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Use panel templates and assemblies
You can use templates to create a panel layout drawing or to add attributes
to footprints automatically during insertion time. You can Wblock assemblies
of panel components out to disk for insertion later.
Panel layout template drawings
You can set up an AutoCAD template drawing for panel layout drawings with
the WD_PNLM block pre-inserted and set up with your own default settings.
You can also set up client-specific template drawings and reference the
appropriate one when starting a new AutoCAD Electrical panel drawing.
Attribute template drawings
You can set up to have visible attributes added to any footprint automatically
at footprint insertion time. Using non-intelligent footprint representations
can insert with smart AutoCAD Electrical attributes added automatically, on
the fly.
There are five attribute template drawings:
component footprintswd_ptag_addattr_comp.dwg
terminal footprintswd_ptag_addattr_trm.dwg
terminal with wire no. as terminal numberwd_ptag_addattr_wtrm.dwg
balloonswd_ptag_addattr_itemballoon.dwg
terminal footprints (when inserted by
Level/Sequencing tools)
Wd_ptag_addattr_pnltermstrip.dwg
If the appropriate attribute template exists, the following steps are performed
when a panel footprint is inserted.
1 Find the center of the footprint by collecting and averaging the objects
that make up the footprint.
2 Insert the attribute template at the calculated center of the footprint.
3 Make sure there are no duplicate attributes. If duplicate attributes are
found, the attribute from the footprint is kept.
4 Reblock the added attributes with the inserted footprint.
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