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Summary Using AutoCAD to create electrical drawings and not using an electrical drafting package? Ill bet you're wondering if AutoCAD Electrical can help. Sign up to see how AutoCAD Electrical works with existing drawings and how to add electrical intelligence (such as intelligent ladders, electrical components, and automatic wire numbers) to those legacy files. We will also highlight some of the major productivity gains available in AutoCAD Electrical compared with stand-alone AutoCAD. This class will appeal to anyone interested in learning the ins and outs of using AutoCAD Electrical in an AutoCAD environment. You should have a basic understanding of AutoCAD.
About the Speaker: Randy is an Electrical Engineering Subject Matter Expert on the Autodesk CIA team and is located in Chilton, Wisconsin, USA. He has provided training, consulting, customization, and implementation services for AutoCAD Electrical software for over 17 years. He has created custom training curriculum and professional presentations on a variety of subjects and is a toprated instructor at Autodesk University. Randys design and work experience covers a wide range of fields including paper and plastic converting, foundries, material handling, and manufacturing. He is experienced with all parts of the manufacturing process, including machining, welding, assembly, and installation. randy.brunette@autodesk.com
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Project Manager
The AutoCAD Electrical Project Manager can also be used to manage non-AcadE drawings. All functionality of the Project Manager is available including the Next and Previous Project Drawings, title block updates and so on. (Hint: It can be a very useful tool for browsing drawing files!)
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The Conversion Tools toolbar contains many tools to help add intelligence to drawing created outside of the AutoCAD Electrical environment. Only a few are covered here. * Example Insert WD_M Block and the Conversion Tools Ribbon 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. In the Project Manager, open, activate, and expand the project, ACAD On ACADE Steroids. Expand the subfolder Convert. Right-click ACAD on ACADE Steroids-11.dwg. Click Open. On the Schematic tab, Other tools panel, click Drawing Properties. In the Alert dialog box, review project to drawing settings. Click OK. In the Drawing Properties dialog box, Drawing Settings tab, under Sheet Values, for Sheet, enter 11. Review other drawing default settings. Click OK. Select the Conversion Tools tab. Review the purpose of the toolbar and some of the options.
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Acad On AcadE Steroids Title Block Setup and Title Block Update
You can map project, drawing, and other data to any title block that is a block with attributes. Once the data is mapped to the title block you can update single or multiple attributes, for the current drawing, or across the entire project. As a standard setup workflow, the Title Block Setup wizard allows you to map different attributes in multiple blocks. For example, this is useful when you have one block for the border and another for the revision information. However the wizard does not allow you to map the same electrical information to multiple attributes. Heres where a little manual editing can be very useful. For example in the class dataset, ACAD on ACADE Steroids-11.dwg has a different title block, with different attribute names, than the other files. To enable mapping to both sets of attributes at the same time, you open the WDT file using any ASCII editor and make manual edits, adding the additional mappings. In the example from the ACAD on ACADE Steroids.wdt file in the class dataset, notice there are multiple occasions where the AutoCAD Electrical information is mapped to several attributes. 1. This line contains mappings to two different title blocks. 2. This area shows the mapping of the SHEETMAX variable to both attributes, SHTS, and OFSHEET, each from different title blocks. 3. This area shows the mapping of the project description attributes to multiple title block attributes.
Caution: Using the Title Block Setup tool to map attributes after manually editing the WDT file overwrites the file with only the lines mapped in the tool. Duplicate lines and other manual edits will be lost!
* Example Title Block Setup 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. In the Project Manager, right-click ACAD On ACADE Steroids. Select Descriptions. Review existing entries. Click OK. In the drawing, double-click the title block. In the Enhanced Attribute Editor dialog box, review existing attributes. Click OK. On the Project tab, Other Tools panel, click Title Block Setup. In the Setup Title Block Update dialog box, review the available options. Select <Project>.WDT File. Click OK.
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Caution: Using the Title Block Setup tool to map attributes after manually editing the WDT file overwrites the file with only the lines mapped in the tool. Duplicate lines and other manual edits will be lost!
* Example Title Block Update 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. On the Other Tools panel, click Title Block Update. In the Update Title Block dialog box, under Project Description Lines, click Select All. Under Per-Drawing Values, select Drawing (%D Value) Under Project Description Lines, click Save. Click OK Active Drawing Only. Review changed values. On the Other Tools panel, click Next DWG, opening Acad On AcadE Steroids12.dwg. In the drawing, double-click the title block. In the Enhanced Attribute Editor dialog box, review existing attributes. Click OK. On the Other Tools panel, click Title Block Update. In the Update Title Block dialog box, click OK Active Drawing Only. Review changed values.
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Note: Some tools like the Wire Layer Utility are available and used on electrical drawings also, but are assembled into a single toolbar for convenience.
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Note: This drawing has only the default Wires wire type listed.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. In the Create/Edit Wire Type dialog box, in the list table, under Layer Name, enter RED_16AWG. Press ENTER. Under Layer, click Color. In the Select Color dialog box, click RED. Click OK. In the Create/Edit Wire Type dialog box, click Add Existing Layer. In the Layers for Line Wires dialog box, click Pick. In the Select Layer for Wires dialog box, select BLK_16AWG. Click OK. Click OK again. In the Create/Edit Wire Type dialog box, click Import. In the Wire Type Import Select Master Drawing dialog box, select Acad On AcadE Steroids-04.dwg. Click Open. In the Import Wire Types dialog box, do the following: Click Clear All. Press and hold the CTRL key. Select BLU_WHT_16AWG. Select WHT_16AWG. Click OK. In the Create/Edit Wire Type dialog box, click OK. * Example Change/Convert Wire Type 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. On the Conversion Tools tab, Tools panel, click Change/Convert Wire Type. In the Change/Convert Wire Type dialog box, select BLK_16AWG. Click OK. In the drawing, select the upper left section of wires. (All wires above transformer.) Press ENTER. Click Change/Convert Wire Type. In the Change/Convert Wire Type dialog box, select RED_16AWG. Click OK. In the drawing, select all remaining wires. Press ENTER. Click Change/Convert Wire Type. In the Change/Convert Wire Type dialog box, select WHT_16AWG. Click OK. In the drawing, select the right side wires. Press ENTER. Click Change/Convert Wire Type. In the Change/Convert Wire Type dialog box, select BLU/WHT_16AWG. Click OK. In the drawing, in the second column, select the left inner side wires. (hint, use window.)
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Add Attribute
You can use the Add Attribute utility to add attributes individually to pre-existing blocks. You might use this tool to give extra intelligence to symbols in your drawing thereby having them show up on reports, etc. You can even add xdata in a very similar fashion. In fact, AutoCAD Electrical has several utilities for adding, editing, and managing xdata on entities in your drawing. * Example Add Attribute 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. In the Project Manager, open ACAD on ACADE Steroids-14.dwg. Zoom in to the 1FLS flow switch on line 404. On the Reports tab, Schematic panel, click Reports. In the Schematic Reports dialog box, under Report Name, select Bill of Material. Under Bill of Material, select Active Drawing. Click OK. If prompted in the Qsave dialog box, click Always Qsave.
Note: Notice, No Data to Display message Discuss only items listed are from swapped symbols.
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Double-click flow switch symbol. In the Enhanced Attribute Editor, discuss existing attributes on Symbol, and that TAG1 and CAT are missing. Click OK. On the Home tab, Layers panel, set current layer to TAGS. On the Conversion Tools tab, Tools panel, click Add Attribute. In the drawing, select flow switch 1FLS. In the Add Attribute dialog box, for Name, enter TAG1. For value, enter 1FLS. For Height, enter .125. For Justification, select Center. Click OK. In the drawing, select an insertion point above flow switch. Click Add Attribute. In the drawing, select flow switch 1FLS.
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Note: Attribute disappears because of Invisible setting. Note: The TAG1 attribute is required to be recognized as an ACADE symbol. The MFG and CAT attributes are required for catalogs lookups to work properly. The MFG attribute must have a value for component to appear in BOM report.
18. 19. 20. 21. 22. On the Reports tab, Schematic panel, click Reports. If prompted in the Qsave dialog box, click Always Qsave. In the Schematic Reports dialog box, under Report Name, select Bill of Material. Under Bill of Material, select Active Drawing. Click OK. Click Close.
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Swap/Update Block
The Swap/Update Block utility also swaps individual blocks, but is also designed to handle global exchanges drawing and project wide. This tool can also make complete library swaps such as from JIC to IEC symbols. The attribute mapping for this tool is automatically completed using an external file in Excel, text, or CSV formats. This has to be set up before starting the command, but is much more efficient when making larger quantities of exchanges, especially for global drawing or project wide changes.
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From icon menu, click Pressure/Temperature > Pressure In the drawing, select either pressure switch on rung 402 or 403. Move the two new components into the gaps. On the Conversion Tools tab, Tools panel, click Stretch Wire. In the drawing select the wires connecting to replacement switches.
Block Replacement
The Block Replacement tool is the most automated of the three tools, but also requires a little more configuration work. This tool is mainly designed to handle global exchanges drawing and project wide. You do not select the replacement blocks from the icon menu or from a library, but instead set up values in a spreadsheet to map from the old block names and attribute values to the new blocks. A spreadsheet template file is provided with the default installation of the AutoCAD Electrical software. It is called ace_migr_block_replace.xlt" and is located in the folder at:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Acade {rel}\Support
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On the Quick Access toolbar, click Next Project Drawing, opening Acad On AcadE Steroids-15.dwg. On the Conversion Tools tab, Tools panel, click Block Replacement. In the Block Replacement dialog box, select Active Drawing (All). Click OK. In the Select Mapping Spreadsheet dialog box, browse to the class exercise files folder. Right-click Acad on AcadE Steroids.xls and click Open. Review the mappings on both the Attribute and Block worksheets. Close Excel. In the Select Mapping Spreadsheet dialog box, select Acad On AcadE Steroids.xls. Click Save.
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Note: Not all of the existing blocks in the drawing were mapped in the file. Those that were mapped are replaced with AcadE blocks and attribute values are transferred appropriately.
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Warning: This is not a revision control or a document management system! Only one mark is allowed at a time. When the drawings are marked, any previous mark and any history of changes is deleted. This is a simple and easy to use tool for monitoring changes in your drawing set. Note: For Mark/Verify to detect deleted components or wire numbers, it stores information in the projects scratch database file. If this database is deleted, the Mark/Verify function will not be able to report deleted items. Newly inserted entities and changed items will continue to be reported.
* Example Mark/Verify Dwgs 1. On the Quick Access toolbar, click Previous Project Drawing, opening drawing Acad On AcadE Steroids-14. Zoom into rungs 415-417. On the Project tab, Project Tools panel, click Mark/Verify Dwgs. In the Mark and Verify dialog box, do the following: 4. 5. 6. Under Mark/Verify Drawing or Project, select Active Drawing. Under What to Do, select Mark. Select Include Non-AutoCAD Electrical Blocks Select Include Lines/Wires. Click OK. In the Enter Your Initials dialog box for Initials, enter {Your Initials}. For Comment 1, enter Mark and Verify Example. Click OK. On the Home tab, Modify panel, click Erase.
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Summary
AutoCAD Electrical is built on top of and uses inherent AutoCAD functionality. This allows you to use AutoCAD Electrical to work with non-electrical drawings as well. All electrical components and symbols are generic AutoCAD entities allowing you to use non Electrical programs such as AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT to manage your drawings. AutoCAD Electrical benefits to remember: One time entering of most drawing information Flexible editing with AutoCAD program environment Quick and easy revisions to drawings Its Fun!
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