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dialog box, Catalog Data section, click Project. In the Find: Catalog
Assignments dialog box, select External file, and click OK.
Pull from your own external database application
AutoCAD Electrical provides a means to bypass its internal catalog part number
look-up and temporarily pass control to your custom catalog part number
selection application. In the Insert/Edit dialog box, Catalog Data section, click
Lookup. But instead of immediately accessing the appropriate catalog look-up
table, AutoCAD Electrical passes control to your application. You make the
MFG/CAT/ASSYCODE selection in your own database program. Your
application formats your selection and passes it back to AutoCAD Electrical.
Add multiple BOM catalog numbers to a component
You can add additional part numbers to any schematic or panel component
on the fly. These multiple BOM part numbers appear as subassembly part
numbers to the main catalog part number in the various BOM and component
reports. In the Insert/Edit dialog box, click Multiple Catalog to show a dialog
box for adding the extra catalog part numbers.
Assign catalog information
1 Insert or edit a schematic component symbol on your drawing.
The Insert/Edit Component dialog box displays so you can assign
component-specific information to the new component.
2 In the Insert/Edit Component dialog box, Catalog Data section, click
Lookup to choose a vendor part number to assign to this instance of the
component.
AutoCAD Electrical reads the AutoCAD block name of the inserted
component and determines the correct table to access in the catalog
lookup database file (default_cat.mdb).
The WDBLKNAM field in the family table is used as the first filter when
opening the catalog lookup window for the selection of catalog numbers.
This filter is on by default and removes invalid selections from the catalog
lookup window.
3 Sort the catalog records.
Click the column heading to sort the catalog records based on the
values in the selected field. The first click sorts from A to Z so the
lowest values are at the top of the column. The second click sorts from
Z to A.
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