About Shields
A shield is an extra core whose graphic representation and type is different from that of the other cores in a cable. Shields are typically routed from cable decoration portshapes and can be connected to components in various ways. A shield is identified by its parameter type CONNECTION!WIRE!WIRING_WIRE!SHIELD.
There are two types of shields:
• Direct Link—The shield wire is a direct link between two connectors
• Through drain wires—A standard wire from the cable decoration shield port is routed to the termination point to create a drain wire
A shield must first exist at the artifact level of the cable, and the shield port must be placed, before it is connected to a cable. Draw the shield core in the catalog cable before instancing it or apply a dataset to the cable with a membermap that specifies a shield.
Only one shield can be added to a cable at each level in the group hierarchy. Use the Model Explorer to view the group hierarchy and to determine which cables have shields. Like other wires in a cable a shield wire can be reordered when you reorder logical names in a cable.
Shields can be applied in the following ways:
• Not connected
• Connected to back shell
• Connected through connector
• Connected to ground
• Connected to daisy chain