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parent itself can be either a N.O. or N.C. contact, encode the COILPINS field
in a manner similar to the PINLIST field. For example, "1,A1,A2;2,B1,B2" for
the COILPINS field for a target mfg/cat record in the _PINLIST table will apply
pins "A1/A2" to the parent device pins if the device is a generic N.O. and
"B1/B2" if it is a generic N.C. device. Repeat these values in the PINLIST field
so that AutoCAD Electrical can correctly track all contacts.
PINLIST
Specifies the Contact type and pin numbers. This is a sequence of two or more
element groups with each group defining one available child contact element
for the device. For a two terminal contact there are three elements in the
group. It follows this format:
Contact type, terminal pin, terminal pin
where Contact type = 1 for N.O., 2 for N.C., 0 for convertible contact, , 3 for
Form-C (NO/NC pair), 4 for multi-pole terminal strips or undefined type, and
5 for multiple-pin or stacked terminals. AutoCAD Electrical also allows a
description label associated with a pin pair. To add description labels, encode
the _PINLIST database table entry using a format like this:
1,A1X,A1Y;1,A2X,A2Y,*aux contact=";2,B1X,B2Y,*NC=;
where the optional comment is always the last element of the sublist and is
preceded by an asterisk character (if no asterisk, then the comment is
interpreted as another pin number). The previous example would display in
the pin list pick list dialog as:
A1X,A1Y
aux contact=A2X,A2Y
NC=B1X,B2Y
Convertible contacts encoded as type 0, followed by two pin numbers, assume
that the pin numbers do not change when a contact is flipped from N.O. to
N.C. or vice versa. If the contact's pin number actually does change based
upon whether in a N.O. versus N.C. configuration, encode each type 0 entry
as "0,pinNO,pinNO,pinNC,pinNC;". The first two entries after the "0" flag give
the pin number for the N.O. configuration and the second two for the N.C.
configuration. AutoCAD Electrical picks the correct pair based upon the contact
type being inserted or edited.
For contact type 3 (Form-C), the pins must be entered in this order: common
pin, NO pin, NC pin. A Form-C contact set with NO on pin 5, NC on pin 6,
and pin 8 common to both contacts would be encoded as 3,8,5,6 where "3"
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