The following dialog elements are available:
Annotation
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Line pattern: Determines the default line pattern of the annotation.
- Line thickness: Determines the default line thickness of the annotation.
- Color: Determines the default color of the annotation.
- Font: Determines the default font of the annotation.
- Symbol shape: Determines the default size and symbol shape of the annotation. The following shapes are available:
- Not set
- Point
- Square
- Plus
- Cross
- Star
- Arrow
- Text box: Here you can toggle the visibility of the text box and determine its default shape. The following shapes are available:
- Rectangle
- Corners
- Circle
- Ellipse
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Line pattern: Determines the default line pattern of the balloon annotation.
- Line thickness: Determines the default line thickness of the balloon annotation.
- Color: Determines the default color of the balloon annotation.
- Font: Determines the default font of the balloon annotation.
- Symbol shape: Determines the default size and symbol shape of the balloon annotation. The following shapes are available:
- Not set
- Point
- Square
- Plus
- Cross
- Star
- Arrow
- Text box: Here you can toggle the visibility of the text box and determine its default shape. The following shapes are available:
- Rectangle
- Corners
- Circle
- Ellipse
- Line
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Place: Toggles the placement of the cable tie either in a new nailboard or when the nailboard display configuration is applied.
- Line pattern: Determines the default line pattern of cable ties.
- Line thickness: Determines the default line thickness of cable ties.
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
Cable tie symbol
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Place: Toggles the placement of the cable tie symbol either in a new nailboard or when the nailboard display configuration is applied.
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
Connectable object symbol
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Place: Toggles the placement of the connectable object symbol either in a new nailboard or when the nailboard display configuration is applied.
- 2D pins visible: Toggles the visibility of 2D pins in a connectable object symbol.
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Line pattern: Determines the default line pattern of control points.
- Line thickness: Determines the default line thickness of control points.
- Color: Determines the default color of control points.
- Size: Determines the default size of control points.
- Round bending radii: If activated, control points have the same bending radius in the nailboard as in the workspace. If deactivated, the control points have a bending radius of "0". This option is only available for nailboards created from a workspace. In the case of nailboards created from a workdesk, this option is always activated.
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Font: Determines the default font style of inner dimension, outer dimension, and dimension.
- Prefix: Determines the default prefix of inner dimension, outer dimension, and dimension.
- Suffix: Determines the default suffix of inner dimension, outer dimension, and dimension.
- Show units: Toggles the display of units of inner dimension, outer dimension, and dimension.
Fan point
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Line pattern: Determines the default line pattern of fan points.
- Color: Determines the default color of fan points.
- Line thickness: Determines the default line thickness of fan points.
- Font: Determines the default font of fan points.
- Size: Determines the default size of fan points.
- Align text: Determines if pin notes and inner pin notes are aligned within fanned-out wires.
- Fan-in pins: Toggles wires as "fan-in" / "fan-out".
- Show units: Toggles the display of units within inner pin notes and pin notes.
- Wire span: Determines the angle distance between individual wires.
- Pin note type: Determines which information is to be shown in the pin note.
- Pin notes: Toggles the display of pin notes.
- Inner pin notes: Toggles the display of inner pin notes with the distance value between the fan point and the pin to which the wire is connected.
- Inner note type: Determines which information is to be shown in the inner pin note.
- Inner note prefix: Determines the default prefix of inner pin notes.
- Alignment: Determines the alignment of the inner pin note. This option is available if the Align text check box has been activated.
- Offset: Determines the default offset of the inner pin note. The offset can be defined when the Top or Bottom option has been set for Alignment.
Fan-in pin
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Line pattern: Determines the default line pattern of fan-in pins.
- Color: Determines the default color of fan-in pins.
- Line thickness: Determines the default line thickness of fan-in pins.
- Size: Determines the default size of fan-in pins.
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Place: Toggles the placement of the label either in a new nailboard or when the nailboard display configuration is applied.
- Line pattern: Determines the default line pattern of labels.
- Line thickness: Determines the default line thickness of labels.
- Font: Determines the default font of labels.
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
Label symbol
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Place: Toggles the placement of the label symbol either in a new nailboard or when the nailboard display configuration is applied.
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Position: Display the loop Above or Below the cable or wire.
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
Pin
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Line pattern: Determines the default line pattern of pins.
- Color: Determines the default color of pins.
- Line thickness: Determines the default line thickness of pins.
- Size: Determines the default size of pins.
- Show wire terminal: If activated, the symbol of an attached non-graphical wire terminal is shown in addition to the connectable object symbol. The wire terminal must have a 2D symbol created in its 2D window for it to be displayed.
- Default note: If activated, a default pin note is used. If deactivated, the following properties become available:
- Pin note type: Determines which information is to be shown in the pin note.
- Pin note font: Determines the default font of pin notes and inner pin notes.
- Show units: Toggles the display of units within inner pin notes.
- Align note text: Toggles text alignment of pin notes and inner pin notes within the wires.
- Pin notes: Toggles the display of pin notes.
- Inner pin notes: Toggles the display of inner pin notes.
- Inner note type: Determines which information is to be shown in the inner pin note.
- Inner note prefix: Determines the default prefix of inner pin notes.
- Alignment: Determines the alignment of the inner pin note. This option is available if the Align text check box has been activated.
- Offset: Determines the default offset of the inner pin note. The offset can be defined when the Top or Bottom option has been set for Alignment.
In the subnode of each special component, you find a combination of the following dialog elements:
- Place: Toggles the placement of the special component symbol either in a new nailboard or when the nailboard display configuration is applied.
- Line pattern: Determines the default line pattern of special component diagrams.
- Line thickness: Determines the default line thickness of special component diagrams.
- 2D pins visible: Toggles the visibility of 2D pins in a new nailboard or when the nailboard display configuration is applied.
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
- Font: Determines the default font of splice spider diagrams.
- Leg length: Determines the default length of splice spider diagram legs.
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Apply color to bundles: Determines if bundles are black or if the color from the workspace / workdesk is used.
- Apply color to cables: Determines if cables are black or if the color from the workspace / workdesk is used.
- Apply color to surface protections: Determines if surface protections are black or if the color from the workspace / workdesk is used.
In the subnode of each special component, you find a combination of the following dialog elements:
- Hatch override: Toggles the hatch override as "on" / "off".
- Hatch: The default hatch is overridden by the hatch specified here.
- Show ribbon grouped pins: Toggles the shape of the control points of ribbon grouped pins and ribbon inline grouped pins: Round (check box not activated) / square (check box activated).
Symbol
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Decorations: A decoration is defined here.
Tables
In the subnode of each table, you find the following dialog elements:
- Place: Toggles the placement of the particular table either in a new cable drawing or when the cable drawing display configuration is applied. Available for connectable object tables and special components tables.
- Use header: Toggles the display of the particular table header.
- Use note: Toggles the display of the particular table note.
- Use title: Toggles the display of the particular table title.
- AutoSize text: This option fills the table cells with text regardless of the font settings. If deactivated, the font settings are applied.
- Show header at bottom: This option moves the table headers from the top row to the bottom row of the table.
- AutoFit: Toggles the automatic table cell dimension adjustment to fit around text after changes are made in the Table settings.
- Unconnected wires: Toggles the display of unconnected wires in the particular table. Available for connectable object tables and special component tables.
- Unconnected pins: Toggles the display of unconnected pins in the particular table. Available for connectable object tables and special component tables.
- Columns:
- Show: Toggles which columns will be displayed in the table.
- Sort: Double-clicking this field toggles sorting of the table according to the data in this column. You can toggle between ascending ▲ or descending ▼ sorting.
- New user-defined property: Clicking allows for the addition of columns that list user-defined properties of the same name. Clicking removes the selected user-defined property column.
- Sort by types: Toggle to sort the table so that a specific type of component is listed first. If multiple types are selected for sorting, they will be sorted in the order in which they are positioned within this table. This type of sorting has a priority over sorting by column toggled via Columns.
- Item numbers: Modifies how item numbers of specific part types are counted and displayed using the following elements:
- Global counter: Toggles whether items of this part type will be counted independently of other parts.
- Prefix: Add a prefix to the item number.
- Suffix: Add a suffix to the item number.
- Delimiters: Convert the item number into a number range, spanning the quantity of each part and delimited by the characters used.
Double-clicking the cells in the following columns and entering characters allows to:
Note:
Making changes to item numbers in this way will also change balloon annotations that use these numbers.
Furthermore, the Content, Header, Title, Note, Grid line and Border line formatting can be edited here. A decoration can be defined in Decorations.
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Retain positions: If activated, the wire harness component positions of the workdesk are retained during an update.
In this main node, you find the following dialog elements:
- Place: Toggles the placement of the wire symbol either in a new nailboard or when the nailboard display configuration is applied.
- Wire symbol: Here a wire symbol from the library can be assigned to the nailboard display configuration. Each nailboard display configuration can have only one wire symbol assigned.