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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- AutoCAD Electrical What's New
- Project Management
- Overview of AutoCAD Electrical Help
- Overview of projects
- Use recently opened projects
- Work with projects
- Create a new project
- Add a new drawing to the current project
- Add existing drawings to the current project
- Copy a project
- Group drawings within a project
- Change the order of drawings in the project
- Remove a drawing from the active project
- Assign a description to each drawing
- Preview a drawing
- Pick a different project
- 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
- Work with Multiple Clients
- Drawing and Project Properties
- Symbol Libraries
- Determine symbol block names
- Library Symbol Naming Conventions
- Overview of symbol naming conventions
- Cable Marker Symbols
- Components - General
- Component Location Mark Symbols
- Configuration and Ladder Master Line Reference Symbols
- Connector Symbols
- Hydraulic Symbols
- Inline Wire Marker Symbols
- P&ID Symbols
- Panel Layout Footprint Symbols
- Parametric Twisted Pair Symbols
- PLC I/O Parametric Build Symbols
- Plug/Jack Connector Pin Symbols
- Splice Symbols
- Source/Destination Wire Signal Arrow Symbols
- Stand-Alone PLC I/O Point Symbols
- Standalone Terminal Symbols
- User-Defined Symbols
- Wire Dot Symbols
- Wire Number Symbols
- Overview of symbol naming conventions
- Split a tag name into two pieces
- Use multiple symbol libraries
- Overview of Hydraulic and P&ID symbols
- Attribute Requirements
- Schematic Attributes
- Overview of schematic attributes
- Schematic parent and child components
- Wire connection/terminal pin number pairs
- Schematic connector parametric build symbols
- Schematic terminal symbols
- Special Multiple Connection Sequence Terminal symbol
- Source/Destination wire signal symbols
- Stand-Alone Source/Destination cross-reference symbols
- In-line wire labels or wire numbers
- PLC single I/O point symbols
- Splices
- Parametric Twisted Pair symbols
- Overview of schematic attributes
- Non-Schematic Attributes
- Overview of parent and stand-alone component attributes (TAG1)
- Overview of child component attributes (TAG2)
- Copy attributes
- Schematic Attributes
- Managing Library Symbols
- PLC
- Generate PLC layout modules
- Insert PLC modules
- Overview of the PLC database file
- Single, 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 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
- Wire Jumpers
- Component Attribute Tools
- Edit attribute values
- Force attributes to layers
- Manipulate component text
- Manipulate terminal text
- Move description values
- Manipulate Attributes
- Set tags to fixed
- Change to multi-line text
- Add location codes
- Update child codes
- Location Mark Symbols
- 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
- Insert cable markers into wires
- Insert shield symbols
- Insert in-line wire markers
- Wire Gaps
- Ladder Tools
- Wire Numbers
- Wire Sequencing
- Source and Destination Markers
- Terminal Tools
- Point-to-Point Wiring Tools
- Project-Wide Tools
- Icon Menus
- BOM and Catalogs
- Use catalog tables
- Overview of the catalog database table structure
- Use the merge utility
- Catalog Assignment
- Assign catalog information to components
- Use the Component Insert/Edit dialog box
- Use a project-specific catalog file
- Use a miscellaneous catalog file
- Use the last used assignment
- Perform a drawing or project-wide search
- Pull information from another project
- Pull from an external file
- Pull from your own external database application
- Add multiple BOM catalog numbers to a component
- Insert components and modify catalog information
- Overview of the LISTBOX_DEF catalog database table
- Copy catalog assignments from component to component
- Show missing catalog assignments
- Assign catalog information to components
- Contact Quantity/Pin List Lookup
- Reports
- Generate reports
- Schematic Reports
- Generate schematic reports
- Bill of Materials reports
- Component report
- Wire From/To report
- Component Wire List report
- Connector Plug report
- PLC I/O Address and Description report
- PLC I/O Component Connection report
- PLC Modules Used So Far report
- Terminal Numbers report
- Terminal Plan report
- Connector Summary report
- Connector Details report
- Cable Summary report
- Cable From/To report
- Wire Label report
- Generate a schematic report
- Generate schematic reports
- Panel Reports
- Overview of format files
- Run automatic reports
- Modify spreadsheet data
- Create user-defined attributes
- Export to Autodesk Inventor Professional
- Panel Layout
- Overview of panel layouts
- Relationship between schematic drawings and panel layouts
- Overview of footprint attributes/Xdata
- Footprint/Terminal Insertion
- Layout Wire Connection Annotation
- Lookup Files
- Item Numbers/Balloons
- Nameplates
- Panel Leveling/Sequencing Tools
- Conduit Tools
- Conversion Tools
- Miscellaneous Tools
- 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
- Index
Insert PLC modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Overview of the PLC database file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Single, Stand-Alone I/O Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Modify single, stand-alone PLC layout symbols . . . . . . . . . 246
Work with PLC styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Modify a PLC appearance style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Create a new PLC style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Add a new PLC style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Create PLC I/O Drawings from Spreadsheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Overview of the PLC spreadsheet/database format . . . . . . . . 253
Create PLC spreadsheets using RSLogix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Create PLC drawings from Unity Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Create XML files for export to Unity Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Chapter 6 Component Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Insert schematic components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Insert a copy of a component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Insert similar components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Insert from catalog lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Use the schematic lookup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Insert from panel lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Manipulate Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Manipulate components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Annotate ratings attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Reverse/flip components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Swap contact states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Check coil/contact count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Follow signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Insert dashed link lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Overview of DIN Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Edit schematic lookup files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Overview of user data records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Component Cross-References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Use stand-alone cross-reference symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Change cross-reference visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Insert a dashed link line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Overview of cross-reference settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Overview of graphical cross-reference formats . . . . . . . . . . 368
Overview of table cross-reference formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Update cross-reference tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Use cross-reference exception reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Use circuitry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Wire Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Define wire jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
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