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Colour cables by system

Give cameras, access points, TVs or any kind of icon their own cable colour, and split a TV's three cables into HDBaseT, Network and Spare.

Where to find it: Cabling (right edge) › Colours

Colour every cable of a kind

  1. Open Cabling › Colours. Every kind of icon placed with cables is listed under its group, with how many are placed and how many cables one has. Every cable is White until you colour its kind.
  2. Press the dot before the kind, then pick one of the named jacket colours (Blue, Green, White …) or type a hex colour. Every cable of every icon of that kind takes it: on the cable paths, on the cable schedule, on the cable cards and in issued PDFs.
  3. Reset in the same popover puts the kind back to your company's default, or to White.

Only the kinds you colour change. Everything else stays White.

Split a TV's cables

  1. Press the arrow at the end of a kind's row that has more than one cable per icon, such as a TV.
  2. The cables are listed in the order the icon's cable runs show. Press the dot of the first and pick its colour, then type what it is for in the field, such as HDBaseT; press Enter. Do the same for the second (Network) and the third (Spare).
  3. A cable you leave alone keeps the kind's colour, or White. As the type's puts one cable back to the kind's colour.

The schedule's swatch shows each cable's colour and its notes say what the cable is for, so the crew pulls the right one.

Show the colours on cable cards

Cards stay as they always were. To print each cable's colour on its card, switch on Cable colours on cards in Cabling › the gear › Project settings. Cables of one type in different colours then take separate rows on the card, each with its swatch; what a cable is for stays on the schedule.

Make it the company default

Press Make company default under the swatches (only a workspace Owner's press is saved; anyone else is told so): every project then starts with that colour for the kind, and a kind reading the company's colour says so on its row. A project's own choice always wins over the company's; Clear company default takes the company's away again.

Owners and Editors change a project's colours; undo takes a change back.

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