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Cable route

General

A cable route is an organised grouping of components of the category “Cable”.

The arrangement of the elements is basically free, however, there are sorting algorithms that sort the elements into a continuous route using their end locations.

A cable route has the following characteristics:

Characteristic	Type	Description
Name	Text (50)	Description of cable route.
Description	Text (256)	Any description.
Type	Cable route type	See below
Status	Status	Status of cable route; please refer to Chapter “Library”.
Owner	Organisation	Company group, company, department or person that owns the cable route.
Used by	Organisation	Company group, company, department or person that uses the cable route.
A location	Location	Corresponds to the A location of the first component of the duct route.
A component	Component	Corresponds to the A component of the first element.
Z location	Location	Corresponds to the Z location of the last component of the cable route.
Z component	Component	Corresponds to the Z component of the last element.
Elements	Components	Components with defined order; build the content of the cable route; see below.

Cable route type

In ConnectMaster, the user can define any number of duct route types to describe a cable route more accurately. The cable route can then be allocated a type from the list of predefined types.

Definition

A cable route type has the following characteristics:

Characteristic	Type	Description
Name	Text (40)	Name of type; does not need to be unique.
Description	Text (256)
Abbreviation	Text (10)	Type abbreviation.

Content of cable route

The content of an duct route can be created in different ways:

•The elements can be additionally or removed manually.

•All elements of another cable route can be loaded.

•The entire path of a location network can be stored in a cable route as a result of the filter “Routing cable”. Please also refer to Chapter and/or “Routing cable”.

•Patched components can be loaded for every cable.

Sequence

The elements can be automatically lined up using the component locations. The sequence can also be changed manually at any time.

Statistics

Different evaluations can be performed for cable routes:

•Cable routes: For every cable, the number of free slots per level can be evaluated.

Display

The display of the cable route can be reduced to shared containers. If consecutive components are elements of a container, the container is now displayed instead of the components.