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drawing of the project set, AutoCAD Electrical starts
with the value you set and works its way up until it
finds the next unused sequential number tag for the
target component family.
NOTE If you finish a drawing and move to the next,
but then later come back to the first drawing to add
another component and sequential tag, a gap ap-
pears in the numbering sequence for that drawing.
Use the AutoCAD Electrical Project-wide Update/Re-
tag tool to retag the whole drawing set.
Set up the unique format tag suffix list. This list is
used to create unique reference-based tags when
Line Reference
multiple components of the same family are located
at the same reference location (ex: 3 push buttons
on the same line reference "101" could be labeled
PB101, PB101A, and PB101B -- AutoCAD Electrical
does this using a suffix list of " ", "A", "B", and so on).
NOTE The component tag suffix is automatically
added to the end of the tag, but you can force
AutoCAD Electrical to insert the suffix character
somewhere within the tag format. Use the Suffix
position parameter, %X, in the component tag
format (for example, %N%X - %F).
Displays the suffix list. The individual items in the
suffix list are given in the row of edit boxes across
Suffix Setup
the top of the dialog. List suffix characters for duplic-
ate family components on the same line reference
or in the same zone (to keep tags unique). The suffix
is added to the end of the component tag. To add
it to the inside of the tag, use "%X" in the Tag
Format. Example:
%N-%F or %%N-%F%X = suffix at the end (such as
101-CRA)
%N%X-%F = add to number, before family code
(such as 101A-CR)
Select from the default lists or manually enter your
own suffix list in the row of edit boxes.
Drawing properties: wire numbers tab
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