About the Catalog Tab
Use these tools to create and edit catalog items. The
Catalog tab opens when you click

to open a catalog sheet.
Clipboard Group
Use the Clipboard commands to cut copy and paste design items.
• Paste—Click the arrow to display paste options.
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Paste Shapes—Pastes a new shape of the copied components. Conductors are filtered out.
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Paste—Pastes a new instance of all copied design objects including conductors.
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Cut—Cuts the selected design object.
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Copy—Copies the selected design object.
Explorers Group
Use the Explorers commands to open explorer dialog boxes.
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Catalog Explorer—Opens the
Catalog Explorer dialog box.
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Datatable Explorer Create Group
Use the Create commands to instance catalog items and create labels.
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Instance Port—Opens the ports
Catalog Selector dialog box.
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Place New Shape—Opens the
Add Member Shapes dialog box.
• Label—Displays additional commands.
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Add Label—Opens the
Create Label dialog box.
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Convert Text to Label—Converts the selected text to a label.
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—Opens the block Catalog Selector dialog box.
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—Opens the groups
Catalog Selector dialog box.
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—Opens the fibers
Catalog Selector dialog box.
Info Group
Use the Info commands create and obtain information for component datums.
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Set Datum—Attaches a new datum to the pointer.
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Coordinate Viewer—Opens the
Coordinate Viewer dialog box with the coordinates of the component datum.
Cable Group
Use the Cable commands to create and edit cables and cable decorations.
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Reorder Logical Names—Opens the
Reorder Logical Names dialog box.
• Decorations—Displays additional commands.
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Add Cable Decoration—Changes the pointer to add a cable decoration.
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Remove Cable Decoration—Changes the pointer. Select a decoration to remove.
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—Opens the
Select a core fiber dialog box.
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—Prompts to select a cable decoration to move.
• 
—Prompts to select a decoration to add a shield port.
Variable Group Group
Use the Variable Group commands to automatically create cells in a variable group.
• Create Cells—Click the arrow to create vertical or horizontal cells.
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Vertical Cells—Automatically creates vertical cells.
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Horizontal Cells—Automatically creates horizontal cells.
• Create Boxed Cells—Click the arrow to automatically create vertical or horizontal boxed cells.
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Vertical Cells with Box—Automatically creates boxed vertical cells.
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Horizontal Cells with Box—Automatically creates boxed horizontal cells.
• Click Variable Group to display an additional command.
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Fix Index of Shape—Fixes the main index of the open variable group shape.
Scalable Group
Use the Scalable commands to set labels and ports to rigid or scalable.
• Ports—Click the arrow to select and set ports to be rigid or scalable.
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Select Rigid Ports—Highlights rigid ports on the sheet.
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Select Scalable Ports—Highlights scalable ports on the sheet.
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Set Ports Rigid—Sets all ports to rigid.
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Set Ports Scalable—Sets all ports to scalable.
• Label—Click the arrow to select and set labels to be rigid or scalable.
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Select Rigid Labels—Highlights rigid labels on the sheet.
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Select Scalable Labels—Highlights scalable labels on the sheet.
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Set Labels Rigid—Sets all labels to rigid.
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Set Labels Scalable—Sets all labels to scalable.
Scenery Group
Use the Scenery commands to set and move scenery.
• Lock—Click the arrow to lock shapes or scenery.
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Scene—Closes the shape to edit scenery.
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Shape—Opens the shape and closes scenery.
• Move—Click the arrow to move shapes to scenery or geometry to a shape.
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Move to Shape—Moves the selected geometry to the shape.
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Move to Scene—Moves the selected geometry to the scenery.
Cross Reference Group
Use the Cross Reference commands to work with cross-referenced group shapes.
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Associate Cross-reference—Opens the
Select a cross reference shape dialog box.
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Break Link—Breaks the a association to the cross-referenced group shape.
Close
Use the
Close Sheet command to close the Catalog sheet.