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To assign a color to a particular wire, select the wire in the list of wires for the
cable. Assign the color by selecting it from the list or type it in the edit box.
You can assign a color to all wires at one time by selecting Follow Color List.
It assigns a color to each wire of the selected cable even if the wire already has
a color assigned to it.
Setup
Opens a dialog box for setting the parent cable marker symbol, the cable
marker placement on the wire, and options for hiding children attributes.
Insert/Update Now
Opens any affected drawings and automatically inserts or updates any cable
markers.
Insert/Update Later
Saves your changes in a file called 'projnam_cblmrkin.upd' in the same
directory path as your project file. The changes are accumulated in this file
until you are ready for them. Select Schematic tab ➤ Edit Wires/Wire Numbers
➤
➤ Multiple Cable Markers Update from the ribbon to insert or
update the cable markers that were saved.
Edit the cable conductor database
You can edit the cable conductor database table (_W0_CBLWIRES in the
default_cat.mdb file) just like any other AutoCAD Electrical catalog table. The
main Access database catalog file can be named either default_cat.mdb or
<project> _cat.mdb. You can open it in Microsoft Access or you can edit it
from within AutoCAD Electrical. To do so, right-click a cable marker and select
Edit Component from the context menu. In the Insert/Edit Cable Marker
dialog box, Catalog Data section, click Lookup. In the Parts Catalog dialog
box, click Conductor List.
Cable conductor database “_WO_CBLWIRES” table structure
The records in the cable conductor database table are structured as follows:
DescriptionWidthField name
Catalog number of cable60Catalog
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