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Contents
AutoCAD Electrical What's New
- What's New in AutoCAD Electrical 2008
- What's New in Previous Releases
- What's New in 2005 Release
- What's New in 2006 Release
- What's New in 2007 Release
Project Management
- Overview of AutoCAD Electrical Help
  - Use AutoCAD Electrical Help
- Overview of projects
- About collaborative design
- Create a new drawing
- Change drawing display options
- Overview of project related files
- Overview of the project file format
- Archive a project
  - Archive a drawing set
- Work with Multiple Clients
  - Overview of set up for multiple clients
Drawing and Project Properties
- Overview of project and drawing properties
  - Set project or drawing properties
- Use replaceable parameters
- Save settings to the project file
- Create a template drawing
- Updating the WD_M Block
  - Overview of the WD_M block
    - Make changes to the WD_M block
    - Add missing attributes to the WD_M block
- Using Layers
Symbol Libraries
- Determine symbol block names
- Library Symbol Naming Conventions
  - Overview of symbol naming conventions
- Split a tag name into two pieces
- Use multiple symbol libraries
  - Set a symbol library as the default
- Overview of Hydraulic and P&ID symbols
- Attribute Requirements
- Managing Library Symbols
PLC
- Generate PLC layout modules
  - Parametric PLC symbols vs. Full Units
- Insert PLC modules
- Overview of the PLC database file
  - Copy modules
  - Adjust the terminal information
- Single, Stand-Alone I/O Points
  - Modify single, stand-alone PLC layout symbols
    - Insert PLC layout points
    - Annotate stand-alone I/O points
- Work with PLC styles
- Create PLC I/O Drawings from Spreadsheets
Component Tools
- Insert schematic components
- Insert a copy of a component
- Insert similar components
- Insert from catalog lists
- Use the schematic lookup file
  - Insert components from equipment lists
- Insert from panel lists
- Manipulate Components
- Swap contact states
- Check coil/contact count
- Follow signals
- Insert dashed link lines
- Overview of DIN Rails
- Edit schematic lookup files
- Overview of user data records
- Component Cross-References
- Circuits
  - Use circuitry
- Wire Jumpers
  - Define wire jumpers
Component Attribute Tools
- Edit attribute values
- Force attributes to layers
- Manipulate component text
- Manipulate terminal text
- Move description values
- Manipulate Attributes
  - Manipulate component attributes
- Set tags to fixed
- Change to multi-line text
- Add location codes
- Update child codes
- Location Mark Symbols
  - Substitute location mark symbols for text location codes
- Change attribute justification
- Change attribute text style
- Change attribute text size
- Modify library symbols
- Add attributes to blocks
Wire/Wire Number Tools
- Overview of wires
- Insert 3-phase bus wiring
- Insert wires
- Trim wires
- Stretch wires
- Overview of wire color/gauge labels
  - Map wire type labels to each wire layer
- Insert cable markers into wires
  - Insert cable markers
  - Insert multiple cable markers
- Insert shield symbols
  - Add a second shield to a cable/shield represenation
- Insert in-line wire markers
- Wire Gaps
  - Manipulate wire gaps
- Ladder Tools
  - Define and insert new ladders
    - Set ladder defaults
  - Modify an existing ladder
- Wire Numbers
- Wire Sequencing
- Source and Destination Markers
  - Show source and destination markers on wires
Terminal Tools
- Overview of connection sequencing
- Insert terminals and connectors
  - Insert terminals
- Multi-Level Terminals
  - Overview of terminal relationships
- Edit terminal jumpers
- Resequence terminal numbers
- View terminal wire connections
- Terminal Strips
- Terminal Properties Lookup
  - Overview of terminal properties database
    - Edit terminal properties database
Point-to-Point Wiring Tools
- Working with Connectors
  - Use point-to-point wiring tools
- Bend wires at right angles
- Insert multiple bus wiring
- Import data from Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable & Harness
  - Import connector wire lists
- Overview of the spreadsheet import file structure
  - Import connector wire lists
- Insert splices
Project-Wide Tools
- Move from reference to reference
  - Start the Surfer
  - Continue a previous surf session
- Move between drawings
- Plot one or more drawings
- Create a project-wide script file
- Track drawing changes
  - Track changes made to a drawing set
- Translate description text
- Publish to the web
- Title Block Utility
Icon Menus
- Overview of the Icon Menu Wizard
- Use alternate icon menus
- Modify Icon Menu File Directly
  - Overview of the icon menu file
BOM and Catalogs
- Use catalog tables
- Overview of the catalog database table structure
- Use the merge utility
  - Merge files
- Catalog Assignment
- Contact Quantity/Pin List Lookup
  - Use pin lists
    - Pin list data carried on the parent
    - Modify the pin list database
  - Set pin list assignments for special uses
Reports
- Generate reports
- Schematic Reports
  - Generate schematic reports
- Panel Reports
  - Generate panel reports
- Overview of format files
  - Define format files
- Run automatic reports
  - Generate a report using format files
- Modify spreadsheet data
- Create user-defined attributes
  - Edit user defined attribute list
- Export to Autodesk Inventor Professional
  - Set up for export to Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable & Harness
    - Output reports to Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable and Harness
    - Configure wire numbering for export
Panel Layout
- Overview of panel layouts
  - Automatic schematic/panel update
  - Access panel layout tools
- Relationship between schematic drawings and panel layouts
- Overview of footprint attributes/Xdata
- Footprint/Terminal Insertion
- Layout Wire Connection Annotation
  - Merge schematic wire numbers onto footprints
  - Add wire information to footprints
- Lookup Files
  - Use the footprint lookup file
- Item Numbers/Balloons
  - Assign an item or detail number to a footprint
    - Assign an item number to a component's footprint
    - Resequence item numbers
- Nameplates
  - Insert nameplates
    - Create your own nameplates
    - Insert a nameplate
- Panel Leveling/Sequencing Tools
Conduit Tools
- Overview of conduit tools
- Overview of conduit marker support files
- Generate a conduit marker report
- Generate a conduit routing report
Conversion Tools
- Convert promis.e drawing files to AutoCAD Electrical
  - Convert promis.e drawings to AutoCAD Electrical drawings
- Convert non-AutoCAD Electrical blocks
  - Finish mapping values from non-AutoCAD Electrical blocks
- Convert text to an attribute
- Convert Arrows
  - Convert non-AutoCAD Electrical arrows
    - Convert a block to a source arrow
    - Convert a block to a destination arrow
- Overview of ECDS legacy conversion
  - Convert using the ECDS to Electrical Database Builder
- Tagging and Linking Tools
  - Use tagging and linking tools
  - Overview of block/attribute mapping
    - Map block values using a user-defined spreadsheet
Miscellaneous Tools
- Overview of power check tools
- Overview of pneumatic tools
- Insert hydraulic components
- Insert P&ID components
- Troubleshooting Tools
  - Overview of real-time error checking
  - Modify invisible data
    - Edit existing invisible data
    - Add invisible data to an attribute
Advanced Productivity
- Set up peer-to-peer component relationships
- Create automated pin assignments
- Set up AutoCAD Electrical for multiple users
- Show source and destination markers on cable wires
- Use the PLC Database File Editor
- Add your own symbols, circuits and commands to the icon menu
- Build your own symbols
- Configure projects for various drawing standards
- Use Autodesk Vault with AutoCAD Electrical
AutoCAD Electrical Command
- AutoCAD Electrical Commands
Index

Overview of the project file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Archive a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Work with Multiple Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Overview of set up for multiple clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Chapter 3 Drawing and Project Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Overview of project and drawing properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Use replaceable parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Save settings to the project file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Create a template drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Updating the WD_M Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Overview of the WD_M block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Using Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Manage layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Use wire layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Change wire types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Chapter 4 Symbol Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Determine symbol block names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Library Symbol Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Overview of symbol naming conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Split a tag name into two pieces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Use multiple symbol libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Overview of Hydraulic and P&ID symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Attribute Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Schematic Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Overview of schematic attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Non-Schematic Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Overview of non-schematic attributes . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Overview of parent and stand-alone component attributes

(TAG1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Overview of child component attributes (TAG2) . . . . . . . . . 196

Copy attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Managing Library Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Substitute symbols in the library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Change appearance of existing library symbols . . . . . . . . . . 197

Predefine symbol annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Create a new library symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Overview of the Symbol Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Swap blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Chapter 5 PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Generate PLC layout modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Parametric PLC symbols vs. Full Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

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