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NOTE If at any time you exit out of the Symbol Builder, restart it, and select any
graphics and attributes you've added so far. You can then start from where you
left off.
1 In an AutoCAD Electrical drawing, click the Miscellaneous tool
to access the Symbol Builder tool.
2 Click the Symbol Builder tool.
3 At the command prompt press Enter.
You can create your own symbol rather than modify an exist-
ing symbol.
4 In the Symbol Builder: Choose symbol category dialog box,
Schematic Symbol section, click Parent.
5 In the Symbol Builder - Schematic Parent or Stand-alone
symbol dialog box, click Rectangle.
6 Draw a rectangle on the drawing.
Add attributes to symbol
1 In the Symbol Builder - Schematic Parent or Stand-alone
symbol dialog box, click Standard.
This option assigns attributes to the rectangle as well as sets
the height and justification for each attribute. In this exercise
we will add 5 attributes: TAG1, DESC1, LOC, INST and FAMILY.
However you are not limited to these 5 attributes and you can
include your own user-defined attributes on the AutoCAD
Electrical block files. The TAG1 attribute is the only one re-
quired for a parent schematic symbol and indicates to Auto-
CAD Electrical that the symbol should be treated as a parent.
The Component type: Schematic Parent or Stand-alone dialog
box displays listing the AutoCAD Electrical attributes that you
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