- [Instructor] Origin-destination arrows are used
to connect wires as they move between drawing.
So, generally, we can't fit our whole project
onto a single sheet.
So we need to split up our drawings
across multiple sheets.
Origin-destination arrows allow us to do this,
while indicating the pages both graphically,
and also maintaining the electrical signal information
across those sheets.
So to insert origin-destination arrows
it's actually really quite a simple process.
So I can just jump into my schematic tab.
And I have a button, or tool, called
"origin-destination arrows" right here.
So, I'm going to click on origin-destination arrows.
And it jumps me into my origin-destination manager.
So what this does, it shows me a break-down
of two pages at once, and I can navigate through
all of my pages, throughout my entire project,
using some of these buttons up above.
So we have change drawing one,
this would be my drawing one, on the top here.
So you can see, I first have my line diagram drawing,
then I have a power schematic,
then I have a, looks like a controls drawing,
and then another controls drawing.
Same idea, I can change my drawing two,
which would be down on the bottom here,
and jump through again any of those pages as may need.
What can also be useful, I've a switch both drawings,
so that will kind of flip both pages to the next page.
This is useful in, say very large projects.
I can jump through next page for both
next page, next page, and so on.
Just helps me wire things up a little bit faster.
So, let's try to increase the size here a little bit.
And within each of these of course can zoom in
and pan around as well.
So what I most likely want to do here is
connect up my power schematic
to, say, my control schematic.
And then my control schematic to the second sheet
of my control schematic, and so on.
So, I'll zoom in a little bit here.
Looks like these wires would be going
onto my control schematic.
And of course, I have a neutral wire, and a live wire,
and that would be connecting up to my next page,
up to my neutral wire,
and my live wire.
So, do connect these up.
Again, very simple, just a click of a button.
I can do single-insertion for point-to-point.
Or multiple insertion, if I have a whole bunch
of points that I'm going to be connecting at once,
say if I was doing three-phase power across
multiple sheets, or something like that.
So, in this case I am just going to do single-insertion.
And you can see as I hover over any endpoint here,
it's going to throw in this green circle,
kind of indicating where that origin-destination arrow
will come in.
And, so I'm going to connect first my ground
to my ground.
And already, automatically, you can see there's
my origin-destination arrow coming in.
So it should be going from my power schematic
into my control schematic.
And I just do the same throughout this entire project.
So then I'd want to connect up my live wire here,
to my live wire here.
One important thing to note if you see that
the origin-destination arrows don't seem to be coming in,
or this is failing for whatever reason,
it may be that your wire styles, or your wires
are not of the same type.
So, the origin-destination manager will
not allow you to connect wires of different
wire styles, or of different types.
This is, of course, on purpose because
we wouldn't want to connect, say,
a 24 volt wire to a 120 volt wire
to 40 volt wire, something like that.
So, there we go, we have some connection points there.
And then maybe I want to jump to the next drawing.
And then probably I want to connect the bottom
of my two wires here, to maybe my next control drawing.
So, again, I'll jump through each of these pages,
however I may need.
It looks for my control drawing two, maybe I don't have
a ground, maybe I just haven't drawn it yet,
or whatever it may be.
So I am just going to throw in my live wire here,
and again, click to place my origin,
and my destination probably coming in here.
And looks like my origin-destination arrows
are coming in here.
This is just the preview window, or the command,
and then once I'm finished
all of my origin-destination arrows,
I can close out.
And they should have come in
to my actual electrical project here.
So this is very nice.
It gives cross-referencing information,
so it's telling me where these arrows are going,
what the page number, and a rung number, and again,
you can fully customize this,
and the formula that's coming in.
I can actually just double-click on this,
and it's going to jump me to that next page.
So it's actually a smart connection.
And it maintains the electrical signal as well,
so if you changed a signal, or a wire number,
or something like this, on any of these wires,
it's going to connect, since these wires
are now connected through the origin-destination arrows.
We'll also see later on, it's really handy,
we can also create smart PDF's from this.
So even my final output, or export,
I can just double-click on a arrow, and it will jump me
to that exact page, to wherever it may be.
So no more flipping around in a large 50-page project.