Associating and Dissociating Accessories with Components

You can add accessories to a base part, circuit, or terminal while working with components.

The new commands and dialog improvements allow better association, dissociation, and visualization of accessory relationships, providing more detail for the manufacturing process.

To associate the accessory with a component:

  1. Right-click a component of an electrical project, and select Component .
  2. In the Component properties dialog box, click Manufacturer part and circuits .
  3. From a manufacturer part list, circuit list, or terminal list, select any component and accessory that you need to associate.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • To associate:
      • Click Associate , or right-click and select Associate .
      • Drag the selected accessory on the component that you want to associate.
    • To remove an association, do one of the following:
      • Select the associated part, click Dissociate .
      • Right-click the associated part and select Dissociate .

    The app checks if the selection is valid. For example, if the selected components do not include accessories, the app raises a warning message and cancels the command.

    You can see the associated relation between component parts, circuits, and terminals with their associated accessory in the Relation column. If there is no association, the column remains empty.

    You can also see the relationship in the text field at the bottom of the dialog box.

  5. Click OK.