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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
Reposition Wire Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Reposition wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Modify Wire Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Modify wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Erase or Hide Wire Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Erase or hide wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Wire Sequencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Control from/to report connection sequencing . . . . . . . . . . 525
Add custom signal arrow styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
Edit the cable conductor database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
Source and Destination Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Show source and destination markers on wires . . . . . . . . . . 543
Chapter 9 Terminal Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Overview of connection sequencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
Insert terminals and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Multi-Level Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Overview of terminal relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Edit terminal jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Resequence terminal numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
View terminal wire connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Show terminal internal/external connections . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Mark internal connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Mark external connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Erase connection codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Terminal Strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Create terminal strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Use the terminal strip editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Generate terminal strip tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624
Terminal Properties Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Overview of terminal properties database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Chapter 10 Point-to-Point Wiring Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
Working with Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Use point-to-point wiring tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Bend wires at right angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
Insert multiple bus wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Import data from Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable &
Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Overview of the spreadsheet import file structure . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Insert splices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685
Chapter 11 Project-Wide Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
Move from reference to reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
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