Card types

The Visio stencil provided as standard, “standard_xx.vss“, contains the following card types which are placed into the slots of a mux shape based on the following characteristics through the action “Populate slots”:

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The [Card-T]- shape is set to a connection point of the mux shape with the left bottom corner on the following conditions:

X coordinates: Width* x        Y coordinates: Height * y

0 < x < 1        0 < y <=1

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The [Card-B] shape is set to a connection point of the mux shape with the left bottom corner on the following conditions:

X coordinates: Width* x        Y coordinates: Height * y

0 < x < 1        y = 0

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The [Card-L] shape is set to a connection point of the mux shape with the left bottom corner on the following conditions:

X coordinates: Width* x        Y coordinates: Height * y

x = 0        0 <= y <= 1

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The [Card-R] shape is set to a connection point of the mux shape with the left bottom corner on the following conditions:

X coordinates: Width* x        Y coordinates: Height * y

x = 1        0 <= y <= 1

 

The foregoing explanations are summarised in sketch form in the following diagram:

 

User-defined cells

ConnectMaster characteristics of the card shapes are defined in the user-defined cells (Call  -> Shape Sheet):

 

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The characteristics are defined via

à CM / Define / Define Shape

•Define shape as CM Type

     

 

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•Specific

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i.e. specifications for the adjustment of card connection points and width of the cards.

Example

To create a user-defined card shapes using a standard card shape for mux shapes created according to 10.4.3., proceed as follows:

1.Drag the master shape [Card-T] of the “standard_xx.vss” stencil to the drawing sheet

2.Adjust the size of the shape to the slot size of the mux shape

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3.Drag the card shape into the user-defined stencil (e.g. MeineShapes.vss)

4.change the name of the card shape to [Card-T]

5.Save the stencil

If you then drag the mux shape SDH_MUX to the drawing sheet and execute it under Visio à CM / Actions / Equip Slots, the redefined card shape is used.

Dependencies

To ensure that the adjusted standard card shape is used to populate the mux SDH_MUX, the latter must be located it the stencil in which the mux shape is also saved.

If, however, different card shapes are to be used for the different card types as well, these allocations must be defined. Definitions and dependencies are explained in the following section.