How to Configure Wire Continuation

Wire Continuation and Connection Warnings

You can configure the rules for wire continuation and the connection errors for which you will receive warnings.

Procedure

1. Choose Preferences from the Elecdes Menu. You will be presented with the Elecdes Preferences Dialog.

2. Go to the Cables/Wires tab page

3. You will see the Wire Continuation Rules group box shown below

   The settings that can be changed are detailed below:

Short Circuit Warnings in Conductor Reports

Short Circuit Test

Ebase can check for short-circuit errors in your schematic drawings and produce a warning in the conductor reports. If you do not want to receive short-circuit warnings, clear this checkbox.

Wire marker continuation rules

Elecdes supports two modes of wire naming as it relates to wire continuation, for example onto a second drawing sheet.

• The first, default, mode allows all wire markers to show continuation of a wire. This was the only mode available in previous versions of EDS.

  Thus any network of line segments with a wire marker with the same wire name is considered to be part of the same conductor.

• The second mode specifies that only wire extension markers can show continuation of a wire.

  Thus two networks of line segments each with a wire marker with a common name will not be considered to be part of the same conductor – unless they are joined by a wire extension marker.

  Wire extension markers are sorted into order by drawing or sheet, then position. They are then joined in pairs from that sorted list.

Invalid equipotential connections

If you choose the continuation mode "only wire extension markers can show continuation", then you can optionally receive warnings if you make an invalid equipotential wire name assignment.

This warning is enabled or disabled in the main EDS Setup warnings control page.

An invalid equipotential wire name assignment is made if you place the same wire name onto a conductor on either side of a device, where the device could change the voltage / current signal or disconnect it. These conductors should not be given the same name as they are not necessarily the same signal.

An exception to this rule is if the two wires are physically drawn as connected with appropriate line segments and wire connect dots.