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Intelligent Buses in Schematics

You can now restrict the signals connecting to a bus according to the signal name. The property sheet for a bus now contains a Signals tab where these can be defined.

Note that the Bus Signals field supports ranges. Incremental naming of new connections to buses is also supported.

 

Auto Connect Pins To Bus

When a symbol with multiple terminals is moved so that the terminals are superimposed over a bus, a new connection for each terminal can be connected to the bus. A 'Bus Terminal' is added to each new connection at the point where the connection meets the bus.

If there is at least one signal name specified in the bus's signal list, you will be presented with the following dialog when attempting to auto-connect to the bus:

The pictures below show the data terminals on the symbol before the connection is made and  the result once the symbol has been moved back from the bus: