Managing Pin Allocation

You can manage several pins of a component that are created in session.

1. Select an electrical component in the specification tree.

   
   
   

2. Click Pin Allocation Management .

   The Pin Allocation Management dialog box is displayed:
   
   For more information about the dialog boxe options, please refer to Pin Allocation Management dialog box description.

3. To reserve a set of pins, select one or several free pins in the pin selection tree or enter a Pin number in the corresponding field.

4. Click Reserve.

   A status message appears in the top right corner of the CATIA workbench:
   
   And a new tab Rsrv 1 is created containing the description of the first reservation.

5. Select the new tab Rsrv 1:

   
   
   

   Note: The tree now contains only the reserved pins.

6. To remove a pin from a reservation, click Rsrv 1, select 1 in the pin selection tree and click Remove / Update.

   A status message is displayed:
   
   And the first tab called Reserve pins becomes active by default to display the status of all the pins.

   Note: If a reservation contains only one pin that you removed, therefore the reservation and its corresponding tab will be deleted.

7. Enter a description in Subtype in Rsrv 1 and click Remove / Update.

   The Reserve pins tab becomes active and a status message appears:
   
   

8. Click Close.

9. Propagate your system in database.

You can manage several pins of a component that are loaded in session and database.

1. Use the system you have just propagated above, in step 9.

2. Select the component AC-DC (C).

3. Click Pin Allocation Management .

   Note that the pins' symbols are now blue which means that these elements exist in session and in database:
   
   

4. To reserve pins number 3 and 4), select them in the pin selection tree or enter a Pin number in the Reserve pins tab.

5. Click Reserve.

   A status message is displayed:
   
   And a new tab Rsrv 2 is created.

   Note:
   

   • If it is not already the case, the component will be locked in database, otherwise a message will be displayed explaining that it is already in sue in another session.
   • In our sample, 2 pins are reserved in session and all data is propagated in database.
   • At the end of the process, the component will be unlocked in database.
   • If your component is an Interface Connector, when you select the Pin Allocation Management, you will always reserve 2 pins together.

   Tip: You can use a validation business rule when you reserve a group of pins.