Change an Existing Electrical Association - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

You can change an existing electrical association by doing one of the following:

• Drag an item in the Electrical Engineer to another item in the electrical tree of the Electrical Engineer.

• In a cable block diagram, connect two items using a cable or a connector. See Working with Smart Data and Auxiliary Graphics in a CBD.

Note that such changes are governed by a strict set of rules. For more details, see Rules for Changing Electrical Associations.

The software does not allow you to make parallel connections or change existing parallel connections of cables in the Electrical Engineer. Parallel cable connections or changes of parallel associations can be carried out only in cable block diagrams.

To change an electrical association in the Electrical Engineer, do the following:

1. In the Electrical Engineer, navigate to the item whose association you want to change.

2. Expand the item hierarchy to the location of the new association. Select the + icon or select the items.

   To facilitate the drag-and- drop operation and to eliminate the need to scroll up or down in the Electrical Engineer, open another Electrical Engineer window and navigate to the required location in the tree view before you start dragging an item.

3. Drag the required item to the new location in the Electrical Engineer and drop it on the item with which you want to associate it.

The following notes apply to making electrical associations either in the Electrical Engineer or cable block diagram.

• Whenever you drag a load or any equipment item from one bus to another, the software automatically creates a new feeder circuit. The old feeder circuit from which you dissociated the dragged item remains in its original place. For more information, see Automatic Creation of Feeder Circuits.

• If you choose to automatically create a feeder circuit with a cell, make sure that in the Properties window for the new cell, you select the In Use setting for the Cell Usage property.

• If you want to dissociate a load from a circuit and this is the last associated load, make sure that in the Properties window for the appropriate cell, you select the Installed Spare setting for the Cell Usage property.

• For details on how to create a new electrical association, see Create an Electrical Association.