Placing Phantom J-box Symbols

A jack/j-box symbol represents a single jack field position on a jack panel and is usually placed between source and destination equipment to allow manual routing of the signal. The jack symbol designates the jack panel system name, input and output row, and jack field position.

Jack types fall into three main categories: jack normal, jack half-normal, and jack non-normal. There are also single-ended jack symbols that represent just the input or output of a jack. J-box symbols can represent other terminal devices such as Telco, icon and bulkhead panels.

This procedure will show you one method of how to place a J-box symbol.

Note: This example assumes you have set "Automatically Place Terminals" to On in Cable Settings.

1.    Select “Cable Create” from the VidCAD Cables ribbon or toolbar.

2.    Select an output of the equipment block as the source of the cable.

3.    Select the "j-box" symbol from the Cable Create window.

4.    A j-box symbol is automatically placed to the right of the equipment.

Note: You can stop here by pressing “ESC” to leave the j-box symbol as is or continue with these instructions to normal off the position.

5.    Select the end of the j-box.

6. Select the input of another equipment block as the destination.

7.    The cable with the normal j-box symbol is now created.