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Table Of Contents

Contents
AutoCAD Electrical What's New
- Overview of AutoCAD Electrical Help
  - Use AutoCAD Electrical Help
- Join the Customer Involvement Program
- What's New in AutoCAD Electrical 2011
- What's New in Previous Releases
- What's New in 2008 Release
- What's New in 2009 Release
- What's New in 2010 Release
- Ribbon Interface
Migration
- Migration Utility
Project Management
- Overview of projects
- About collaborative design
- Create a drawing
- Change drawing display options
- Overview of project-related files
- Overview of the project file format
- Archive a project
  - Archive a drawing set
- Delete a project
- Work with Multiple Clients
  - Overview of setup for multiple clients
- Drawing List Report
- IEC tag mode update
- Task list
Drawing and Project Properties
- Overview of project and drawing properties
  - Set project or drawing properties
  - Set project descriptions
- Use replaceable parameters
- Save settings to the project file
- Settings List Utility
- Create a template drawing
- Updating the WD_M Block
  - Overview of the WD_M block
    - Change the WD_M block
    - Add missing attributes to the WD_M block
- Using Layers
Symbol Libraries
- Determine symbol block names
- Library Symbol Naming Conventions
  - Overview of symbol naming conventions
- Split a tag name into two pieces
- Use multiple symbol libraries
  - How to install additional symbol libraries
  - Set a symbol library as the default
- Overview of one-line symbols
- Overview of Hydraulic and P&ID symbols
- Attribute Requirements
- Managing Library Symbols
- Symbol Builder
  - Symbol Builder
Symbol Preview Guide
- JIC Symbols
- IEC Symbols
PLC
- Generate PLC layout modules
  - Parametric PLC symbols vs. Full Units
- Insert PLC modules
- Overview of the PLC database file
  - Copy modules
  - Adjust the terminal information
- Single, Stand-alone I/O Points
  - Modify single, stand-alone PLC layout symbols
    - Insert PLC layout points
    - Annotate stand-alone I/O points
- Work with PLC styles
- Create PLC I/O Drawings from Spreadsheets
Circuits
- Circuit Builder
- Use circuitry
Component Tools
- Insert schematic components
- Insert or edit child components
- Insert a copy of a component
- Insert from catalog lists
- The schematic lookup file
- Insert from equipment lists
- Insert from panel lists
- Manipulate Components
  - Manipulate components
  - Annotate ratings attributes
- Swap contact states
- Component Cross-References
- Insert dashed link lines
- Follow signals
- Show signal paths
- Overview of DIN Rails
- Overview of user data records
- Wire Jumpers
  - Define wire jumpers
Component Attribute Tools
- Edit attribute values
- Force attributes to layers
- Manipulate component text
- Manipulate terminal text
- Move description values
- Move attributes
- Hide attributes
- Show attributes
- Rotate attributes
- Change attribute justification
- Change attribute text style
- Change attribute text size
- Rename an attribute
- Add attributes to blocks
- Set tags to fixed
- Retag components
- Change to multi-line text
- Add location codes
- Update child codes
- Location Mark Symbols
  - Substitute location mark symbols for text location codes
- Location box
- Modify library symbols
Wire/Wire Number Tools
- Overview of wires
- Use wire layers
  - Create wire types
  - Add existing wire layers to the drawing
- Change wire types
- Insert wires
- Insert multiple wires
- Interconnect components
- Trim wires
- Stretch wires
- Bend wires at right angles
- Overview of wire color/gauge labels
  - Map wire type labels to each wire layer
- Insert in-line wire markers
- Cable Markers
- Wire Gaps
  - Manipulate wire gaps
- Ladder Tools
  - Define and insert new ladders
    - Set ladder defaults
    - Insert new ladder
  - Modify an existing ladder
- Wire Numbers
- Signal Arrows
  - Signal Arrows
    - Add custom signal arrow styles
    - Modify signal arrow prefix
  - Fan In/Out Markers
    - Fan In/Out Source and Destination Markers
- Wire Sequencing
  - Control from/to report connection sequencing
Terminal Tools
- Insert terminals and connectors
  - Insert terminals
- Multi-Level Terminals
  - Overview of terminal relationships
- Terminal Properties Lookup
  - Overview of terminal properties database
    - Edit terminal properties database
- Terminal Strip Editor
  - Use the terminal strip editor
  - Generate terminal strip tables
    - Insert terminal strip tables onto drawings
    - Insert a terminal strip table in multiple sections
- Terminal jumpers
  - Edit terminal jumpers
- Terminal strip utilities
- Terminal wire connections
- Resequence terminal numbers
- Overview of connection sequencing
Point-to-Point Wiring Tools
- Working with Connectors
  - Use point-to-point wiring tools
- Bend wires at right angles
- Insert multiple bus wiring
- Import data from Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable & Harness
- Overview of the spreadsheet import file structure
- Insert splices
Project-Wide Tools
- Move from reference to reference
  - Start the Surfer
  - Continue a previous surf session
- Move between drawings
- Plot one or more drawings
- Project-wide utility
- Create a project-wide script file
- Renumber Ladder References
- Project-wide update or retag
- Track drawing changes
  - Track changes made to a drawing set
- Translate description text
- Publish to the Web
- Publish to DWF
- Title Block Utility
Icon Menus
- Overview of the Icon Menu Wizard
- Use alternate icon menus
- Modify Icon Menu File Directly
  - Overview of the icon menu file
BOM and Catalogs
- Catalog database
- How to install additional manufacturer content
- Overview of the catalog database table structure
- Overview of the _LISTBOX_DEF catalog database table
- Create a project-specific catalog database
- Catalog Assignment
- Contact Quantity/Pin List Lookup
  - Use pin lists
    - Pin list data carried on the parent
    - Modify the pin list database
  - Set pin list assignments for special uses
Reports
- Generate reports
- Schematic Reports
  - Generate schematic reports
- Panel Reports
  - Generate panel reports
- Overview of format files
  - Define format files
- Run automatic reports
  - Generate a report using format files
- Export/Import spreadsheet data
- Create user-defined attributes
  - Edit user-defined attribute list
- Export to Autodesk Inventor Professional
  - Set up for export to Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable & Harness
    - Output reports to Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable and Harness
    - Configure wire numbering for export
Panel Layout
- Overview of panel layouts
  - Access panel layout tools
- Overview of footprint attributes/Xdata
- Panel drawing configuration and defaults
- Relationship between schematic drawings and panel layouts
  - Automatic schematic/panel update
  - Schematic and panel symbol relationship
- Footprint/Terminal Insertion
- Footprint/Terminal Edit
- Layout Wire Connection Annotation
  - Add wire information to footprints
- Lookup Files
  - Use the footprint lookup file
- Item Numbers/Balloons
- Nameplates
  - Insert nameplates
    - Insert a nameplate
    - Create your own stretchable nameplates
- Panel Leveling/Sequencing Tools
Conduit Tools
- Overview of conduit tools
- Overview of conduit marker support files
- Generate a conduit marker report
- Generate a conduit routing report
Conversion Tools
- Convert promis.e drawing files to AutoCAD Electrical
- Convert non-AutoCAD Electrical blocks
  - Finish mapping values from non-AutoCAD Electrical blocks
- Convert text to an attribute
- Convert Arrows
  - Convert non-AutoCAD Electrical arrows
    - Convert a block to a source arrow
    - Convert a block to a destination arrow
- Overview of ECDS legacy conversion
  - Convert using the ECDS to Electrical Database Builder
- Tagging and Linking Tools
  - Use tagging and linking tools
  - Overview of block/attribute mapping
    - Map block values using a user-defined spreadsheet
Miscellaneous Tools
- Overview of power check tools
- Overview of pneumatic tools
- Insert hydraulic components
- Insert P&ID components
- Troubleshooting Tools
  - Overview of real-time error checking
  - Modify invisible data
    - Edit existing invisible data
    - Add invisible data to an attribute
Tutorials
- Introduction
- Projects
- Title Block
- Wiring
- Schematic components
- Wire layers
- Circuits
- Surf
  - Surf - Introduction
  - Moving between symbols
- Block swap
  - Block swap - Introduction
  - Swapping components
- PLC
- Schematic terminals
- Wire numbers
- Panel layout
- Generating reports
- Connector diagrams
- P&ID and Hydraulic diagrams
- Symbol Builder
- Migration of AutoCAD Data
- Interoperability: Inventor and AutoCAD Electrical
Advanced Productivity
- Set up peer-to-peer component relationships
- Create automated pin assignments
- Set up AutoCAD Electrical for multiple users
- Show source and destination markers on cable wires
- Use the PLC Database File Editor
- Customize Circuit Builder
- Build your own symbols
  - Build your own symbols
- Add your own symbols, circuits, and commands to the icon menu
- Configure projects for various drawing standards
- Use Autodesk Vault with AutoCAD Electrical
AutoCAD Electrical Command
- AutoCAD Electrical Commands
Index

Used in the PLC Database File editor to easily find specific

types of terminals.

Category

These descriptions are used during the terminal type selec-

tion process. They need to be maintained as unique

Unique Description

This file is also used by the PLC database File editor to dis-

play a view of the terminal for selection.

Sample Bitmap File

Symbols and BMP files need to be created outside of the

PLC database file editor. Symbols are found in the standard

library search path, while PLC Bitmap images are main-

tained in the same OS folder as the PLC Database itself

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\My

Documents\Acade {version}\AeData\

Windows Vista, Windows 7: C:\Users\{username}\Docu-

ments\Acade {version}\AeData\

1 In the PLC Database File Editor dialog box, click Settings.

The Terminal Block Settings dialog box lists the library symbols for the

terminal blocks that appeared in the Select Terminal Information dialog

box. Notice that row 1 lists the block file name and sample bitmap file

for the terminal we selected for Terminal Type 1.

2 Switch between the various graphic styles. Notice that the block name

updates depending on the style and orientation you select. For example,

the block name is "HP1WA-DL" for Style 1, Horizontal. If you select Style

4, Vertical the block name changes to "VP4WA-DL".

Graphical styles are used during the operation of the PLC Parametric

Selection process. These bitmap images appear during normal operation

and selection of PLC entries and are found at C:\Program

Files\Autodesk\Acade {version}\Acade. Use the same file names that are

already there: P_STYLEx.bmp where 'x' is the plc style 1-9.

3 Click View DWG or View Bitmap to view the PLC parametric symbols.

4 After you are done viewing the various symbols, click Cancel.

Adding terminal attributes

1 Select the first terminal in the list of terminals.

The attributes associated to the block, along with any predefined values,

appear below the Tree Structure section of the dialog box.

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