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latch on to their appropriate vertical wires. You can see the 3
wires stretch straight across the screen.
As you pull the 3-phase wire out, you can turn a corner by
moving your cursor out of line with the bus. To reverse the
turn's phase sequence, press F.
7 Right-click to terminate the wires. The wires and wire connec-
tion dots insert, and loops are automatically inserted at wire
crossing points.
NOTE If the distance between two horizontal wires is relatively
small the vertical wire crossing them avoids inserting loop gaps
since the wire trap distance setting is used to see whether wire
loop gaps are possible or not. Reduce the scale factor or increase
the distance between two wires to insert gap loops..
To tie the new 3-phase wire to an existing bus, but with re-
versed sequence, start the new 3-phase wire connected at the
last wire on the existing bus. Move the cursor backward across
the other wires until the connections are made, and then move
the cursor forward again. This results in a reversed sequence
connection.
TIP If you have trouble connecting a new 3-phase wire to an existing bus, start
the command and select the starting point on the existing bus. Move the cursor
slowly across the other wires of the bus so AutoCAD Electrical has a better chance
of finding them and correctly connecting the new wiring.
Multiple wire bus
Inserts vertical or horizontal bus wiring. Bus spacing defaults to the default
ladder rung spacing for horizontal bus. For a vertical bus, the spacing is the
default value defined in the Ladder Defaults section in the Drawing Properties
➤ Drawing Format dialog box. Multiple bus wiring automatically breaks and
reconnects to any underlying components that it finds in its path. If it crosses
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