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Track drawing changes
The Mark/Verify tool can help you track changes made to a project drawing
set during any phase in the engineering process. Before you send your drawings
out for review, use the Mark option. Each AutoCAD Electrical component,
wire number, and beginning ladder reference is invisibly marked and referenced
in a table in the current project's scratch database file. When the drawings are
returned, you can use the Verify option to generate a report of changes. The
report includes a list of all added, changed, copied, and deleted components
and wire numbers. Changes made using AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT or AutoCAD
Electrical are all detected.
For AutoCAD Electrical to detect if a component or wire number is deleted,
it must reference the MARKVERIFY table that is saved in the project's database
file. If the project database file is erased after the Mark option is run, then a
subsequent Verify command cannot report deleted items since it is limited to
reporting only changes involving new inserts, copies, and edited components
and wire numbers.
The Verify command detects and reports changes to the following:
■ Component TAG name (such as CR101 changed to CR101A)
■ Description text
■ Switch position text, rating values
■ Beginning PLC module address value
■ Terminal pin numbers (both stand-alone terminals and component pin
numbers)
■ Catalog number, manufacturer, assembly code value
■ Location/Installation code values
■ Wire numbers
■ Beginning ladder reference number
■ Wire Source/Destination codes
■ Deleted items - Project database maintained
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