From an empty sheet to a released cutlist

Opening it

Right-click a component on either canvas and choose Pin Configuration, or open it from the component's inspect panel. The dialog opens beside the canvas and does not block it, so you can keep moving things while it is open.

• Connectors — one row per cavity, from the cavity count on the library part.
• Diodes — two rows, Anode and Cathode.
• Resistors — two rows, Pin 1 and Pin 2.
• Splices and branch points — a single row.

If the connector is mated to one on another sheet, a chip in the header says so and takes you straight to that connector's pin configuration. See Sheets and workspaces.

The table

Contact arrangement in the toolbar opens the connector's contact arrangement drawing in a docked panel beside the table, so you can check which physical cavity a label refers to without leaving the dialog. A dot on the button means the part has one.

Wiring a cavity

Setting a destination is what creates the connection. It appears immediately in the Wiring view, and the wire, contact, seal and colour-code parts all appear in the BOM.

Double crimps

One cavity can carry more than one wire — a single contact crimped onto two or more conductors. Use the add button in the Actions column to give a cavity a second destination, and the row expands to show both.

Each destination is its own connection, so both appear in the Wiring view and both get a cut list row. The contact is still one contact and is counted once.

This is common where one pin feeds several downstream branches — power distribution out of a single supply pin, for example.

Twisted pairs

The group takes a colour from a ten-colour palette and is drawn with that indicator in the Wiring view. Ungroup removes the ticked rows from their group, and a group left with one wire is dissolved.

Twisting rows that already belong to different groups merges them into one. The same rules apply here and on the Wiring canvas — they are the same groups.

Shielded cables

Add Shielded Cable in the toolbar sets up a multicore cable. Choose a wire part that is marked as shielded and has a strand count, and the shielded cable dialog opens.

Strand mapping

Each inner conductor gets a source and a destination — component and cavity at both ends. A strand needs both before it becomes a real connection. The strand index sets its order within the cable.

Shield termination

The shield itself is terminated separately, and you can terminate it more than once — a drain wire to ground at both ends, for example. Each termination is drawn in the Wiring view in its own style.

Extra parts

Attach accessories to the cable assembly — drain wires, ferrites, grommets — each with a quantity and, for length-based parts, a length. They appear in the BOM.

Cable shielding walks through the whole flow.

What changes downstream

• Wiring view — connections, colour codes and twisted pair groups are drawn as soon as you set them.
• BOM — wires, contacts, seals, heat shrink markers and accessories are counted and priced.
• Cut list — each connection becomes a row, taking its length from the cable it runs through in the Design view.
• Design view — a cable's wire schedule and cross-section are built from these assignments.