Description

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to add terminals to a block which has already been generated by the block generator.

Topics covered

Block generator, add channels, add terminals, add ports

Main content

If you want to add terminals to a block created by the block generator, but don’t want to generate a new block, you can use the Add Channels to Block feature.

For example, consider this power supply:

We generated a block for only the AC terminals (originally thinking we would show the DC terminals on a separate block):

Later, we decide we want the DC terminals in the same block, but we don’t want to generate a new block (perhaps because of some customizations we’ve done to the existing block).

The solution is to select the block on the schematics, go to the I/O Management tab and select Add Channels to Block.

Then, use CTRL or SHIFT to select the terminals you want to add and click OK.

(If the terminals you want to add are not listed in the dialog box, you will first need to open the component in the block generator, add the terminals, save the component, close and re-open your project, then try Add Channels to Block again.)

The terminals are then added to the block:

If you want to save these changes to the block in the Symbol Library, select the entire block, go to the Home tab and Save.

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