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Old 06-09-2009, 07:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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A feature that would be simply excellent is if you could make the schematic shapes dynamic. Example:

A Industrial Display do usually have some built-in inputs and outputs plus one or more slot in ports. Then different slot in cards with their ins and outs.

When adding a plain product only the default I/Os is visible in the shape. If slot-in cards are added as accessories to the main product, also the I/Os for the slot-ins will be visible in the shape.

There is also a lot of audio and video products that uses slot-ins. Not to forget several Crestron CPUs.

When added to a project the shape acts as one and you will be able to move all Ins and Outs up and down to fit the wiring in your drawing.

If you could make this happen - I'll buy you guys a beer at ISE
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To continue my suggestion:

The Inputs and Outputs on the slot ins could be highlighted with another color or with a grey background, just to emphasize that this is expansion modules.

To further expand this, each product in the Master Table could have a checkbox for "slot-in ports". When this is checked you get a new tab where you could put in all those modules the same way as you add accessories. There you can register how many slot in/expansion ports there is on that product and how many ports each module will fill. Example: Panasonic Professional Plasma has 3 slots. Some modules fills one slot, some fills two. You would not be able to add more expansion cards than there is physically room for. Quality control/stupidity check.
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