Adding Devices to a Physical View from the SYSTEM PROJECT Pane

Overview

Once you have added a device to a system project, you can add it to a physical view to design the hardware architecture in a graphical way, connect the ports of devices, and view network-related information of devices.

You can show a device only in one physical view at a time.

NOTE: For information on features that are available while working in a physical view, refer to the topic describing how to use workspaces.

Adding Several Devices at Once

You can add to a physical view all the devices contained in a folder by dragging the folder. The operation is not allowed if a device already appears in another physical view.

Working with PACs

When you add to a PAC that already appears in a physical view a component that is normally represented separately in a physical view (for example, a drop), it is not added automatically to the view.

When you replace a component of a PAC that is normally represented separately in a physical view (for example, a drop), it is removed from the view.

You can add local racks and drops of a PAC to different physical views by dragging them individually. To add all the drops of a PAC to a physical view, drag the EIO bus to the view.

For details of how PACs appear in physical views, refer to the topic describing the representation of devices.

Adding Devices to a Physical View from the SYSTEM PROJECT Pane

Step	Action
1	Create and/or open a physical view.
2	In the Topology section structure of the SYSTEM PROJECT pane, select one or more devices and drag them to the workspace of the physical view. Result: A graphical representation of the device is displayed in the physical view.

Step

Action

Create and/or open a physical view.

In the Topology section structure of the SYSTEM PROJECT pane, select one or more devices and drag them to the workspace of the physical view.

Result: A graphical representation of the device is displayed in the physical view.

Moving Devices Inside the Physical View

To move one or more devices to another area of the same physical view, proceed as follows.

Step	Action
1	Click one device and hold the mouse button. To move several devices, select them first. Result: An arrowed cross appears next to the pointer. NOTE: If no arrowed cross appears when you select one device, click another part of the device.
2	Drag the device to its new position. Result: The device is repositioned and existing physical links are redrawn (except for remote links). If you move several devices at once, their relative position to each other is unchanged.

Step

Action

Click one device and hold the mouse button. To move several devices, select them first.

Result: An arrowed cross appears next to the pointer.

NOTE: If no arrowed cross appears when you select one device, click another part of the device.

Drag the device to its new position.

Result: The device is repositioned and existing physical links are redrawn (except for remote links).

If you move several devices at once, their relative position to each other is unchanged.

Moving Devices Between Physical Views

You can move one or more devices to another physical view by dragging them. The physical views must be open side by side or overlapping in the same Topology Manager instance.

Existing physical links are redrawn according to the following rules:

A physical link is moved only if both linked devices are moved. It is converted into a remote link if only one of the linked devices is moved.
A remote link is moved together with the device it is connected to.
A remote link is not converted into a solid link.
The path of a link that has been moved may be modified in the target physical view to minimize collisions with other objects. This applies only to links for which automatic routing is enabled.