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Connection nodes are the dots that appear where two or more wire segments are connected on a schematic when diagonal wire connections are not used. The ability to control the appearance of these nodes with the promis•e interface is not possible at this time. Until this request is implemented, appearance of the connection nodes, such as their size and color, can be affected by modifying the drawing file used to create the nodes when a connection is made. This document describes that technique.
While modifying SOLIDNODE.dgn, the fill will not be shown in the default "Wireframe" display style; select another display style such as "Filled Hidden Line" to view the fill.
The changes made to SOLIDNODE.dgn will appear for nodes created by subsequent wire connections. There is no built-in automatic way to update existing nodes. A node can be updated by deleting enough wire segments so that the node disappears and then redrawing the deleted wire segments.
Subsequently created pages will use the new node definition. To update nodes on existing pages, type INSERT at the command line to insert a block and insert the modified SOLIDNODE.dwg somewhere on the page. Elect to redefine the block definition when prompted.
The SOLIDNODE drawing file is stored on the promis•e workstation, so if it is modified it would need to be replaced on each workstation that is to use the new definition.
It is possible to keep multiple versions of the node drawing file and swap them with the SOLIDNODE file in the RequiredSymbols folder to achieve the connection node appearance needed for the current design situation.
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