Circuit Builder: To Control the Bus Wire Spacing

You can set up a circuit template so the wire spacing between two or more parallel bus wires is auto-adjusted. A marker block is positioned on each wire and its CODE value references the (c:ace_cb_rung_spacing…) API call in the spreadsheet. The marker blocks with a common ORDER value are processed as a group. One of the marked wires is designated as the "base" wire, meaning that it is the one that does not move. The other marked bus wires in the group are then positioned set distances away from the base wire.

The base wire is determined in one of two ways:

• The base wire is the marker block that has a MISC1 attribute with a value of "_BASE".
• If no MISC1 attribute has a “_BASE” value, the underlying wire that comes closest to being colinear with the insertion point of the template is the one that becomes the base wire.

A template can carry multiple groups of marker blocks indicating that the underlying bus wires should auto-adjust. The CODE value can be the same for all groups, but each group must have its own ORDER value.