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Sorry for the lack of posts over the past week or so. I have been in the Autodesk Inventor world... I do have some Inventor Cable and Harness posts planned. And now this week I have moved into the...
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Presetting The Surfer's Zoom Distance in AutoCAD Electrical
The Surfer's zoom distance is typically perfect in the schematic. However when moving into panels it tends to zoom in much to far. If you have a panel template, this is something that can be set there...
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Managing Projects Inside of AutoCAD Electrical
To take advantage of many of the features of AutoCAD Electrical you MUST be using project files. What are a few of these "features"? Well, any drawing to drawing relationships such as, source and...
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Adding Wire Numbers to Symbols
You may have symbols that require showing the wire number at each wire connection. This would be a manual process for each symbol. However adding an additional _X#TERM## attribute eliminates that need....
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Creating Keyboard Shortcuts in AutoCAD Electrical
Having started using AutoCAD at release 10 I’m partial to hotkeys. However the marking menu has broke the right click menu/hotkey ability. For example I would right click on a component and then press...
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Display of Internal Part Numbers On Symbols – AutoCAD Electrical
Last week a user asked me how to push the custom USER data to symbols. He created USER1 and USER2 attributes and then edited the catalog data expecting it to update. However this information is not...
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Easy Simplified Catalog Database – AutoCAD Electrical
This question just came in… “Stan is there a way to export all the parts currently in a drawing set into its own small data base because we use the same parts over and over, and the ACAD Electrical...
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Mechanical Applications for AutoCAD Electrical
This isn’t really electrical in nature. However it is about AutoCAD Electrical, and I put a bit of time into this article, so I want this group to see it as well....
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Adding the Missing Manufactures to AutoCAD Electrical’s Catalog Database
This question keeps coming up. It’s on the Autodesk Discussion Groups, its a call I have answered several times on IMAGINiT’s support desk, and it was just posted on our own discussion group…...
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Creating a Table of Contents or Drawing List Report – AutoCAD Electrical
AutoCAD Electrical has a built in Drawing List Report that can report any of the drawing properties within the active project. It’s a little unusual in that its nowhere to be found in the reporting...
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Modifying Attributes In Existing Blocks – AutoCAD Electrical
Anyone modifying existing block attributes has run into the mysteries of how to update the existing blocks on the drawing. Reinserting the block doesn't update the attributes. I should be using...
View ArticleRunning a LISP, or Command, on File Open - (Fix_Me)
You can set a LISP utility to run each time you open a drawing from the Project Manager. This is set in the wd.env file. Look for the line that starts with *WD_OPEN_DWG. <<Link to my...
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Surfing a Project Using Wild Cards – Fix_Me 2
Last week while discussing the ‘fix_me’ LISP with Jeff D. from Harris Corporation, Jeff suggested skipping the script all together and instead filling in the fix_me’s block TAG1 default prefix with...
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Swapping Entire Symbol Libraries Project Wide
Having completing an entire project using JIS symbols, you are told the client would rather have JIC style symbols. Never fear ‘Swap/Update Block’ saves the day. If you are planning on going project...
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Flattening 3D Models Into 2D Footprints – FLATSHOT
It seems many vendors are no longer offering 2D drawings of their components and are instead posting 3D models. This makes for a very large drawing and affects overall performance. This isn’t a...
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Adding Cross Reference (XREF) Info To Footprints – AutoCAD Electrical
Today I was asked how to pull cross reference info from the parent symbol into a footprint. This works great on child components. Simply add an XREF attribute to a child component (if its missing) and...
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Mirroring Components the Proper Way – AutoCAD Electrical
Once again I have a someone using AutoCAD commands inside of Electrical and their confused by the results. This time it was AutoCAD’s MIRROR command causing the problem. When using the AutoCAD MIRROR...
View Article2014 Content update for Rockwell Automation (Allen Bradley)
This update adds new AB content to the existing AutoCAD Electrical content databases. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=21972810&linkID=9240738 As with any update...
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Toggling Dots to Angles and Back Again
This is a follow up to the <<Swapping Entire Symbol Libraries Project Wide>> post. After switching all symbols from JIC to IEC, the next step could be switching wire connection dots to...
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Electrical Humor
It may just be my new fitness routine, but I found this quite funny.Found on http://physicshumor.blogspot.com/I can’t read the signature on the lower right so I can’t give credit where its due.
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