2011

About wires
AutoCAD Electrical treats AutoCAD
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line entities as wires when the lines are
placed on an AutoCAD Electrical defined wire layer. The number of wire layers
available in AutoCAD Electrical is unlimited. These lines get tagged with wire
numbers and show up in various wire connection reports.
Two wire segments connect if the end of one wire segment touches or falls
within a small trap distance of any part of the other wire segment. This
connection can be at the end of the other wire or anywhere along the length
of the other wire.
If the wire end falls within a trap distance from the wire connection-point
attribute of a component, AutoCAD Electrical considers a wire connected to
a component.
The following rules determine the wire layer for a new wire segment:
■ Wires that begin or end in space, or begin and end at a component
connection point. They are put on the current layer (if it is a wire layer),
or on the first wire layer AutoCAD Electrical finds in a layer name search.
■ Wires that begin at an existing wire are put on the same layer as the
beginning wire.
■ Wires that begin in space or at a component and end at an existing wire
take on the layer of the ending wire.
Insert wiring
You can start or end a wire segment in empty space, from an existing wire
segment, or from an existing component. If you start from a component, the
wire segment snaps to the wire connection terminal closest to your pick point
on that symbol. If the wire segment ends at another wire segment, a DOT
(block name wddot.dwg) is applied if appropriate. If it ends at another
component, the segment connects to the wire connection terminal closest to
your pick point on that symbol.
NOTE When inserting wires, if a wire already occupies a wire connection point,
the new wire is drawn as an angled wire connection.
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