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Topic: Connected elements (push-button and LED)

Hi,

what is the best way to connect a push-button to a LED, because this is one component (an illuminated push-button)?

If I make LED a slave is there a way to show on the master page some other symbol besides the switch symbol?

Is there another way to connect multiple elements into one component?

Thank you in advance for any reply.

Re: Connected elements (push-button and LED)

Hello Greg,

when using master and slave components, only contact elements or a contact cross are shown for the master component.
To visually connect components that belong to each other, you can create your own components that work like slide references.

With best regards

Stebo

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Re: Connected elements (push-button and LED)

Thank you for the response and sorry for late reply.

I do not know what do you mean by slide references. Can you or somebody explain what are slide references?

Re: Connected elements (push-button and LED)

https://youtu.be/ayTymbefGDo

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Re: Connected elements (push-button and LED)

Thank you for the fast response.

Slide references are created using the base type "Reference folio following" and "Previous reference folio" and I can not create a symbol that has more than one terminal and has this base type.

Is there any workaround so that it is possible to create an element with the base type of "Reference folio following" that has two or more terminals?

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Re: Connected elements (push-button and LED)

I tried various things and I think that is not possible to create an element with two terminals and a base type of "Reference folio following".

I found in the QET Collection Symbols for cross referencing blank elements that can cross reference each other and I added this to my drawing. They are not connected to the element, but are solving the issue of connecting parts of the same component together.