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When you are satisfied with all your specifications in the main dialogue box, you click OK.

 

The time has then come to specifying where the connection points should be placed.

 

▪If you are using a Continuous box, and External conn. numbers, the connections should be placed on the edges of the box.

 

▪If you are using a box of the Boundary type, and Internal conn. numbers, the connections should instead be placed somewhere inside the box, not on the edges of it.

 

Please, place the first connection point. Thereafter place the next one (the connection point next to the first one). The distance should normally be 5 mm between the two.

 

Then specify the number of connections in the group that you are defining. That number defines how many connections will be created in a row beginning with the two that you have already placed. The distances between neighbouring connections in the group, will be the same as you have specified between the two first. For instance, you may answer “4”. You will get a dialogue box for the connection point number of the first connection. Confirm by clicking OK. For each following connection point number, you will get a separate dialogue box. Correct if needed and confirm with OK. In this way you are working through all connections that are included in the group of connections that you are working with.

 

When you have confirmed all connections in the group, you may continue with other groups of connections to the same generic symbol, or finish by pressing the <RETURN> button. The Generic symbol is then ready.

 

•Instead of confirming each connection point number separately as described above, you can check the Fast insert option. If you do, no confirmation other than for the first connection point is needed. All connections points will be inserted directly, without further confirmations. Any deviations from the results of the start and step values that you have specified, must then be handled afterwards, by simply editing those connection point numbers manually.