Solid Edge SEWHD Disallow pin/port duplication within a design

In Solid Edge Wiring and Harness Design (SEWHD), in Project > Preferences > General, we have the option to choose if we want to enable or disable the repetition of names of the pins (Disallow pin/port duplication within a design).
 
Despite changing this option, it does not appear to have any effect. The software does not let me repeat the pin names.  In this case I need to repeat the pin names.  How to accomplish this?
 

Solution

We will try to explain the intention of this feature :

For example, let's say I have a device where I need to show the "same" pin twice so the connectivity going to that pin is not cluttered.  
 
I start off by adding the device to the diagram
 

 
If I double click on the 'Complex Processor' device highlighted in blue above, you will get this dialogue box shown below
 

 
 
After multiple selecting the PIN1 and PIN2, select the Place button
 
Draw another instance of the device and locate the second instance of the pins 
 

 
One application for doing this could be something like this, where depending on a configuration of the wiring:

• PIN1 could have Wire1 attached or Wire4 attached
• PIN2 could have Wire2 attached or Wire5 attached

 

 
Additionally, Wire1 and Wire2 could have a 'harness' attribute of  W100.  
As compared to Wire4 and Wire5 which could have a 'harness' attribute of W200
 
Now, back to your original question, having 2 different pins with the same name is not supported.  In contrast, showing the same pin multiple times is supported.
 
If we take this example and use the built in reports, it becomes clear that we do not have a quantity of two pins named PIN1 and PIN2.
 
Workflow > Reports > Pin List
 

 
But we can show that there are 2 wires connected to PIN1 and 2 wires connected to PIN2
 
Workflow > Reports > Design Wire List
 
 

 
 
If you want two (physical) pins to have the same (similar name) then your naming convention will have to infer it with naming for example the first pin 13 and second pin 13'.  Other customers use a pin naming convention of pin_name-number.  For instance:
 
GND-1
GND-2
+5V-1
+5V-2
NC1
NC2


 

Hardware/Software Configuration

Platform: INTL64
OS: windows
OS Version: 1064
Product: SOLID_EDGE
Application: SE_ELECTRICAL
Version: V221.0
Function: OTHER

Ref: 002-8526235