No way to connect subcircuit with HB (10.0.343

[DRBurke]

Hi, I'm trying to learn Multisim 10.0
 I am wiring a sub circuit to be used in a heirarchical block. After the whole thing is ready, I want to wire it back to my supercircuit, so I go to the place menu as it says in the instructions - but lo and behold there is no CONNECTOR/HB/SC selection.  Unphased I try to place "Basic/Connectors" but there are only real physical connectors there.  I am not interested in real physical connectors only virtual connectors since this subcircuit is only to make it easier to understand logically.  Am I doing something wrong here?  I am using the evaluation version of the Student edition.  Is this a blocked feature?  What good are subcircuits if you can't interface to them?

-Dave B

[nestor-sg]

Dave is not a limitation of the evaluation edition. So here are my findings:

In Student Edition you have Subcircuits functionality, but not hierarchical design (hierarchical blocks, multi-page). So, if you build a section of a circuit, you can then select all that section, and then select Place > Replace by Subcircuit, place the new block and it will have I/O pins.

However, and this is a bug that I'm reporting, if you select Place > New Subcircuit, like you said, there is no menu option to later place connectors. What you can do right now to workaround this, is to follow the first procedure that I noted here, and then copy/paste one of the I/O pins into the new subcircuit you created. Or directly create your subcircuits like I depicted on the first method. I will report this to R&D so they can enable that menu for Student Edition on our main build.