Stardraw Cloud

The cable catalog

In the admin interface, the Cables page holds everything the application knows about interconnection: the connectors equipment is wired with and which connectors mate with which, the signals cables carry, and a catalog of cable types with the settings you define for them (part number, screen, cost per meter). Nothing has to be filled in before users can draw: a cable drawn between two ports works out what it is from those ports.

Cables in a project

• Drawn port to port on a block schematic, or listed directly on the project’s Cables page, and glued to the ports they join so they follow the equipment.
• Checked live: direction (an output to an input, or bidirectional ports), signal (HDMI to HDMI, not to Ethernet) and connector compatibility, with the exact reason shown and the option to override a connector on one cable.
• Stable IDs from a numbering format you define, per application or per project, with labels that update live on the drawing, on the Cables page and on printed labels.
• Off-page references that continue a cable on another drawing as one row of the schedule; multicore cables drawn core by core; cables not in the catalog defined on the spot.
• Conduits, trunking and trays with a fill percentage against their limit.
• Ready-made reports: Cable Schedule, Conduit Schedule and Cable Labels, for the Reports Module.
• The same operations for the AI assistant: “patch every access point to the core switch”.

What it needs

Products need ports — typed by signal and connector — which come with this module or with the Block Schematic Module. Cables are drawn on block schematics, so most applications take the two together.

Cables in detail