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Wire Numbers
Overview of wire numbers
Wire numbers are blocks or attributes inserted on a line wire entity. AutoCAD
Electrical assigns each wire number type to its own layer. You can assign a
different color to each of these layers so you can easily tell them apart. There
are four types of wire numbers: Normal, Fixed, Extra, and Signal.
Wire numbers that are free to update when you rerun the Insert Wire
Numbers command.
Normal
Wire numbers that are fixed to their current value. They do not update
with subsequent runs of the Insert Wire Numbers command.
Fixed
Extra copies of the Normal or Fixed wire number that are assigned
to a given wire network. A single wire network has one Normal or
Extra
one Fixed wire number (but not both). It cannot have many extra
copies of the wire number inserted at various locations on the net-
work.
Wire numbers for terminals and signal arrows.Terminal/Signal
Wire tag formats
The origin of a wire number block must lie on the wire segment, though the
text attribute can move away from the wire. AutoCAD Electrical uses the
concept of a wire tag format string with replaceable parameters. One
replaceable parameter, %N, must always be part of the wire format string. A
typical format string might be just this %N parameter.
Replaceable parameters for defining a default wire number tag format are:
Sheet number of the drawing%S
Drawing number%D
Sequential or reference-based number applied to the component%N
Suffix character position for reference-based tagging (not present =
end of tag)
%X
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