Cable colour

The colour a project gives the cables of one kind of icon, so the crew can tell systems apart on the drawing and on the schedule.

A cable colour is the colour a project gives the cables of one kind of icon: every camera's cable white, every Wi-Fi access point's green. It is chosen in Cabling › Colours, once per kind, and every icon of that kind follows it.

A kind can also colour its cables one by one, in the order its cable runs show: a TV's first Cat6 HDBaseT, its second Network, its third Spare, each named for its purpose.

A cable with no colour of its own is White, the jacket a crew buys unless told otherwise, drawn pale grey on paper.

Where it shows: every cable path draws in it, a kind in two colours as two lanes on a shared run. The cable schedule prints the swatch beside the type code, with the purpose in the notes; the cable CSV names it in its Colour column. The field app shows each cable's swatch and purpose; a cable card shows the swatch once the project switches Cable colours on cards on in its Cabling settings. An issued version keeps the colours it printed.

A group's cable, a keypad link or a speaker line, takes its kind's colour as a whole.

A project reads its own colour first, then your company's default for that kind, and White without either. Not a conductor colour inside a speaker pair's cable, and not a kind of icon's colour, which colours the icon.

Tasks: Colour cables by system, show and move cable paths.