Adding drop points

Mode

Tool

Tool set

Modes for The Symbol Insertion tool

Drop Point

 

Cable Route

A drop point represents the location where cables are delivered, like a wall box, floor pocket, socket on the wall, or cables coming out of the wall.

A 3D equipment rack is considered to be a drop point.

Drop points cannot be connected to equipment items that are placed in 2D racks.

To add a drop point to the drawing:

Click the tool and mode. 

Click Drop Point Style on the Tool bar to select a resource from the Resource Selector.

Click to place the object, and click again to set the rotation. Drop points can be inserted in a wall, floor, slab, etc. or they can be stand-alone.

2D and 3D views of a wall pocket drop point

The parameters can be edited later from the Object Info palette. Optionally, create a style resource from the object (see Creación de estilos de objeto de complemento). Once added to the drawing, connect the drop point to the cable path network and connect equipment to the drop point. Drop points can also be connected to a slab object.

You can connect multiple equipment items to a drop point by selecting all of the equipment control points with the Unrestricted Interactive Scaling mode of the Selection tool enabled. Drag the control points towards the drop point.

Click to show/hide the parameters.Click to show/hide the parameters.

Parameter

Description

Style

Replace, remove, or edit the current style, or create a new plug-in object style for this object.

Editing a style changes all instances in the file that use the style.

Hide style parameters

Hides the parameters that are set by style; these cannot be edited from the dialog box or Object Info palette

General

 

Name

Enter a name for reporting and paperwork

Category

Select a category for the type of drop point symbols available from the Symbol resource selector

Connected

Indicates the number of connected equipment items

Symbol

Displays the currently selected symbol; select a different symbol if needed

Location

Indicates the location of the layout room, if the drop point was placed in one

Creating cable networks

Placing equipment

Workflow: Cable routing with ConnectCAD

Creating connector panel layouts

 

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