By zuk123 - 2/22/2012 9:12:20 PM
I am working with the cable schedule as exported and I'm confused by the column order.
The columns have the equipment that the cable goes 'to' listed first, then the cable info, which is in the correct from>to order, then the hardware info for the 'from'.
In other words, on my drawing from left to right I have a pc, a cable, and a matrix switch. I have edited the cable attributes so it says from = pc and to = switch.
I drew the cable from left to right, and the cable arrow when set to "end" is at the matrix switch, indicating that the cable is drawn correctly.
But the columns in excel list the matrix hardware details, then the cable details, then the source pc details from left to right.
It should be source details, cable details, destination details, ie, From, cable, to...
Is this a bug, an error in my understanding, or some sort of feature that is not obvious to me?
This means I'll have to do a ton of manual editing in Excel to get it to read logically from Source to destination.
Also, the column headings for the cable should have the word 'cable' in them, ie. "cable manufacturer", "cable model number" otherwise, there are 3 columns all called 'manufacturer'.
zuk
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By zuk123 - 2/23/2012 2:44:34 AM
Even stranger, some of the signal paths are indicated in the cable schedule correctly.
Most of my video and audio are backwards, start is the speaker and end is the amp, for example, but my laptop path is correct, and some but not all of my networking is correct. in all cases, the cables themselves are drawn in the desired (correct) direction. Turning on the End arrow confirms it.
At the moment, the cable schedule tool is useless to me as it would be quicker to do it by hand than figure out what is correct and what is wrong.
And given that I edited or created about 40 of the 50 symbols used, the libraries haven't been too helpful either.
My client and contractors complain that they can't read the printouts. Even at C size is very hard to read the text.
This has been very frustrating.
Zuk
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By Rob Robinson - 2/23/2012 7:48:33 AM
Hi Zuk,
Can you email us the project file so that we can take a look? Email to techsupport at stardraw dot com
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By zuk123 - 2/23/2012 4:05:29 PM
Sent.
zuk
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