User Guide

Chapter 4 Creating and Editing Designs
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Using Wires and Buses
Parts and ports contain one or more pins to which
connections can be made. Electrical connections are
formed by joining pins of parts and ports with wires and
buses.
A junction dot appears where three items are joined.
Drawing and Labeling Wires
Drawing a wire
1 Click the Draw Wire button to change the pointer to a
pencil shape.
2 Click to start the wire.
3 Click at each vertex of the wire.
4 Click a pin, another wire or a bus to end the wire (or
double-click to end at any point).
If you end the wire on a pin, another wire, or a bus and
do not double-click, draw-wire mode remains active,
which allows you to start and draw additional wires.
5 To stop drawing the wire, do one of the following:
• Double-click to place the last segment of the wire.
• Right-click to stop drawing the wire without
drawing an additional segment.
The outline changes back to a pointer.
If a wire segment meets the end of another wire segment,
they become part of the same wire, without a junction
being created. This principle also applies to bus segments.
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existing
wire
additional
wire
one wire
(no junction)
Adding a wire segment