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Menu: Project Explorer > Project Databases > Blind Patches

Default command line shortcut: ShowBlindPatchTool

Related Project Settings:

 Status Behavior CMS

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Explanation

 

Unlike the normal WireCAD New Circuit tool which requires that you know the complete circuit end-to-end, the Blind Patch Tool allows you to document your existing patches and then discover circuits from those patches.

 

You will use the Blind Patch Tool to document patches between panels. It is not necessary that you know the whole circuit. Simply create patches from panel to panel as you go. You can use the [Discover] tool to find circuits from the blind patches. Once the Blind Patch Circuits are discovered you can use the [Make Circuit] function to create real Circuits.

 

As you add Blind Patches the Status of the connected Backbone(s) will be mark BLIND_PATCH. This status item is a blocking status item. Meaning that other operations will not be able to use or delete this segment of the Patch Panel or Backbone.

 

 

Prerequisites:

Backbones

 

Related Topics:

Blind Patch Tool form.

New Blind Patch dialog.