2011

NOTE You cannot set up network deployment after installing AutoCAD Electrical
as a stand-alone program on individual machines.
Referencing icon menus from other menu files
You can also share custom symbols to be accessed by multiple users. The
easiest way to do this is to create and link to your own menu file.
You can set up AutoCAD Electrical's icon menuing system so that you can
switch back and forth from the default menu file (such as ACE_JIC_menu.dat)
to your own menu (for example "special_menu.dat").
1 Add a line like this to AutoCAD Electrical's ACE_JIC_menu.dat file:
Special menu|special_menu.sld|$C=(c:wd_loadmenu
"special_menu.dat")(c:wd_insym_go2menu 0)
2 In your new "special_menu.dat" file, add this line so you can switch back
to AutoCAD Electrical's default menu:
Default Electrical menu|back2wd.sld|$C=(c:wd_loadmenu
"ACE_JIC_menu.dat")(c:wd_insym_go2menu 0)
3 In AutoCAD Electrical's default icon menu, select the new entry.
Your menu immediately appears. When you want to go back to AutoCAD
Electrical's default menu, select Default Electrical menu on your own
special menu. AutoCAD Electrical immediately switches back to the
AutoCAD Electrical default icon menus.
Show source and destination markers on cable
wires
There may be times when you want to show the individual wires of a cable
at each end where they connect and yet you want to show the wires coming
together to form a single line cable in between the ends. Showing individual
wires along the entire run of the cable is too messy or not an option.
You can use the Fan-In/Out command set to do this. The Fan-In/Out command
relies on special pairs of source/destination markers plus a special layer for
the single line part of the cable representation. This layer is defined in the
Define Layers dialog box.
Setting up layers
1 In a blank AutoCAD Electrical drawing,
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