question, it sounds like there is not a faster workflow for this, which is fine, thanks for your time answering. As to your question of which I believe is more important, precise accuracy or relative accuracy, I think it depends on the use case. Sometimes very precise documentation is necessary and producing it is worth the time it takes to eliminate issues, other times less precision is acceptable or even preferred. It is understandably a challenge to find the most widely used needs and meet as many as possible, and obviously not possible to meet all.

Jesse, yes I usually do add them to different classes to control what is visible and then do separate sheets for power and data. Just trying to see if there is a way to combine them sometimes to not always have them separate. @Conrad Preen Partially, yes. I can separate them so I'm only seeing one at a time, but there are times it would be easier to show both but yes having them overlap makes that difficult to distinguish. It's also partially a question of why it doesn't go to the electrical component when one is present rather than the center of the symbol. Since it is connect to the component for power purposes it seems it should visually connect to show that.

Is there a way to have cables automatically drawn to the electrical component they are connecting to rather than the cable drawing to the center of the object? If I've added electrical inputs and outputs I'd like the cable to show at those, that way I can distinguish the cabling for data and power and not have it overlapping. When everything connects at the center it's difficult to distinguish between multiple cables and calbe types. I know I can drag the end of the cable once it is created but I don't want to do that for every single cable if there's a way for it to do this automatically.

I have a breakout distributor object that I want to draw output lengths. I attached a Cable Distributor Record to the symbol with lengths for each output of the breakout, added the distributor of that symbol, but when I click the draw output lengths box in the OIP nothing happens. Is this a bug or is there another way I need to specify the lengths of my outputs to see them?

Thanks Justin! I think I might have solved it but I just sent you the file in a DM to look over and confirm.

If I put the motors and a load on the centerline then it calculates and says everything is connected properly, it I put them on the truss itself even where it shows snap points on the centerline it won't. But the centerline is way off the truss symbol even with the truss symbol starting at 0,0,0. No matter what numbers I put in for the diameter and angle the centerline is always off the truss. The larger the diameter the further away from the truss and longer the line. With a very small diameter and angle it is close to the truss but I can't get it to be both on the truss and the right angle/length of the truss.

Thanks for your reply, I updated my symbol positioning to reflect what you showed, I was centered on the zeros. My actual angle is 6.25 per truss, in the screenshot above the angle is much higher. I've been trying to get the centerline on the truss and still can't. When I put the 6.25 angle and the diameter change of the truss the centerline is 3' right of the truss and the centerline is a few inches long. When I put the diameter as length to the center of the circle given that angle the centerline is the length of a single truss but is over 50' away from my truss. And it still isn't actually connecting as a system.

Some screenshots showing what I mean. First the connection line not matching the truss, second the centerline not following the truss, third the only connection point for motors or loads, but even when attached there I get a not properly supported error. Some

Hello, I'm trying to make a custom curved truss, I have a DWG from the manufacture that I've used to make a symbol. I added 3D locus on the edges and middle of the truss and magnets to the edges, then used the convert to truss command. I entered the truss properties, and updated the magnets again to confirm positioning, and refresh the magnets. When I try to snap trusses together, the red line goes perpendicular to the other truss, and though they look snapped together they aren't connected (when I select system objects it selects nothing else). When I turn on centerline the centerlines are the perpendicular direction. I tried rotating my symbol and it doesn't fix the issue. Also, I can only attach motors or fixtures at one point on the truss, but then when I try to run any Braceworks calculations I get errors that the loads are not attached and truss not properly supported, even if I connect them at the one point. Am I missing something for getting these custom curved trusses to connect as a system? How can I attach motors or loads at any point along the curved truss? Thanks for your help.