4.3.9.4. Using the Tube Box View to visualize blown fiber Pathways
Blown fiber pathways are a special form of duct pathway that allow fiber cables to be put into place after the pathways are installed. To accommodate their visualization, IRM introduces a special-purpose dialog: the Tube Box View.
As seen from the screenshot above, the dialog is a specialized schematic view of a Maintenance Hole object and is accessed via the Maintenance Hole object context menu option:
Note: Tube Box View, like the Butterfly View, is a way of visualizing a Maintenance Hole and its associated Pathways and Cables. However, the Tube Box View is considerably simpler, because it is view-only. As such, there are no drawing or direct editingactions enabled in the tube box view, as its main purpose is to demonstrate how the Ducts on the one side are mapped (connected) to the ducts on the other side.
In IRM, a tube box is considered to be a type of Maintenance Hole. That is, a tube box is a standard Maintenance Hole object but with the property that it supports the Tube Box View. To accommodate this, in IRM these types of Maintenance Holes are assigned to a specific Maintenance Hole Class (which can be considered similar to a Pathway Type's Pathway Classes). To put it simply- Maintenance Hole objects that have the Tube Category assigned automatically support the Tube Box View, while other Maintenance Holes support the Butterfly View only.
Note: From this point in text, Tube Box refers to a Maintenance Hole with a Maintenance Hole Class set to Tube Box.
The following subtopics will cover details of both the visual part of the Tube Box View (the diagram) and the data that can be viewed via convenience buttons within the dialog.
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