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Overview of wires
AutoCAD Electrical treats line entities as wires when the lines are found on
an AutoCAD Electrical-defined wire layer. You can have many wire layers set
up on your drawing. Each wire layer has a descriptive name like "RED_16" or
"BLK_14_THW" and is assigned a screen color to visually mimic the wire color.
Wires do not have to begin or end at snap points, and they do not have to be
orthogonal (they can be skewed at any angle).
A wire network is one or more wire line segments and optional branches that
interconnect and form an electrically unbroken conductor. Wire segments of
the network may contain in-line terminals and wire crossing gaps. All segments
of a wire network receive the same wire number unless you select On per Wire
Basis in the Wire Number Options section of the Project Properties ➤ Wire
Numbers dialog box (on the Project Manager, right-click the project name
and select Properties). When multiple wires are tied to a common wire
connection point, each wire is treated as an independent wire network and
receives its own unique wire number assignment by AutoCAD Electrical.
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