Fiber Feature Explorer has four main sections: the toolbar, the Navigation pane, the View Selector pane, and the View pane. The following illustration shows Fiber Feature Explorer with a Splice Connection view:
Toolbar
The toolbar displays the commands that apply to the active view. The toolbar buttons for the Splice Connection view are different from those on the other views.
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In View |
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Explore |
All views |
Lets you review a selected feature in Feature Explorer. The selected feature varies depending on what you are currently viewing. |
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Assign ‘From’ |
Splice Connections |
Lets you toggle the selected feature between From and To. |
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Assign ‘To’ |
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Swap |
Splice Connections |
Lets you swap the contents of the From and To panes. |
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Show Splice Connection |
Splice Connections |
Lets you update the To or From tree view with the feature and component connected to the current selected component. |
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Splice Connection Attributes |
Splice Connections |
Displays the specific device ports and conductor strands that are connected and disconnected. The Splice Connection Attributes dialog box displays the splice connections from the perspective of the feature in the From pane. |
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Splice Connections |
Generates a schematic of the splice connections and displays it in the Splice Schematic window. |
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Set Active Material |
Parent-Child |
Displays the Set Active Material dialog box, which you use to review the attribution of a list of features on the Navigation pane. |
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Add/Remove Columns |
Parent-Child |
Displays the Add/Remove Columns dialog box, which you can use to change the set of attributes that the Set Active Material dialog box displays. |
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Show Text |
Parent-Child |
Toggles the display of position text in the View pane. |
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Zoom Level |
Parent-Child |
Lets you select a zoom level for the View pane. |
Navigation pane
For the Splice Connections view, the Navigation pane displays the start fiber feature in a hierarchy of existing related fiber features. If the start fiber feature does not have geometry, its first ancestor with geometry is displayed at the top of the hierarchy.
For the Parent-Child and Containment views, the Navigation pane displays a list of features that can be created and related to existing fiber features. Use Fiber Feature Editor, available in the desktop application, to create new features and to relate them to existing features.
View Selector pane
This pane contains the View Selector buttons that apply to the start fiber feature, if it has geometry, or to its first ancestor with geometry. When you start Fiber Feature Explorer, the Navigation pane and the View pane display the content applicable to the first View Selector button. When you click a View Selector button, that view becomes the active view. The Navigation and View panes display content appropriate for the active view. Depending on the active view, you can explore the following relationships.
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Splice Connections |
Use Splice Connections to explore splice connections between the following kinds of features:
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Parent-Child |
Use Parent-Child to explore the relationship between the following kinds of features:
The possible relationships are not limited to this list. |
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Containment |
Use Containment to explore the relationship between the following kinds of features:
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Connectivity |
Use Connectivity to explore relationships within a Fiber Handhole:
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View pane
Displays a simplified view of the complex relationships between fiber features. For example, you can view:
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Splice connections between two conductors (for example, Fiber Cables or Fiber Wires) or two devices (for example, Fiber Patch Panel) or between a conductor and a device.
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A realistic graphical depiction of a Fiber Rack and the devices it owns.
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A Fiber Duct and navigate the multiple levels of containment that can exist with Fiber Inner Ducts and Fiber Cables or Fiber Wires.
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Relationships within a Fiber Handhole.