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Ribbon: Schematic tab ➤ Other Tools panel ➤ Drawing Properties
drop-down ➤ Drawing Properties.
Toolbar: Main Electrical 2
Menu: Projects ➤ Drawing Properties
Command entry: AEPROPERTIES
In the Drawing Properties dialog box, click the Drawing Format tab. In the
Layers section, click Define.
NOTE You can also change layer properties using the Project Manager tool. In
the Project Manager, right-click the drawing name, and select Properties ➤
Drawing Properties. (To change the project default settings, right-click the project
name, and select Properties. The settings are applied to new drawings). In the
Drawing Format tab, Layers section, click Define.
The layer names you choose are what AutoCAD Electrical uses as it inserts the
parts and pieces of component symbols and wire numbers. It does not matter
what layer is current at the time. If the layer name you enter does not exist
when it comes time for AutoCAD Electrical to insert something onto that
layer, AutoCAD Electrical creates that layer on the fly.
Component Block Layers
Displays layer names. Type layer names into the edit boxes. A blank entry
inserts that category on the current layer. Multiple categories can be tied to
the same layer name (enter the same layer name into multiple edit boxes).
When a schematic component is inserted, the graphics of the block are inserted
onto the layer listed in the Non text Graphics box. The attribute text of the
block is automatically moved to the layers listed in the other boxes, based
upon attribute function.
Layer name for all non-attribute graphics of a symbolNon-text Graphics
Layer name for all parent and child component name tags
(for example, "CR101")
Component Tags
Layer name for component tags that are fixed and are not
changed if processed by the retag command
Fixed Tags
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