Placing Single-Ended Jacks

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.

In this example, you will learn how to place single-ended jack symbols.

Note: This example assumes you have set “Automatically Place Terminals” to O. 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 "Jack symbol" from the Cable Create window.

4.    A single-ended jack is automatically placed to the right of the equipment.

5. Select “Escape” to exit the Cable Create command.