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the list to assign your new terminal with a catalog number
that is consistent with other similar terminals in the project.
■ Other project: Scans each listed drawing in a previous project
for the target terminal type and returns the catalog informa-
tion in a sub-dialog box. Make your catalog assignment by
picking from the dialog list.
■ External file: You can pull catalog assignments from a gen-
eric ASCII file created by a word processor or output from a
spreadsheet or database program. A dialog box displays the
contents of the selected text file. Find and highlight the de-
sired entry. AutoCAD Electrical reads the line of text from the
file and breaks it into its component parts. These are displayed
in the left-hand dialog list. For each relevant item, highlight
it and then pick the appropriate category button in the center
column. The highlighted item is transferred to the correspond-
ing category (and then to the Insert/Edit dialog box once OK
is clicked).
Inserts or edits extra catalog part numbers on to the selected
terminal. You can add up to 10 part numbers to any terminal.
Multiple Catalog
These multiple BOM part numbers appear as sub-assembly part
numbers to the main catalog part number in the various BOM
and terminal reports.
Extracts the details from the catalog database to display what the
selected item will look like in a Bill of Material template.
Catalog Check
Descriptions
Specifies the optional description attribute text to assign to the terminal block
(up to 3 lines of text can be specified). Click Browse to search for all terminal
descriptions in the project or active drawing. Select the description you want
to copy to the edited terminal block by selecting it in the list and clicking OK.
NOTE These edit boxes are disabled if the terminal does not carry the attributes
(such as ratings).
Opens an ASCII text file (wd_desc.wdd or <pro-
ject>.wdd) from which you can select standard
descriptions.
Defaults
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