Auto Cross Patch Wiring

Electrical Wiring Manager supports the automatic creation and termination of wires between terminals carrying the same signal (wire) number. This process is called Auto Cross Patching. Cross patch wire creation only occurs for wires where there is no termination on the other side of its terminal, that is where a terminal is not already connected on both sides if the terminal is a through connector. In the case of devices or I/O modules, the terminal must not already have any prior wires terminated to be considered a candidate for cross patch wiring.

Auto Cross Patching is an ideal way to create wires between two terminal strips or between a terminal strip and I/O as Electrical Wiring Manager will create multiple wires in one go, by searching through all terminals and creating all possible cross patch wires where matching signals exist.

Auto Cross Patch wiring enables users to choose the target equipment (e.g. marshalling cabinet, I/O cabinet etc.) to cross patch to. Cross patching always occurs between the current equipment in the Terminations window and a user selected equipment tag. Users can also choose to cross patch only within the current equipment tag.