Procedure:: Autodesignating Components
Procedure:: Autodesignating Components
Procedure:: Autodesignating Components
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Procedure Setup:
1. To avoid naming conflicts, it is recommended you save your work, click File > Close until no models
display, then click File > Manage Session > Erase Not Displayed.
2. Click File > Manage Session > Set Working Directory and navigate to the PTCU\CreoParametric2
\Cabling\Designate_Auto folder and click OK
6. In the Auto Designator dialog box, select C-01, and notice that its status is Multiple.
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8. In the Auto Designator dialog box, select M-01, and notice that its status is Multiple.
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10. In the Auto Designator dialog box, click Apply and notice that the system automatically matches the
remaining cabling components.
◾ Click OK.
15. In the Electrical Parameters dialog box, notice that the REF_DES and MODEL_NAME parameters
automatically fill out from the Creo Schematics logical information.
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16. In the Electrical Parameters dialog box, select the Entry Ports option.
◾ Expand the connector nodes and the respective Entry Ports nodes.
◾ Notice the names and quantity of the defined entry ports on each connector, as well as the port
type and internal length.
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All of this data came from the imported Creo Schematics data.
2. Click Erase Not Displayed from the Data group and click OK.
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10. In the Auto Designator dialog box, select the R-01 row.
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