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Trim Wire
You can now use the dynamic pan and zoom while using the Trim Wire
command. Start the command and select the Fence option. Select the first
fence point and pan the drawing to select the next fence point. All wires are
trimmed that cross the fence rather than just the wires on the screen.
Edit Wire Sequence
The Edit Wire Sequence command remains active until you choose to exit the
command by not selecting a wire. This feature makes it more efficient to assign
a wire sequence to multiple wire networks.
Cable Conductor Table
Adding a cable with many conductors is more efficient with the Alt+A hot
key. Once you type in the conductor color, press Alt+A to add the conductor
to the list.
COPYTAG for Terminals
Terminals now support the COPYTAG attribute. COPYTAG is the optional
TAG copy attribute. When AutoCAD Electrical updates a TAGSTRIP attribute,
it also looks for and updates any COPYTAG attributes present on the symbol
with a copy of the TAGSTRIP text. A special replaceable parameter, "%T", can
be encoded onto the prompt value of the COPYTAG attribute definition. This
replaceable parameter allows for adding a suffix and/or prefix to the TAGSTRIP
text. If you need more than one extra TAGSTRIP copy on a symbol, name the
attributes COPYTAG01, COPYTAG02, and so on.
Stand-alone Cross Reference
The DESC1 attribute is now supported on stand-alone cross-reference symbols.
You can add a value to this attribute in the Insert/Edit Stand-alone
Signal/Destination dialog boxes. The description field is an available field in
the Stand-alone cross reference report.
Export to Spreadsheet
The option to export information from parent components only was added.
Catalog Content Updates
Pneumatic catalog content was added to the catalog database of over 350,000
components from the most popular vendors of the industry. Additional catalog
content for terminal blocks, PLC, and limit switches, was added.
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