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When you click Defaults on the Insert/Edit Component or
Panel Layout - Component Insert/Edit dialog box the con-
tents of the ASCII text file display in a dialog box where
you can select a line of text to use as the description text.
The selected text, up to a ; comment delimiter if any,
then displays in the description edit box on the Insert/Edit
dialog box. If the selected text has one or more | charac-
ters, it is interpreted as having line breaks so the 2nd and
3rd description lines fill in as well.
Component tagging pick list data carried in an external
text file, accessed when you click External List on the In-
External component
sert/Edit dialog box for schematic or panel layouts. The
data in this file can be comma-delimited or space-delimited
and can be in any order. When accessed, the contents of
the file display in a dialog box so you can select a line of
data. It is broken down and displays in a dialog box for
mapping to various attributes carried by the schematic
component or panel footprint symbol being edited.
The elements in the selected line of file data can be mapped
to the edited schematic or footprint symbol's attributes
such as tag, description, location, and catalog part number.
This text file can have a .txt, .csv or .wdx extension. If you
do not browse to and select a specific file, AutoCAD Elec-
trical searches for a file with the same path and name as
the projects .wdp file but with a .wdx extension. On sub-
sequent command invocations, AutoCAD Electrical defaults
to the previously selected file name.
Overrides the family tag code of the library symbols by
mapping the codes to new values. The tag code of a symbol
Family tag code map
is used in generating the tag-ID of inserted components,
like the "PB" of tag-ID "PB101" or the "K" of tag-ID "-K25."
The file WD_FAM.DAT is searched for in the subdirectory
search sequence "A" below. This is an ASCII text file in the
format of <old>, <new>. For example, the default family
tag code for a JIC library pilot light is LT and generates
tags such as LT101. To override this tag code and substi-
tute a family code of LITE without editing the library
symbols, add this line to the wd_fam.dat: LT, LITE.
Database for graphical footprint assignments based on the
catalog part number assignments.
Footprint lookup
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