Originally Posted by Kevin Mikelonis
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If you select the items you want to copy to another page and go to Shape>Group, then copy and paste them, this will work.
But it jacks up the intelligence in D-Tools realted to connections and reporting, meaning that D-Tools does not know these items are on the page or in the project, because once grouped, the collection of shapes is now one shape.
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Yeah, I found this out the hard way - just copying one or more shapes doesn't cause additional items to be added to the matrix, but the new shapes behave like they're no longer connected to the rest of the project. For instance the highlighting in the matrix is no longer accurate and if you need to update the I/O on a device on another page it won't work.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Mikelonis
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A better way...
Consider using layer properties, where you do one layout, then develop the schematic using one signal type, select those wire shapes and create a new layer for that signal type and assign those wire shapes to that new layer.
The layers can then be turned on and off, so you turn off the layer you do not want to see, and create another new layer by signal type and so on.
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Here's the problem with that, I assume you have a layer with all the equipment and other layers for different connection types? So one device can only be on one layer and in one location?
What I really need is some of the same equipment with different connections shown on different pages with different page names with the equipment laid out in different locations on the page optimized to the drawing type. The equipment should be linked to the Data Matrix so that if it's deleted from the project or the I/O is changed all schematic pages are updated.
Are you telling me this isn't possible?! How the hell is this even useful for building schematics?! Surely this is not that uncommon a thing to do, how can you possibly fit every connection type for every device on one page and still have it be legible?