23. Add Wire Breaks to Split a Schematic

We will next add a Wire break to split the fog lamps to a 3rd Sheet.

Locate wire RD -GN 2.0 running from pin3 on relay RLY-001, Select the Wire break in tool

and right click the mouse to rotate the wire break to point vertically (Fig 23.1) left click to place the wire break

Fig 23.1 Wire break In on wire RD-GN 2.0

We will next split the schematic at the wire break and send the Fog lamp section to a new Sheet.

Click the Add Sheet icon

at the bottom of the Sheets pane on the left of the screen, under the Description type Fog Lamp circuit Sheet 3, and OK to add the sheet. Add a Frame to the new sheet by clicking the Frame tool Select A4 Landscape Standard under the Frame: pull down and click Submit to complete

Switch back to Fog Lamp Circuit Sheet 1 and Click the Select tool

and draw a box around the Lamps and GND - 002 selecting through the wire break (Fig 23.2)

Fig 23.2 Selection of components after Wire break WB-005

Right click in the selected area to open the menu and click Send to sheet (Fig 23.3)

Fig 23.3 Right click "selected area" options menu

Select Fog Lamp Circuit Sheet 3 and OK.

Sheet 3 will open and the selected area will be attached to your cursor, then you will then need to place your components within the frame on your Sheet, left click at the desired location.

To label our new wire break click the Inspect

tool on the control node of the new wire break, the Edit Network dialogue box will appear set the Network: to ON (Fig 23.4) this adds the WB-005 label name to you schematic for easy identification.

Fig 23.4 Wire break In properties

Your components will be linked via the wire break and labeled to the Sheet and Grid Zone location (Fig 23.5 Sheet 1, Fig 23.6 Sheet 3)

Fig 23.5 Wire break components in sheet 1 linked Fig 23.6 Wire break components in sheet 2 linked