AutoCAD Electrical 2010 User Guide

AutoCAD Electrical 2010

Users Guide

January 2008

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Contents

Chapter 1 AutoCAD Electrical What's New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Overview of AutoCAD Electrical Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Join the Customer Involvement Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6What's New in AutoCAD Electrical 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Ribbon Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Project tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Project Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Other Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Troubleshooting panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Schematic tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Quick Pick panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Insert Components panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Edit Components panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Insert Wires/Wire Numbers panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Edit Wires/Wire Numbers panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Other Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Power Check Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Panel tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Insert Component Footprints panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Terminal Footprints panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Edit Footprints panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Other Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Conduit Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Reports tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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Schematic panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Panel panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Miscellaneous panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Import/Export Data tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Import panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Export panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Conversion Tools tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Schematic panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Panel panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Attributes panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Symbol Builder tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Edit panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Help panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Toolbars to Ribbons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Main Electrical toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Main Electrical 2 toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Panel Layout toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Conversion toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Conduit Marker toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Power Check toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Extra Libraries toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

The Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Overview of the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Display and Organize the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Customize the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

What's New in Previous Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109What's New in 2007 Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114What's New in 2008 Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120What's New in 2009 Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Chapter 2 Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Migration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Chapter 3 Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Overview of projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Use recently opened projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Create a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Add a new drawing to the current project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Add existing drawings to the current project . . . . . . . . . . . 151Group drawings within a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Change the order of drawings in the project . . . . . . . . . . . 154Remove a drawing from the active project . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Assign a description to each drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Preview a drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

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About collaborative design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Create a drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Change drawing display options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Overview of project-related files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Overview of the project file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Archive a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Delete a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Work with Multiple Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Overview of setup for multiple clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Drawing List Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207IEC tag mode update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Task list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Chapter 4 Drawing and Project Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Overview of project and drawing properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Use replaceable parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252Save settings to the project file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255Settings List Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Create a template drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261Updating the WD_M Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Overview of the WD_M block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264Using Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Manage layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Use wire layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280Change wire types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Chapter 5 Symbol Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293Determine symbol block names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293Library Symbol Naming Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Overview of symbol naming conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . 294Split a tag name into two pieces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307Use multiple symbol libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308Overview of one-line symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310Overview of Hydraulic and P&ID symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312Attribute Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Schematic attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315Overview of schematic attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315Overview of parent and stand-alone component attributes

(TAG1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331Overview of child component attributes (TAG2) . . . . . . 331

Panel attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332Overview of panel attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Attributes for other symbol categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335Overview of attributes for other symbol categories . . . . . 335

Copy attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

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Managing Library Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340Substitute symbols in the library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340Change appearance of existing library symbols . . . . . . . . . . 340Predefine symbol annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342Swap blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342Create a library symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Symbol Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350Symbol Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Symbol Preview Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Chapter 6 JIC Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375Push Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375Selector Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Selector Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378Illuminated Selector Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Fuses, Circuit Breakers, Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387Fuses and Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387Circuit Breakers and Disconnects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Relays and Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393Relays and Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393Latch Relay Coils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395Time Delay Relays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395OFF-Delay Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Motor Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400Pilot Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Pilot Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403Master Test Pilot Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406Neon Pilot Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

PLC I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408Terminals and Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410In-Line Wire Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414Power Distribution Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415Connectors - No Wirenumber Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416Connectors - Wirenumber Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Limit Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425Pressure and Temperature Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427Flow and Level Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429Miscellaneous Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Miscellaneous Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431Single Pole Double Throw Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Solenoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

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Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444Cable Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448Power Receptacles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449Generic Device Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450Stand-alone Cross-reference Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451Wire Arrows - Reference Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

One-Line Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454Motor Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455Transformer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457Cable Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457Bus-tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Chapter 7 IEC Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461Push Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Push Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461Illuminated Push Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Selector Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467Selector Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4673 Position Selector Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4714 Position Selector Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Breakers, Disconnects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4781 Pole Circuit Breakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4782nd+ Pole Circuit Breakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482Power Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487Fusible Disconnects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487Disconnect 1 Pole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Fuses, Transformers, Reactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491Reactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491Fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492Fuse Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494Current Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4973 Phase Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Relays, Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503Relays and Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503Relays with Surpression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507Current Protection Relays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508Voltage Protection Relays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510Counter Relays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512Miscellaneous Relays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Time Delay Relays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

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Motor Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517Motor Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5171 Phase Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5193 Phase Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520DC Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523Motor Starters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Pilot Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525Pilot Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525Standard Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526Transformer Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528Push to Test Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531Beacons - Flashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534Beacons - Rotating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

PLC I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538Terminals, Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539In-Line Wire Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543Power Distribution Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544Connectors - No Wirenumber Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545Connectors - Wirenumber Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Limit Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553Pressure and Temperature Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557Proximity Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Inductive Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560Capacitive Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562Magnetic Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564Photoelectric Emitter Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567Photoelectric Receiver Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569Photoelectric Emitter/Receiver Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573Ultrasonic Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576Touch Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Miscellaneous Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581Solenoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588Instrumentation and Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589Qualifying Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Operating Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595Linear Direction of Force or Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601Rotative Direction of Force or Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602Propagation Flow or Signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603Energy Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605Fault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606Winding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

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Mechanical Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610Mechanical Controls, Latching Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611Mechanical Controls, Coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617Cable Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622Power Receptacles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623Generic Device Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624Stand-alone Cross-reference Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625Wire Arrows - Reference Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626Splice Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628Annunciations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

One-Line Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629Motor Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630Transformer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632Cable Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633Bus-tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Chapter 8 PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635Generate PLC layout modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

Parametric PLC symbols vs. Full Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636Insert PLC modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639Overview of the PLC database file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643Single, Stand-alone I/O Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Modify single, stand-alone PLC layout symbols . . . . . . . . . 668Work with PLC styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Modify a PLC appearance style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672Create a PLC style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673Add a new PLC style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Create PLC I/O Drawings from Spreadsheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674Overview of the PLC spreadsheet/database format . . . . . . . . 674Create PLC spreadsheets using RSLogix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Create PLC drawings from Unity Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691Create XML files for export to Unity Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Chapter 9 Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703Circuit Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Circuit Builder overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705Drawing templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709Electrical standards database file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

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Electrical standards database editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731Use Circuit Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738Recalculate wire size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772Reference an existing circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Use circuitry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776Add existing circuits to the icon menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Chapter 10 Component Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789Insert schematic components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789Insert or edit child components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817Insert a copy of a component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823Insert from catalog lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826The schematic lookup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830Insert from equipment lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835Insert from panel lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840Manipulate Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847

Manipulate components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847Annotate ratings attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855

Swap contact states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857Component Cross-References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858

Cross-Referencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858Check coil/contact count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862Overview of cross-reference settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864Overview of graphical cross-reference formats . . . . . . . . . . 870Overview of table cross-reference formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873Update cross-reference tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882Use stand-alone cross-reference symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887

Insert dashed link lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895Follow signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897Show signal paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898Overview of DIN Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899Overview of user data records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903Wire Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

Define wire jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

Chapter 11 Component Attribute Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909Edit attribute values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909Force attributes to layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911Manipulate component text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913Manipulate terminal text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Move description values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917Move attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918Hide attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918Show attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919Rotate attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919

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Change attribute justification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919Change attribute text style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921Change attribute text size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921Rename an attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924Add attributes to blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925Set tags to fixed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926Retag components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928Change to multi-line text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929Add location codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930Update child codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931Location Mark Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933

Substitute location mark symbols for text location codes . . . . 933Modify library symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939

Chapter 12 Wire/Wire Number Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941Overview of wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941Use wire layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941Change wire types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948Insert wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953Insert multiple wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955Interconnect components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Trim wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958Stretch wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959Bend wires at right angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960Overview of wire color/gauge labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961Insert in-line wire markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963Cable Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968

Insert cable markers into wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968Multiple cable markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987Edit the cable conductor database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993Edit the list of generic colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994Insert shield symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994

Wire Gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996Manipulate wire gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996

Ladder Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997Define and insert new ladders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997Modify an existing ladder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002

Wire Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008Overview of wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008Set wire number placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017Find or replace wire number text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025Encode wire color/gauge information into wire numbers . . . . 1026Fix Wire Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029

Fix wire numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029Reposition Wire Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034

Reposition wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034

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Modify Wire Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045Modify wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045

Erase or Hide Wire Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1046Erase or hide wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1046

Signal Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048Signal Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048Fan In/Out Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057

Fan In/Out Source and Destination Markers . . . . . . . . 1057Wire Sequencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063

Control from/to report connection sequencing . . . . . . . . . 1063

Chapter 13 Terminal Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075Overview of connection sequencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075Insert terminals and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080Multi-Level Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095

Overview of terminal relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095Terminal jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100Resequence terminal numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106View terminal wire connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108

Show terminal internal/external connections . . . . . . . . . . 1108Mark internal connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108Mark external connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109Erase connection codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109

Terminal Strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110Create terminal strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110Use the terminal strip editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113Generate terminal strip tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164

Terminal Properties Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173Overview of terminal properties database . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

Chapter 14 Point-to-Point Wiring Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181Working with Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181

Use point-to-point wiring tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181Bend wires at right angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201Insert multiple bus wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1202Import data from Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable &

Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203Overview of the spreadsheet import file structure . . . . . . . . . . . 1215Insert splices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225

Chapter 15 Project-Wide Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227Move from reference to reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227

Start the Surfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227Continue a previous surf session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1228

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Move between drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231Plot one or more drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1232Project-wide utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235Create a project-wide script file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1236Renumber Ladder References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237Project-wide update or retag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238Track drawing changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1240Translate description text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243Publish to the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245Publish to DWF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249Title Block Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249

Use drawing title blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249Link information to the title block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259Map AutoLISP values to the title block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265

Chapter 16 Icon Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269Overview of the Icon Menu Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269

Add a new icon to the menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1270Edit the properties of an existing icon in the menu . . . . . . . 1272

Use alternate icon menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298Modify Icon Menu File Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1300

Overview of the icon menu file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1300

Chapter 17 BOM and Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305Use catalog tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305

Catalog table naming conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305Family tables in the default_cat.mdb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1308

Overview of the catalog database table structure . . . . . . . . . . . 1320How to install additional manufacturer content . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Catalog Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324

Assign catalog information to components . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Overview of the _LISTBOX_DEF catalog database table . . . . . 1329Copy catalog assignments from component to component . . . 1330Show missing catalog assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333

Contact Quantity/Pin List Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334Use pin lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334Set pin list assignments for special uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341

Chapter 18 Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345Generate reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345Schematic Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437

Generate schematic reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437Panel Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1466

Generate panel reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1466

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Overview of format files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1481Run automatic reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537Export/Import spreadsheet data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1540Create user-defined attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1550Export to Autodesk Inventor Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1554

Set up for export to Autodesk Inventor Professional Cable &Harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1554

Chapter 19 Panel Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565Overview of panel layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565Overview of footprint attributes/Xdata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1566Panel drawing configuration and defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1569Relationship between schematic drawings and panel layouts . . . . . 1574

Automatic schematic/panel update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574Schematic and panel symbol relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574

Footprint/Terminal Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576Insert panel footprints from a schematic list . . . . . . . . . . 1576Insert panel footprints using vendor menus . . . . . . . . . . . 1587Insert panel footprints using icon menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1591Insert panel footprints manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1595Insert panel footprints from a catalog list . . . . . . . . . . . . 1598Insert footprints from an equipment list . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1600Insert a copy of a panel footprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1605Use panel templates and assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1606

Footprint/Terminal Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1609Edit a footprint or panel terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1609Multiple Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623Copy code values to components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1625

Layout Wire Connection Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1628Add wire information to footprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1628

Lookup Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1635Use the footprint lookup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1635

Item Numbers/Balloons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643Add a balloon to a component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643

Nameplates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647Insert nameplates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647

Panel Leveling/Sequencing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1649Remove sequencing assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1649Show sequencing assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1650Swap terminal strip wire text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1650

Chapter 20 Conduit Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665Overview of conduit tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665

Conduit Marker Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665Overview of conduit marker support files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1672

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Generate a conduit marker report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1673Generate a conduit routing report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1675

Chapter 21 Conversion Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1677Convert promis.e drawing files to AutoCAD Electrical . . . . . . . . 1677Convert non-AutoCAD Electrical blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1681

Finish mapping values from non-AutoCAD Electricalblocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1682

Convert text to an attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1684Convert Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1686

Convert non-AutoCAD Electrical arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1686Overview of ECDS legacy conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687Tagging and Linking Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1690

Use tagging and linking tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1690Overview of block/attribute mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1702

Chapter 22 Miscellaneous Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1707Overview of power check tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1707Overview of pneumatic tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1710Insert hydraulic components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1715Insert P&ID components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1720Troubleshooting Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1725

Overview of real-time error checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1725Modify invisible data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1734

Chapter 23 Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1737Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1737Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1738

Projects - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1738Working with projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1739Working with drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1742

Wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1747Wiring - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1747About wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1748Insert wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1748Trim a wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1750Insert a single-phase ladder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1751Resequencing ladders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1752

Schematic components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1753Schematic components - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1753About schematic components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1754Inserting components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755Relocating components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759Aligning components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1763

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Inserting components continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1763Editing components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1767Linking components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1770Editing catalog information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1772

Wire layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1776Wire layers - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1776Creating a wire layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1777Changing a wire layer assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1778

Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779Circuits - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779Move an existing circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1780Insert and configure a circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1785Save and insert a circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1793Insert a saved circuit using WBlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1799Insert a one-line motor control circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1801Insert a one-line dual power feed circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1806Reference an existing circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1809

Surf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1813Surf - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1813Moving between symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1813

Block swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1816Block swap - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1816Swapping components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1817

PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1818PLC - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1818Inserting PLC modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819Using multiple insert component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1823Annotating PLC I/O descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1825

Schematic terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827Schematic terminals - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827About schematic terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1828Insert terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831Multi-level terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1834Modify multi-level associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836Terminal Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839Associate terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1841

Wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843Wire numbers - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843About wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844Inserting wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844Inserting I/O based wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847Deleting a wire number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848Source signal arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849Destination signal arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851

Panel layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857Panel layout - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857

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Insert Footprint (Schematic list) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858Adding nameplate footprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867Terminal Strip Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1871

Generating reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877Generating reports - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877Generating Bill of Material reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1878Inserting Bill of Material tables into drawings . . . . . . . . . . 1880Changing format of Bill of Material report . . . . . . . . . . . 1881Exporting Bill of Material report to spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . 1882

Connector diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1883Connector diagrams - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1883About connector diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1884Inserting connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1884Wiring connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1888Grouping wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1892Modifying connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1896Adding wire numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1900Adding connector descriptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1901

Symbol Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1903Symbol Builder - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1903Creating custom symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1904Adding attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1905Adding wire connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1908Saving the symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1910

Chapter 24 Advanced Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1913Set up peer-to-peer component relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1913Create automated pin assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1915Set up AutoCAD Electrical for multiple users . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1918Show source and destination markers on cable wires . . . . . . . . . 1923Use the PLC Database File Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1930Customize Circuit Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1939

Circuit Builder overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1939Circuit Builder spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1940Circuit Builder drawing templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1945Circuit Builder database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1949Add a new circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1967Circuit Builder - How to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1978

Build your own symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2017Build your own symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2017

Add your own symbols, circuits, and commands to the iconmenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2047

Configure projects for various drawing standards . . . . . . . . . . . 2055Use Autodesk Vault with AutoCAD Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2064

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Chapter 25 AutoCAD Electrical Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2071AutoCAD Electrical Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2071

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2085

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AutoCAD Electrical What'sNew

Overview of AutoCAD Electrical HelpThe AutoCAD Electrical Help system is a browser-based system available throughcontext-sensitive links or by accessing it through the Help menu or icon. Keyfeatures of the Help system include:

There is on-demand access from the F1 function key, ribbons, dialog boxes,and the command line.

Navigation tabs in each topic link to related procedures, references, andconcepts.

The Help menu gives you access to AutoCAD Electrical Help, AutoCADElectrical Launchpad, the New Features Workshop and other resources.

What are ways to gain access to Help?

You can get help about a command while you are using it.

Select the Help icon in the upper right. Select the drop-

down arrow to display a menu of help options.

Help Button in ribbon environment

From the menu bar, select Help Electrical Help Topicsto view the AutoCAD Electrical Help home page.

Help Menu

1

1

Press F1 At the command prompt, press F1 to open the topicfor the active tool.

In a dialog box, press F1 to open the Reference topicfor the active tool.

In a dialog box, click Help to open the Reference topic forthe active tool.

Help button

How is Help organized?

Most of the subjects in the Help system have three topic types: Procedure,Reference, and Concept. Every Help topic selected from a menu has a tab rowabove the topic title. You can click a tab to go to the other available topictypes.

Procedure topics provide step-by-step procedures for accomplishingAutoCAD Electrical tasks.

Reference topics offer detailed descriptions of elements in the dialog box.

Concept topics provide conceptual information about tools and tasks andmay explain related concepts.

The titles of Help topics are designed to tell you the information they contain:

Procedure topics start with an action word, for example, "Create projects."

Reference topics have the names of the dialog box as their titles.

Concept topics typically start with the words "Use" or Overview of.

How do I get around in the Help system?

When you start the Help system, the first thing you see is the AutoCADElectrical Help home page.

At the top of every Help window is a navigation bar withicons. The left-most icon is either Show or Hide, which

Navigation bar

opens or closes the navigation pane of the Help window.The navigation pane has tabs for Table of Contents, Index,Search, and Favorites.

2 | Chapter 1 AutoCAD Electrical What's New

Presents an overview of the available documentation in alist of topics and subtopics. Provides a structure so you can

Table of Contents

always see where you are in Help and quickly jump toother topics. Click AutoCAD Electrical Command Listingfor an alphabetical list of AutoCAD Electrical tools found inthe menu and toolbars.

You can enter a word in the box to locate the term in thealphabetical index. Double-click the term to display thetopic, or if multiple topics, to open a list of topics found.

Index

You can enter a search word in the box and click List Topicsto view a list of topics that contain the search word any-

Search

where in their content. Click a title, and then click Display(or double-click a title) to open the topic.

With a topic visible in the Help window, you can click theFavorites tab, and then click Add to add the current topic

Favorites

to a list of favorites. To remove a topic from the list, selectthe topic in the list, and then click Remove.

How do I learn the product?

Training programs and products from Autodesk help you learn the keytechnical features and improve your productivity. For the latest informationabout Autodesk training, visit http://www.autodesk.com/training or contact yourlocal Autodesk office.

The Autodesk Authorized Training Center (ATC) network deliversAutodesk-authorized, instructor-led training to design professionals who useAutodesk software. Autodesk Authorized Training Centers use experiencedand knowledgeable instructors. More than 1,200 ATC sites are availableworldwide to meet your needs for discipline-specific, locally based training.

To find a training center near you, contact your local Autodesk office or visithttp://www.autodesk.com/atc.

Use AutoCAD Electrical HelpAutoCAD Electrical has a variety of learning tools to assist you, whether youare a newcomer or an experienced CAD user.

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http://www.autodesk.com/traininghttp://www.autodesk.com/atc

To gain access to Help

Use any of the following methods to gain access to Help.

Select the Help icon in the upper right or select the drop-down arrow to

display a menu of help options.

Select Help Electrical Help Topics from the menu bar, and then browseto the desired topic. You can use the tabbed pane to access the Index,Search, or Table of Contents.

Press F1 to open the Procedure or Reference Help topic for the activecommand.

In an open dialog box, press F1 or click Help to open the Reference topicfor the active command.

To customize Help

Use any of the following methods to customize Help.

Click the Hide or Show button in the Help toolbar to control the visibilityof the tabbed pane beside the content window.

To add a topic to the Favorites tab, select a Help topic, click the Favoritestab, and then click Add. To delete a topic from the Favorites tab, select thetopic in the list, and then click Delete.

To search Help

Another method for finding Help topics is to use the Search tab.

1 Click Show in the browser toolbar if the tabbed navigation pane is notdisplayed.

2 Click the Search tab.

3 Enter text in the search text box, and then click List Topics. Use quotationmarks (" ") around the search criteria to search for a string. Use an asterisk(*) before or after text as a wildcard.

4 Double-click a topic or select a topic, and then click Display to show thetopic.


5 You can also select one or more of the following Search options to limitthe results.

Search previous results

Match similar words

Search titles only

6 Use operators to refine your Search criteria further. Click the right arrownext to the search text box, and then select one of the following operators.

AND Use AND to search for topics with more than one set of yoursearch criteria.

OR Use OR to search for topics with at least one of your search criteria.

NEAR Use Near to search for specified text within close proximity toeach other.

NOT Use NOT to search for topics that do not include your searchcriteria.

To print Help

You can print a single file or you can print sections of the Help.

1 In the Help Contents tab, right-click a heading and select Print.

2 Select whether to print the selected topic or the selected heading and allsubheadings.

NOTE You can also print a single topic by right-clicking in the file andselecting Print.

3 Click OK.

If you want to print the entire Help system, in the Contents tab, right-clickAutoCAD Electrical Help and select Print. Select the option to print the selectedheading and all subheadings and click OK.

To find out What's New about AutoCAD Electrical

What's New topics describe the new functionality in the most recent AutoCADElectrical release.

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1 Click Help AutoCAD Electrical Help. In the AutoCAD Electrical Help,click What's New from the Table of Contents.

You can also open the What's New by selecting Help DisplayLaunchpad. Click What's New on the AutoCAD Electrical Launchpad.

2 Browse to a feature you want to learn about.

3 Click More Information to learn more about the feature.

To get started with AutoCAD Electrical using Getting Started

1 Select Help Display Launchpad.

The AutoCAD Electrical Launchpad screen appears. The Launchpad hastwo sections. The top section is for first-time users. It has links to whitepapers, the Getting Started manual, the AutoCAD Electrical discussiongroup, and frequently asked questions. The bottom section has links toplaces for additional information about AutoCAD Electrical. You can findout what's new in the current release, link to the Advanced Productivityhome page, and find out more about additional Autodesk products.

2 Click Getting Started Manual on the AutoCAD Electrical Launchpad.

Join the Customer Involvement ProgramYou are invited to participate in helping guidethe direction of Autodesk design software.If you participate in the Customer Involvement Program, specific informationabout how you use AutoCAD Electrical is forwarded to Autodesk. Thisinformation includes what features you use the most, problems that youencounter, and other information helpful to the future direction of theproduct.

See the following links for more information.

Learn more about the Autodesk Customer Involvement Program:http://www.autodesk.com/cip

Read the Autodesk Privacy Statement: http://www.autodesk.com/cipprivacy


http://www.autodesk.com/ciphttp://www.autodesk.com/cipprivacy

To turn the CIP on or off

1 On the InfoCenter toolbar, to the right of the Help button, click thedrop-down arrow.

2 Click Customer Involvement Program.

3 In the Customer Involvement Program dialog box, select a level ofparticipation.

4 Click OK.

What's New in AutoCAD Electrical 2010Ribbon Interface

To provide easy access to AutoCAD Electrical commands, a ribbon interfaceis now available. The ribbon layout is based on workflow and function. Seethe Help topic, Ribbon Interface, for more information on the ribbon layout.

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Workspaces

AutoCAD Electrical provides three predefined workspaces.

ACADE & 2D Drafting & Annotation - ribbons that provide the AutoCADElectrical tools, and the AutoCAD 2D Drafting and Annotation tools.

ACADE & 3D Modeling - ribbons that provide the AutoCAD Electricaltools, and the AutoCAD 3D Modeling tools.

AutoCAD Electrical Classic - toolbars and pull down menus that providethe AutoCAD Electrical tools and AutoCAD tools.

You can switch to another workspace whenever you need to by selecting the

Workspace icon on the status bar.

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Circuit Builder goes green

Circuit Builder now provides engineering analysis/green calculations in thearea of power conductor size versus energy losses. Designing to meet minimumcode requirements can conflict with green design.

During the code requirements analysis, Circuit Builder displays parallel energyloss calculations so you can make better green design decisions. For example,you might want to oversize the conductors for a motor to reduce conductorheating losses. It results in a higher initial cost. But this higher cost canpotentially be recovered many times over in reduced energy losses in thewiring over the lifetime of the installation.


Circuit Builder - power feed support

Circuit Builder now provides power feed circuits for insertion.

Option to add a source arrow symbols at end of the power feed bus.

Option to add a generic load box representation at the end of the powerfeed bus.

Supports defining a user-created load symbol, for example a variable speeddrive symbol, for insertion at the end of a power feed bus.

Support for adjusting the load representation based on the rung spacing.


Circuit Builder - additional features

Wire conductor sizing based upon electrical code requirements.

Support for split-parallel conductor sizing is available. You can choose tosubstitute multiple, smaller diameter conductors to meet the equivalentampacity requirement of a single, large diameter conductor.

Fuse, breaker, disconnect switch, and overload calculations based uponelectrical code requirements.

Circuit Builder can be set up to predefine motor description text,installation, location, and text description for individual components inthe circuit.


Insert a new circuit and reference an existing circuit. This option cantransfer the values from the existing circuit to your new circuit.

Electrical standards database editor to view, modify, and expand theace_electrical_standards.mdb file.


Motor control one-line circuits

AutoCAD Electrical now provides library support and software support tocreate motor control one-line diagrams that link back to other drawing typesin a project drawing set.

New motor control one-line symbol library accessible from the icon menu.

Circuit Builder supports building motor control one-line circuitsdynamically allowing the design of one-line circuits, with componentvalues and wire sizes, to conform to a given electrical code.

One-line component symbols can be related to parent/child counterpartson the schematic and panel layout drawings within a project. You can surfbetween one-line and related components and all related componentsupdate if one is modified.

Tagging of schematic or panel components using existing commands canreference a pick list that includes components pulled from the one-linediagrams.

Certain schematic reports have a new category option. You select thecategory, for example One-Line, and the data is filtered based on thatcategory. It can also be used to filter a report for Hydraulic, P&ID, orPneumatic components.


No wire numbering option for wire layers

Wire layers now have a no wire numbering option. These wires behavenormally for inserting, breaking, and scooting components, and show up inthe Wire From/To report.

The Insert Wire Numbers command follows these rules:

If all wires in the network are on layers set No for Wire Numbering, nonew wire number is inserted.

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If any wire in the network is on a layer set Yes for Wire Numbering, theexisting non-fixed wire number is updated or a new wire number is inserted.

If a wire network already has a non-fixed wire number, it is updatedregardless of the Wire Numbering setting. Use the Delete Wire Numberscommand to remove the wire number.


Electrical Audit

The Electrical Audit can now display the results for the active drawing only.Run the Electrical Audit, click the Active Drawing button and quickly see theissues for this drawing only. Open another drawing and the dialog box updatesto display the results for the newly opened drawing. The active drawing mustbe part of the active project.


Help Updates

Reference topics that show command access now include the followingfeatures:

Command line access

Ribbon access

If the location of a command is changed, ribbon and menu access to thecommand are updated in the Help system to reflect the new location ofthe command.

NOTE This dynamic update only works when the Help is used within AutoCADElectrical.


Ribbon Interface

Project tab

Project Tools panel

DescriptionCommand

Lists the drawing files associated with eachopen project. Use this to add new drawings,

Project ManagerAEPROJECT

reorder drawing files, and change project set-tings. You cannot have two projects open inthe Project Manager with the same projectname.

Copies an existing project to a new name andcreates renamed copies of the drawing files.

Copy ProjectAECOPYPROJECT

Deletes a project and provides the option toalso delete the drawing files in the project.This is permanent and cannot be undone.

Delete ProjectAEDELETEPROJECT

Creates a zip file of the .wdp file for the activeproject and one or more drawing files it refer-

Zip ProjectAEZIPPROJECT

ences. The zip file can optionally include acopy of the temporary database file for theproject.

Updates component tags, wire numbers, lad-der references, and select drawing settings.

Project-Wide Update/Re-tagAEPROJUPDATE

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DescriptionCommand

Updates wire numbers, component tags, andattribute text. Allows user-defined scripts tobe applied project-wide.

Project-Wide UtilitiesAEUTILITIES

Places an invisible mark on each componentbefore sending the drawings to a client. When

Mark/Verify DWGsAEMARKVERIFY

the drawings are returned, a list is generatedthat includes any components or wire num-bers that have been modified, edited, orcopied.

NOTE This command writes information tothe project database file that is used to checkfor deleted components. Your drawings mustbe named and part of the active project to usethis command.

Other Tools panel

DescriptionCommand

Moves from reference to reference across theproject drawing set. A new window opens and

SurferAESURF

the original window closes when Surf is selec-ted unless you hold the Shift key while runningthe command.

Continues a previous surf session from thepoint where you left off.

Continue SurferAESURFCONT

Loads the drawing listed above the currentdrawing in the project explorer, and closesthe current drawing.

Previous DWGAEPREV


DescriptionCommand

Loads the drawing listed below the currentdrawing in the project explorer, and closesthe current drawing.

Next DWGAENEXT

Migrate database and support files from aprevious version of AutoCAD Electrical to thecurrent release.

Migration UtilityAEMIGRATION

Translates component description text fromone language to another. Description text and

Language ConversionAELANG

switch position text is processed on schematicand panel components.

Opens the current language table for reviewand modification. The default table iswd_lang1.mdb.

Edit Language DatabaseAELANGDB

You can link some AutoCAD Electrical projectdescription data entries and some of the

Title Block SetupAESETUPTITLEBLOCK

drawing values to the attributes in the titleblocks. There are two methods, an attributemapping file or a mapping attribute embed-ded on the title block.

Automates updating title block informationfor the current drawing or the entire project

Title Block UpdateAEUPDATETITLEBLOCK

drawing set. Project and drawing specific set-tings are linked to one or more attributescontained in the title block.

Updates component tagging based on achange in the IEC tagging mode.

IEC Tag Mode UpdateAEUPDATEIECTAG

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DescriptionCommand

Replaces the schematic wd_m.dwg block inthe current drawing with a newer copy, and

Update to New WD_MBlock, Values, Layers

converts to the newer configuration valuesand layers.

AESWAPWDM

Replaces the schematic wd_m.dwg block inthe current drawing with a newer copy, but

Update to New WD_MBlock, No changes

keeps existing configuration values and layernames.

AESWAPWDM-NOCHANGE

Replaces the panel wd_pnlm.dwg block in thecurrent drawing with a newer copy, and con-

Update to New WD_PN-LM Block, Values, Layers

verts to the newer configuration values andlayers.

AESWAPPNLM

Replaces the panel wd_pnlm.dwg block in thecurrent drawing with a newer copy, but keepsexisting configuration values and layer names.

Update to New WD_PN-LM Block, No changesAESWAPPN-LMNOCHANGE

Writes the attribute settings for the wd_mblock in the current drawing to the wd_m.dwgdrawing file in the symbol library.

Update Symbol LibraryWD_M BlockAECOPY2SYMLIB

Reports the settings of each drawing in theproject, and provides the means to edit the

Settings List UtilityAEDWGCFG

report and update the drawing properties withthe edited values.

Lists extended entity data, xdata, on a selectedobject.

Xdata ListAELISTXDATA

Allows display and edit of an object's 1000type extended entity data (Xdata).

Xdata EditorAEXDATA


DescriptionCommand

Turns off the right-click menus in AutoCADElectrical.

Right Click Menu OffAEOFFRIGHTCLICK-CONTECXTMENU

Turns on the right-click menus in AutoCADElectrical.

Right Click Menu OnAEONRIGHTCLICK-CONTECXTMENU

Adds a new, blank table to the catalog lookupdatabase file.

Add Catalog TableAEADDCATALOG TABLE

Moves all objects on a layer in the activedrawing to a different layer.

Move Objects to LayerAEMOVE2LAYER

Adds the Category field to the PLC databasetables. This field is used by the Spreadsheet

PLC Database MigrationUtility

to PLC I/O utility to determine module place-ment.

AEPLCMIGRATE

Troubleshooting panel

The Troubleshooting panel is off by default.

DescriptionCommand

Inserts a project drawing as an exploded blockinto a new, blank drawing.

Clean DWG UtilityAECLEANDWG

Project tab | 15

DescriptionCommand

Turns on the display of a real-time listing ofinternal calls in AutoCAD Electrical.

Command Trace OnAEONLISPDEBUG

Turns off the display of a real-time listing ofinternal calls in AutoCAD Electrical.

Command Trace OffAEOFFLISPDEBUG

Turns on the display of error messages gener-ated during temporary MDB file rebuild orfreshen.

MDB Command TraceOnAEONMDBDEBUG

Turns off the display of error messages gener-ated during temporary MDB file rebuild andfreshen.

MDB Command TraceOffAEOFFMDBDEBUG

Turns on the timer for command executionelapsed time.

Command Timer OnAEONTIMER

Turns off the timer for command executionelapsed time.

Command Timer OffAEOFFTIMER


Schematic tab

Quick Pick panel

The Quick Pick panel is off by default.

DescriptionCommand

Activates the icon menu with the relay pagedisplayed.

RelaysAERELAYMENU

Activates the icon menu with the push buttonpage displayed.

Push ButtonsAEPUSHBUTTONSMENU

Activates the icon menu with the selectorswitch page displayed.

Selector SwitchesAESELECTORSWITCH-MENU

Activates the icon menu with the limit switchpage displayed.

Limit SwitchesAELIMITSWITCHMENU

Activates the icon menu with the pilot lightpage displayed.

Pilot LightsAEPILOTLIGHTSMENU

Inserts a user circuit selected from on-screenicon menu.

Insert Saved CircuitAESAVEDCIRCUIT

Schematic tab | 17

Insert Components panel

DescriptionCommand

Inserts selected components from the iconmenu onto the drawing.

Insert ComponentAECOMPONENT

Inserts schematic symbols by choosing acatalog number or a component description

Insert Component(Catalog List)

from a user-defined pick list. The data dis-played in this pick list is stored in a database

AECOMPONENTCAT

in generic Access format. The file name iswd_picklist.mdb and can be edited with Mi-

crosoft Access or from Add/Edit/Delete alongthe bottom of the pick list's dialog box. TheAutoCAD Electrical normal search path se-quence is used to locate this file.

This spreadsheet organizes the selected user-created equipment list and presents the list in

Insert Component(Equipment List)

a pick list. As you pick an item from the picklist, the appropriate schematic symbol is found

AECOMPONENTEQ

and inserted in the drawing at your pick point.You can open a comma-delimited file, Mi-

crosoft Excel spreadsheet, or Microsoft Ac-cess database file for input.

Lists panel components extracted from yourpanel drawing, finds the appropriate schemat-

Insert Component (PanelList)

ic symbol, and inserts the schematic compon-ents at your pick point.

AECOMPONENTPNL

Lists panel terminals extracted from yourpanel drawing, finds the appropriate schemat-

Insert Terminal (PanelList)

ic symbol, and inserts the schematic terminalsat your pick point.

AETERMINALPNL


DescriptionCommand

Build a motor control circuit dynamically.Circuit BuilderAECIRCBUILDER

Displays Wire Size Lookup dialog box withprevious calculated data for selected motor orpower feed load representation.

Recalculate Wire SizeAEEDITWS

Inserts a series of similar components at fencecrossing points with underlying wires.

Multiple Insert (IconMenu)AEMULTI

Inserts a copy of th

Documents

AutoCAD Electrical 2010 User Guide