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To place the newly created cable in a tray, right click on the map and Select Create tray (1). Select the source and destination as the rooms where the racks containing the components connected by your cable are placed.

To edit the tray details and place a permanent cable in the tray

This page describes how to create a tray in Pathfinder. Trays are used for bundling cables when connected between any infrastructure. Cables are also useful to create a placement layout of the cables.


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You can create a tray from the main map on the dashboard. First you have to make sure that the trays are visible.

Open the context menu by right clicking on the map, go to view and check the show trays option.

Now you are ready to easily create trays.

Right click again to open the context menu. This time you will see a new option available, select Create tray to open the window.


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In the create tray window, you can name your tray, assign a number, set the date of installation, length of the tray and make additional notes.

in the second step, you can select the source and destination rooms where you want your tray to run. Any cable running directly between these two rooms can be put inside this tray.

Click on OK to complete the creating the tray.


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Right click on the tray and open the context menu. From there you can choose to change the tray layout.

You can change the tray color, name font color and the tray line style between solid, dashed and dotted.

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To change the placement of the tray path, first you have to turn the design mode on (1). Then, right click on the tray and select Properties (2).

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Add Node. Click and drag the node to create the new tray path.



 

This function enables you to add new cable trays to your network.

Trays contain cables and are placed between buildings or between rooms inside a building. To be able to place a tray, the buildings where the tray begins and terminates need to contain at least one floor and one room.

Enter the tray's data (name, length etc.)  and choose start and target room.

After adding the tray by clicking Ok, you can add a cable into it.