Adding Multiple Protective Coverings

You can place multiple protective coverings with the same properties at junctions.

Note: Multiple protective coverings can only be placed in Length mode.

Before you begin: Create a electrical branch geometry where several segments terminate at a junction.
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Adding a Protective Covering

  1. In the Electrical Part Design workbench, select Insert > Multi-Protective Covering .

    The Instantiate Protective Covering dialog box appears:



  2. To retrieve a protective covering, do one of the following:


    • Select From database, then click Browse and retrieve a protective covering from the database or your session.
    • Select From catalog, then click Browse and retrieve a protective covering from a catalog.
    Important: You can create a protective covering from scratch by selecting From scratch and place it over a segment. For more information, see Creating a Protective Covering from Scratch.

  3. In the Length box, enter a length.

    Note: When adding coverings, any change in length impacts all coverings added.

  4. Select a segment end.

    Protective coverings of the specified length are added to the selected segment and all segments having the same properties are connected at the selected point.



    Important: Protective coverings are only added to segments in the same electrical branch geometry as the selected segment.

  5. Click Reset to Preferred Length if you want to set the Preferred Length for the protective covering.

    The Preferred Length is the length of protective covering defined during its creation.

  6. Click OK when done.

    One covering entry per segment is added to the specification tree.



    Note: Once added, coverings are managed individually.