Additional Schematic Power Objects

The release of Altium Designer 13.3 brings 4 new styles of Power Port to the Schematic Editor. These symbols have been created to allow designers to comply with the GOST standards, a set of technical standards maintained by the Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC), a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)**. 

GOST Power Ports

The four new GOST-style Power Ports are shown below:

Placing a GOST Power Port

GOST style Power Ports are placed in the same way as all other Power Ports, by running the Place » Power Port command, or clicking one of the Power Port buttons  on the Wiring toolbar. Before placing the object, press the Tab key to open the Power Port dialog. Select the required GOST style Power Port from the Style list, as shown in the image below.

Note that the GOST style Power Ports function in exactly the same way as the standard Power Ports, that is: power nets of the same name automatically connect throughout the design. There is one exception to this rule, if a Power Port is specifically wired to a Port object then that power net becomes local to that sheet, net connections beyond the sheet must then be defined by the wiring of the Port/Sheet Entry combination.

** The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS; Russian: Содружество Независимых Государств, СНГ, tr. Sodruzhestvo Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv, SNG) is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union.