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It explodes attributes and blocks to geometry and text entities while
maintaining the value previously defined in the attribute.
3 Select the wire layer from the grid to add wire lines to.
The selected wire layer highlights in blue to indicate which layer is
selected; the current wire layer highlights in gray.
4 Click Conversion Tools tab ➤ Tools panel ➤ Change/Convert Wire
Type drop-down ➤ Change/Convert Wire Type.
5 Click Pick and select wire lines from the drawing to add to a wire layer.
6 Click OK.
Tag components
1 Click the Conversion Tools tab, Schematic panel, to access any of the
schematic tagging commands.
2 Select the text entity to replace with the component TAG1 template block
file.
The selected text string highlights indicating what was selected for
conversion.
3 Right-click to apply the tag.
4 (Optional) Tag any other text entities with the proper block file.
5 Right-click to exit the Tagging command. Right-click a few times before
exiting, if necessary.
Link components
1 Click the Conversion Tools tab, Attributes panel, to access any of the
linking commands.
2 Select the existing tagged TAG1 block definition.
3 Right-click to apply the selection.
4 Select the text to link to the tagged attribute. The selected text properties
are applied to the new attribute.
Colors change to distinguish visually what was converted and temporary
lines display the link.
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